[0:10] but it was a good retirement plan yeah

[0:32] well

[1:07] it's getting better every day yeah first few days

[1:12] for

[1:25] uh they cut the back of it and then sliced it this way something K his

[1:31] T but he supposed to help probably couldn't put her foot

[1:36] down she was

[1:48] having all right folks I have 5:30 we'll go ahead and call the regular schedule

[1:52] October 2024 for court meeting to order ask you please stand for a Prayer by

[1:57] Justice Sparks and remain standing for the BL of Allegiance I call upon Justice

[2:01] SPS bow please Heavenly Father we thank you for the beautiful day we thank you

[2:06] for all the blessings that you bestow on us uh we ask that you keep your loving

[2:13] arm around us as we try to make decisions tonight for the people of Pope

[2:17] County would' ask that you uh take care of the people out in on the

[2:24] East Coast that have been devastated by by the storms and uh we also ask that

[2:30] you bless our First Responders and people that are putting their lives in

[2:36] Peril these things we ask in your name amen

[2:40] amen I pledge ALG to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[2:46] Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and

[2:52] justice for all thank you please be seated ask clerk call the rooll AR fors

[3:00] Ronnie trip here Philip Haney here Jackie ke David iy here marock here

[3:06] Margaret Motley here Lane Scott here Jordan sour here Bill Spar Here Blake

[3:12] Tarpley here Tim whittenberg here Ronnie Wilbanks here recognize the presidence

[3:17] of the Quorum I'd like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr trip Justice

[3:20] trip thank you for agreeing to serve these last few months of the year and uh

[3:24] he's no stranger obviously to service and uh she comes in with a well-rounded

[3:29] background so thank you should I had a journal proceedings

[3:34] as email do I have any discussion or questions I move we accept it I have a

[3:39] motion second Scott I have a motion have a second to accept the journal

[3:42] proceedings as presented all in favor say I I any opposed motion

[3:49] carries I say thank you under committee reports Personnel did not meet budget

[3:54] did so Justice Sparks judge we had a really big meeting last night we Grand

[4:00] to one item to bring to the full

[4:06] court about it thank you sir under correspondence you should have before

[4:12] you their single audit report that's required when the county receives over

[4:16] 750,000 any given reporting year this uh covers our ARP and pilt awards and uh

[4:23] always direct everybody to page 14 no matters were reportable

[4:30] and uh so this is a requirement for as long as we get this ARP money on the

[4:35] books and uh and uh covers you know our pilt funding and all that so A good

[4:40] audit and uh I'd like to thank the lton uh CPA firm for their F work on

[4:48] this do I have any comments from the public regarding tonight's

[4:52] agenda let the record reflect there are no comments from the public on tonight's

[4:56] agenda at this time I'd like to uh before we get into unfinished business

[5:01] uh recognize some Stellar County Employees uh from all facets of County

[5:06] government so I'll let the sheriff come forward to address his department and uh

[5:10] what's happened recently there all right thank you judge uh justices I'm I'm very

[5:15] honored and privileged to uh be up here to uh recognize a group of folks uh at

[5:21] the Pope County Sheriff's Office thought I would let uh Charla uh our boss lady

[5:28] there at the office we uh you know y'all met Charla before but I'm she couldn't

[5:32] make it to this evening's deal but she we our department and her were the only

[5:38] one in the state of Arkansas to receive 100% on our acic audit so I was very

[5:45] proud of that so she was she was able she couldn't be here tonight uh she's

[5:50] got grandbabies at home and I think she needed to get home to them and uh but

[5:54] I've got uh my jail my jail Administration staff is here and I'm so

[5:59] proud of these because as most of y'all know I serve on the uh risk management

[6:04] board uh that is designed with uh I we got three sheriffs three County judges a

[6:12] tax assessor we got several different County

[6:16] judges and tax assessors on the board but uh you know our job is a very

[6:21] important job of being a board member and that is to protect our our our

[6:25] management fund and we've got to keep a close eye on that but I'm so proud

[6:30] because we done a risk assessment across the state the risk management uh group

[6:36] came in and done a risk management assessment of each County and guess who

[6:42] got number one in the state for being top in the jail and that's uh that's

[6:47] Pope County Sheriff's office so I want to recognize a few people and I I wanted

[6:51] to present this plaque to them so uh I want to recognize a few people if I call

[6:57] their name if you would come up here and stand and

[7:00] and uh Sergeant Sam

[7:04] Holmes my assistant Jael administrator Lieutenant Aaron

[7:09] swatzel or uh the lady that runs the booking and everything back there in the

[7:15] jail that'd be Miss Yuna Heron Sergeant Heron and Captain Rowdy

[7:23] s I'm so proud of these I'm so proud of these group of

[7:29] people here Rowdy's got one heck of a team and and it's it's comfortable as

[7:34] most of y'all know I know Tim knows from and Ronnie being in the being in the

[7:39] career of law enforcement but your jail is your biggest headache as a sheriff if

[7:44] it wasn't for the jail you couldn't print a ballot off long enough cuz

[7:47] everybody would want the job amen but this team right here that Rowdy's put

[7:51] together is just fantastic and and I cannot take credit for that this is this

[7:57] is Captain sweet and and and uh Lieutenant swatt's deal and uh Mr Holmes

[8:04] here he's My Bodyguard he follows me around there at the jail and stuff so

[8:08] when I have somebody that's mad I send him out first so I just that's the

[8:12] reason why he's standing beside me so he's my security for this evening but I

[8:17] want to rep I want to present them this plaque the uh to the Pope County

[8:21] Detention Center in recognition of your hard work and commitment to Excellence

[8:25] Captain SED along with his detention staff for ranked number one out of 7 5

[8:29] counties in the state of Arkansas for 2024 this is based on assessment

[8:35] completed by the Arkansas Association of counties on September the 12th of 2024 I

[8:40] would like to offer uh my sincere appreciation to Captain site and the

[8:45] detention center staff for a job well done and this is signed by Sheriff Shane

[8:49] Jones and Chief Deputy Blake Wilson so can we get a quick picture is that

[8:59] right here in the background and you want to hold

[9:07] that got my back look get you

[9:12] sto that's theas he

[9:24] know seriously I can't see his face operator ER

[9:37] thank thank y great job

[9:43] y'all October

[9:49] 25th thank you Sheriff the uh the AC AIT Acy audit for you don't know that's a

[9:55] huge deal because there's hundreds of pie apps and and audits that go for the

[10:01] state and I don't know that anybody has ever gotten a perfect audit so we did

[10:07] last but I mean other other outside of Pope

[10:15] County Char and was that

[10:20] got County was the only one out of the entire State not just sheriff's office

[10:25] but Police Department Sheriff's offices Department directions FBI everybody

[10:30] we're the only Department that got 100% that's

[10:40] great what does that consist of when you say assessment I mean just kind of

[10:43] generally as you know we have a computer sawi computer and it's tied in with

[10:49] Nationwide computers and whenever we enter stuff in that it has to be

[10:55] verified as being the correct information correct date of birth

[10:58] correct this correct that and when you something it also has to be

[11:01] updated at certain times or if warrant is served has to be taken

[11:07] out David going down the road get sto years ago you know so they come

[11:15] randomly pick things and make sure that it's put in correctly taken out whatever

[11:20] and for that to happen they literally have to go back and touch every one of

[11:25] those pieces and it takes hours and hours and hours and days that and

[11:30] they're so conscientious striving so hard to get

[11:34] that 100

[11:53] but at this time I like Josh Freeman 911 director Caleb assistant director and uh

[12:00] the new state of Arkansas dispatcher of the Year Misty barefield to come forward

[12:06] all

[12:09] right I'll let I'll let Josh tell you about this so at the AIC conference this

[12:15] year um Misty was nominated to be dispatcher of the Year beat out

[12:21] thousands of dispatchers hundreds of agencies out of all 75

[12:25] counties um she is a stellar employee works the busiest shift that we have

[12:31] over the least tenure shift that we have and every dispatcher that she's over is

[12:36] better for it I [Applause]

[12:45] try so uh again these are all your County Employees doing Stellar work and

[12:52] exceeding the standard uh you know I've worked with mist mist's been there 23

[12:56] years so that's a a test to Quality all

[13:03] right now we can move into unfinished business item one is the second reading

[13:08] by title only Justice Tarpley well judge this second reading

[13:14] of of the ordinance to Levy a 3/4 of 1% tax and I recommend it

[13:22] approval motion have a second to have the second reading ask the clerk to read

[13:26] by title only without discussion be an act by the cor Court County of Pope

[13:30] state of Arkansas an ordinance to be entitled an ordinance to Levy a 3/4 of

[13:34] 1% of Pope County Arkansas sales and use tax to establish a system for the rebate

[13:40] required by act 29 of 1981 and for other purposes and without discussion that

[13:46] will be placed on for the third and final reading of our November regular

[13:50] schedule meeting item number two is the second reading of the bonds that are kep

[13:55] to the item number one Justice Haney uh yes along with the uh the previous

[14:01] ordinance this is the second reading of an ordinance calling for a special

[14:05] election in Pope County Arkansas for the purpose of submitting to the electors

[14:09] the county of the county the question of 11 34 of 1% sales tax for the purpose of

[14:17] financing the cost of Capital

[14:22] Improvements do I have a second second I have a motion have a second to read by

[14:26] title only without discussion be it enacted by the corpt county of

[14:30] Pope state of Arkansas an ordinance to be entitled an ordinance calling a

[14:34] special election in Pope County Arkansas for the purpose of submitting to the

[14:37] electors of the county of the county the questions of the levy of a 3/4 of 1%

[14:43] sales and use tax issuing bonds under amendment number 62 to the Constitution

[14:48] of the state of Arkansas for the purpose of financing the cost of various Capital

[14:51] Improvements and pledging a 3/4 of 1% sales and use tax for the purpose of

[14:57] retiring such bonds and prescribing other matters pertaining there

[15:01] to all right now we move into new business item number three is a grant

[15:05] fund appropriation Justice Mary match BL yes judge this is an ordinance

[15:10] appropriating $ 29,35 from the EMS fund for the EMS

[15:16] department and it is Grant funds for machinery and equipment and I move for

[15:21] its adoption second have a motion have a

[15:25] second ask the clerk to read a title only be it enacted by the Court County

[15:29] pup state of Arkansas an ordinance to be entitled an ordinance appropriating $

[15:33] 29,35 from the EMS fund for the EMS Department discussion or

[15:39] questions if not I ask the clerk to call the road Ronnie trip yes phip py yes

[15:45] Jackie hefin yes David Ivy Mary M Block yes Margaret Motley yes Lane Scott yes

[15:50] Jordan sour yes Bill Sparks Blake Tarpley yes Tim whittenberg yes Ronnie

[15:55] willbanks yes ordinance is adopted do I have any comments from the

[16:01] public another record reflect no comments from the public under

[16:05] announcements I have a bunch so don't forget the county cleanups the last week

[16:09] of October it'll be Monday through Thursday 7 to 4 each day with Thursday

[16:14] being 7 to 7 and uh if you want a list of what can and cannot be dropped off we

[16:19] have them posted everywhere I think they're on the website as well but uh

[16:23] don't forget that opportunity to uh clean up the county that's the 20 28th

[16:29] 29th 30th and the 31st uh your boxes back there we've

[16:36] realigned those to your JP district and so if you get to looking it's your your

[16:42] stuff is under your JP District Number 1 through 13 and I've moving them around

[16:46] so you're not in the same spot oh man yeah uh if you're interested in a flu

[16:51] shot you can come by the courthouse tomorrow into this room between 9:30 and

[16:56] 11: and uh the health department will be here at flu shots if uh if you do come

[17:02] you'll need one of these forms it's filled out front and back and uh so feel

[17:07] free to grab one if you want to come get a flu

[17:10] shot don't forget uh budget hearings will be November 12th and 13th that's a

[17:16] Tuesday and a Wednesday beginning at 5:30 in this room each day and we will

[17:22] be sending out for the department heads and officials we'll be sending out a

[17:25] list shortly of what nights you're on and if you there's a particular night

[17:29] you can't be there let me know so that way we can make sure you're on the

[17:33] opposite night uh our main man Robin is being

[17:39] inducted into the Arkansas Tech Hall of Fame athletic Hall of Fame on Friday

[17:44] October 25th proud of you

[17:47] [Applause] bu uh oh yeah I'm glad say that the late

[17:54] Autumn that I told you about was withdrawn because we found out the uh

[17:58] the entity wanting to pursue that Grant was not eligible so we don't have to

[18:02] address that uh I'll be instituting a burn band

[18:06] at 12:01 a.m. Monday so giving people heads up about that we've reached the

[18:11] high danger category I think Josh said we've been to nearly two dozen wildfires

[18:16] in the last couple of weeks so that'll be coming uh I'll put something out

[18:21] about that tomorrow probably

[18:24] and other than that I'd like to thank the so Pope County Soil Conservation

[18:28] District who will be providing tonight's meal after adjournment upstairs invite

[18:32] you all up there uh department heads and stuff I can't thank you enough for the

[18:36] job you do uh as you know they do our flood plane management at a greatly

[18:41] reduced cost to the county so thank you Janette and all your

[18:48] team anything else for the good of people

[18:51] Ry Saturday behind the Catholic Church they're having a Heritage Festival

[18:56] there'll be food vendors to raisey

[19:04] yeah acting Fest what time is it I think it's from 10 10 to 6 10 to 6 and the uh

[19:13] something else Saturday Jo jock Davis's 100th

[19:20] birthday uh the hector scholarship Galla Hector schools that evening and uh the

[19:27] Augsburg Fest is the following the 12 on the 12th so lot of things

[19:31] going on in the month of October all right no other announcements

[19:37] I'd entertain a motion to adjourn second have a motion and have a

[19:41] second to adjourn all in favor say I I sure adjourned at 5:48

[19:49] p.m. oh my man Robin sorry we we're all we're ajour go ahead Robin yeah

[19:58] let me shut this off four of them Karen Lauren Emma and Cody all right happy

[20:06] Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you happy Birthday

[20:15] everyone happy birthday to [Applause]

[20:24] you thank you I'll see you upstairs

[20:29] no I don't I

[20:33] getov myter the

[20:45] house how are you

[20:57] sir e

Pope County Quorum Court Meetings Oct 3rd 2024

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