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We arms the county board of commissioners, regular meeting from Monday, August 17, 2026 to order at this time.

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And we'll ask our county attorney Mr. Brett to sound to provide the invocation of the students.

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Yes, Mr. Chairman, let us pray. Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for this opportunity to come before you can conduct the business of odds of a county.

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Please guide our board as they address the matters on today's agenda.

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We pray for your blessing and favor of our teachers and students as they return to the classroom for the upcoming school year.

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Now we do this day, bring you honor and glory on that.

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Now with the respect and reverence for the face, beliefs and traditions of those gathered here tonight, please join me in a moment of silence.

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Please stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance.

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pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic, which

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

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I can take a minute to recognize all the elected officials with us this evening.

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We have a few, like the welcome Richlands Town Allerman, Ms. Maryland Buns.

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She's here with us tonight, Town of North Top, so Beach Mayor, Rick Grant, and newly appointed

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town, Alderman, Fred Fontana, welcome, Mayor Pete Arnien from Holly Ridge, and we have

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Vice Chair from the Board of Education, Mr. Bradley Williams, and Board of Education member,

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Ms. Michelle Halley.

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So we appreciate everyone being here tonight, including Register of Deeds of Mega-German,

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as well as Sheriff Chris Thomas.

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So I think we've got everybody here in the house, so we appreciate everyone being here this evening and we'll move on to asking everyone to

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of silent your cell phones or place in vibrate mode.

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And now we need an adoption of the agenda for tonight.

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We need to, we've got a motion to.

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How about that, that's consent consent consent.

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Okay, that's not enough.

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So we have a motion in a second.

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Any discussion?

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All in favor?

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I, I, I was opposed.

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Motion carries.

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So now we'll move to approval items on the consent agenda, Mr. Chair.

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Motion to amend the agenda to add item 2E agree agreement between

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Azza County Board of Education.

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Azza County Sheriff for the school resource services program.

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We have a motion to move.

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And a second, any discussion on the amendment?

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Hearing none all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.

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Those opposed.

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Those opposed.

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Hearing none.

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Mr. Beacon, motion to adopt the agenda as amended.

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So motion in a second to approve the consent agenda as amended in all in favor?

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Those opposed.

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We are there.

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So the consent agenda has been adopted.

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So the Board offers the public one opportunity to speak during the meeting comments should be limited

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to no more than five minutes and maybe on any issue in which the Board of Commissioners has control.

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and accordance with the Board's adopted roles

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of procedure of citizen shall address all comments

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to the Board as a whole and not one individual commissioner.

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Commissioner shall reserve responses in fitting

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for the commissioner period on the agenda.

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So we are at item three public comment, Mr. Eaton,

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do we have anyone signed up this evening?

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Yes, sir. We have three individuals.

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First one is Wesley Hart.

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Good afternoon, gentlemen.

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Hey, I really appreciate you guys' service.

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I really do.

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When I retired in 2005, I could have retired anywhere in the United States, anywhere.

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Marine Corps would have moved me anywhere I wanted to do it.

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And I weighed my different options.

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And even though the jobs weren't here, housing was affordable and taxes were good.

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However, that has drastically changed, not just for me, but for everybody.

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And 2022, my real estate tax is 1.27.3%.

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Without this year, without this Senate bill, it would have went up another 7.6 percent.

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So, in five years, that went up 36.9 percent. Now, I'm a very fortunate individual.

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I can afford to pay the additional property tax. But I talk to a lot of people that can't.

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is the difference between putting food on the table

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or keeping their property.

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And it's just wrong.

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And how did we get there?

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I was looking at the at the different audits in a 2022,

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the fund balance available was 115,544,811.

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It was 50.6% of our budget, which comes out,

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And they compare it to the equivalence to onswell county, and we're about 6% higher than the average.

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And 2025, it's ballooned up to 187,666,969 million dollars, or 63.67% of that budget. The average there was 47%.

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So where the tax increase, the property tax increase, we collected 110,000, and 2022.

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Without a millerate increase in 2025, we collected 143,743,000, or almost 33 million dollars

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more in money,

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sales tax, 72,969, 2025, 81,683,534, over 9 million. So, we increased

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at 42 million, 42 million dollars. With that fun balance of doing what happened is that

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that we've been over charging people for taxes for to look at the three priorities that you

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guys, three priorities, you guys have a $75 million hub, a $40 million indoor recreation

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center, and a $30 to $50 million of park improvement. And I looked at the park improvement plan

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And I read that and it was based off a study in 2020 during COVID.

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They got 400, their goal was to get 400 surveys back.

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They got 426.

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And out of the people that they were surveyed, 24% said an indoor recreation center, 24% that's 102 people.

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So out of the whole county, we're talking 102 people, said it was a good idea to build it.

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and then we're going to build it right up the road here in the middle of nowhere and I wonder

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on the people that live at Popsell and Holly Ridge, how many people are actually going to use that?

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That's $40 million. If we were to do, if we were to do finance with general obligation bonds,

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you would have to get and put it on a referendum to the voters. The talks that I talked to people

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about these three initiatives, three of the top six initiatives

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of the county, I haven't met one person in favor of it.

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Not one, and it's absolutely crazy.

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I've been asking you guys to put this stuff for a referendum.

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Before we spend money on an indoor recreation

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feelers, take it to the voters.

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That's $40 million.

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That's absolutely crazy.

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I have more stuff in here on past spendings.

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We have not done a good job as a county.

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The public doesn't really understand, but that's, that's my thing, take these initiatives

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to the, to the voter on whether or not they really, really want it.

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Thank you.

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Next person is Danielle Cornell.

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Daniel Cornell.

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Daniel.

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How you doing, Mr. Chairman?

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of the Commissioners. Thank you very much for your service to this community and for allowing me to speak.

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Tonight, I want to talk about what happens when an ordinary citizen tries to get a very ordinary answer from his government.

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For the past several weeks, I have been trying to answer one basic question about the automated license plate readers being operated by the Onslow County Sheriff's Office.

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Where did the money come from?

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I have been told that these cameras were paid for with grant funding.

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Okay, then I would like to see the grant.

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Have been simple. Instead, I now have two public records request concerning this program denied and closed. My first request

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sought administrative records concerning the program, including contracts funding records, policies, training

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materials, agreements, audits, and other administrative information. I was denied. The sheriff's office

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cited North Carolina law protecting captured license plate data. There was one problem. I wasn't asking

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for capture license plate data. So I went back and tried again. This time I made the distinction

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unmistakable. I specifically excluded captured plate data. I excluded individual vehicle

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information, investigative queries and other protected information. I wanted administrative records.

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Evaluation records funding records policies audit oversight. And that request was closed and denied

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The explanation I received was that onslow county does not contract with flock.

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Cool.

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I didn't say a word about flock.

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So after two attempts, I still don't have the records, and I still don't have the answer

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to the simplest question of all.

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Where did the money come from?

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Commissioners, this should not be this difficult.

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That's when this became even harder for me to understand.

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In October 2024, First Baptist Church of Swans were adunated $5,000

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to the sheriff's office for drone equipment, 5,000.

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The sheriff's office publicly announced it and the sheriff publicly thanked the church and its congregation.

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When marine federal unit or when marine federal credit union contributed $30,000 towards the sheriff's office drone program,

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that received public attention too.

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Previous funding for body camera technology was also publicly discussed and I think it's great.

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When an outside organization or grant helps our sheriff office obtain equipment, tell us all about it.

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That's something a law enforcement agency can be proud of.

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But here's what I can't reconcile.

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I've been unable to locate a comparable public announcement identifying the grant that supposedly paid for these license plate readers.

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And after two public records request, I still haven't been provided documentation identifying it.

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I'm not standing here accusing the sheriff or anyone in the sheriff's department about lying about this grant.

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I'm not accusing anyone of deliberately concealing it.

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I don't have evidence to make either accusation and that would be foolish.

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I'm asking for the paperwork.

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What grant paid for these cameras, who awarded it, how much was awarded, who applied

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for it, who accepted it, when was it accepted, was there a county match, where is the award

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letter, where is the grant agreement, where is the accounting trail showing how these

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cameras were paid for.

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Those are questions about license plate or questions about an investigation.

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They're not questions about where somebody drove last Tuesday.

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Their questions about government administration and money.

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And that's why I'm bringing this to you tonight.

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I've tried the ordinary process.

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I've submitted the request.

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I've clarified what I was seeking.

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And I've specifically excluded the protected information that I was told I cannot have.

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And I still don't have an answer.

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So I'm asking this board for something very simple.

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find the grant. Find out what was purchased and how it was paid for and make the non-confidential administrative records available to the public because I shouldn't have to become a forensic account and just to find out who paid for 12 cameras.

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$5,000 for drone equipment was worth telling the public about.

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30,000 dollars for drone program is absolutely necessary to tell the public.

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Federal funding for body cameras was worth shouting at the rooftops.

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So if grant money paid for these license plate readers, tell us.

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Tell us who provided it, tell us how much, show us the grant.

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Because if there is a perfectly ordinary explanation for all of this, transparency ends

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this controversy, secrecy only feeds it.

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After two denied and closed public records request, I think the citizens of Oncelo County

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They have earned something remarkably simple and answered.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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You as Cornell, Mr. Eden?

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Rebecca Cooper?

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Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

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I do want to be clear that I understand the automated license plate cameras were purchased

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and installed by the Oslo County Sheriff's Office, not directly by this board.

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But you are the people that residents look to when they have a serious concern about transparency

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the use of taxpayer money and the direction of our county.

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$38,000 is not a small amount of money to the people of Onslow County.

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For many families, it's the cost of a dependable new car.

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For this county, it could have funded specialized training for law enforcement officers,

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protective equipment, such as ballistic plates, the initial training of a K-9, or increased

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support for organizations like one place that serve children who have been victimized.

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Instead, the money was used to install 12 automated license plate reader cameras through

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These cameras were installed without meaningful public notice and without people of this county having an opportunity to decide whether they wanted this form of surveillance in their communities.

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This isn't about a camera catching someone who committed a crime. These systems collect and store information on the vehicles of ordinary people.

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People going to work, taking their children to school, going to church, visiting family, attending medical appointments or simply driving through their own county.

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Just because technology makes this possible does not mean the government should use it.

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The lack of transparency is just as concerning. When public records are difficult to obtain,

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residents are naturally going to ask what's being hidden, who has access to this information,

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how long is it kept, and who reviews the audit logs. And these concerns are not hypothetical.

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Law enforcement officers in our very own state have already been arrested for misusing these

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camera systems for personal and non-law enforcement purposes. I'm not here tonight to assign

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responsibility for the purpose. I'm here because residents deserve transparency, answers,

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and a public conversation that should have happened before these cameras went up.

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The people of Anso County should not have to accept mass surveillance simply because it has

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already been installed. The cameras should come down. The people of Anso County deserve safety,

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but they also deserve privacy, freedom of movement, and accounting government that does not

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treat every resident as someone who must be tracked. Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Cooper.

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So we'll move to item four. We have two public hearings that are scheduled this evening and the first one is the Sunset Sands Conditional Resonning and Mr. Carter Metcalf will present this item.

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Good evening, Chairman and Board of Commissioners.

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So the first item for the rezoning section of tonight's meeting will be the Sunset Sands Conditional Resonning Series Z-2026-3.

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The applicant is Thomas engineering, and the owner is a size construction incorporated.

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An overview of the conditional reasoning request number three is a requested zoning change from

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highway business or HB and residential five or R5 to conditional zoning, highway business or

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HB, CZ, 767-9.2.

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two tax map numbers in question, 767-9.2, and 767-9.12.

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So located off of NC Highway 210 and in the Stump Sound Township, the rezoning area is not the total

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area of both parcels. Rather it is a split zoning request and therefore the rezoning area is

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20.15 acres of the total of the two parcels and we look at the existing use is vacant and forested.

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There is a 10 inch on a water main along Highway 210, as well as also a sewer force main.

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The fire service for the property is Turkey Creek with an IOSO rating of 4.

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Our most recent traffic count, that's closest to this property, comes from 2024 with a

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trip count of 10,500 staff estimated capacity at 14,000, as well as also when we look

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at the state prioritization cycle, there is a proposed widening of in C210, that will widen

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from the intersection with the US-17, just south of the intersection of folks in road.

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the project is funded with an estimated construction date of 2034.

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When we look at these schools, serving the property,

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it's coastal elementary, Dixon, middle school, and Dixon high school.

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All the schools are currently over capacity,

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but with this proposed rezoning being commercial in nature,

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we would not estimate any new students for the school system,

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unless it was a multi-family development.

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Here when we look at the rezoning area,

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You can see the property there is currently in the purple designation or R5 and then also a portion in the HB designation.

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And the area with the black cross hatching or the 20 acres of the partial for the property.

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If you compare the two zoning districts HB, there is no minimum lot size.

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Does allow multi-family at 20 units per acre and its purpose is to accommodate regional scale commercial uses.

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And foster economic development, along our major highway corridors, there's a variety of uses for this and a variety of non-residential uses.

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So we compare residential five, it has a 5,000 minimum lot size, as well as the same density for multi-family as highway business.

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Here, its purpose is to combat moderate to high density, single-family residential developments.

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And when we look at multi-family, it would be up to 20 to 20 units.

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Here, this proposed conditional zoning district or HBCZ 767-9.2. Its purpose is to provide for a compatible

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commercial development by modifying the standard highway business zoning district and by prohibiting

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certain land uses and while selecting certain uses by right. It continues to, for the residential

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uses, continues to allow multi-family, multi-family is already allowed and it will continue to

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Now that, as well as also has a variety of non-residential uses, included in your packet

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as a touch number.

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One, it goes through the table permitted uses, in which one's would change designations,

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in which one would not.

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There's a variety of uses that have been removed, such as some that relates to both storage

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or dry stacks, as well as also to back up shops that have been removed, and there's some

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that have been changed from a special use permit over towards permitted by right, and there's

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variety of uses there, but to include some manufacturing uses, bed and breakfast, breweries,

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and stillaries, and bars have also been changed.

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Take a look at the comprehensive plan that is designated water side community, and its intent

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is to identify those areas of the unincorporated county that have that nexus between the land

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and the water, and our heritage as a working waterfront community, and honoring that legacy and

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voting uses, that certainly advance both residential and commercial development.

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To look at the non-residential section of our land use and development summary, we would

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want a certainly zoning that would promote small commercial and service uses that would

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serve those coastal neighborhoods and support tourism, and again, honor that heritage of

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having working waterfronts.

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here we can look at our comprehensive plan on so horizon 2040 and you can see this whole section

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there south of old folks in road, especially along our two-ten corridor, they're given that

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water side community designation. The property there above us is conservation and that is

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also county own property and then as we go to Mortes North that orange designation is the village

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category where we want to see again a town center for the seems very area. When we look at environmental

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conditions we can see here. There are blue line streams on the property as well as

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also regulated flood zones. There's no wetlands have been submitted to counting

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at this time, but there certainly would be a part of the development review

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process.

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When we look at reasonableness in the public interest, it is an important

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factor in the way all resoundings. Here we can see that it is certainly

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We potentially reasonable because highway business does align with the non-residential

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land use and development summary.

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Therefore, it could be considered appropriate for our future land use map.

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We want to proactively manage growth and guide new development.

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There are some aspects of the infrastructure in this area of St. Spherry that would be able to

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support the new development.

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We look, as well, objective 6.2, we want to promote a wide range of commercial activity throughout

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County at appropriate locations and having highway business along a major highway

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corridor, we're certainly be one of those locations. And also objectives 6.3

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want to encourage industrial and economic development and in general have a

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pro-growth attitude.

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Objective 2.4 was certainly being non-supporting objective. All schools in this area

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currently over-compaciting and there certainly is the potential for a multi-family

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development. But that potential currently already exists on the property. This

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rezoning would not change that fact. And objective 6.1 we want to promote a

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broad range of housing types. There would be a limited or more limited allowed

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residential types with their proposed rezoning. Then what is currently allowed

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in our five. I'm going to go planning board met on June 4th and recommended you

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to see approval of the request. You know citizens spoke at the meeting. We did

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have one email sent in expressing concerns of multi-family development from a nearby owner.

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No military impacts though were presented during the planning board meeting and our remarks

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of from our chairman of planning board, as follows, there is a 20.15 acre parcel, which

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is part of an over 600 acre parcel located on Highway 210 in the Stump Sound Township.

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It's currently zoned HP in our five and is proposed to be rezoned to conditional HP.

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This request will result in split zoning.

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The property is currently owned by a size construction, and the petitioners represent a

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spoke and explain the only specific uses would be permitted on the rezoning, which would include

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multi-family and various retail on-service businesses.

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There was a neighborhood meeting held in six.

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Citizens attend, attended, at which concerns and questions about the type of development, its road

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access, existing wetlands and required buffering. There's one letter opposing the inclusion of

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multi-family housing, otherwise there were no other public comments. The reasoning was to be consistent

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with the comprehensive plan and the future land use map.

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Here, you can see an aerial of the surrounding

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area and see the proposed 20 acre frontage that's proposed to be

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rezoned. You can see it's proximity there to other commercial

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development. They're just north of a utility sub station and as

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well north of north shore and right across from an apartment

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complex.

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You can see where we posted the sign for tonight's meeting.

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A little bit of a wider view of what the property looks like if you're

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driving by on highway 210 headed towards north

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This is the additional site plane that was submitted that shows the proposed split zoning and shows the area there and the darker red is, again, what aligns with what has been submitted so far of the 20 acres being proposed would be resumed.

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And we'll go through the conditions. So the first condition is staff recommends any proposed future subdivision that would be reviewed through the appropriate subdivision or a view process to include concept preliminary plan and final plan.

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as outlined and non-so-counting subdivision ordinance.

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So there certainly could be proposed subdivisions,

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such as a commercial subdivision or residential one.

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And we want to make sure that they follow the appropriate processes.

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Staff also recommends any proposed non-residential development.

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Be reviewed under the appropriate cycling review process

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as outlined and non-so-counting zoning ordinance,

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whether it be major, minor, or basic.

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Again, ensuring any sort of commercial development

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is being held to the standards and non-so-counting zoning ordinance.

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staff recommends that any proposed use within the conditional zoning district be subject to the

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additional required standards for suit an article nine of the also county zoning

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ordinance therefore any sort of use would have to adhere to the same standards as in the

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rest of the county

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condition for the planning development director may allow minor amendments

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to the application without some middle of the entire package as long as it is not altered

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that basic relationship or any of the conditions that are there included for tonight such

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as would allow a decrease in density or intensity, but we would not allow an amendment that

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would, for example, eliminate a buffer.

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Get this number five.

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The applicant proposes to restrict the table permitted uses to those specifically identified

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in the table permitted uses for the conditional highway business owning district, as been

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submitted with the application, and has been provided as a touchment one.

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So, as a respectfully requested, the Board of Commissioners consider the proposed zoning

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additional, to me, consider the proposed conditional zoning map amendment of

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its series the 2020-26 number three, and consider the condition resolution for the

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amendment, adopt a statement, a consistency for the amendment, and authorize the

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chairman to sign the necessary documents on behalf of the county.

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Let's include the staff presentation chairman.

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Thank you, Mr. Medkath.

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We'll now open the public hearing street.

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Do we have anyone that has signed up to speak?

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Yes, sir.

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We have one individual, Mr. John Thomas.

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John Thomas, and we're Thomas Engineering, out of Newbrough.

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My address is 1316B, Commerce Drive, Newbrough in 1856 too.

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That's my office, not where I live.

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I don't really have anything to add.

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I represent the owner of this property, a size, and I guess we were the applicant on this

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Thomas Engineering.

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Again, I don't have anything to add, but be glad to answer any of the questions as far as

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conditions that were listed out in front of y'all we're all in agreement with those.

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We accept that.

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Okay.

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Thank you.

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Thanks, Thomas.

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No other sound up.

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Yes, sir.

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Okay.

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So we'll close the public hearing and bring the matter to the commissioners at just

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time.

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Close to a group.

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Second.

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We have a motion.

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And a second.

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Any discussion?

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Hearing none.

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All in favor of the motion.

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Signify by saying aye.

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Those opposed.

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Hearing none.

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Motion.

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Mr. Metcalf, we'll bring you back for the next one for the hearing on Richlands Heights

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to Conditional Reasoning.

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Thank you, Chairman.

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So, we have before you to the Richlands Heights to Conditional Reasoning, our series Z-2026

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number four.

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The applicant is work construction incorporated, and the owner is a Richlands Jackson's

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work LLC.

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So, we'll be taking an overview of Condition Request number.

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4, the requested change is from roll agricultural RA and residential aid manufactured R-8M-2, a conditional

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zoning residential 10, or R-10-C-Z30-108. Tax map number of questions 30-108, located off of

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Kingston Highway and a rich lands loop road, and is located in the rich lands township. The total

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Resoning area is 117.19 acres or the total parcel.

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The existing use of the property is that is vacant.

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We take an overview of the service area for the subject rezoning.

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Water is provided by Northwest Onslow, at least generally provided in that area of the county.

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Property properties in that general area are served by individual septic systems.

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However, the applicant is proposing for the subject property to be served by Onwasa

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Souver.

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When we look at the fire service for that area, North West Ons alone, also known as

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Richlands, there, the Icer rating is four.

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Look at our most recent traffic count comes from Kingston Highway and is close to the property,

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comes from around 2023 with a trip count of 17,000 staff estimates the capacity to over 35,000.

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Schools serving the property of Richland's elementary treks on middle school and Richland's

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high school.

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So we look at the proposed capacity for those schools.

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Richland's elementary treks on middle have capacity while this time Richland's high school

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would be projected the over capacity.

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Here, you can see the proposed area as well as also these only districts.

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Are they in that line?

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Green color makes up a majority of the property.

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There you can see in the light red is the R-8M sections of the property.

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It splits in this way because this property was a series of properties that were recombined.

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When you move a property line though, it does not move a zoning line.

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That can only be done through this process.

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We compare our zoning districts here.

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One of the current zoning districts is rural agriculture.

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And its purpose is to maintain that rural development pattern that preserves the agricultural character of the county.

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minimum law size is 20,000 square feet and allows for single-family residential

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development, as well as also a variety of non-residential uses.

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Comparatively, the second zoning district that is on the property is residential

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eight manufactured and it allows for moderate to hide-in city single-family and

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multi-family residential developments with a specific emphasis on manufactured

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housing. It's minimum law size is 8,000 square feet,

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allows multi-family at a density of 10-dolling

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and sprayaker by special use permit.

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Well, as well, also allows for manufactured home parks

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by special use permit as well.

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Proposed zoning district is a conditional zoning district

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residential 10 or R10, CZ30-108.

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And its purpose is to accommodate a moderate density

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single-family residential development of 259 units.

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Minimum miles size would be 10,000 square feet.

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And again, that density would cap out at 259 units.

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The residential uses would be single family, as well as also some non-residential uses

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that would be corresponding with the residential 10 designation.

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You can see there that multi-family would not be one of the allowed uses.

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Look at the comprehensive plan.

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The properties designated as suburban growth and suburban growth intent is to provide

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from moderate density of residential development and supporting non-residential

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development as we continue to grow out from our urban growth areas and our municipalities.

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We look at the language and development summary in the residential category, see that

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single-family residential development, specifically when we look at major subdivisions,

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we want to see a density of four to five dwelling units per acre or multi-family

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at a density of 8 to 10.

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The base zoning district of residential 10 is a corresponding zoning

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district to our comprehensive plan of suburban growth.

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Here you can see the property is given that suburban growth

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designation.

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While as we start to transition away from rich lands,

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you start transitioning to that rural residential category

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or the agricultural and forestry category.

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You can see the property as it relates

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to the environmental conditions.

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There are no blue line streams on the property, as well as also no regulated flood zones and any sort of wetlands are submitted and they are on the cyclan for review.

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Look at the property is within a half mile of a property within the voluntary agriculture district.

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Rotated on the final platt, as well as our subdivision reviews, and therefore provided to any future

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honours as it be on the platt of record.

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We look at reasonableness and in the public interest,

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could be considered reasonable because our future land use map, designates the property as

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suburban growth, and residential 10 is a supporting district to that category. Objective 1.2,

456
00:35:27,490 --> 00:35:30,050
We want to proactively manage growth and guide new development.

457
00:35:30,570 --> 00:35:35,030
There are several aspects of infrastructure in this area that would be able to support that

458
00:35:35,030 --> 00:35:35,590
growth.

459
00:35:36,570 --> 00:35:39,490
Objective 6.1, we want to promote a broad range of housing types.

460
00:35:39,710 --> 00:35:44,070
This would add certainly additional single family in that area of the county.

461
00:35:45,390 --> 00:35:46,850
And we'll look at non-supporting objectives.

462
00:35:47,150 --> 00:35:53,150
Objective 1.3, we want to preserve our rural landscape, transitioning, zoning from rural

463
00:35:53,150 --> 00:35:59,050
our culture are too residential. It does not necessarily preserve our rural landscape. And then

464
00:35:59,050 --> 00:36:03,810
as well, objective 2.4, we want to coordinate with also county schools. The high school is

465
00:36:03,810 --> 00:36:07,810
over capacity. So that would be our limiting infrastructure in this area of the county.

466
00:36:11,130 --> 00:36:16,910
Planning board met on June of 4th and voting unanimously to recommend approval of the request.

467
00:36:17,050 --> 00:36:20,490
Excuse me, this is June 4th. It should have been March 5th. I'm sorry. There's a typo there.

468
00:36:20,490 --> 00:36:23,370
and noticed that it's in spoke on the request.

469
00:36:24,690 --> 00:36:26,530
And no military impacts were presented.

470
00:36:26,890 --> 00:36:29,470
The remarks of the Chairman of Planning Board is as follows.

471
00:36:30,310 --> 00:36:32,310
This rezoning request was previously submitted

472
00:36:32,310 --> 00:36:35,230
and was previously unanimously recommended for approval.

473
00:36:35,770 --> 00:36:39,730
It is a 117.19 acre property in the Richland's Township,

474
00:36:39,770 --> 00:36:42,410
currently zoned RA and R-D-A-M,

475
00:36:42,610 --> 00:36:45,070
proposed to be conditional 10 and unbied ward construction.

476
00:36:45,890 --> 00:36:48,370
An amendment to the conviction for sidewalks to specify

477
00:36:48,370 --> 00:36:53,270
that the sidewalks would be constructed in accordance with the Alzo County subdivision ordinance.

478
00:36:53,590 --> 00:36:55,990
Section 615 was agreed to by the pedestrian.

479
00:36:56,870 --> 00:37:01,810
The rezoning was found to be consistent with the comprehensive plan and the future land use map.

480
00:37:03,980 --> 00:37:05,580
Here you can see the overall area.

481
00:37:06,180 --> 00:37:07,320
This broader area will look.

482
00:37:07,380 --> 00:37:12,020
You can see it's proximity to other nearby neighborhoods such as the way for the place there just to the south,

483
00:37:12,300 --> 00:37:15,360
as well as other existing residential homes.

484
00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:18,460
So we take a closer look there.

485
00:37:18,460 --> 00:37:24,500
You can see the properties currently vacant and forced it as well as its proximity to some other existing residential development.

486
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,660
You can see where we posted for tonight's meeting.

487
00:37:34,650 --> 00:37:38,990
A little bit of water look, and this again, this was our required posting along Kingston Highway,

488
00:37:39,770 --> 00:37:43,310
but in an effort of, again, making sure the public is extra aware.

489
00:37:43,390 --> 00:37:48,910
We also posted where the property will have its secondary access, off of Richland's Loop Road.

490
00:37:50,350 --> 00:37:53,730
There's a wider look at where the property meets on Richland's Loop Road.

491
00:37:55,770 --> 00:38:00,150
Next, we'll take a look at the proposed subdivision, you can see there again, they'll have

492
00:38:00,150 --> 00:38:06,570
an access on Kingston Highway, as well as an access on Richland's Loop Road, as well as

493
00:38:07,010 --> 00:38:12,390
also the layout of the homes in relation to also the existing wetlands and the stormwater

494
00:38:12,390 --> 00:38:12,990
ponds.

495
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:22,520
I'll take a look now at the proposed condition, so condition number 1 staff recommends that

496
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,800
a conditional zoning site plan be submitted and reviewed through the major subdivision process

497
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,260
to include concept plan, pre-liminary plan, and a final plan.

498
00:38:30,940 --> 00:38:34,940
This is again standard for all subdivisions to make sure that it hears to the Anzo County

499
00:38:34,940 --> 00:38:36,160
subdivision ordinance.

500
00:38:37,740 --> 00:38:42,340
Proposed condition number two that we allow for minor amendments without resiminal of the entire

501
00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:42,860
application.

502
00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:46,420
And again, only those amendments do not alter that basic relationship,

503
00:38:49,980 --> 00:38:51,140
such as as going through

504
00:38:51,140 --> 00:38:55,580
engineering in the event that they had to decrease by one lot that would not come back

505
00:38:55,580 --> 00:38:59,100
for this board, but they certainly could not add any additional lots.

506
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,900
Look at condition number three, Vanzo County Planning Board recommended that sidewalk should

507
00:39:04,900 --> 00:39:09,240
be required to be installed as shown on the conditional site plan and planning board, as mentioned

508
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:14,120
in the chairman's comments, insured that condition is added that it's going to reflect the

509
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:16,320
standards and non-so County subdivision coordinates.

510
00:39:19,150 --> 00:39:23,790
condition number four, the applicant proposes to remove the two-family residential and

511
00:39:23,790 --> 00:39:29,010
The multi-family residential uses that would be typically permitted by right in the residential

512
00:39:29,010 --> 00:39:35,290
10 districts and restrict the scope of development to 259 at single-family dwellings.

513
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:45,820
The R10 CZ30-108 zoning district is proposed to require a recreational playground that would

514
00:39:45,820 --> 00:39:52,670
be installed to be served to serve the residents of the development and in condition

515
00:39:52,670 --> 00:39:58,370
number six that the proposed zoning district shall utilize infiltration basins as the

516
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:06,120
Group stormwater control measures throughout the development, unless NCDEQ determined that an infiltration

517
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:12,640
basin is not necessarily appropriate, but ensuring that as well, all stormwater would

518
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:19,960
be retained on a site, thereby if DEQs stated that a stormwater permit could be obtained by

519
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:26,140
using other best management practices and other stormwater control measures, thereby maybe

520
00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:32,260
infiltration basin cannot be required. But, as we do not do, stormwater permitting, we want

521
00:40:32,260 --> 00:40:34,120
to make sure that we defer to an expert in that.

522
00:40:38,320 --> 00:40:39,400
So, there's a respectfully requested

523
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:43,040
the Board of Commissioners consider the proposed conditional zoning map amendment of

524
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:48,680
Series Z-26, number four. Consider the conditional resolution for the amendment, adopt a statement

525
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,920
of consistency for the amendment, and authorize the Chairman to sign the necessary documents

526
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:56,040
on behalf of the county. So, conclude the staff presentation, Chairman.

527
00:40:56,040 --> 00:41:02,620
Thank you Mr. Medcap. At this time, we will open the public hearing. Mr. Newton, do we have anyone signed up to speak?

528
00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:06,440
Mr. We have four individuals. The first one is Roberto Linker.

529
00:41:16,340 --> 00:41:22,100
Thank you. I hope you got the petitions that we brought in last month.

530
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:29,380
One was a hand-careed petition and signed, and one was a non-line petition and signed.

531
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:39,060
We don't feel like we have enough answer infrastructure to support 2509 houses.

532
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:42,700
I thought it was going to be about 220.

533
00:41:44,820 --> 00:41:50,420
Do the math. Two cars per house. Two cars per house with no children.

534
00:41:51,460 --> 00:41:53,940
All that flow is going to go two ways.

535
00:41:53,940 --> 00:41:56,320
Kingston Highway, British Lands Loop.

536
00:41:57,420 --> 00:41:59,400
The roads already need repair.

537
00:42:00,140 --> 00:42:02,740
We're going to need two more traffic lights

538
00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:05,480
and probably extra flocks.

539
00:42:07,180 --> 00:42:10,800
So the schools are overcrowded and talking

540
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,260
to the teachers, talking to the people in the area.

541
00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,000
We can't afford to have that many more houses.

542
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:20,980
We don't need that subdivision.

543
00:42:22,830 --> 00:42:26,570
And I'm not sure a water table can handle it either.

544
00:42:26,810 --> 00:42:28,590
I know our wildlife can't.

545
00:42:29,870 --> 00:42:37,550
We need that wooded area for the wildlife who got bare and deer and skunks and fox and every other thing out there.

546
00:42:38,250 --> 00:42:43,610
I was coming home last week and a flock of turkeys suddenly just come across the street.

547
00:42:44,190 --> 00:42:50,070
I've lived there for 25 years. I see turkeys on the backside of my property, not on the road.

548
00:42:50,070 --> 00:42:54,030
So that means people are getting too close.

549
00:42:55,010 --> 00:42:59,470
More bear have been hit on highway and on gum branch.

550
00:42:59,610 --> 00:43:01,110
They're running out of territory.

551
00:43:01,630 --> 00:43:02,870
What are we going to do?

552
00:43:04,550 --> 00:43:09,770
But people build more before we're ready for it.

553
00:43:10,130 --> 00:43:15,430
We're not developing the infrastructure before we continue the building.

554
00:43:16,290 --> 00:43:17,410
Think about it.

555
00:43:17,410 --> 00:43:21,890
600 more cars, 400 minimum.

556
00:43:23,130 --> 00:43:24,090
Thank you.

557
00:43:25,540 --> 00:43:26,200
Thank you, Ms. Lincoln.

558
00:43:26,740 --> 00:43:27,100
Mr. Eden?

559
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,280
Yes, Mr. Jonathan Gossnell.

560
00:43:39,020 --> 00:43:39,540
Good evening.

561
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,000
I know this has been brought before you all before multiple times.

562
00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:45,640
So it's not much to add, same concerns.

563
00:43:48,980 --> 00:43:50,200
Very again, not much to add.

564
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:51,660
I don't know.

565
00:43:53,100 --> 00:43:54,840
It early on when this was proposed.

566
00:43:55,260 --> 00:43:56,080
It was brought up.

567
00:43:56,220 --> 00:43:59,020
How much it was designed to benefit the community.

568
00:43:59,020 --> 00:44:05,880
but I believe the community has spoken on so county has denied it multiple times so it is

569
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,740
abundantly clear that this is in the best interest of the developer and not the community

570
00:44:10,700 --> 00:44:15,840
and again you guys know the concerns they've been voiced multiple times. So I'll leave it at that.

571
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:20,960
Thank you, sir. Street. Avery Washington.

572
00:44:32,030 --> 00:44:34,810
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Avery Washington.

573
00:44:40,130 --> 00:44:50,850
I want to speak positively about the project I'm familiar with Mr. Ward and from knowing him,

574
00:44:50,850 --> 00:44:58,870
I've had an opportunity to see him and the effort he's put into creating this community nearly from the beginning.

575
00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:12,860
And so I just in part, because I know too much for my own good, I wanted to help create some awareness around some of the things that maybe folks don't know or don't see.

576
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:19,140
Right, they mentioned briefly one of the conditions about stormwater control measures and stormwater ponds.

577
00:45:20,140 --> 00:45:30,460
One of the things that weren't mentioned is that in addition to all of those measures, there are thousands of linear feet of ditching across this community,

578
00:45:30,460 --> 00:45:37,200
that are going to stay in place that also will assist in stormwater run-off, and that's

579
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:46,000
a part of why I imagine some folks feel like there are wetlands getting impacted, but after

580
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:52,760
being there for decades, the ground composition is not what they assume it is because it's

581
00:45:52,760 --> 00:46:00,320
a forested area, and there are concerns about infrastructure but many times folks don't realize

582
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,860
that developers are a huge part of who

583
00:46:03,860 --> 00:46:08,540
puts the bill to create new infrastructure faster than

584
00:46:08,540 --> 00:46:11,600
the municipalities, otherwise capable of budgeting

585
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,800
for and voting on and getting approved for.

586
00:46:15,180 --> 00:46:18,260
So the traffic impacts are accounted for in a traffic

587
00:46:18,260 --> 00:46:22,960
impact analysis that DOT dictates whether

588
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:26,860
deceleration lanes are needed, how many egresses are required,

589
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,920
traffic light improvements, stop signs,

590
00:46:29,920 --> 00:46:35,820
and that's going to be paid for by the developer unless he manages to negotiate otherwise.

591
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:42,900
Something else that wasn't mentioned or was mentioned briefly is, with regard, excuse

592
00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:48,220
me, with regard to concerns about infrastructure, is that this would be on sewer.

593
00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:55,520
But what wasn't highlighted is that there is a list station that's currently significantly

594
00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:02,240
in poor condition or in degraded condition that the developer would be subsidizing the cost

595
00:47:02,240 --> 00:47:10,600
of upgrading one in order to ensure it's not failing into creating additional capacity that would

596
00:47:10,600 --> 00:47:17,580
allow connection throughout the commercial corridor that that lift station is in close proximity

597
00:47:17,580 --> 00:47:25,500
to. Lastly, just being familiar with the developer and the builder that intends to

598
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:43,740
be a part of creating a community there, there are a lot of folks who are coming into this market and not to name any of them but we've seen a few where they'll throw up the cheapest thing they can get away with and sell it for the highest price people can qualify for and

599
00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:49,580
The builder who's interested in being a part of Bill Nalthus community, right, we've seen

600
00:47:49,580 --> 00:47:51,000
waverly place.

601
00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:56,300
They're offering some of the highest quality homes in that price point that I'm seeing

602
00:47:56,300 --> 00:47:57,960
get built in this market.

603
00:47:58,780 --> 00:48:05,800
And I understand that folks are resistant to change, but this is one of the better sides

604
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:11,200
of change that we're going to see from folks who are trying to be a part of the communities

605
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:11,800
growth.

606
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,720
I don't have any additional marks.

607
00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:16,760
I appreciate you all the time.

608
00:48:17,260 --> 00:48:17,900
Thank you, Mr. Washington.

609
00:48:18,660 --> 00:48:18,980
Mr. Eden?

610
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,680
Yes, last person is a Ricky Ward.

611
00:48:30,090 --> 00:48:31,330
About five minutes and nine.

612
00:48:32,770 --> 00:48:35,510
I appreciate being able to speak on behalf of Richland Heights again.

613
00:48:36,370 --> 00:48:38,630
I appreciate everybody's concerns and comments.

614
00:48:39,450 --> 00:48:40,470
I'm sorry I didn't explain this.

615
00:48:40,490 --> 00:48:42,170
Maybe a little bit better to first go around.

616
00:48:44,030 --> 00:48:46,710
I also want to thank you for praying before we have a meeting.

617
00:48:46,710 --> 00:48:47,730
That really means a lot.

618
00:48:47,730 --> 00:48:54,390
and I appreciate that. Again, we're not doing, we're not maximizing the density of what I can do by

619
00:48:54,390 --> 00:48:59,170
right after talking to the public, county plan and department. We're actually scaling this thing very

620
00:48:59,170 --> 00:49:04,690
way back from what I could do by right versus what they suggested I do, which is R10 zoning.

621
00:49:06,010 --> 00:49:09,830
They've also asked me again, which has already been highlighted. If I would put sidewalks in,

622
00:49:09,890 --> 00:49:16,710
I'd reach that as well. This project is special to me because this is my hometown. This is where I

623
00:49:16,710 --> 00:49:30,630
I remember when Officer Burns was the only cop in town, so I've been here in my whole entire life and I want to do something nice for my community, nice for on the county and for the city of Richlands where I grew up at.

624
00:49:31,710 --> 00:49:35,590
We're doing some single family starter homes, which I think is a great idea.

625
00:49:36,770 --> 00:49:44,430
A lot of these developers right now and I'm not kicking on these developers, but they're doing four to five hundred six hundred thousand dollar homes and people can't afford it.

626
00:49:44,430 --> 00:49:48,530
So our young military folks and our first time hung by our Z8 needs and we're to go and I think

627
00:49:48,530 --> 00:49:50,430
Richlands is a great place to grow up.

628
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:53,390
I've already got my stormwater permit in hand.

629
00:49:53,450 --> 00:49:54,850
I'm not trying to get it.

630
00:49:55,010 --> 00:49:55,750
That's been identified.

631
00:49:55,870 --> 00:49:57,270
I have my roach control plan.

632
00:49:58,430 --> 00:49:59,870
The water is going to be contained on site.

633
00:50:02,220 --> 00:50:30,000
I think pretty much as far as permitting, as far as what I think we should do according to the plan and department. We're working together, trying to get this thing passed. I don't mind working with the city. I don't mind working with the county of Angelo, but every subdivision goes through the same counter or the deal. Your stormwater is one of the hardest permits to get. And we now achieve that. So what does that mean? That means that the stormwater division, North Carolina, has looked at this plan, the grading plan.

634
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:38,380
And recognize that we have met all their criteria to maximize where this water is going

635
00:50:38,380 --> 00:50:41,060
to go and ask them to infiltrate the ground, step permit is in hand.

636
00:50:42,780 --> 00:50:45,420
I've got like 25 notes, I'm not even reading of my paper, that's ridiculous.

637
00:50:47,260 --> 00:50:51,280
So that thing is check it off, again, the road is in control, check it off.

638
00:50:51,540 --> 00:50:56,960
We have our DOT permit by the end of this week, and I'm ready to go, so my hopes are that

639
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:03,380
We can kind of work together as a community, as a county, and get this thing done.

640
00:51:04,220 --> 00:51:04,940
Thank you so much.

641
00:51:05,900 --> 00:51:06,120
Thank you.

642
00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:10,560
I think Mr. Ward was that industry, and I guess they're not real close to the public hearing

643
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:13,340
and bring this matter to the commissioners.

644
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:14,340
Motion to approve.

645
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:14,840
Thanks.

646
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:15,460
Second.

647
00:51:15,720 --> 00:51:16,860
Motion and a second.

648
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:17,840
Any discussion?

649
00:51:18,240 --> 00:51:18,480
Yes, sir.

650
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:19,040
I did.

651
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:19,720
Go ahead.

652
00:51:20,740 --> 00:51:24,420
I just wanted to thank Mr. Ward for working so much with our planning board.

653
00:51:24,420 --> 00:51:29,080
I mean, you went through a lot of hoops with this board of commissioners and putting all these

654
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:34,760
other particular sidewalks, a playgrounds, and this board of staying on premises which

655
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:40,620
is legal or whatever field, I guess whatever you're told to do, basically by the dinner,

656
00:51:40,820 --> 00:51:43,560
I guess, is the one that can basically do what they need to do.

657
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:47,300
But I want to thank you for all the what you've done and what you're trying to do for the

658
00:51:47,300 --> 00:51:50,740
community, and you've done a lot, and I want to thank you for that.

659
00:51:53,750 --> 00:51:59,990
I appreciate everyone's concern, you know, when I look at one of these controversial

660
00:51:59,990 --> 00:52:08,370
resumes, I have to look at the table of uses and think about what he could do with this

661
00:52:08,370 --> 00:52:15,030
property in the current zones, mobile homes,

662
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,860
complexes, multifamily,

663
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:24,980
there are a lot of

664
00:52:24,980 --> 00:52:36,180
He could take advantage of, I don't know, there are a whole lot worse than some nice houses.

665
00:52:37,660 --> 00:52:52,580
And like Mr. Buchanan just said, he's jumped through a lot of hoops to make sure that he has met all the conditions that the commissioners and the planning staff had a concern about.

666
00:52:54,580 --> 00:52:59,900
Mr. Washington was correct, they will, are negotiating with

667
00:52:59,900 --> 00:53:05,700
on Washington to upgrade the pump station, which will be a benefit for all of the community.

668
00:53:07,580 --> 00:53:14,480
So, I think that I am certainly in favor of this rezoning.

669
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,840
I mean, Dave's.

670
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,420
What did I do to you?

671
00:53:24,580 --> 00:53:32,100
Mr. Ward, I just want to confirm, so sidewalks, playground, or recreational space,

672
00:53:33,260 --> 00:53:36,400
and all the water's going to be contained on site.

673
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,000
Because those are the three criticals, because I have friends over in that area,

674
00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:44,500
and I had to call one to date to say that I'm probably going to vote for this.

675
00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:50,600
And I explained to what to your point by right what you could do.

676
00:53:51,300 --> 00:53:58,770
And so I want to, as Paul said, thank you for going to extra mile to make it a very nice

677
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:00,960
development for your community.

678
00:54:01,660 --> 00:54:08,620
And I think the, and Brett correct me if I'm wrong, but the community, I want it.

679
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,320
We are not allowed to just stop development.

680
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:18,380
I can't look at Mr. Ward or we as a board can't look at Mr. Ward and say you can't develop your land.

681
00:54:19,220 --> 00:54:28,320
We do not have that right. I mean, so we're in a way stuck between a rock and a hard place.

682
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:37,140
But with Mr. Ward's willing to do for the community to make this palatable, I just think it's fantastic.

683
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:42,200
And I think we didn't understand on the last presentation a lot of what you were doing.

684
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:50,340
So thank you, and thank you for being willing to go through the extra hoops, and thank you for being willing to be a blessing to your hometown.

685
00:54:52,060 --> 00:54:52,640
Anyone else?

686
00:54:53,020 --> 00:54:56,780
I just want to say thank you so much for wanting to do the right thing.

687
00:54:57,380 --> 00:54:58,200
Thank you.

688
00:54:58,540 --> 00:54:59,060
Mr. Carter.

689
00:54:59,180 --> 00:54:59,960
Just to make it you.

690
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:27,100
Thank you for your patience with us. I don't think that we really took it all in the first time either, and I do appreciate your sharing that you're from here and that you want to give back. That means a lot to me. My favorite thing however that I just learned from you tonight was that you're going to put starter homes in there, and I do agree with you. There are a bunch of people in this community who could not afford a home otherwise, so I really do appreciate that so much.

691
00:55:27,940 --> 00:55:31,620
Mr. Metcalf, did you want to say something before I take this to the vote?

692
00:55:32,420 --> 00:55:33,900
Yes, sir. Thank you so much.

693
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:39,360
So the sixth condition that we had on the record was a requirement for infiltration basins.

694
00:55:39,660 --> 00:55:44,320
So learning from Mr. Award that he already has, a strong water permit issued by the Department of Environmental Quality,

695
00:55:44,740 --> 00:55:46,900
that will contain all sort of water on site.

696
00:55:47,380 --> 00:55:54,310
We'd like to revise that condition that simply a strong water permit from DEQ that it hears to that standard of all

697
00:55:54,310 --> 00:55:57,210
So RRB and I can taint on site.

698
00:55:57,950 --> 00:55:59,870
I didn't see the playground on there.

699
00:56:00,510 --> 00:56:01,890
Since you came up to the...

700
00:56:01,890 --> 00:56:02,950
It was in the presentation.

701
00:56:03,470 --> 00:56:04,030
It was in the presentation.

702
00:56:05,250 --> 00:56:07,330
We'll make sure that gets added to the site one.

703
00:56:07,710 --> 00:56:08,150
All right. Thank you.

704
00:56:08,290 --> 00:56:09,910
We expect to see Mr. Davis at the playground.

705
00:56:11,630 --> 00:56:12,450
I love it.

706
00:56:12,670 --> 00:56:12,970
Good to see you.

707
00:56:13,370 --> 00:56:17,550
I'm just closing out with this before we vote.

708
00:56:18,210 --> 00:56:21,790
I mentioned last time that the current zoning is RA

709
00:56:21,790 --> 00:56:29,570
in our eight, which means whether this rezoning was approved or not, by right as this has been stated.

710
00:56:30,190 --> 00:56:39,170
Mr. Mr. Ward could go ahead and build R.A., build whatever he wanted to in there, R.A., a lot more

711
00:56:39,170 --> 00:56:46,110
of what he wanted to in there and now moving the whole area, the R.T.N., he's just and he's scaled it back.

712
00:56:46,190 --> 00:56:51,130
He's agreed to the conditional part of it and he's wanting to put in and I think the biggest point

713
00:56:51,130 --> 00:56:56,330
these folks have made is the starter homes is huge, that is huge because you are right.

714
00:56:56,890 --> 00:57:03,810
When you look at the re-evalves that have happened, you see there's a whole lot of $400,500,000

715
00:57:03,810 --> 00:57:10,570
homes here and not a lot of $200,250,000 homes that are here, so that's great that we're

716
00:57:10,570 --> 00:57:12,550
doing that and we people need homes.

717
00:57:13,050 --> 00:57:20,790
So with all that being said, we'll ask this to cast our votes now and all in favor of the

718
00:57:20,790 --> 00:57:25,010
Aye. Aye. Those opposed hearing none, motion carries.

719
00:57:27,690 --> 00:57:33,210
Move to item five, the Quarterly Commissioner Committee reports.

720
00:57:33,850 --> 00:57:36,830
Do we have any commissioners that have any reports tonight?

721
00:57:37,310 --> 00:57:40,210
And if we don't, that's okay, because we got a lot to go after this.

722
00:57:40,390 --> 00:57:41,970
So anyone want to share? Aye.

723
00:57:41,990 --> 00:57:43,070
Those were the Corbiners ready.

724
00:57:43,450 --> 00:57:46,810
Always, always have to talk about the airport, because they're greatest asset.

725
00:57:46,930 --> 00:57:49,310
One of our greatest assets, Mitch is smiling back there.

726
00:57:49,310 --> 00:57:55,610
So we had our meeting last week and the biggest thing that I love to share about is the runway

727
00:57:55,610 --> 00:58:01,390
extension and highway 1-11 relocation project is steadily moving along and I think everyone

728
00:58:01,390 --> 00:58:06,070
will be excited to know this because it's going to bring larger planes into our airport here

729
00:58:06,490 --> 00:58:14,390
should be completed by spring of 2027 which is I think fast really fast. Now does I mean they're going to be

730
00:58:15,990 --> 00:58:25,750
The NCDOT ever sees the operation of when 11 and of course the FAA will say when it's okay to bless a plane coming in there. However, I just think that's fantastic.

731
00:58:27,770 --> 00:58:43,830
There's some really fun. We got to do a tour last week to see how it's all going to look or generally how it's going to look and I just think it's fantastic that we are going to have.

732
00:58:44,470 --> 00:58:52,690
They're really not cutting down as many trees out there as you might expect so it's just going to be a really beautiful and to a long project here.

733
00:58:53,070 --> 00:59:01,490
Fun facts, they are going to in this project move 160,000 cubic yards of total soil.

734
00:59:01,930 --> 00:59:11,770
They're going to add 1.43 miles of water and sewer lines and 9.2 miles of electrical cabling installed for the project too.

735
00:59:11,770 --> 00:59:14,070
So those are some huge numbers just to,

736
00:59:14,110 --> 00:59:16,390
well, not just to, but to add on to this runway.

737
00:59:17,470 --> 00:59:18,690
And I think it's fantastic.

738
00:59:19,270 --> 00:59:21,590
The other thing I love about this airport

739
00:59:21,590 --> 00:59:23,170
that we have, which is so wonderful.

740
00:59:23,530 --> 00:59:26,570
Sandra, Sandra Johnson, who is kind of behind the scenes,

741
00:59:26,730 --> 00:59:27,970
which shows us a really great report

742
00:59:27,970 --> 00:59:29,130
about what's going on at the airport.

743
00:59:29,610 --> 00:59:30,850
And one of the things that she brought up

744
00:59:30,850 --> 00:59:33,030
at the meeting was the fact that we have,

745
00:59:33,350 --> 00:59:34,990
we're such a friendly airport

746
00:59:34,990 --> 00:59:36,670
that there's two different organizations,

747
00:59:37,070 --> 00:59:39,770
pause of war training and canines for service

748
00:59:39,770 --> 00:59:47,850
who are both going to be bringing their projects to OHJ to work on training dogs that we can use in service.

749
00:59:48,130 --> 00:59:51,850
And I think that's fantastic from other regional airports here,

750
00:59:51,910 --> 00:59:54,630
who are not quite as friendly as we are. So yay for us.

751
00:59:54,850 --> 00:59:57,270
Thank you, Albert J. Ellis, Airport and staff.

752
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:07,560
Thank you, Mr. Carpenter. I've got the talk about on washington. Always has water.

753
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:16,920
I'm always looking on the microphone. Yeah, on washington, tending to grow, we're over 60,000.

754
01:00:16,940 --> 01:00:24,320
Seven. That's not coming up. I don't think it here me here. They won't hit me on the TV, right?

755
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:29,700
But there were over 60,000, 7,7,9,2.

756
01:00:31,880 --> 01:00:32,600
Come this way.

757
01:00:36,740 --> 01:00:37,600
Thank you.

758
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:40,680
All right, technical difficulties.

759
01:00:42,500 --> 01:00:50,080
So on Washington, then he's to grow with over 60,792 water customers over 15,000 sewer

760
01:00:50,080 --> 01:00:58,760
customers. We have a 10-year capital plan and excess of $500 million and just real quick.

761
01:00:59,260 --> 01:01:07,840
The Highway 24 Pipeline Project has been completed. It's in the final testing stages and

762
01:01:07,840 --> 01:01:15,840
should be operational very soon within a month. They tell me the base letter that we all

763
01:01:15,840 --> 01:01:21,360
approved has been approved by almost all of our local governments and will be transmitted

764
01:01:21,360 --> 01:01:29,220
to the base. This southeast wastewater treatment plant expansion is in process to serve

765
01:01:29,220 --> 01:01:37,400
the Holly Ridge and it needs ferry areas. The summer house wastewater treatment expansion

766
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:45,700
is completed and should be operational soon. It's a serve Holly Ridge. We're working on

767
01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:53,340
in Camp Davis Industrial Park and a state grant to build a water tower in Holly Ridge and the expansion

768
01:01:53,340 --> 01:02:01,540
of the Dixon Water Treatment Plant from 4 to 6 million gallons a day treatment capacity is

769
01:02:01,540 --> 01:02:08,340
in the process. So that's just a part of what's going on there on Wassa trying to keep up with

770
01:02:08,340 --> 01:02:15,100
wonderful growth that we have and we certainly don't want water and sewer to be a detriment

771
01:02:15,100 --> 01:02:16,120
to our growth.

772
01:02:19,950 --> 01:02:27,190
That is, yeah, the swans were a pipeline is expected to go online in the next 30 days

773
01:02:27,190 --> 01:02:34,410
as soon as all the testing is done and they'll actually be waste water flowing from swans

774
01:02:34,410 --> 01:02:38,730
were up to Petty Green, could you get the thing?

775
01:02:38,730 --> 01:02:40,210
Could you expound on the letter?

776
01:02:41,110 --> 01:02:41,710
On the letter?

777
01:02:42,450 --> 01:02:42,470
Yes.

778
01:02:43,210 --> 01:02:51,370
All of the municipalities except, I think, Jacksonville, and I just checked this morning, and

779
01:02:51,370 --> 01:02:55,430
the best I could tell, Jacksonville has not signed on.

780
01:02:55,630 --> 01:02:57,110
What's the purpose of the letter?

781
01:02:57,850 --> 01:02:58,610
Oh, I'm sorry.

782
01:02:58,610 --> 01:03:17,910
the purpose of the letter to the purpose of the letter is to get the three and a half million gallons per day of wastewater treatment to the Legion plant that was promised to us ten years ago or more.

783
01:03:17,910 --> 01:03:26,390
It also asks for if we can't get that capacity for federal funding for a new wastewater

784
01:03:26,390 --> 01:03:29,710
treatment plant somewhere in the human area.

785
01:03:30,690 --> 01:03:39,030
Or also the approval of the pipeline from Sneeds Ferry to French Creek Dimmering Corps

786
01:03:39,030 --> 01:03:47,890
base that was approved years ago, and then rejected after that to get that re-applied

787
01:03:47,890 --> 01:03:52,110
proved, because we've already spent about $200,000 in

788
01:03:52,110 --> 01:03:55,710
engineering that pipeline before they pulled it out from

789
01:03:55,710 --> 01:03:56,470
under us.

790
01:03:56,470 --> 01:03:58,970
How much was the pipeline from Swan's Bird,

791
01:03:58,990 --> 01:03:59,810
Piny Green?

792
01:04:00,150 --> 01:04:04,110
Oh, that ran about $30, $35 million now, I think.

793
01:04:04,490 --> 01:04:06,510
I don't have the final numbers, but yeah.

794
01:04:06,990 --> 01:04:10,790
And we spent that money very specifically because we

795
01:04:10,790 --> 01:04:13,450
thought we would be able to have that, that's not treated

796
01:04:13,450 --> 01:04:16,290
on the base, so.

797
01:04:16,830 --> 01:04:17,830
Thank you for the questions.

798
01:04:18,710 --> 01:04:19,250
First, thank you.

799
01:04:19,290 --> 01:04:20,430
I just gave you more questions.

800
01:04:21,530 --> 01:04:24,470
I just will have the public be near what we're fighting for.

801
01:04:24,570 --> 01:04:24,710
Right.

802
01:04:24,830 --> 01:04:29,410
Because you, you are the head of that being the chairman and being a commissioner.

803
01:04:30,110 --> 01:04:36,150
You're fighting on our behalf to have a contract fulfilled that the base is not fulfilling.

804
01:04:36,690 --> 01:04:37,130
Absolutely.

805
01:04:37,490 --> 01:04:39,310
Do we thank you for your help?

806
01:04:40,590 --> 01:04:41,090
Any others?

807
01:04:42,470 --> 01:04:49,850
I'm sorry, I just want to say the Fisher Commission, we're still active moving forward.

808
01:04:50,890 --> 01:04:59,630
Our Chairman Bob Woodard will be in Raleigh, Thursday and Friday, fight for our rights to fish, continue to fish for our community.

809
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:07,500
And we'll meet again next month, back in Mori. It's just that everyone that we're fighting hard

810
01:05:07,500 --> 01:05:14,860
with can to be able to protect the industry. It's been here long, long, long. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

811
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:16,220
Thanks, Chairman. Mr. Davis?

812
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:23,260
Yeah, and I just want to, on the level, Morgan Hospital Board, just make sure if you haven't heard

813
01:05:23,260 --> 01:05:27,320
that the partnership with UNC Chapel Hill is in place.

814
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:29,360
It's a three-phase process.

815
01:05:30,300 --> 01:05:32,820
So we look forward to that growth and that relationship

816
01:05:32,820 --> 01:05:34,040
with Chapel Hill.

817
01:05:34,100 --> 01:05:37,800
Brett, please stop me if I start to go off on something confidential.

818
01:05:37,820 --> 01:05:39,240
I think I'm good here.

819
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:44,980
But I'm excited and we're excited to see Chapel Hill medicine.

820
01:05:45,060 --> 01:05:48,980
UNC medicine being a part of our community hospital

821
01:05:49,540 --> 01:05:53,220
and with a long-term vision of it being a UNC hospital.

822
01:05:53,220 --> 01:06:01,420
So that's exciting opportunity for Oslo County and thankful for this board that worked hard

823
01:06:01,420 --> 01:06:05,080
to make that happen as well as Oslo Hospital Board.

824
01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:06,640
Thank you.

825
01:06:06,640 --> 01:06:08,080
Thank you, Mr. Davis.

826
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:15,640
Sit there with the Beach Inlet Sound Committee with Mayor Grant.

827
01:06:16,060 --> 01:06:20,280
A lot of work going on down on North Opsville Beach and down in Surf City as well.

828
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:28,900
because we serve city side to big contract today, historical, the take care of our hour, 11 and

829
01:06:28,900 --> 01:06:36,720
half miles of beach and then there's the other 14 miles or 15 miles there of top so

830
01:06:36,720 --> 01:06:36,960
island.

831
01:06:36,960 --> 01:06:39,600
Then we know how important that is to two onslaught counties.

832
01:06:40,180 --> 01:06:45,980
We consider that onslaught counties beach and we are appreciating the work we're doing with

833
01:06:45,980 --> 01:06:49,960
Northopso Beach town, Alderman, and their mayor.

834
01:06:50,920 --> 01:06:54,240
Also worked down on the Topso Island shoreline protection.

835
01:06:55,120 --> 01:06:59,660
Doing a lot of work on the oyster leases that are going on, that seems to all come to

836
01:06:59,660 --> 01:07:02,700
onslow and Pender County because we're the only ones without a moratorium.

837
01:07:03,620 --> 01:07:09,340
We believe everyone should be able to go out and get their oysters, but we don't think everybody

838
01:07:09,340 --> 01:07:12,540
in the Eastern North Carolina should come to our waterways.

839
01:07:12,540 --> 01:07:16,760
We need to share the, share the oyster love throughout Eastern North Carolina.

840
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:26,440
Now there is, we meet quarterly county manager myself along with the municipal mayors

841
01:07:26,440 --> 01:07:29,580
and their city managers or town managers.

842
01:07:30,380 --> 01:07:32,580
And we are have extended the invitation.

843
01:07:33,260 --> 01:07:38,980
We also have the on loss of chairman and the CEO of on loss of joins us as well.

844
01:07:38,980 --> 01:07:44,760
and we have extended the invitation to the superintendent and the Chairman of the Board of Education

845
01:07:44,760 --> 01:07:49,700
to join us in those conversations and discussions as well because all of those entities

846
01:07:49,700 --> 01:07:54,640
are so integral to the success of onslaught counting on to bring everybody to that table

847
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,980
as we continue to work and address the needs of onslaught counting as a whole.

848
01:07:59,600 --> 01:08:04,560
So with that being said, I would say we're going to move into item 6 to quarterly financial

849
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:10,640
report, but I've had a request for about a eight-minute recess or break and we'll be

850
01:08:10,640 --> 01:08:14,200
backing about eight minutes and I just chose eight minutes because it sounds good.

851
01:18:20,530 --> 01:18:27,230
Resume the commissioners meeting for this evening and we'll move to item 6 and our chief finance officer, Mr.

852
01:18:27,370 --> 01:18:41,030
Kevin Patterson will provide the board with a brief presentation on our quarterly financial report and it says, brief in the agenda here, so the entire 97 slide deck.

853
01:18:49,890 --> 01:18:51,510
I'm not sure where my slides are.

854
01:18:58,170 --> 01:19:01,710
Well, I'll go with the slide because you do have access to them.

855
01:19:07,470 --> 01:19:08,490
I'll get to it in a second.

856
01:19:10,230 --> 01:19:14,990
But with these, we did prepare the numbers for the June 30th,

857
01:19:15,130 --> 01:19:16,550
but they are as of.

858
01:19:18,720 --> 01:19:22,520
They are as of August 5th.

859
01:19:22,620 --> 01:19:27,620
So we do have a councilabler still open for a cruel

860
01:19:27,620 --> 01:19:29,220
through the end of August.

861
01:19:29,220 --> 01:19:37,560
most of those are already in. We do have sales tax revenues that are not in yet.

862
01:19:37,920 --> 01:19:44,300
We will receive the, we will receive notification. Actually, we just received, we

863
01:19:44,300 --> 01:19:48,700
should have received notification on how much sales tax will receive in this month

864
01:19:48,700 --> 01:19:55,400
this week. But we still have August and September sales tax to a crew as well.

865
01:19:58,200 --> 01:19:59,960
So, with that,

866
01:20:00,270 --> 01:20:20,450
Had the only modified cash basis in the general fund, we have brought in $331 million, we have $348 million of expenditures on a $408 million total budget.

867
01:20:20,450 --> 01:20:23,730
That is a negative by $16 million.

868
01:20:24,090 --> 01:20:31,610
We do expect to accrue approximately $13 million in sales taxes that are not that we have

869
01:20:31,610 --> 01:20:34,930
not received yet that that will be in August and September.

870
01:20:35,950 --> 01:20:41,310
We also have transfers that we have not made because we are waiting for the final accruals

871
01:20:41,310 --> 01:20:42,510
for payables.

872
01:20:43,230 --> 01:20:50,330
So, as I said, backering workshops, we will use fund balance right now.

873
01:20:50,410 --> 01:20:57,790
Our appropriated fund balance is in excess of $20 million, but we will reuse fund balance

874
01:20:57,790 --> 01:20:59,030
and under $5 million.

875
01:21:00,130 --> 01:21:02,570
But again, this is part of a multi-year strategy.

876
01:21:02,930 --> 01:21:08,370
So next year, we should be adopting a budget that would add two fund balance.

877
01:21:08,370 --> 01:21:16,730
this year, the 27 fiscal year isn't anomaly, but next year we will back into a four-year pattern.

878
01:21:22,450 --> 01:21:26,910
And again, just short-pointing these in numbers, we are showing that water actual utilization

879
01:21:26,910 --> 01:21:35,810
is as far as revenues. You will see our finance, our tax revenue is not quite where it was,

880
01:21:35,870 --> 01:21:42,310
because that is sales tax that will get them not accrued. Right now we will be within a million

881
01:21:42,310 --> 01:21:48,250
of our budgeted sales tax depending on where those final numbers come in, which will be actually

882
01:21:48,250 --> 01:21:54,750
putting us on par with where we were last year. Our financing sources, we have a significant

883
01:21:54,750 --> 01:22:00,710
increase in budget over actual financing sources. A lot of that came with the refinancing that we did

884
01:22:00,710 --> 01:22:10,030
this past year because we refinanced and existing bond, which really shows up as a budgetary item

885
01:22:10,030 --> 01:22:16,010
only because that is an income that is a transfer end and that transfer out which we never

886
01:22:16,010 --> 01:22:23,690
receive. So it is not an actual, it is a financial transaction but it is not a cash transaction.

887
01:22:24,790 --> 01:22:30,270
So that shows up only on a full approval method. So that's the big reason for the major difference

888
01:22:30,270 --> 01:22:37,130
in the financial services sources. Again, also looking at our property taxes that you can

889
01:22:37,130 --> 01:22:43,230
we did exceed our budget collections, where property tax collections increased by $5 million

890
01:22:43,230 --> 01:22:52,310
over 2025, and we did budget $155 million in revenues and collected 148 million.

891
01:22:53,450 --> 01:22:57,750
And again, we are right at an $86 million budget.

892
01:22:58,210 --> 01:23:02,330
We will be probably around $85 million in total collections.

893
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:10,760
And again, just following that demographic, we are still going,

894
01:23:10,760 --> 01:23:16,540
We are probably on past from marking very close proximity to where we were last year.

895
01:23:16,740 --> 01:23:23,500
The tax revenue and some of that is probably more built to changes in the tonal economy.

896
01:23:26,850 --> 01:23:32,890
And again, just showing in where the category by functions and where most of our money goes.

897
01:23:33,290 --> 01:23:38,410
Of course, the largest single area is, of course, education followed by public safety.

898
01:23:43,170 --> 01:23:51,550
And with that, when you look at functional codes, 81% of our total budget goes to education,

899
01:23:52,330 --> 01:23:54,610
followed by public safety and human services.

900
01:24:00,800 --> 01:24:05,140
Looking at solid waste, of course, again, these numbers are as of 825.

901
01:24:06,240 --> 01:24:09,780
These also do not have the accruals in here.

902
01:24:10,260 --> 01:24:12,700
This is still in a modified cash basis.

903
01:24:12,700 --> 01:24:19,960
But we will have depreciation and post-closure calls to be accrued into this so that $3.4 million.

904
01:24:21,220 --> 01:24:25,380
Current positive operation is going to drop significantly.

905
01:24:26,780 --> 01:24:29,700
But the operations are showing a very positive trend.

906
01:24:31,980 --> 01:24:36,840
The airport, the current numbers actually do put them in an operational deficit,

907
01:24:37,480 --> 01:24:40,160
but then again, that is because we have not made the accruals.

908
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:47,820
They have a large amount of grant dollars that we have received, but they show us, unhurned.

909
01:24:47,900 --> 01:24:50,260
We have not the book, those has earned revenues.

910
01:24:50,940 --> 01:24:56,980
So we do expect this to be pushed back to a neutral position in the water, as it was

911
01:24:56,980 --> 01:24:57,660
last year.

912
01:24:58,140 --> 01:24:59,600
So it is a matter that they're poor.

913
01:25:00,560 --> 01:25:05,240
Without support from the general fund or property taxes.

914
01:25:10,370 --> 01:25:14,510
For the grant report, of course the county has accepted

915
01:25:14,510 --> 01:25:28,450
$11 million in total grand funding through fiscal year to $26. Right now we have just in the

916
01:25:28,450 --> 01:25:34,070
of grants for solid-way shares airport.

917
01:25:35,050 --> 01:25:39,670
We do have five grants that are still outstanding for $25 million.

918
01:25:40,990 --> 01:25:45,630
One of those is primarily for public safety.

919
01:25:45,850 --> 01:25:50,750
It is for a new M.S. nation and back at 911 Center.

920
01:25:51,330 --> 01:25:55,350
This is an extremely competitive grant

921
01:25:55,350 --> 01:26:02,350
And this will most likely be our first of multiple applications for this current process.

922
01:26:04,850 --> 01:26:20,650
Also, the one thing that is that I do want to brag about a little bit for the county is that we did actually close out Hurricane Francis and Hurricane Matthew's FEMA reports.

923
01:26:20,650 --> 01:26:27,210
Yeah, and that was only that was $73,000 that we were finally

924
01:26:27,210 --> 01:26:33,070
able to get close-out with FEMA on in under a decade, nine years.

925
01:26:35,610 --> 01:26:36,130
Have any questions?

926
01:26:41,490 --> 01:26:45,330
No questions, but we'll let you stick around.

927
01:26:46,030 --> 01:26:46,030
Okay,

928
01:26:48,250 --> 01:26:53,810
the next item, and does not have the slides to it, is the budget amendments.

929
01:26:54,250 --> 01:26:59,010
You have two budget amendments before you tonight, budget amendment nine and ten.

930
01:26:59,010 --> 01:27:21,030
The first nine is for this is the dead service payment for a half moon, they were not, we did not give them the money of last year because they did not have, they did not sign their contract, they have signed both an extension and a full years contract.

931
01:27:21,030 --> 01:27:30,150
So this first amendment budget, amendment 9, budget amendment 9 would be for $57,272,

932
01:27:30,370 --> 01:27:40,990
which is the debt service for the 26 fiscal year for a debt payment for a fire truck

933
01:27:40,990 --> 01:27:41,910
that they have.

934
01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:49,800
The second budget amendment budget amendment 10 is for a tiny green and this is similar

935
01:27:49,800 --> 01:27:56,980
situation. We do have a signed one year contract with Pliny Green. So we're requesting the

936
01:27:56,980 --> 01:28:03,820
carry forward a 304,615 dollars for the debt service payment on their new fire station,

937
01:28:04,040 --> 01:28:10,820
as well as for a fire truck. These are just for debt service payments. These do not all set

938
01:28:10,820 --> 01:28:15,960
any operational costs that may or may not have been covered under the temporary funding from

939
01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:16,380
here.

940
01:28:18,740 --> 01:28:21,320
So we request the board approve those budget amendments.

941
01:28:25,050 --> 01:28:27,050
Motion in a second. Any discussion?

942
01:28:28,030 --> 01:28:35,050
Yes, since I didn't get the motion in a second, I was too slow, but I do want to defend this board.

943
01:28:38,350 --> 01:28:44,930
This debt service payments, this board had originally requested that those be made and

944
01:28:44,930 --> 01:28:53,630
And personnel that are no longer here made some unilateral decisions that that didn't happen.

945
01:28:54,150 --> 01:28:56,550
So this board made sure that that was rectified.

946
01:28:57,290 --> 01:29:03,830
And I also want to thank all the fire departments and Brett and Paul.

947
01:29:03,850 --> 01:29:11,970
And I'm probably leaving out Lisa and Tony for their hard work and Tom just amount of time.

948
01:29:12,670 --> 01:29:17,530
It's probably not, it can't be counted how much many hours help it in to work with the fire departments.

949
01:29:18,570 --> 01:29:26,130
And so I want to say thank you to this board for going that extra mile to make sure all this worked out and got the water smooth.

950
01:29:26,750 --> 01:29:31,350
And we have complete fire service to this county and the fire departments are all working.

951
01:29:31,550 --> 01:29:38,210
And I think if I remember right, they're all going to get more money than was originally even expected by any of this.

952
01:29:38,750 --> 01:29:45,250
because of the formulas that which would be complimented back to you, Kevin, where are you in?

953
01:29:45,550 --> 01:29:46,190
I would remember.

954
01:29:46,490 --> 01:29:46,810
Thank you.

955
01:29:47,330 --> 01:29:48,350
Bradley, thank you.

956
01:29:49,170 --> 01:29:55,790
So anyway, I just wanted to put some praise out to this board and to the staff for making it a very difficult situation.

957
01:29:56,090 --> 01:29:59,090
Really come together and I think everybody was pleased on both sides.

958
01:30:00,140 --> 01:30:21,500
Well, John, one other add to that, too, Kevin, is that we thought there was three million dollars, and now we found out we got six million dollars sitting there, that we can take care of our talking about apparatus and engines, and all we found out out here recently. We thought there was three, but there was still three, from last year that was being put aside. Correct, Kevin? Thank you, sir.

959
01:30:23,320 --> 01:30:25,940
That's good news that we need to vote of that.

960
01:30:26,100 --> 01:30:30,940
Yeah, we got the vote and it's always good because when they call 911 and the house is on fire,

961
01:30:31,060 --> 01:30:35,780
you want somebody there and we are sure that the volunteer of fireman and women of uns

962
01:30:35,780 --> 01:30:38,420
like County are adequately funded to take care of the citizens.

963
01:30:38,740 --> 01:30:41,660
So with that being said, all in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.

964
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:48,440
I was opposed hearing none, motion carries, Mr. Patterson, the keep on keeping on.

965
01:30:48,860 --> 01:30:52,480
The next item has changed order number one for the Bear Creek Fire Station.

966
01:30:53,440 --> 01:31:01,100
These are changes due to inflationary costs of the delay from last.

967
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:07,480
From when the contract was executed to when we finally got clearance through the EQ,

968
01:31:07,920 --> 01:31:10,760
and we're able to get a notice to proceed on the project.

969
01:31:11,700 --> 01:31:15,300
Also, a large part of these go back to A vendor.

970
01:31:15,300 --> 01:31:23,140
But this was not that vendors change order, but these are issues that are changed significantly

971
01:31:23,140 --> 01:31:31,600
because of adjustments had to be made to the ground, the erosion control plans and the discharge

972
01:31:31,600 --> 01:31:40,440
permits through DEQ as well as there is an additional paving the DOT has upgrading what the intersection

973
01:31:40,440 --> 01:31:46,740
that we would originally been able to tap onto the line and patch, now since they have upgraded

974
01:31:46,740 --> 01:31:52,840
that intersection, we would have to tap onto the line and then repave the intersection itself.

975
01:31:54,280 --> 01:32:01,080
So we would request that the approval of the change order. We are also currently working on

976
01:32:01,080 --> 01:32:06,720
change order number two, which is going to be a credit backed off, so a reduction in the price.

977
01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:17,780
And these are modifications led by a county, and that will offset or that will also significantly

978
01:32:17,780 --> 01:32:19,860
if not all of these costs.

979
01:32:20,240 --> 01:32:21,160
So moved.

980
01:32:21,320 --> 01:32:21,620
Second.

981
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:23,180
Motion in a second.

982
01:32:23,420 --> 01:32:23,880
Any discussion?

983
01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:24,760
Yeah.

984
01:32:24,900 --> 01:32:31,460
I wanted to preach out to Janelle Aaron and to staff for, because this was a nightmare to start

985
01:32:31,460 --> 01:32:32,280
with.

986
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:35,120
We didn't know the commissars were brought up to speed.

987
01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:38,640
I don't know months ago when there was problems with this project.

988
01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:43,100
And we had no idea what was wrong with the project until the Janellan staff and the attorney

989
01:32:43,100 --> 01:32:47,480
all got involved and we got it squared away and now we're moving forward.

990
01:32:47,500 --> 01:32:52,020
I want to thank you, Janellan, and staff and Britt for getting on that thing pretty tight

991
01:32:52,020 --> 01:32:55,300
because it was kind of a mess there for a while.

992
01:32:55,440 --> 01:32:55,900
Thank you.

993
01:32:57,660 --> 01:32:58,640
Any other discussion?

994
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:02,600
Hearing none all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.

995
01:33:02,600 --> 01:33:02,960
Aye.

996
01:33:03,200 --> 01:33:03,920
Those opposed.

997
01:33:04,320 --> 01:33:04,840
Hearing none.

998
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:05,960
Motion carries.

999
01:33:06,700 --> 01:33:07,000
Strasson.

1000
01:33:07,400 --> 01:33:11,900
The next item is the project ordinance for the EMS construction.

1001
01:33:13,160 --> 01:33:20,580
These would be the construction for the EMS stations at Homslow Pines and Midway Park.

1002
01:33:21,360 --> 01:33:24,080
We had last meeting.

1003
01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:26,380
You did approve the contract.

1004
01:33:26,380 --> 01:33:38,560
to design the projects, to design these stations, this would be to actually allow us to move forward with the ultimately the construction.

1005
01:33:39,480 --> 01:33:47,000
Before any of that happens, the construction contract will come back to the board with a maximum price guarantee.

1006
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:52,000
We are also working on a third sign, which is we are working in the

1007
01:33:52,000 --> 01:33:55,740
State's area with on wassa, they have actually identified another

1008
01:33:55,740 --> 01:34:00,640
piece of property that is not a there, a treatment facility, which we think

1009
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:05,680
may be a better location and we will do, we are going to do the

1010
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:11,060
environmental on that property to make sure it is amenable. Once that

1011
01:34:11,060 --> 01:34:16,680
site has determined we would go back and bring another amendment to this

1012
01:34:16,680 --> 01:34:19,180
that's allowing for that third station.

1013
01:34:20,080 --> 01:34:23,640
It will be the same design for each of the three stations.

1014
01:34:24,300 --> 01:34:26,500
The only difference will be the civil engineering

1015
01:34:26,500 --> 01:34:32,620
and the actual location of the property itself.

1016
01:34:37,070 --> 01:34:40,610
Motion to approve second motion in a second.

1017
01:34:40,990 --> 01:34:41,670
Any discussion?

1018
01:34:43,090 --> 01:34:45,870
Hearing none all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye.

1019
01:34:46,370 --> 01:34:46,610
Aye. Aye.

1020
01:34:46,710 --> 01:34:48,490
Those opposed. Hearing none.

1021
01:34:48,850 --> 01:34:49,670
Motion carries.

1022
01:34:50,830 --> 01:34:57,410
The last project ordnance is for the Southern Elementary School as would be an elementary school that will be built in knowledge.

1023
01:34:58,030 --> 01:34:59,970
Harriet, property has been it.

1024
01:35:00,000 --> 01:35:11,920
Identified in his own negotiations, which have been extremely complicated, but we do believe that they are coming to an end with a positive outcome.

1025
01:35:12,700 --> 01:35:19,860
This project ordinance would allow for the construction of a new elementary school for $49 million, $18,000.

1026
01:35:19,860 --> 01:35:48,660
the goal hit this project is to go out to bid in early or in late winter, January, so we can start and it was brought out that it would to go out to bid so we can issue a contract by April of 27, so it would be available for the August 29 school year.

1027
01:35:48,660 --> 01:35:55,840
My fingers were overly optimistic when typing it, because it is a two year construction window for schools.

1028
01:35:56,920 --> 01:36:02,380
But this object would allow us the ability to move forward with that project.

1029
01:36:02,900 --> 01:36:09,080
As we get closer, I've already worked with our pond attorney that we will be drafting a refunding resolution.

1030
01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:13,380
So we will bring a free funding resolution back to the board.

1031
01:36:15,180 --> 01:36:28,210
By the time the final contract is for the purchase of the land is required for quest approval of the project ordinance for the schools.

1032
01:36:28,410 --> 01:36:31,670
So my second motion in a second, any discussion?

1033
01:36:32,290 --> 01:36:34,270
Yeah, I got some.

1034
01:36:34,790 --> 01:36:39,130
Before I had the workshop today, I was going to vote against this.

1035
01:36:39,170 --> 01:36:43,710
And I have a lot of questions and you answered my questions when we came in at a workshop.

1036
01:36:44,610 --> 01:36:58,890
I won't go in any of those, because I still have a little bit of concern being that I sat in some meetings back in 2025, but I'm going to go ahead and vote for this, and I just hope it all comes to fruition, because I have some concerns.

1037
01:37:00,190 --> 01:37:05,050
I just want the board to know then, but I'm going ahead and we'll vote for it today.

1038
01:37:05,330 --> 01:37:08,810
But earlier, if you had an answer to my question, that would have voted for it.

1039
01:37:10,570 --> 01:37:19,150
I'm going to agree with Paul, I have reservations and more of how it all happened, but I think

1040
01:37:19,150 --> 01:37:20,970
it's the right thing to do to move forward.

1041
01:37:21,670 --> 01:37:28,650
My other request would be, I think last year and it was maybe about this time, we had done

1042
01:37:28,650 --> 01:37:35,030
a plan of what the school system was looking to build and when I think it would be appropriate

1043
01:37:35,030 --> 01:37:39,890
to see that again, because I think we're definitely getting some public concern about how

1044
01:37:39,890 --> 01:37:46,170
that were moving forward in building schools and getting that done in meeting capacity.

1045
01:37:47,070 --> 01:37:50,890
So that would be my request is that we get that scheduled again as well.

1046
01:37:51,750 --> 01:37:53,010
Great. Thank you, John.

1047
01:37:54,110 --> 01:37:55,330
Any other discussion?

1048
01:37:56,890 --> 01:37:59,870
Hearing none all in favor of the motion signal five by saying aye.

1049
01:38:00,090 --> 01:38:02,990
I suppose hearing none motion carries.

1050
01:38:03,530 --> 01:38:04,750
I hope that was quick enough.

1051
01:38:05,050 --> 01:38:05,710
Thank you Mr. Bass.

1052
01:38:07,670 --> 01:38:11,910
Now Mr. Sprunger is going to come up and he's going to stay up here for a few minutes

1053
01:38:11,910 --> 01:38:12,370
with us.

1054
01:38:12,430 --> 01:38:17,210
So he's got quite a few and catch your breath and take off there.

1055
01:38:17,830 --> 01:38:19,270
Try to make it as quick as possible.

1056
01:38:19,410 --> 01:38:21,310
I mean, we could actually give him grief for what?

1057
01:38:21,490 --> 01:38:22,710
See, he was an easy and the negative.

1058
01:38:22,850 --> 01:38:24,850
We never get to give mid-Street for nothing.

1059
01:38:26,050 --> 01:38:26,410
Nice.

1060
01:38:27,670 --> 01:38:31,830
First item for your consideration is the A-Rink lease.

1061
01:38:31,830 --> 01:38:38,450
What this is, it's an inflight communication system that the airlines use out of OHA.

1062
01:38:40,090 --> 01:38:41,970
It's a computer and the IT clause.

1063
01:38:42,450 --> 01:38:45,730
It's an executive terminal with a small antenna in the roof.

1064
01:38:46,210 --> 01:38:48,090
It's been out there for the last two decades.

1065
01:38:49,310 --> 01:38:53,350
Both airlines use it, and it's just a simple five year lease for no one.

1066
01:38:54,010 --> 01:38:58,330
So it is respectfully requested that the Board of Commissioners approved the five year lease agreement

1067
01:38:58,330 --> 01:39:03,370
and authorize the chairman to execute the A-Rain Police Agreement on behalf of the county.

1068
01:39:04,090 --> 01:39:04,490
Sounded.

1069
01:39:04,810 --> 01:39:04,970
Sounded.

1070
01:39:04,970 --> 01:39:05,250
Okay.

1071
01:39:05,650 --> 01:39:06,730
Motioned in a second.

1072
01:39:07,170 --> 01:39:07,690
Any discussion?

1073
01:39:09,010 --> 01:39:11,770
Hearing none at all in favor of the motion of signify by saying aye.

1074
01:39:12,350 --> 01:39:13,150
Those opposed.

1075
01:39:13,650 --> 01:39:13,950
Hearing none.

1076
01:39:14,170 --> 01:39:14,670
Motion carries.

1077
01:39:15,530 --> 01:39:15,990
All right.

1078
01:39:16,230 --> 01:39:19,610
The next is for the snow removal equipment facility.

1079
01:39:20,590 --> 01:39:25,170
This is a deductive change order for the project.

1080
01:39:25,170 --> 01:39:26,550
It is now completed.

1081
01:39:27,890 --> 01:39:34,850
We had owners contingency for the project that was over $100,000, which we did not have to use.

1082
01:39:35,670 --> 01:39:37,950
So we're looking to reconcile that.

1083
01:39:38,470 --> 01:39:42,870
That was with NCAIP state grant dollars.

1084
01:39:44,210 --> 01:39:50,870
So we're going to bring it back in and hopefully use it for the entry road design in the parking lot that's coming up.

1085
01:39:50,870 --> 01:39:55,910
So, with that, it is respectfully requested that the Board of Commissioners approved the Bobbit Construction

1086
01:39:55,910 --> 01:39:59,970
to deduct a change order of 9 in the amount of 125,000.

1087
01:40:00,900 --> 01:40:07,220
277 dollars in 11 cents, and authorize the chairman to sign the change order, none, on behalf of the county.

1088
01:40:08,020 --> 01:40:18,560
Second, motion in a second, any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, sign the five bus, aye, nay, aye, those opposed. Hearing none, motion carries.

1089
01:40:20,060 --> 01:40:22,020
Next two items are related.

1090
01:40:23,640 --> 01:40:34,340
This is for the airport entrance road that leads to describe for the phase three design of that road for our airport runway expansion project.

1091
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:41,420
So phase one is the runway extension phase two highway relocation and this will be for the entry road design.

1092
01:40:41,420 --> 01:40:49,360
So, full design documents, erosion control permits, storm water permitting, as well as bidding.

1093
01:40:50,160 --> 01:40:54,040
And then there are some countries, excuse me, construction components for this.

1094
01:40:54,440 --> 01:41:02,800
It's also going to include the monument sign, the intersection of the highway and the entry road.

1095
01:41:04,460 --> 01:41:12,980
There's a building out there right now that needs to be removed the entry road and also some site grading for the entry road itself.

1096
01:41:14,000 --> 01:41:19,680
And the other thing in notes, the runaway and highway that was primarily funded by state funds.

1097
01:41:20,340 --> 01:41:27,200
This will be with federal grand dollars for this project, which I'll bring that to the next Board of Commissioners meeting.

1098
01:41:27,200 --> 01:41:33,060
So with that it's respectfully requested that the board commissioners approve the airport entrance

1099
01:41:33,060 --> 01:41:38,080
road project ordinance and authorize the chairman to sign the necessary documents on behalf of the county.

1100
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:45,920
Second motion in the second and you discussion here you know and all in favor of the motion signify by saying aye aye and

1101
01:41:45,920 --> 01:41:56,360
those opposed hearing none motion carries and the last piece is task order number five with RS and age so this is the task order that will

1102
01:41:56,360 --> 01:42:00,060
design that entry roadway for us.

1103
01:42:00,520 --> 01:42:02,940
We have a five-year contract in place with ours in

1104
01:42:02,940 --> 01:42:05,640
H. We're on your four-year contract.

1105
01:42:06,120 --> 01:42:08,860
So they've designed the runway in the highway and now

1106
01:42:08,860 --> 01:42:10,500
they're doing this.

1107
01:42:11,040 --> 01:42:14,080
Think of notes for this price point.

1108
01:42:14,320 --> 01:42:17,260
You have to do an independent fee review.

1109
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:20,180
Converments a good value on the project.

1110
01:42:21,300 --> 01:42:22,640
And it wasn't that confirmed.

1111
01:42:24,100 --> 01:42:26,200
So with that, it is respectfully requested

1112
01:42:26,200 --> 01:42:29,140
at the Board of Commissioners to prove the R.S. and age.

1113
01:42:29,340 --> 01:42:33,980
That's where to number five in the amount of $413,229.

1114
01:42:34,580 --> 01:42:37,120
And all the rest of the chairman to sign the necessary documents

1115
01:42:37,120 --> 01:42:38,180
on behalf of the county.

1116
01:42:38,640 --> 01:42:39,100
Tell them.

1117
01:42:39,560 --> 01:42:41,360
Sorry, I can motion that a second.

1118
01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:42,640
I need a discussion.

1119
01:42:43,860 --> 01:42:46,480
Hearing none all of the favor, the motion to speak of Papa Say and I.

1120
01:42:46,580 --> 01:42:47,980
Hi, I'm both opposed.

1121
01:42:48,700 --> 01:42:50,260
Hearing none, motion carries.

1122
01:42:51,240 --> 01:42:51,540
Thank you.

1123
01:42:51,540 --> 01:42:52,140
Thank you, sir.

1124
01:42:52,860 --> 01:42:54,420
Catch you, breath, and we'll let Bradley

1125
01:42:54,420 --> 01:43:01,160
I can't at all come up for the next two and we don't have as many for him so he won't be as tired as Kevin and Mitch

1126
01:43:01,160 --> 01:43:03,600
Or like a motion, then we'll just do it all right here

1127
01:43:08,480 --> 01:43:11,420
But even we'll start with I don't

1128
01:43:14,120 --> 01:43:20,000
K3 Community College I've written before you tonight educational affiliation agreement between us

1129
01:43:20,000 --> 01:43:22,400
our U.S. system in the Capeford Community College.

1130
01:43:22,400 --> 01:43:26,520
I tend your agreement that allows their students to write on our trucks to get their

1131
01:43:26,520 --> 01:43:31,480
clinical time to finish their medical programs, paramedic program, or basic program.

1132
01:43:32,540 --> 01:43:39,700
We do this with all the colleges around us for the most part, and it's just time for this

1133
01:43:39,700 --> 01:43:43,240
to be renewed, no financial strings attached to it.

1134
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:52,220
I respectfully request that you prove this educational affiliation agreement between the county,

1135
01:43:52,280 --> 01:43:57,160
EMS system and the Cape for Community College and authorize the Chairman to sign the necessary documents

1136
01:43:57,160 --> 01:43:57,820
by health accounting.

1137
01:43:58,200 --> 01:43:59,000
So a second.

1138
01:43:59,400 --> 01:44:00,500
Motion and a second.

1139
01:44:01,140 --> 01:44:01,640
Any discussion?

1140
01:44:02,340 --> 01:44:03,600
Three health.

1141
01:44:03,600 --> 01:44:04,440
Go ahead, sir.

1142
01:44:05,180 --> 01:44:06,280
Three health.

1143
01:44:08,230 --> 01:44:09,010
They do.

1144
01:44:09,330 --> 01:44:09,790
Yes, sir.

1145
01:44:10,270 --> 01:44:13,110
They get on our truck and they do procedures and we train.

1146
01:44:13,110 --> 01:44:18,110
You know, help finish their training, and they do provide me a power and assistance when they did.

1147
01:44:19,390 --> 01:44:26,250
What's the retention recruiting retention when we have students writing with us?

1148
01:44:26,330 --> 01:44:31,510
Wonderful. And it's positive. It gives us the, the amount of chance to see our system in and out.

1149
01:44:31,630 --> 01:44:37,050
So there's no surprises if they do want to join us full time and just create opportunity to get people in.

1150
01:44:37,710 --> 01:44:42,990
So the more trucks we get on the road, the more availability we have, the more slots we have available on each year for these students.

1151
01:44:42,990 --> 01:44:47,830
all these areas to come in. So we've just been just been a great recruitment program

1152
01:44:47,830 --> 01:44:49,230
so far.

1153
01:44:49,410 --> 01:44:50,870
Thank you. That was pain.

1154
01:44:52,110 --> 01:44:55,510
The further discussion, all in favor of the motion signal file, I'll say hi.

1155
01:44:55,590 --> 01:44:55,910
Hi.

1156
01:44:56,270 --> 01:44:58,070
Those opposed hearing none.

1157
01:44:58,570 --> 01:44:59,070
Motion carries.

1158
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:29,160
Secondly, out of jay, I bring before you tonight a reciprocal reach light agreement with Kenna EMS and Western Carterett, Farney EMS, Chief Kane and their chief has spent a lot of time over the last couple months, refining a very old agreement, most of which was verbal, into something substantial. We made a lot of improvements in this version listed in this agreement are the type of calls that we both agreed we will help each other.

1159
01:45:29,160 --> 01:45:35,880
the more serious calls with the option of reaching out and asking for additional calls

1160
01:45:35,880 --> 01:45:41,560
that are not on the list but they would not take a high priority. They did a

1161
01:45:41,560 --> 01:45:45,460
degree to expand their coverage in non-Slow County. I think all the way up to

1162
01:45:45,460 --> 01:45:52,480
I was 172. So we're very thankful for that and we reciprocated that and I'm

1163
01:45:52,480 --> 01:45:55,920
not sure where that boundary is in Carter yet but we try to make it a very

1164
01:45:55,920 --> 01:46:00,540
fair agreement or that you used to do it when they were negotiating, and very, very proud

1165
01:46:00,540 --> 01:46:06,640
of this and the work they've done to formalize our partnership and help each other out

1166
01:46:08,400 --> 01:46:11,220
in a more professional and organized way.

1167
01:46:13,380 --> 01:46:18,900
Now, I ask, excuse me, it's required, I respectfully request the board to approve the

1168
01:46:18,900 --> 01:46:22,900
reciprocal future letter agreement between Hothlick and EMS and Wichita Carter at Firon EMS

1169
01:46:22,900 --> 01:46:25,720
and authorize the chairman to sign on the necessary documents on my off the county.

1170
01:46:25,720 --> 01:46:28,460
to the second motion in a second.

1171
01:46:28,780 --> 01:46:29,580
Any discussion?

1172
01:46:30,580 --> 01:46:31,900
Hearing none, all in favor of the motion,

1173
01:46:32,120 --> 01:46:33,700
second to five, I'll say, and aye, aye.

1174
01:46:34,020 --> 01:46:34,780
Those opposed.

1175
01:46:35,360 --> 01:46:36,900
Hearing none, motion carries.

1176
01:46:37,140 --> 01:46:37,840
Thank you very much.

1177
01:46:37,960 --> 01:46:39,600
I'll appreciate it.

1178
01:46:39,620 --> 01:46:43,880
We'll move right to item TN Manager comments, Mr. Eaton.

1179
01:46:44,140 --> 01:46:49,320
Yes, I'll be brief, but I would like to express my appreciation

1180
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:51,980
to the volunteer fire department as well.

1181
01:46:51,980 --> 01:47:00,080
the chiefs that came together, provided feedback, very open and honest, a great dialogue,

1182
01:47:00,360 --> 01:47:06,200
specifically I'd like to highlight Chief Ricky Hardison, Chief J.R. Marks and Chief

1183
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:13,060
Joe Williams. They welcome me into their stations, sat with them, heard from them during

1184
01:47:13,060 --> 01:47:18,700
this process and really look forward to some more great dialogue moving throughout the

1185
01:47:18,700 --> 01:47:25,800
year as we meet much more regularly and all of us have the desire for better communication

1186
01:47:25,800 --> 01:47:30,200
is where we want to start and so I'm really excited about where things are and moving

1187
01:47:30,200 --> 01:47:30,840
forward.

1188
01:47:31,080 --> 01:47:36,280
I want to thank those guys as well as all the chiefs and then also obviously Bradley,

1189
01:47:37,680 --> 01:47:42,320
Janelle, the Cicacone Manager and Kevin Patterson and Chief Financial Officer all the work

1190
01:47:42,320 --> 01:47:43,200
that they've done.

1191
01:47:43,980 --> 01:47:50,820
Lastly, August 28, 10 a.m. is the flag raising ceremony honoring the 50th anniversary of

1192
01:47:50,820 --> 01:47:55,540
onset of Pines Park and Parks and Recreation Apartments, certainly welcome every that

1193
01:47:55,540 --> 01:47:57,180
to come out and celebrate with us.

1194
01:47:57,460 --> 01:47:58,360
Thank you.

1195
01:47:58,360 --> 01:47:59,300
Thanks, Mr. Eden.

1196
01:47:59,800 --> 01:48:00,600
We'll start.

1197
01:48:00,940 --> 01:48:02,540
Mr. Page, you want to start us tonight?

1198
01:48:02,740 --> 01:48:04,180
We'll work our way to the other end.

1199
01:48:04,500 --> 01:48:05,260
I'll be brief.

1200
01:48:05,620 --> 01:48:05,880
Yes, sir.

1201
01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:06,580
We're all for coming.

1202
01:48:06,720 --> 01:48:07,620
Have a good night.

1203
01:48:09,760 --> 01:48:10,160
Mr. Dave?

1204
01:48:10,340 --> 01:48:10,780
Just be that.

1205
01:48:10,780 --> 01:48:12,980
And I don't know that I'm going to be that in the night.

1206
01:48:14,180 --> 01:48:18,340
I believe that in greatly of Rome, Steve, it's Mr. Hart that spoke earlier,

1207
01:48:18,840 --> 01:48:19,880
H.A.R.T. is that correct?

1208
01:48:20,940 --> 01:48:25,720
And I appreciate he's come like the last two or three times and spoken about our priorities.

1209
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:32,380
I feel, and I think the rest of the board agrees with me that although he

1210
01:48:32,380 --> 01:48:37,960
to his defense, he's reading the priorities as they are listed in our document.

1211
01:48:37,960 --> 01:48:44,820
But I think if you talk to anybody in on this board, the three things that happen to be

1212
01:48:44,820 --> 01:48:49,860
the one, two, and three on this priority list are not our one, two, and three.

1213
01:48:50,560 --> 01:48:57,020
And we had a meeting not too long after he said that the first time, and I would argue

1214
01:48:57,020 --> 01:49:01,780
and the board can correct me, but I think I'm going to be pretty accurate here.

1215
01:49:02,260 --> 01:49:07,280
This board is focused on the EMS, it's been focused on our sheriff's department, it's been

1216
01:49:07,280 --> 01:49:12,300
focused on managing growth and keeping lower taxes, and I made a missed a couple, but I think

1217
01:49:12,300 --> 01:49:18,800
that's been our overall apparatus in our meetings and how do we meet those priorities?

1218
01:49:20,760 --> 01:49:26,620
These things that come out of strategic documents, or yes, their priorities, but their priorities

1219
01:49:26,620 --> 01:49:32,360
and strategic documents, there's things that we want to do, but they're not what we focus on in every

1220
01:49:32,360 --> 01:49:38,260
meeting. We are very focused and and Mr. Ken Law that I failed or remember your name

1221
01:49:38,260 --> 01:49:44,600
a few minutes ago is evidence of what we've been all working very hard on and improving

1222
01:49:44,600 --> 01:49:51,940
our EMS and we got two buildings getting ready to get started. He's hired 44 people in the

1223
01:49:51,940 --> 01:49:58,980
last two months, three months. Yeah, but he is working hard to get people hired and trained.

1224
01:50:00,700 --> 01:50:29,980
And bringing innovative ideas to our emergency services side. And so those are the type things that we are focused on, priority, where I say, now, with all that said, Mr. Hart, I agree with you on the taxes. We need to stay focused on what can we do to lower our taxes and keep them. For me, I'm a net zero. I drive Kevin crazy, because I like net zero. I want it to be, I want natural growth from this, you know, from the net zero.

1225
01:50:30,000 --> 01:50:35,800
where we are, because I think we have plenty of money, plenty of revenue coming in.

1226
01:50:36,820 --> 01:50:45,060
Daniel, who he is the ring leader for a YouTuber united with the cameras, I, you know,

1227
01:50:45,180 --> 01:50:50,440
I hesitate to say that I agree with him, but I, I definitely, and I agree with him

1228
01:50:50,440 --> 01:50:51,960
and understanding these cameras.

1229
01:50:53,200 --> 01:50:58,280
I want to understand, and I may have even voted for him, I'm not even going into a hide

1230
01:50:58,280 --> 01:51:06,780
But I want to understand what we voted for, and maybe there were some things that we didn't understand at the time when we voted for them.

1231
01:51:07,220 --> 01:51:19,640
So I'm definitely putting that back to you and Brett with understanding that because I'm definitely not liking what I'm reading and hearing about these cameras and the things that they can do and how they can be abused.

1232
01:51:19,640 --> 01:51:31,820
And, and I do compliment my fellow commissioner, Mr. Scarbender, for keeping me on my toes with that because I tend to lean on the side of the police.

1233
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:38,940
I like the blue, but at the same time, you know, we have a constitution, so you have to find that, find balance.

1234
01:51:40,120 --> 01:51:44,780
Ms. Cooper, I think I saw you in the hallway, but again, well spoken and thank you.

1235
01:51:44,880 --> 01:51:47,000
And that's my brief.

1236
01:51:52,120 --> 01:51:57,860
Just echo a little bit about the John said with Mr. Cornell and Ms. Cooper, I thank you for

1237
01:51:57,860 --> 01:52:02,700
coming and talking about the flood cameras. I don't think any of us here do not appreciate

1238
01:52:02,700 --> 01:52:08,260
and respect the blue. We definitely do. And when it's in the right hands, you know, tools

1239
01:52:08,260 --> 01:52:14,320
can be used for good. And when it's not in the right hands, they can be used for ill as we've

1240
01:52:14,320 --> 01:52:30,680
And so the possibility of that is what is scary to me and I will continue as John was saying we're going to continue to find out more about what is involved here locally in our community with them and do what we can to affect

1241
01:52:30,680 --> 01:52:39,920
You know the proper usage of them if that's what we need to do. So anyway, have a great week. Thank you for coming to a long meeting and staying

1242
01:52:39,920 --> 01:52:45,520
I think Mr. Carpenter, Mr. Brigadier, wasn't going to say anything, but they're not

1243
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:46,320
flocked cameras.

1244
01:52:47,500 --> 01:52:51,480
You need to understand that they're not flocked cameras, they're a different type of a

1245
01:52:51,480 --> 01:52:55,020
camera to be made by a different company, they're not flocked cameras, and it seems like

1246
01:52:55,020 --> 01:52:57,740
everybody in here wants to say they're flocked cameras, they're not.

1247
01:52:58,260 --> 01:53:02,840
So what you need to do is get edge of them one more time, that's a lot of the past, but

1248
01:53:02,840 --> 01:53:04,440
you need to get educated on it.

1249
01:53:04,480 --> 01:53:06,020
I'm serious thinking, they're not that.

1250
01:53:06,060 --> 01:53:08,720
And what they do is they just read the license tag and that's all they're doing.

1251
01:53:08,720 --> 01:53:10,540
You can't blue-tooth them.

1252
01:53:10,620 --> 01:53:12,920
You can say what you want, but you can't.

1253
01:53:13,060 --> 01:53:15,040
There's a lot of things you need to learn about these cameras

1254
01:53:15,040 --> 01:53:17,680
at the sheriff's use, and then he said he would come to us

1255
01:53:17,680 --> 01:53:20,060
in a meeting and tell us all about these cameras.

1256
01:53:20,200 --> 01:53:22,620
And they're made by a different company, but they're not the ones

1257
01:53:22,620 --> 01:53:24,340
that everybody's claiming all over the country.

1258
01:53:24,480 --> 01:53:25,240
They're not those.

1259
01:53:25,340 --> 01:53:26,340
They're totally different.

1260
01:53:26,920 --> 01:53:30,480
On the second hand, I want to thank Lisa and Tony and this board

1261
01:53:30,480 --> 01:53:33,000
for a round of three of us to work with the fire people,

1262
01:53:33,100 --> 01:53:34,340
all the following to your firefighters.

1263
01:53:34,640 --> 01:53:37,680
I mean, it took us a long time to get to we are today.

1264
01:53:37,680 --> 01:53:43,080
I want to thank Steve, you met with us with a three of us and J.R.

1265
01:53:43,080 --> 01:53:46,140
And Ricky, and we had a meeting over it.

1266
01:53:46,220 --> 01:53:48,720
In fact, we were over there at the station.

1267
01:53:49,080 --> 01:53:51,300
J.R. station over there at Roads Town.

1268
01:53:51,680 --> 01:53:52,840
And we had a really good meeting.

1269
01:53:52,940 --> 01:53:55,360
A lot of things came out of that Kevin was there also

1270
01:53:55,360 --> 01:53:58,320
and Kevin gave us some information that we didn't know.

1271
01:53:58,900 --> 01:53:59,640
We know it now.

1272
01:53:59,820 --> 01:54:01,020
We're going to move forward on that.

1273
01:54:01,420 --> 01:54:03,920
But the second thing is Steve, which you did,

1274
01:54:03,920 --> 01:54:09,800
was to, we had this first meeting with the three of us with all of you, but we won't be there next time.

1275
01:54:10,000 --> 01:54:16,380
This is all with you and staff, Ricky and MS for us to be at the first meeting, but now you're going to meet with them once a month.

1276
01:54:16,980 --> 01:54:20,220
The transparency with our firefighters, it means so much to me.

1277
01:54:20,220 --> 01:54:24,500
I mean, we work so hard to three of us and to board allow one of us to do that.

1278
01:54:24,500 --> 01:54:25,960
And I want to thank the board for that.

1279
01:54:25,960 --> 01:54:31,000
I want to thank you guys that are working hard to keep it going because it's working.

1280
01:54:31,000 --> 01:54:35,440
Right now is working. I can tell you two years ago and both of the two members on the board

1281
01:54:35,440 --> 01:54:40,360
can tell you it was a nightmare for us. It was pretty tough trying to get these contracts

1282
01:54:40,360 --> 01:54:44,400
signed and we are on a better place and we're going to get better. We're going to get more transparency

1283
01:54:44,400 --> 01:54:47,000
with the volunteer firefighters. Thank you for being here.

1284
01:54:47,900 --> 01:54:54,240
Thank you, Mr. Becany. Commissioner Ben. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Yeah, I want to thank our volunteer

1285
01:54:54,240 --> 01:54:58,080
Fire Department's too. I appreciate all the efforts that you all have made.

1286
01:54:58,640 --> 01:54:59,900
I love us and made too.

1287
01:55:00,000 --> 01:55:10,040
To get these contracts in place, the contracts that protect our taxpayers and support our volunteer

1288
01:55:10,040 --> 01:55:16,040
fire departments. And I appreciate y'all for your work on all of that.

1289
01:55:18,410 --> 01:55:20,710
Commission Davis kind of stole my thunder there

1290
01:55:20,710 --> 01:55:29,110
because I was going to say tonight's meeting demonstrates that our priorities are fire service and

1291
01:55:29,110 --> 01:55:40,290
CMS and schools and other things besides the few recreation issues that people keep wanting

1292
01:55:40,290 --> 01:55:41,710
to bring up.

1293
01:55:41,970 --> 01:55:49,470
And I would note that none of these issues that we spent any money on at this point.

1294
01:55:49,930 --> 01:55:54,830
And the process of spending money is quite arduous.

1295
01:55:55,570 --> 01:56:02,230
And we'll have project ordinances and contracts, and it'll go through this board several

1296
01:56:02,230 --> 01:56:06,430
times before we actually spend any money on these projects.

1297
01:56:06,490 --> 01:56:10,090
But there are things that have been on our priority list for several years.

1298
01:56:10,730 --> 01:56:16,690
And I think many of us would like to see some of these projects come to fruition.

1299
01:56:16,690 --> 01:56:28,790
And for those who are concerned about the increase in our budget, and that concerns all of us, I think,

1300
01:56:29,530 --> 01:56:41,030
but I have to note that we just passed a budget ordinance to build a $49,8,000,000 elementary school

1301
01:56:41,030 --> 01:56:48,770
that in 2020 cost us $19 million, $19 million, that's over twice over double.

1302
01:56:49,350 --> 01:56:57,950
And I would argue that all of our expenses in the county have doubled or more over the last

1303
01:56:57,950 --> 01:57:09,110
eight years. So while we weren't very hard to keep our costs down and to not over tax anybody,

1304
01:57:09,110 --> 01:57:25,330
We can't help the costs that go up constantly and we struggle everybody here to make the limited funds that we have work for everybody and also county.

1305
01:57:26,770 --> 01:57:31,230
So I appreciate everybody's concern and I too have those concerns.

1306
01:57:31,230 --> 01:57:36,570
often say every time somebody comes to me and says why don't we do this? Why don't we do that?

1307
01:57:37,690 --> 01:57:43,150
The first thing that goes through my head is how much is going to cost the taxpayers. I have

1308
01:57:44,950 --> 01:57:52,590
in the 22 values that we're using now, a penny of taxes generates about $2.1 million dollars.

1309
01:57:54,170 --> 01:58:00,630
And so my first thought is if we do this, who's willing to pay one penny of their property taxes to do it?

1310
01:58:00,630 --> 01:58:02,630
Are you willing to pay two pennies?

1311
01:58:04,250 --> 01:58:07,430
I pay property taxes just like everybody else out there.

1312
01:58:07,850 --> 01:58:10,750
And I don't want to pay any more than I have to.

1313
01:58:11,150 --> 01:58:15,170
But I have to weigh whether or not these projects are worth it

1314
01:58:15,170 --> 01:58:18,510
to the 218,000 citizens that we serve in

1315
01:58:18,510 --> 01:58:19,410
Ontario County.

1316
01:58:20,130 --> 01:58:23,310
And I'll continue to do that for as long as you let me.

1317
01:58:23,550 --> 01:58:24,190
Thank you.

1318
01:58:24,330 --> 01:58:25,090
You'll have a good night.

1319
01:58:25,930 --> 01:58:26,930
Thank you, Mr. Bennett.

1320
01:58:27,550 --> 01:58:33,350
First, I want to reiterate the August 28th, 50th Anniversary of Onzler Pines Park.

1321
01:58:33,890 --> 01:58:35,550
That should be a great morning.

1322
01:58:36,210 --> 01:58:41,810
I might even get to see some pictures of a 12 or 13-year-old Tim Foster in a baseball

1323
01:58:41,810 --> 01:58:43,890
uniform at Onzler Pines Park.

1324
01:58:44,570 --> 01:58:45,850
Probably not very recognizable.

1325
01:58:46,130 --> 01:58:51,750
It's probably about 100 pounds smaller than what it is now, but it's a great celebration

1326
01:58:51,750 --> 01:58:57,870
of Parks and Rec, and how important it is to communities and they open there over that

1327
01:58:57,870 --> 01:59:05,690
park in 1976 and then the parks that have come since. Parks and Rec is a huge resource

1328
01:59:05,690 --> 01:59:11,890
for the community. As not one is built to make money, it's built to build quality of life,

1329
01:59:12,010 --> 01:59:16,270
and that's what's so important about Parks and Rec creation. The other part is we talk about

1330
01:59:16,270 --> 01:59:25,450
budget and our budget, 18-19 percent of that budget is where it's not mandated and parks

1331
01:59:25,450 --> 01:59:26,850
and wreck falls underneath that.

1332
01:59:26,850 --> 01:59:31,470
There's other services and things that falls underneath that 18-19 percent of our budget.

1333
01:59:32,410 --> 01:59:39,150
The 81 percent of our budget, 81 percent of our budget goes to, as Mr. Patterson mentioned,

1334
01:59:39,310 --> 01:59:43,350
it's our health and human resources, public safety and education.

1335
01:59:43,350 --> 01:59:48,410
And I'm just, you know, just going to take the help and human services out of it and talk

1336
01:59:48,410 --> 01:59:52,150
about Costa Carolina community college and owns the county schools.

1337
01:59:52,670 --> 01:59:59,970
Those two things are the one item in our budget that creates opportunity for everyone.

1338
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:07,500
County. Every kid that's born here, moves here, goes through our educational system, K-12. Then they have the opportunity

1339
02:00:07,500 --> 02:00:14,960
to attend one of the strongest community colleges in North Carolina at a very reduced rate as

1340
02:00:14,960 --> 02:00:21,080
compared to starting off at a four-year university. So those establishments, those entities provide

1341
02:00:21,080 --> 02:00:29,980
the opportunity for everyone to get an education and give them the opportunity in life, whether it's

1342
02:00:29,980 --> 02:00:35,340
continue to stay here. And those two things also fall into the next part is that we have

1343
02:00:35,920 --> 02:00:41,680
215,000 people in Ones Look County. And having been a history teacher for many years, I have

1344
02:00:41,680 --> 02:00:49,840
you you teach history, what happens when growth in the area continues as unprecedented rate,

1345
02:00:50,080 --> 02:00:57,020
what increases, fires and emergencies and crime. So what are the things that we have to do to address

1346
02:00:57,020 --> 02:01:02,060
that our service, share, office, and EMS.

1347
02:01:03,280 --> 02:01:05,540
So those are things that make up the budget for

1348
02:01:05,540 --> 02:01:08,980
Oneslow County from education to public safety to

1349
02:01:08,980 --> 02:01:10,120
health and human services.

1350
02:01:10,580 --> 02:01:13,620
And the one thing that I'm sure of, there's no one sitting in

1351
02:01:13,620 --> 02:01:17,080
the room tonight whenever you dial those three numbers, 911.

1352
02:01:17,860 --> 02:01:22,120
How important it is for someone to answer and for someone to respond.

1353
02:01:22,680 --> 02:01:25,860
And for someone to answer and for someone to respond, it is

1354
02:01:25,860 --> 02:01:28,740
necessary for them to complete their education.

1355
02:01:29,340 --> 02:01:32,920
It is a cycle and it has to be completed and completed together.

1356
02:01:33,200 --> 02:01:36,360
When you invest in your community, you invest in your future.

1357
02:01:36,780 --> 02:01:40,240
With that being said, never apologize for your faith or your patriotism.

1358
02:01:40,580 --> 02:01:41,160
We're adjourned.