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but it was a good retirement plan yeah

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it's getting better every day yeah first
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uh they cut the back of it and then
sliced it this way something K his

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help probably couldn't put her foot

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down she was

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

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October 2024 for court meeting to order
ask you please stand for a Prayer by

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Justice Sparks and remain standing for
the BL of Allegiance I call upon Justice

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SPS bow please Heavenly Father we thank
you for the beautiful day we thank you

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for all the blessings that you bestow on
us uh we ask that you keep your loving

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arm around us as we try to make
decisions tonight for the people of Pope

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County would' ask that you
uh take care of the people out in on the

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East Coast that have been devastated by
by the storms and uh we also ask that

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you bless our First Responders and
people that are putting their lives in

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Peril these things we ask in your name
amen

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amen I pledge ALG to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liy and

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justice for all thank you please be
seated ask clerk call the rooll AR fors

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Ronnie trip here Philip Haney here
Jackie ke David iy here marock here

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Margaret Motley here Lane Scott here
Jordan sour here Bill Spar Here Blake

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Tarpley here Tim whittenberg here Ronnie
Wilbanks here recognize the presidence

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of the Quorum I'd like to take this
opportunity to welcome Mr trip Justice

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trip thank you for agreeing to serve
these last few months of the year and uh

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he's no stranger obviously to service
and uh she comes in with a well-rounded

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background so thank
you should I had a journal proceedings

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as email do I have any discussion or
questions I move we accept it I have a

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motion second Scott I have a motion have
a second to accept the journal

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proceedings as presented all in favor
say I I any opposed motion

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carries I say thank you under committee
reports Personnel did not meet budget

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did so Justice Sparks judge we had a
really big meeting last night we Grand

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to one item to bring to the full

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court about it thank you sir under
correspondence you should have before

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you their single audit report that's
required when the county receives over

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750,000 any given reporting year this uh
covers our ARP and pilt awards and uh

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always direct everybody to page
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and uh so this is a requirement for as
long as we get this ARP money on the

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books and uh and uh covers you know our
pilt funding and all that so A good

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audit and uh I'd like to thank the lton
uh CPA firm for their F work on

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this do I have any comments from the
public regarding tonight's

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agenda let the record reflect there are
no comments from the public on tonight's

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agenda at this time I'd like to uh
before we get into unfinished business

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uh recognize some Stellar County
Employees uh from all facets of County

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government so I'll let the sheriff come
forward to address his department and uh

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what's happened recently there all right
thank you judge uh justices I'm I'm very

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honored and privileged to uh be up here
to uh recognize a group of folks uh at

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the Pope County Sheriff's Office thought
I would let uh Charla uh our boss lady

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

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make it to this evening's deal but she
we our department and her were the only

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one in the state of Arkansas to receive
100% on our acic audit so I was very

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proud of that so she was she was able
she couldn't be here tonight uh she's

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got grandbabies at home and I think she
needed to get home to them and uh but

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I've got uh my jail my jail
Administration staff is here and I'm so

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proud of these because as most of y'all
know I serve on the uh risk management

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board uh that is designed with uh I we
got three sheriffs three County judges a

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tax
assessor we got several different County

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judges and tax assessors on the board
but uh you know our job is a very

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important job of being a board member
and that is to protect our our our

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management fund and we've got to keep a
close eye on that but I'm so proud

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because we done a risk assessment across
the state the risk management uh group

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came in and done a risk management
assessment of each County and guess who

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got number one in the state for being
top in the jail and that's uh that's

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Pope County Sheriff's office so I want
to recognize a few people and I I wanted

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to present this plaque to them so uh I
want to recognize a few people if I call

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their name if you would come up here and
stand and

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and uh Sergeant Sam

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Holmes my assistant Jael administrator
Lieutenant Aaron

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swatzel or uh the lady that runs the
booking and everything back there in the

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jail that'd be Miss Yuna
Heron Sergeant Heron and Captain Rowdy

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s I'm so proud of
these I'm so proud of these group of

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people here Rowdy's got one heck of a
team and and it's it's comfortable as

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most of y'all know I know Tim knows from
and Ronnie being in the being in the

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career of law enforcement but your jail
is your biggest headache as a sheriff if

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it wasn't for the jail you couldn't
print a ballot off long enough cuz

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everybody would want the job amen but
this team right here that Rowdy's put

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together is just fantastic and and I
cannot take credit for that this is this

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is Captain sweet and and and uh
Lieutenant swatt's deal and uh Mr Holmes

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here he's My Bodyguard he follows me
around there at the jail and stuff so

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when I have somebody that's mad I send
him out first so I just that's the

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reason why he's standing beside me so
he's my security for this evening but I

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want to rep I want to present them this
plaque the uh to the Pope County

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Detention Center in recognition of your
hard work and commitment to Excellence

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Captain SED along with his detention
staff for ranked number one out of 7 5

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counties in the state of Arkansas for
2024 this is based on assessment

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completed by the Arkansas Association of
counties on September the 12th of 2024 I

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would like to offer uh my sincere
appreciation to Captain site and the

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detention center staff for a job well
done and this is signed by Sheriff Shane

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Jones and Chief Deputy Blake Wilson so
can we get a quick picture is that

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right here in the background
and you want to hold

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that got my
back look get you

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sto that's theas he

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know seriously I can't see his
face operator ER

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thank thank y great job

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y'all October

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25th thank you Sheriff the uh the AC AIT
Acy audit for you don't know that's a

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huge deal because there's hundreds of
pie apps and and audits that go for the

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state and I don't know that anybody has
ever gotten a perfect audit so we did

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last but I mean other other outside of
Pope

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County Char and was that

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got County was the only one out of the
entire State not just sheriff's office

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but Police Department Sheriff's offices
Department directions FBI everybody

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we're the only Department that got 100%
that's

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great what does that consist of when you
say assessment I mean just kind of

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generally as you know we have a computer
sawi computer and it's tied in with

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Nationwide computers and whenever we
enter stuff in that it has to be

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verified as being the correct
information correct date of birth

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correct this correct that
and when you something it also has to be

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updated at certain times or if warrant
is served has to be taken

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out David going down the road get
sto years ago you know so they come

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randomly pick things and make sure that
it's put in correctly taken out whatever

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and for that to happen they literally
have to go back and touch every one of

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those pieces and it takes hours and
hours and hours and days that and

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they're so
conscientious striving so hard to get

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that 100

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but at this time I like Josh Freeman 911
director Caleb assistant director and uh

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the new state of Arkansas dispatcher of
the Year Misty barefield to come forward

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all

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right I'll let I'll let Josh tell you
about this so at the AIC conference this

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year um Misty was nominated to be
dispatcher of the Year beat out

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thousands of dispatchers hundreds of
agencies out of all 75

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counties um she is a stellar employee
works the busiest shift that we have

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over the least tenure shift that we have
and every dispatcher that she's over is

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better for it I
[Applause]

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try so uh again these are all your
County Employees doing Stellar work and

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exceeding the standard uh you know I've
worked with mist mist's been there 23

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years so that's a a test to
Quality all

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right now we can move into unfinished
business item one is the second reading

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by title only Justice
Tarpley well judge this second reading

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of of the ordinance to Levy a 3/4 of 1%
tax and I recommend it

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approval motion have a second to have
the second reading ask the clerk to read

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by title only without discussion be an
act by the cor Court County of Pope

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state of Arkansas an ordinance to be
entitled an ordinance to Levy a 3/4 of

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1% of Pope County Arkansas sales and use
tax to establish a system for the rebate

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required by act 29 of 1981 and for other
purposes and without discussion that

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will be placed on for the third and
final reading of our November regular

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schedule meeting item number two is the
second reading of the bonds that are kep

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to the item number one Justice Haney uh
yes along with the uh the previous

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ordinance this is the second reading of
an ordinance calling for a special

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election in Pope County Arkansas for the
purpose of submitting to the electors

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the county of the county the question of
11 34 of 1% sales tax for the purpose of

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financing the cost of Capital

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Improvements do I have a second second I
have a motion have a second to read by

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title only without discussion
be it enacted by the corpt county of

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Pope state of Arkansas an ordinance to
be entitled an ordinance calling a

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special election in Pope County Arkansas
for the purpose of submitting to the

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electors of the county of the county the
questions of the levy of a 3/4 of 1%

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sales and use tax issuing bonds under
amendment number 62 to the Constitution

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of the state of Arkansas for the purpose
of financing the cost of various Capital

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Improvements and pledging a 3/4 of 1%
sales and use tax for the purpose of

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retiring such bonds and prescribing
other matters pertaining there

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to all right now we move into new
business item number three is a grant

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fund appropriation Justice Mary match BL
yes judge this is an ordinance

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appropriating $
29,35 from the EMS fund for the EMS

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department and it is Grant funds for
machinery and equipment and I move for

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its
adoption second have a motion have a

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second ask the clerk to read a title
only be it enacted by the Court County

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pup state of Arkansas an ordinance to be
entitled an ordinance appropriating $

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29,35 from the EMS fund for the EMS
Department discussion or

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questions if not I ask the clerk to call
the road Ronnie trip yes phip py yes

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Jackie hefin yes David Ivy Mary M Block
yes Margaret Motley yes Lane Scott yes

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Jordan sour yes Bill Sparks Blake
Tarpley yes Tim whittenberg yes Ronnie

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willbanks yes ordinance is adopted
do I have any comments from the

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public another record reflect no
comments from the public under

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announcements I have a bunch so don't
forget the county cleanups the last week

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of October it'll be Monday through
Thursday 7 to 4 each day with Thursday

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being 7 to 7 and uh if you want a list
of what can and cannot be dropped off we

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have them posted everywhere I think
they're on the website as well but uh

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don't forget that opportunity to uh
clean up the county that's the 20 28th

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29th 30th and the
31st uh your boxes back there we've

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realigned those to your JP district and
so if you get to looking it's your your

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stuff is under your JP District Number 1
through 13 and I've moving them around

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so you're not in the same spot oh man
yeah uh if you're interested in a flu

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

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

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you'll need one of these forms it's
filled out front and back and uh so feel

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free to grab one if you want to come get
a flu

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shot don't forget uh budget hearings
will be November 12th and 13th that's a

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

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be sending out for the department heads
and officials we'll be sending out a

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list shortly of what nights you're on
and if you there's a particular night

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you can't be there let me know so that
way we can make sure you're on the

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opposite
night uh our main man Robin is being

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inducted into the Arkansas Tech Hall of
Fame athletic Hall of Fame on Friday

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October
25th proud of you

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

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Autumn that I told you about was
withdrawn because we found out the uh

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the entity wanting to pursue that Grant
was not eligible so we don't have to

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address
that uh I'll be instituting a burn band

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

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high danger category I think Josh said
we've been to nearly two dozen wildfires

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in the last couple of weeks so that'll
be coming uh I'll put something out

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about that tomorrow
probably

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and other than that I'd like to thank
the so Pope County Soil Conservation

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District who will be providing tonight's
meal after adjournment upstairs invite

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you all up there uh department heads and
stuff I can't thank you enough for the

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job you do uh as you know they do our
flood plane management at a greatly

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reduced cost to the county so thank you
Janette and all your

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team anything else for the good of
people

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Ry Saturday behind the Catholic Church
they're having a Heritage Festival

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there'll be food vendors to raisey

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yeah acting Fest what time is it I think
it's from 10 10 to 6 10 to 6 and the uh

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something else
Saturday Jo jock Davis's 100th

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birthday uh the hector scholarship Galla
Hector schools that evening and uh the

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Augsburg Fest is the following
the 12 on the 12th so lot of things

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going on in the month of
October all right no other announcements

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I'd entertain a motion to
adjourn second have a motion and have a

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second to adjourn all in favor say I I
sure adjourned at 5:48

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p.m. oh my man Robin sorry we we're all
we're ajour go ahead Robin yeah

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let me shut this off four of them Karen
Lauren Emma and Cody all right happy

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Birthday to you Happy Birthday to you
happy Birthday

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everyone happy birthday to
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you thank you I'll see you upstairs

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no I
don't I

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getov
myter the

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house how are you

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sir e