[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