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Oh, are you ready?

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Okay, I have seven o'clock. I'd like to call in to order.

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Thank you.

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I would like to see the indication.

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You work with staff.

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I was thinking that I would think that if you're always

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continue to not be so grateful for the fact

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that we live in a free nation, that we can sit down

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and be there people in the community,

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look at our meetings, and watch our wishes,

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and hopefully discuss all of this.

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In my good order, we ask you to give us wisdom,

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give us judgment, and give us fairness

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that we go through this.

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And we thank you again for all the pleas

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that you've done our work.

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Please, please, comment on the next one.

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I'm glad that it is a goodbye from the United States of America

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and a good reminder for all of your fans,

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one nation under all and invisible,

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Yes, I have a couple of changes to the agenda, please.

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I move that we move Old Business Item A. I propose method on 20 Joe Chandler. Mr. Chandler signed up to be moved to

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I moved to number three, Citizens Comments and start off our discussion in Citizens Comments.

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I also moved as part of the motion as to remove Council Comments to the public just prior to the public hearings at the end of Citizens Comments.

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Okay, I have a motion to move all business item A to Citizens Comments and Council Comments to public just after Citizens Comments.

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Can I get a second?

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motion and second all in favor unanimous for kind

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of get a motion to approve the

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consent agenda. So moved. Second motion and second all in favor unanimous for and

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we will

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move the citizens comments. Mr. Chandler did fill out a form to be on that so we would

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like to start with you and then a few specific people did ask to speak and we'll go through

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that list also, but Mr. Chandler, welcome to come up.

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I'm going to introduce just so that everyone knows, everyone has five minutes on each topic

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and the people on the council, that's what's written into our charter, just so everyone

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knows. I'm sorry, Mr. Chairman, go ahead. Yes, name and address as you come to the podium, please.

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My name is Joel Schammer. I'm 10 years old. I'm 25, 7 years old.

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I think breakfast is morning at Richardson.

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I was looking out in the parking lot.

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I was looking for a hotel house.

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I noticed the ladies walking their morning walk

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doing their morning job.

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And, uh,

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I'll tell you how to remind me of why I moved to Mexico 40 years ago.

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My wife and I have been married for over one year.

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We were living in New York.

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And, uh, come down here,

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once I met you straight off, I had a shot around you.

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I was real lucky.

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So much so I went home,

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I said, I'm going to talk to some more leaders in the ring, you know, as a lawyer.

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That's the kind of big talk I'm going to do.

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The moral comes to those who conduct tonight there's an old farmhouse,

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there's an afternoon party that doesn't let you go,

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and within here it seems the corporation fan.

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There's a lot of disciplines.

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They're talking in the morning, it's going to go loud,

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I don't know if we can have them out, I don't know if we can stop them.

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I'm going to go for this thing.

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I've already went to Chicago here by a year ago.

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She had never been out of rainbow.

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She saved my weekend.

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She got my home.

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She's about 30.

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She said that, she said,

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But I got to find out how almost nothing I'm interested in right now.

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That's how I feel about this thing.

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And anything that would disrupt

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or waste my life is a matter for the sun.

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There's a proposed clinic to go into.

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I've done a little research on it.

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The biggest thing is that, you

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know, I want my daughter to be able to continue to come to Ringo and move her jogging and her walking.

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Listen to her thinking, all right.

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I want the middle school kids and the high school kids to be able to continue to walk to Ringo and her children.

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They don't have the child's house anymore, but they do have some places that they can go and come again.

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The part of their lives that will be with them, we all know

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that things come up and there's not every battle that can be fought.

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If you thought we'd continue to go through play where you'll be aware of me,

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but sometimes

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there's something that comes up that is worth fighting.

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We like or what it's like here.

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We don't want something to cause a major disruption to that life.

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The council has done so many good things since the party.

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I mean, it's just...

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And I've got a petition here on some folks that signed it down, my store, saying basically

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that they're not in favor for this thing to be worth saying.

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I understand these people need some help, but there's already three clinics where they

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mile to this part of the whole side. They're open every day, seven days a week. They're

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not turning the people away.

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This will be located within 3,500 yards through the three

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mile.

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Church, right down the road, okay? There you go. A lot of stuff right across

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It's not needed and it's on.

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Thank you.

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The list that I have,

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the list that I have, if it's okay with everyone I'm just going to go straight down from the top to the bottom.

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If someone would like to wait I don't mind allowing that but we have Sheila.

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I just like to say first and foremost, I know there's people that are legit and don't really need help.

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I also know that there's doctors that over-prescribe the reason these people are on pain medication and what not.

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So I want everyone here to know I'm not hoping to put people by the treatment.

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What I am opposed to is that I live in Contusa County.

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Bringo, if I've done my calculation drive, is about five to nine police officers short.

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I understand Sheriff Siss has said that he would come in and help if needed.

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If I call 9-1-1 from my home, I want to know that police are on their way, that the county is on their way.

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I pay county taxes, so therefore I want to be protected.

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I don't think that it's necessary that we shouldn't even have to depend on the county

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to kind of help if the situation arises.

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If the methadone planning is right, there won't be a problem.

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I had a problem with 28 parking spaces.

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Once the work gets out that there's a new clinic in town,

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You know, they may want to come and try this clinic out.

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Where are they going to park?

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You know, it's private property,

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that'll sweep water plant.

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Across the street, it's residential homes,

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they're private driveways.

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You have a bus that stops within 36 feet

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of their front door at 629 AM.

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They start dispensing at 6 o'clock.

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I'm just worried for the safety on the highway.

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I'm worried about the safety of the whole county, but yet again, I'm going to throw out there.

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I'm not opposed to treatment. I'm not opposed.

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We do have four in 25 mile radius. Why do we need more?

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I mean, do we have that many people in Walker and Patucia County that needs that treatment?

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These people are coming from Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama.

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So they're going to get off down at truck city to come in this way, so they bypass the city.

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Nine out of ten probably will.

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We already know the construction down first time in the creek, how bad it is.

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So I'm just looking out for one, public safety.

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And for two, I'm looking out for the tax dollars that I pay.

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I won't be able to utilize the 5-cow-9-1-1,

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that I don't have to wait for an officer to come from this end of the county to my home.

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So that is something to consider that this affects not only your 4,000 residents in Bringo, Georgia that are citizens of the city,

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but also the ones of us that live outside the city.

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So that will be five minutes, that's what I wanted to say.

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Thank you.

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Shirley Boe.

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I live at age seven, Cherokee Lake Drive in Wrinkle.

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I drive past this clinic several times a day.

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But instead of me spending my five minutes telling you why I personally don't want this

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dispensary located here, I'm going to share some facts with you, facts that I have spent

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the last two and a half weeks compiling, facts that I feel are much more compelling

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than my emotionally charged feelings.

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I have right here in front of me the CAS phenomenon calls for the last four years

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for an address, one single address, 4083 Cloud Spring Road.

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That is the location of our closest OB achievement facility off the Cloud Spring Road crossroads.

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Now this site does not include any number one calls that came from any businesses located around that.

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It is strictly the location of the claim. And there are a hundred and twenty eight of them.

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10% of them took place in the hours of 12.30 to 5.00 a.m. prior to the clinic opening.

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58% of those calls were during dispensing hours, 5.00 a.m. to 10.00 a.m.

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32% of those calls were after the dispensing hours, 10.00 a.m. to 9.30 p.m.

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40 percent

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19% of those calls were for burglary alarm going off in that building, hours right before

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dispensing occurs. According to the police, it was individuals who lined up as early as

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1 a.m. to start their treatment, and they start pulling in by number of doors. 19% of

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those calls were for EMS-related emergencies where patients overdosed or couldn't stay

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away half their treatment, still located in the facility or happened to pass out in

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parking lot.

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The remainder of those calls cover everything from auto accidents, in the parking lot,

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fist fights between patients, passing counterfeit money to get their treatment,

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assault, theft by taking, as well as several bolos involving vehicles that were wanted

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for a hit and run of a child that happened the day before,

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and the selling of the pills they had just obtained inside for the military.

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Is it any wonder why those of us who live in and around this new proposal patient are worried?

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First impressions are everything, and for many of us, our first impressions of this type of facility

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are what we've seen and we've heard with regards to the other facilities in our area,

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not in other cities, but right here in our area.

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There are four dispensaries all ready within a 20-mile radius of this proposed location.

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I had the opportunity to meet with a local professional who's in this industry.

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He stated that the facility on Cloud's front-throwing has more patients than the city of our involved has registered voters.

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And 95% of the patients come from outside.

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set. So why is there a need for a fit? Is it so that we can take care of patients that

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dumpers out in our area and live in other states?

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There are almost 2400 students that

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will be attending school less than one mile from this proposed facility's location. Not

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to mention the students catching bus 39 that pick up directly across the street within

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the feet of the parking lot at 629, which is during distancing hours, and may have

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pleasure to be able to see some of these incidents that I've just tried happening right at the road.

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My last client is the petition I wish to submit on behalf of 878 individuals who do not agree

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with the location of this clinic. I have a copy of their signatures and their comments that I'm

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presenting to you.

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I do not feel this clinic is needed in this area. It's going to place

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undue stress on an already limited fire and police department not to mention a

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traffic issue it will create given a limited number of parking spaces

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belonging to the facility. Cars will be everywhere as I recently witnessed when I

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went and observed another facility located on Rossville Park. With planned good parking,

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the majority of the cars were still illegally parked as well as parked in

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and all the so-called, or kind of finding interesting,

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vacant buildings around this place.

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In the past few weeks, I've learned more about this topic

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than I ever imagined I would,

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but I believe that when you feel strongly about something,

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you step up and you fight for it.

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I appreciate your time this evening,

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and I hope that each of you

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are doing all that you can do to investigate this matter

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and keep this clinic from opening in the location.

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And thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay, come on here.

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And when I sort of control it, we'll talk a little bit more

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about the personal impact on patients.

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That's what I mean.

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I mean, there's kind of a presentation that centers around how

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we're going to provide for the care of these specific individual patients

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as well as how we're going to better control the impact

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on the people of practice.

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I guess we have the genealogy of opioid abuse

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in the treatment.

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I'm just hearing from the bag that they're heading out of here.

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You're so tall.

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You're so tall.

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All right, yeah.

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Hey, so I'm going to talk a little bit about this.

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And just say, I'm working on it.

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Because I'm not very fortunate.

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I'm more certified in a couple of specialties,

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not so much a standard medicine practice

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than I've grown in 20 years.

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And I also went and did that a couple of years ago.

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And I was trained and became more certified

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in addiction medicine, specifically

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the rest of the time, because we're discussing

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about one of the main topics, obviously,

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of medication medicine, so I'm going to be able to hear what it is.

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And preparation for making that exam a couple of years ago,

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I read a chapter in our main text, which is,

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it's about train physician medicine physicians,

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and they've talked a couple of times about that,

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some of the genealogists, so we go back and forth

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about individual efficacy versus operation-based

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medication medicine doctors.

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And this one particular chapter where we start to make

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There's a ton of reason for it, and it still lets you meet the importance of meditation and assisted treatment.

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Others really didn't represent what they'd like to say in their community perspective.

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If I go get a population that doesn't have availability of a well-run and professionally motivated meditation-assisted treatment program,

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where that population is at risk of several things,

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that the operation has access to that,

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not the other one.

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And the whole thing, they're kind of like returns,

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but there's things that you all would want to fight.

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I have an official substitute program nearby

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that's called on crime decreases in that community.

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So, I mean, that's not even another self-assessment

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that you make.

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I have another clinic.

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I have West Brown children that are going

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in the school close by, when there was many things to deal with in that, in that, in that specific geographic area.

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In addition to that, there's a couple of other, a couple of weird things that go with it, and a topic that goes on with it.

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And I'll note that I've tried to use it as part of the computer epidemic and associated with that,

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that has been chosen in the financing, huge burdens,

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individual statements from the U.S. public health

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and the nation, and in another doubt,

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our mediation has been treated appropriately as available,

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but in terms of age, I would like to see it also be

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resisting if you could understand the needs of

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the U.S. health care population with less crime

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and as a result of that, I think it's a great

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success we need to draw into the law of the country.

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I mean, I wasn't able to write that yet,

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So, I just want to be able to appreciate the benefits that have been looked so obviously

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in a part of my school, but that have a huge impact on individual wellbeing and the community

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who are willing to step back and say, hey, this has a bigger effect than they did in

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to have an opportunity that's going to be so well-ground and incredible, in the management

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of that.

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I'm going to talk a little bit about the ownership of this.

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If you have any credible opportunities to make,

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if I were to go for a short piece

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of what I said, I'm not going to sit here and say, well, you have an opportunity

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And if you provide a service that will make this as important as you can do it, and by understanding the difference of the negative associations or something, it's not a difficult one to bring to the floor.

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I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that.

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That was about four years ago, and the state needs to be

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prepared for it.

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I would like for people to be able to say, yes, there are

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things that are not available in the country,

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but I would like to say that this is a very good task.

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And I would call on providing excellent care for the

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community and the staff that are being able to do that

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and make people want to do the other part of the

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life in the community efforts to have a healthier

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life in the country.

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Thank you.

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I appreciate it.

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Thank you.

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Vanessa Ruhlman.

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Vanessa Ruhlman.

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Vanessa Ruhlman.

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There's been twenty-one shifts in a circle.

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That's right.

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At least we already have a problem.

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Three shifts?

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Yes.

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We're all close.

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We have found out the hard way up here.

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Yes.

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You have to be funny.

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Yes.

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You have someone on the back who continues having a can of beer.

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Okay.

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I'm Vanessa Rolden.

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I'm a nurse on a registered addiction specialist,

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and I'm the owner of Wrinkle Treatment Center.

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I want to start out by clarifying we are not a drughouse,

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nor are we just a methadone clinic.

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We are a complete medication-assisted treatment program.

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We provide medical services, individual group, and family counseling,

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as well as assistance with social service needs that our patients might require.

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We do not sell and dispense medication on our program.

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We provide a complete range of services in order to help those who are in use disorder achieve long-term recovery.

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I would like to let the community know the type of program that we intend to run.

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At first, I want to say that this is a privately owned facility.

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This means that we have the ability to set the tone for patients who want to participate in our program.

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We live in this community. We drive on the same roads that you drive on.

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Our kids go to the same schools that your children go to.

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The last thing that we want is to have a negative impact.

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To that end, we are going to work with the community to address any concerns

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that you may have up front as well as on an ongoing basis.

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As an example of this, we have heard some of the safety concerns

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for garden school bus stop and for our facility.

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To address this, we have incorporated a school bus safety training into our new patient orientation

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to bring patient's attention to this and to also go over bus stops, bus stop laws.

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This program that is highly regulated at the state and federal level and we follow

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strict internal policies and procedures to ensure that we are helping us effective by

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open addiction while at the same time having a positive impact on our community.

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Before anyone is even admitted into our program, they are put in a very intense screening process

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to determine if they are an eligible candidate. The purpose of this is not only to determine

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if the medication-assisted treatment is the best treatment in modality, but also determine

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if the individual is entering treatment for the right reasons. We will not accept individuals

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who we see as a risk to our community, and we will not allow individuals to remain

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in treatment if we determine that they are abusing treatment or otherwise putting the

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community at risk by not following our program rules. We have met with other owners of several

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programs that operate with a similar mindset to ours and we have found that the community

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most often does not even know that these programs exist in their own community. We understand

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that there are some concerns and we are going to do our best to address those concerns.

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We plan on holding an open house, and we encourage anybody, citizens, council members,

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anybody to attend and learn more about medication-assisted treatment,

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as well as to understand the type of program that we intend to run.

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Thank you.

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Thank

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you.

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Jonathan Cobb?

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My name is Jonathan Cobb.

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I'll fix this before it gets too far in here.

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And it's a name and address.

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My name is Jonathan Cobb.

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My address is 200 Georgetown Drive in Regal.

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I am the new chairman of the Libertarian Party of Northwest Georgia, so hopefully you can see a little bit more of it in the future.

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We are concerned about this not only as citizens of Ringle, but also having done our research and educated ourselves

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on what methadone clinics, as they're called, medication-assisted treatment facilities bring to the communities that they bring.

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There's a study done by the University of California in San Francisco that shows the crime actually drops in most areas where there will run.

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We also have a study done by the University of Maryland that says the exact same thing.

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The University of California in San Francisco also did a separate study that shows that in the long run medical assisted treatment actually helps better than 188 detox programs do.

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Personally, I am a four-year-old and a two-year-old, both boys and beautiful young men.

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And whenever I left the Navy a year ago, I chose to come back to Ringgold.

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I could have stayed in San Diego, I could have been anywhere, but I came here because I love this area.

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I would never do anything that I didn't believe would put them in harm.

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My son goes to Ringgold Primary School and hopefully one day he'll be here at Ringgold High School.

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and I hope that this clinic is still up and running

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and he doesn't even know it's there

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whenever he's less than, as it said, three miles away from.

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But on the other side of this, we all see crime going up.

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We all see this in Florida, Georgia, Tennessee.

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We see crime going up because of opioid abuse.

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I feel like we're kind of holding both sides of the coin here

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and neither side is helping.

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Nobody wants to help.

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We want to put these guys in jail, we want to spend our tax dollars on putting them in prison,

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we want to spend our tax dollars on enforcing more and more crime related to opioid abuse,

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but then we want to have meetings like this to try to stop them getting the more treatment in some of these areas.

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Yes, we have other treatment facilities in this area, and like they said, they're closed.

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Whether it's out of state or there's not out of state, we have a lot of people here in

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Catoose County that still need help. Some of them can't make it to those clinics,

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because some of them are so bad off on opioids, especially prescription painkillers,

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that they don't have cars, they don't have transportation.

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They don't have a lot of these things to get here.

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Just a few days ago we had people called out because there was some people who were some

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not so great characters at the corner of Graysville Road and 41.

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It's the same situation every day.

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We see it every day around us and I understand that we want to take care of our people, we

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want to take care of everything.

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But we also need to worry about theses, we need to take care of theses and educate

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ourselves.

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I've heard a lot of people bring up petitions.

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The reason why this came to our light was because we were asked to sign one of those petitions.

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And in none of the material that we were presented to sign these petitions, was there any kind of education?

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Was there any kind of real substance to why we should not want this?

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It was all fear.

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Well, if you don't sign this, more crimes are going to come to the area.

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If you don't, that was the tactic that was brought about.

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So we kind of looked at it kind of skeptically.

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So I just wanted to take a minute and say that I believe that this is a great thing for the community.

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If it's running correctly, then run them out of town afterwards, whatever you want to do.

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But at this point, I think you are accusing people of a crime that hasn't been committed.

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You're assuming that somebody's going to do something wrong, instead of giving them the chance to do something right.

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And I think that's a travesty against the citizens of this county, and especially in Singapore.

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Appreciate your time.

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Thank you.

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Hello everyone. I have not attended to speak tonight, but it's just on my heart, and I've

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got to.

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I have no problem with treatment, people that have cancer and treatment, people

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with those good addictions and treatment.

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But what I'm saying on my profession

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is that it's not what's happening in my case.

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And before I talk about other people's families,

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I need to address the audience.

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If anybody in here has family members,

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they just passed away from my mother down there.

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Okay, so my nephew, when he passed away,

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he bought it on the streets.

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Well, it wasn't on the streets,

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It was in a mall in North Carolina.

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He'd never taken it before.

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There's no what it would do.

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My nephew was a hardened drug addict.

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He had no reason to fear.

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And he took it, and I buried him.

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He was my baby.

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I had custody of him when he was a teenager

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and when he got old enough, he went back to Florida

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so I couldn't control him.

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But what I'm saying is that opening up more clinics

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in the state of Georgia

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is like putting a band-aid on the laceration.

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Now why am I saying that?

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I'm saying that because the river, the evil,

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is over prescribing of opiates.

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People that truly desire and need treatment

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can get anywhere.

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We don't have to open up more clinics.

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I have concerns because there is a step.

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There is an order of things

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before you can open up a treatment clinic.

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To begin with, you have to have your federal regulations.

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You have to have your federal approvals before you go to the state

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and before you start treatment of food.

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So that has me some great concerns.

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Great concerns.

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But at the same time, all my cases that come back,

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y'all know that 98% of the corner cases are coming back as overdoses. Now let me

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tell you, methadone for the past two years has been in the mix for the direct

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cause. Now once is happening because there are clinics, I'm not accusing these

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folks of wrongdoing, that there are clinics that are selling it for a dollar a

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It is a pretty good fact now, Dr. Carter, that methadone is not the choice to treat opioid addiction.

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So what I'm saying is that if they're going to offer other treatment plans other than methadone,

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if they're not going to sell it for a dollar apiece, if they're going to do everything they say they're going to do,

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then I don't have a battle with them.

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I am a family member of a child that overdosed because there are clinics that didn't sell

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it and it does get on the street and I'm having to tell families almost on a daily basis that

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their family member passed away because they got ahold of methadone on the street.

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When this first started, the American with Disabilities Act was to protect people that

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did have open addictions. It's not to protect people to come in and threaten if they don't

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open their clinics. The laws have not been changed very much since 1999. On top of that,

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there are other treatment modalities like I have stated other than the methadone. Methadone

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is very unstable. It repeats within a 48-hour period. People that take methadone and they're

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used to it, if they take it, they think, well, I don't feel this, so they'll turn around and take another.

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Putting more methadone on the street is not the answer.

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We need to look at trying to control the doctors that are over prescribing the opiates.

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There are plenty of treatment facilities.

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I would like to see for them to have to step up to the plate for themselves.

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And if they can't put themselves, then it's best to have some other people come in and try to do the job.

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And I know this is a harsh road to follow, but you know, people just have no speakers

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and I don't know if there's anybody in this room that doesn't know somebody or have a family member

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that doesn't have an opportunity to meet someone.

467
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I also change and y'all know that.

468
00:36:48,370 --> 00:36:52,450
And my students tell me a lot of stuff that goes on inside.

469
00:36:53,610 --> 00:36:56,290
Not these folks because they haven't opened up yet.

470
00:36:57,050 --> 00:37:02,510
that I do now have students that go to the other clinics in a tremendous way to tell me.

471
00:37:03,770 --> 00:37:04,810
Thank you.

472
00:37:18,430 --> 00:37:18,950
Leslie?

473
00:37:21,970 --> 00:37:23,770
No, okay, so...

474
00:37:23,770 --> 00:37:25,710
That's why I halfway filled it out.

475
00:37:25,970 --> 00:37:27,170
Okay, okay.

476
00:37:27,830 --> 00:37:28,810
Zach Talbot?

477
00:37:30,070 --> 00:37:30,450
Thanks.

478
00:37:39,750 --> 00:37:40,690
My name's Zach Talbot.

479
00:37:40,750 --> 00:37:43,050
My address is 55, and I go to Langford Sharks.

480
00:37:43,810 --> 00:37:47,170
And the reason I've come up here today, for one, is because

481
00:37:47,790 --> 00:37:53,630
I'm standing in front of you today as a successful person, a healthy person because of methanome treatment.

482
00:37:54,290 --> 00:37:56,630
I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for that treatment.

483
00:37:57,150 --> 00:38:01,610
I tried many non-medication assisted treatments first and continually relapsed.

484
00:38:02,950 --> 00:38:05,490
Yeah, there are...

485
00:38:05,490 --> 00:38:12,850
It's hard for me to even think of where to start because if you look at any credible authorities on this issue,

486
00:38:12,850 --> 00:38:16,730
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not changed their positions.

487
00:38:17,230 --> 00:38:22,030
The Methadone Maintenance Treatment is the, quote, most effective treatment for opiate addiction.

488
00:38:22,770 --> 00:38:25,450
They have not recent that statement that's still their position.

489
00:38:26,210 --> 00:38:32,950
The National Institutes of Health, our own National Institutes of Health in their consensus panel on opiate addiction,

490
00:38:33,410 --> 00:38:37,710
has deemed Methadone Maintenance Treatment the, quote, gold standard treatment.

491
00:38:37,710 --> 00:38:43,450
When treatment centers come into community, crime goes down, drug overdose death rates

492
00:38:43,450 --> 00:38:44,090
go down.

493
00:38:44,490 --> 00:38:45,170
These are facts.

494
00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:50,730
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, they've got a compilation of all the research

495
00:38:50,730 --> 00:38:53,490
of the past half century around this medication.

496
00:38:55,070 --> 00:38:59,150
When methadone overdose death rates have gone up, we have seen that.

497
00:38:59,750 --> 00:39:03,370
And so when the federal authorities looked into the reason these methadone death

498
00:39:03,370 --> 00:39:07,690
rates have gone up, the vast majority of methadone in those cases can't be

499
00:39:07,690 --> 00:39:13,290
back that they were coming from private prescriptions, from pain clinics, from not from opiate treatment

500
00:39:13,290 --> 00:39:20,630
programs. That is an established fact. Patients, I had to go to the center every day and take

501
00:39:20,630 --> 00:39:25,790
my medication in front of a nurse. I wasn't taking it out. I didn't have a chance to

502
00:39:25,790 --> 00:39:31,190
sell it on the street. The federal regulations prohibit that until you have reached stability

503
00:39:31,190 --> 00:39:35,950
and recovery and have passed multiple drug screens and have participated in individual

504
00:39:35,950 --> 00:39:40,570
counseling and group therapy, you're not taking any medication out of that center.

505
00:39:41,270 --> 00:39:48,150
And so I would just encourage the community to not look at the stigma and the hysteria,

506
00:39:48,290 --> 00:39:52,370
but to look at the established facts. This is the face of methadone treatment.

507
00:39:53,010 --> 00:39:57,770
I'm now an alcohol abuse counselor and a very successful person.

508
00:39:58,030 --> 00:40:01,390
I'm a graduate student because of this treatment.

509
00:40:01,390 --> 00:40:06,170
There are undoubtedly some bad treatments, or some bad treatment centers.

510
00:40:06,810 --> 00:40:11,010
That's true for any medical treatment that is not unique to this mentality.

511
00:40:11,790 --> 00:40:16,790
But this is a solution. We're in an opioid addiction and overdose epidemic.

512
00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:20,910
And the facts are, if you looked at the National Institute of Drug Abuse,

513
00:40:21,050 --> 00:40:23,790
the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy,

514
00:40:24,290 --> 00:40:28,490
when methadone dispensing appropriately comes into a community

515
00:40:28,490 --> 00:40:35,370
overdose death rates and drug-related crime go down. That is a fact. And so I

516
00:40:35,370 --> 00:40:38,970
just encourage the town and the community, you've got people in front of you

517
00:40:38,970 --> 00:40:44,150
that are wanting to run a reputable center. Federal approval does not come

518
00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:48,530
first. You go to the state first. That's a fact. You can check with the state of

519
00:40:48,530 --> 00:40:53,270
Georgia. You apply with the state first. The state's already approved this

520
00:40:53,270 --> 00:40:59,470
facility they're licensed and so again I'm not sure at this point what can really

521
00:40:59,470 --> 00:41:03,850
be done to stop it from opening but I would count my blessings that you don't

522
00:41:03,850 --> 00:41:07,830
have one of these dollar a day centers trying to open in your community you

523
00:41:07,830 --> 00:41:11,510
have locals that are going to run a private facility and they want to involve

524
00:41:11,510 --> 00:41:16,330
the community and they want to do this the right way so just consider and

525
00:41:16,330 --> 00:41:19,750
remember the face of people like me these aren't junkies in my alley

526
00:41:19,750 --> 00:41:26,050
This is, according to CDC, the most effective treatment for this epidemic that we're currently

527
00:41:26,050 --> 00:41:26,530
facing.

528
00:41:27,010 --> 00:41:31,590
This is most opioid-addicted people's best hope for recovery.

529
00:41:32,470 --> 00:41:36,690
It certainly was mine because all the other treatments that we keep hearing about failed

530
00:41:36,690 --> 00:41:39,950
me and they failed many others time and time again.

531
00:41:40,490 --> 00:41:42,390
Methanone saves lives.

532
00:41:43,190 --> 00:41:43,570
Thank you.

533
00:41:44,050 --> 00:41:44,350
Thank you.

534
00:41:50,820 --> 00:41:51,940
Shannon Campbell.

535
00:41:59,870 --> 00:42:00,790
I'm Shannon Campbell.

536
00:42:00,790 --> 00:42:02,930
I live 32 Springwood Drive, Maryland.

537
00:42:04,650 --> 00:42:06,610
I've actually lived here for about a year.

538
00:42:07,230 --> 00:42:08,310
I'm from Chicago, Tennessee.

539
00:42:09,030 --> 00:42:12,430
I moved to Carrollton for a while to get my Ph.D. in psychology.

540
00:42:13,590 --> 00:42:16,010
And a lot of my focus has been on holistic health

541
00:42:16,010 --> 00:42:18,450
and the use of natural psychoactives for psychotherapy,

542
00:42:18,590 --> 00:42:21,350
as opposed to my dissertation in particular,

543
00:42:21,590 --> 00:42:23,590
is focused on opioids and visit asopines.

544
00:42:24,470 --> 00:42:27,130
One of the things that haven't been addressed, as a matter of fact,

545
00:42:27,130 --> 00:42:29,110
is the concern with tele-drug use,

546
00:42:29,190 --> 00:42:30,530
especially with my children's clinics.

547
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:34,610
I actually have two daughters,

548
00:42:34,850 --> 00:42:36,050
so I'm speaking as a mother as well,

549
00:42:36,570 --> 00:42:37,830
14-year-old and nine-year-old.

550
00:42:38,450 --> 00:42:40,150
I think my biggest issue with this clinic,

551
00:42:41,030 --> 00:42:41,950
like a lot of people said,

552
00:42:42,070 --> 00:42:44,290
I think especially clinics that are well-run

553
00:42:44,290 --> 00:42:45,550
is not a bad thing,

554
00:42:45,590 --> 00:42:47,030
but the location of my daughter's home

555
00:42:47,030 --> 00:42:48,190
is so close to the school.

556
00:42:49,150 --> 00:42:50,350
My daughter's already told me

557
00:42:50,350 --> 00:42:52,210
about a number of cases with family.

558
00:42:52,430 --> 00:42:53,910
She's like, man, there's so many kids

559
00:42:53,910 --> 00:42:55,390
that have told me they've done this and that,

560
00:42:55,390 --> 00:42:57,730
and this and that, and she gets nervous.

561
00:42:58,810 --> 00:43:00,590
And she knows a little bit about my research,

562
00:43:00,610 --> 00:43:01,910
and she's like, mom, why don't they

563
00:43:01,910 --> 00:43:03,330
have an alternative, so I'm like,

564
00:43:04,250 --> 00:43:05,870
it's just not well known, you know,

565
00:43:05,950 --> 00:43:07,430
it's an unfortunate part of it,

566
00:43:07,590 --> 00:43:10,270
but I'm slowly but surely, before,

567
00:43:10,970 --> 00:43:13,050
I guess you could say, from perspective

568
00:43:13,050 --> 00:43:16,110
on how to use medicinal plants is growing,

569
00:43:16,230 --> 00:43:18,390
but it's still coming, and I think

570
00:43:18,390 --> 00:43:20,370
we should just really appreciate, you know,

571
00:43:20,690 --> 00:43:22,290
the, how should I say, like,

572
00:43:23,450 --> 00:43:25,930
Pizzadazopines are probably the most common, but alcohol,

573
00:43:26,290 --> 00:43:28,190
so we have tons of pharmacies,

574
00:43:28,630 --> 00:43:31,470
it's not as many bars around here,

575
00:43:31,650 --> 00:43:34,430
but there's still opportunities to go to liquor stores,

576
00:43:34,770 --> 00:43:36,850
and a lot of these issues,

577
00:43:37,230 --> 00:43:39,350
especially with overdose, come up with applied drug use.

578
00:43:40,350 --> 00:43:41,710
As a matter of fact, they just came out

579
00:43:41,710 --> 00:43:44,110
with a black box warning about even patients

580
00:43:44,110 --> 00:43:45,630
who are prescribed opioids

581
00:43:45,630 --> 00:43:47,590
and in the pizzadazopines together,

582
00:43:48,390 --> 00:43:49,910
especially in things like Xanax,

583
00:43:49,910 --> 00:43:53,710
end up having overdose issues and death.

584
00:43:54,790 --> 00:44:01,270
So I think that, you know, hopefully there'll be some consideration, you know, about the

585
00:44:01,270 --> 00:44:09,030
location as well as how it may influence down the road alcohol consumption as well as,

586
00:44:09,070 --> 00:44:14,570
you know, the shopping behavior of these people, some of them anyway, can be pretty

587
00:44:14,570 --> 00:44:14,930
rampant.

588
00:44:15,010 --> 00:44:19,170
They go from pharmacy to pharmacy, doctor to doctor, and there's people driving from

589
00:44:19,170 --> 00:44:21,010
in Kentucky and other places, you know,

590
00:44:21,070 --> 00:44:23,730
there's no telling to what degree they would be shopping around.

591
00:44:24,350 --> 00:44:25,850
And like some people mentioned,

592
00:44:26,270 --> 00:44:29,050
it's not in some of these methadone doses.

593
00:44:29,550 --> 00:44:31,910
Hopefully the clinic is running well, it won't be an issue,

594
00:44:32,030 --> 00:44:34,210
but you know, like I said, as a mother,

595
00:44:34,530 --> 00:44:35,670
it concerns we're just a little bit.

596
00:44:36,730 --> 00:44:41,990
I think one of the biggest percentages I've found

597
00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:44,650
in my research is 51% of methadone patients

598
00:44:44,650 --> 00:44:47,670
use benzodiazepines to get that high back.

599
00:44:47,670 --> 00:44:50,730
And that's a huge number, a huge number of people.

600
00:44:51,470 --> 00:44:53,810
I don't know how many who would go to these clinics would be.

601
00:44:54,290 --> 00:44:56,950
It would be good to have statistics on that, for sure.

602
00:44:57,870 --> 00:44:59,970
But please be consistent.

603
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:04,900
I consider it about how it can affect a number of people and what can be brought into the city,

604
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:09,140
especially when it comes to the kids and any kind of drug abuse violations.

605
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:10,660
Thank you.

606
00:45:10,940 --> 00:45:11,300
Thank you.

607
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,460
Joy and Jessie Thornton.

608
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:19,680
Hi,

609
00:45:28,270 --> 00:45:28,970
I'm Joy Thornton.

610
00:45:29,330 --> 00:45:32,630
I live at 533rd Spark Street right now in the high school.

611
00:45:32,930 --> 00:45:35,630
I have a business right down the street here on Tennessee Street.

612
00:45:36,190 --> 00:45:38,770
Actually, my husband and I have two businesses there.

613
00:45:40,050 --> 00:45:45,550
My, my, I was brought, this was brought to my attention, I guess I lived in my little

614
00:45:45,550 --> 00:45:50,370
junket world and didn't realize it was getting ready to open right across the street from

615
00:45:50,370 --> 00:45:50,630
me.

616
00:45:51,490 --> 00:45:54,590
And I, it was brought to my attention by some phone calls.

617
00:45:55,910 --> 00:46:02,770
And so then the Kansas County newspaper called me and asked me, you know, why they

618
00:46:03,350 --> 00:46:07,410
had understood I had spoken out loud on Facebook and were in my opinion.

619
00:46:07,410 --> 00:46:14,830
And in my opinion, in the newspaper, it quotes me as saying that people are concerned, meaning

620
00:46:14,830 --> 00:46:22,010
local ring old people, are concerned about drugs, drug users, drug abusers, and drugies,

621
00:46:22,090 --> 00:46:28,010
I said, being in the neighborhood and just being there, standing in line, waiting to

622
00:46:28,010 --> 00:46:32,550
get in and choosing to roam around town and do as they choose to do.

623
00:46:32,550 --> 00:46:41,170
And because I was quoted as saying that, I was cursed.

624
00:46:42,090 --> 00:46:50,890
The lady went on the Facebook page and cursed me for saying that that I was concerned.

625
00:46:51,330 --> 00:46:56,250
So that's the kind of people who I saw, I see as being pro-this clinic.

626
00:46:56,250 --> 00:47:03,350
people who will call me an uneducated ignorant bad word just because I said

627
00:47:03,350 --> 00:47:10,190
local people are concerned about drug users being in the neighborhoods. So that

628
00:47:10,190 --> 00:47:16,090
even made me more concerned. Then I got a phone call from a gentleman who lives

629
00:47:16,090 --> 00:47:21,210
in Jamestown, Tennessee, which just happens to be where I grew up and he

630
00:47:21,210 --> 00:47:25,970
got my phone number and called me to ask me how in the world do you have

631
00:47:25,970 --> 00:47:33,210
the audacity to say that Methanone Clinic is bad. And I said, excuse me, who is this?

632
00:47:33,670 --> 00:47:39,610
He told me his name and I vaguely remember someone by that name being in high school around

633
00:47:39,610 --> 00:47:44,990
the same time I was. I don't live in James Town, Tennessee. I live in Ringgold, Georgia,

634
00:47:45,470 --> 00:47:50,090
where people ask me where you're from. I say I'm from Ringgold, Georgia now and that's

635
00:47:50,090 --> 00:47:57,290
where I'm from. I live here. All my well-being is here. My grandchildren go to the schools

636
00:47:57,290 --> 00:48:05,370
here. My husband grew up here. So I'm concerned about Ringgold, Georgia. So I said, why do

637
00:48:05,370 --> 00:48:10,570
you care, Jackie, if Ringgold, Georgia gets a clinic? Don't you still live in Jamestown,

638
00:48:10,690 --> 00:48:17,970
Tennessee? He said, yes, I do. And I bought, I bought Harrowland and I bought Morphing

639
00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:24,720
Morphing on the streets of Fentress County, but I drive to Georgia

640
00:48:25,940 --> 00:48:28,080
Once a month to get my methadone

641
00:48:28,820 --> 00:48:32,360
I drive to Georgia now a hundred and forty miles

642
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:34,880
Once a month to get my methadone

643
00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:42,440
So it's not the people of gatoosa County that the clinic think it's a county or helping per se

644
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,340
It's people a hundred and forty miles away in

645
00:48:45,340 --> 00:48:50,980
in Fentress County, Tennessee, and in Florida, and in Alabama, and in South Carolina,

646
00:48:51,380 --> 00:48:52,960
coming here to get their drugs.

647
00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:55,380
That's my concern about it.

648
00:48:55,640 --> 00:49:00,240
When we have karate kids running up and down the streets doing their training,

649
00:49:00,600 --> 00:49:03,920
we have kids getting on buses and walking to school.

650
00:49:04,460 --> 00:49:06,120
I have a business here.

651
00:49:06,420 --> 00:49:09,440
There's businesses over here that are going to be affected by this.

652
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,640
I don't even know if the little family, the Spanish-speaking family

653
00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:17,420
that lives across the street from the methadone clinic and realizes that there are going to

654
00:49:17,420 --> 00:49:20,620
be people lined up in the parking lot when they're out there and they're swimming pooling

655
00:49:20,620 --> 00:49:26,180
in front of y'all. That's why I'm concerned about it. Thank you for your time. Thank

656
00:49:26,180 --> 00:49:26,400
you.

657
00:49:33,630 --> 00:49:35,090
Just you're on here. Did you want to?

658
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:49,380
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. As you

659
00:49:49,380 --> 00:49:55,660
all know, I grew up here in Ringgold and I devoted my life to Ringgold. I've had

660
00:49:55,660 --> 00:49:59,620
opportunities to move to different countries to teach martial arts but I

661
00:49:59,620 --> 00:50:04,740
chose to stay here because someone reached out and helped me and gave me a

662
00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:11,180
chance and to see that you know I understand this clinic is here to to

663
00:50:11,180 --> 00:50:17,180
give somebody a chance to change their life like this young man over here. How

664
00:50:17,180 --> 00:50:24,140
many have you seen change their life like that? We have kids every single

665
00:50:24,140 --> 00:50:29,340
day, run up and down these streets, training to make their black blood.

666
00:50:30,570 --> 00:50:34,620
We have kids running around the nature's trail over here.

667
00:50:35,040 --> 00:50:40,840
We have them running by Kentucky Fried Chicken, over in Blovey, up by the high school.

668
00:50:41,660 --> 00:50:48,740
All over this city, and to bring this into our city, I really feel like it's a really

669
00:50:48,740 --> 00:50:51,360
bad situation to be a part of.

670
00:50:52,000 --> 00:51:00,600
And look at the people that have migrated to KJUCCA and Ringo because of the things that are going on in Chattanooga and in Dawson.

671
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:09,760
You know, people in Chattanooga have moved to Ringo because they feel like this is one of the safest cities that they can move to.

672
00:51:10,980 --> 00:51:17,400
Yes, we have our, you know, we have our share of property just like any city does.

673
00:51:18,060 --> 00:51:23,680
But we've got an awesome council here that really may bring those stand-on-the-mout.

674
00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:29,700
People see, people want to come to Reno because they know that they can be safe.

675
00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:34,020
Look at all these older people that are right walking every single night.

676
00:51:34,900 --> 00:51:37,640
You didn't ever, you know, you wouldn't see that in Chattanooga.

677
00:51:38,220 --> 00:51:42,680
You wouldn't see that in Dalton because everybody's afraid that they're going to

678
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:43,160
get jumped.

679
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:48,880
But if we bring that clinic here, we're going to run into the same problems.

680
00:51:51,030 --> 00:51:53,450
I don't want that clinic to affect my business.

681
00:51:54,350 --> 00:51:55,890
I'm 56 years old.

682
00:51:56,110 --> 00:51:58,770
I've been teaching martial arts here for 42 years.

683
00:52:00,130 --> 00:52:01,910
I'm not going to let that run me out of time.

684
00:52:03,930 --> 00:52:07,590
I love, you know, I respect you all for what you're trying to do and how you're

685
00:52:07,590 --> 00:52:08,270
trying to do it.

686
00:52:09,650 --> 00:52:16,870
but my grandson and my granddaughter, their mother was on this and she went to

687
00:52:16,870 --> 00:52:23,070
the clinic there on Rossville Boulevard just so she could get a high and you know

688
00:52:23,070 --> 00:52:27,390
I said I'm not gonna take you there just for that she said well if I don't get it

689
00:52:27,390 --> 00:52:29,870
there I gotta go get it somewhere else and

690
00:52:32,520 --> 00:52:35,680
so to me when a person just

691
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:39,920
specifically speaks out and say that's why I'm going you

692
00:52:43,060 --> 00:52:43,800
look in and you

693
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:44,760
tell me what you think.

694
00:52:47,420 --> 00:52:52,620
And, you know, it's a shame that their own mother can't

695
00:52:52,620 --> 00:52:59,480
raise them because of this stuff, you know. But I thank God that they're my

696
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:05,680
grandchildren, that our grandchildren, so that they have a chance in life because

697
00:53:05,680 --> 00:53:10,800
they're not going to be exposed to that. We're going to raise these kids the right way.

698
00:53:11,620 --> 00:53:16,780
That's why I speak so much about the Lord here at our school and how we

699
00:53:16,780 --> 00:53:18,940
We should carry each other and protect each other.

700
00:53:20,540 --> 00:53:24,160
And that's the way I feel about our whole community, you know?

701
00:53:25,980 --> 00:53:28,680
You put your life on the line every day in the law enforcement.

702
00:53:29,580 --> 00:53:33,180
You know, you guys are going to be offered your life on the line for this season.

703
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:42,220
And I ask you, you said, can you go home at night and lay down and sleep without worrying

704
00:53:42,220 --> 00:53:44,560
about all the stuff coming in in the season?

705
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:49,200
and these people that are driving 150 miles are frozen.

706
00:53:50,500 --> 00:53:52,700
I mean, why can't they go to these other clinics?

707
00:53:53,280 --> 00:53:54,520
There's four already here.

708
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:58,440
Probably the way up to have one right here.

709
00:53:59,340 --> 00:54:01,440
I wouldn't mind if they moved it somewhere else,

710
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:03,580
but not here in the city of Ringo.

711
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:05,260
Thank you.

712
00:54:22,900 --> 00:54:25,280
I went four, 15, 10 while it was out of here,

713
00:54:25,900 --> 00:54:26,680
Mary Wilton said,

714
00:54:28,240 --> 00:54:32,460
I've got 25 years in education background,

715
00:54:32,700 --> 00:54:35,500
assistant principal, athletic director, school teacher,

716
00:54:36,860 --> 00:54:39,080
also 15 years in law enforcement,

717
00:54:39,580 --> 00:54:41,200
who's our deputy with sheriff's department.

718
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:45,760
Several comments that I'm hearing,

719
00:54:46,220 --> 00:54:49,120
we don't want that here, we don't want that coming here.

720
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:49,940
It's already here.

721
00:54:51,140 --> 00:54:52,880
The director already in your camp,

722
00:54:54,480 --> 00:55:03,160
Working as a consultant for some sort of director of security for some clinics, and what I'm

723
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:12,240
going to call effectively run programs, chiefs of police, sheriffs of the county, encourage

724
00:55:12,840 --> 00:55:18,380
their drug units to go by and actually get cards to hand out as effective treatment

725
00:55:18,380 --> 00:55:27,700
for votes because, unlike a lot of other substance abuses, abstinence does not work for a large

726
00:55:27,700 --> 00:55:34,680
percentage of opioid addiction. And that's, again, it goes back to the chemistry of what

727
00:55:34,680 --> 00:55:42,040
happens with the actual narcotic itself. And most of the deaths that we have seen,

728
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:47,440
And you know, we're in one of 14 counties that's the, and you're going to see this,

729
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:51,300
the second highest opioid death rates in the nation per capita.

730
00:55:52,840 --> 00:55:58,460
And, you know, we've, so it's been something, you know, why is that all of a sudden happening

731
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:01,460
about five to seven years ago?

732
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:07,980
There was a big push to close all the pain pill clinics.

733
00:56:07,980 --> 00:56:13,940
pain clinics, a lot of pain doctors, pain clinics that made it more difficult to get from a pain

734
00:56:13,940 --> 00:56:22,840
doctor in opioids, which is then why you had a influx for the first time in 20 years, a

735
00:56:22,840 --> 00:56:27,080
heroin epidemic, because it was cheaper to get and easier to get, because you never

736
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:34,100
offered an effective treatment to take the place of what they were addicted to. And

737
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:38,280
And so what we saw in our county, we were, while we were celebrating the law enforcement,

738
00:56:38,500 --> 00:56:44,440
that we shut down all the pain-filled mills, we call them, in our town, and in our county,

739
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:50,780
we didn't offer anything of an effective treatment to take into place.

740
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:56,980
And so now what we started seeing was Ivy Heron used backup on the rise for the first

741
00:56:56,980 --> 00:56:59,260
time, like I said, in over 20 years.

742
00:56:59,260 --> 00:57:12,880
And so, a lot of our overdose deaths have come, and again, statistically talking in the law enforcement circle, a lot of the death rates in the overdoses is not just methadone that's in their system.

743
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:25,980
And again, doing research of a lot of the science that your body affects, it's mixing those other drugs that they're buying off the street with the methadone that they're buying off the street,

744
00:57:25,980 --> 00:57:32,480
or that they're buying off, you know, that they're getting from, you know, a pain doctor.

745
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:37,580
And unfortunately, they're getting from their primary care physician.

746
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:43,700
So it's not the junkies that we see in the movies like we see in the New York movies

747
00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:46,100
where they're in the back alleys and making their drug deals.

748
00:57:46,900 --> 00:57:51,120
These are professionals that are going to their primary care physician.

749
00:57:52,740 --> 00:58:00,760
getting a script, and because they've had a long history with that doctor, they're continuing

750
00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:02,280
to increase their script.

751
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:06,600
You know, that's just not working for me right now.

752
00:58:08,500 --> 00:58:18,060
On personal knowledge of a person, the chief of staff of a hospital that's also a primary

753
00:58:18,060 --> 00:58:25,100
care physician was prescribing so many pain pills to a patient that a local

754
00:58:25,100 --> 00:58:32,240
mom-and-pop pharmacy wasn't able to fill the prescription for the must-supply.

755
00:58:33,380 --> 00:58:40,320
This was a cheapest stack of a hospital. So again, it's not, oh my gosh, the drugs

756
00:58:40,320 --> 00:58:43,980
are coming in off the street. They're gonna be coming to Ringo and bringing

757
00:58:43,980 --> 00:58:50,280
drugs. The drugs are already in your community and talking to several law

758
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:55,160
enforcement officers where a new treatment center has opened up. Like I

759
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:59,820
said, they are the ones that are encouraging people. They start noticing,

760
00:59:00,780 --> 00:59:05,660
and I think I'm going to quote in a local county around here, the Chuka

761
00:59:05,660 --> 00:59:16,320
police that makes sense now why when we are arresting folks their first words

762
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:23,340
out of their mouth it's been so hard to find I'm having to do things for

763
00:59:23,340 --> 00:59:26,460
dangerous thank you thank you

764
00:59:31,290 --> 00:59:35,750
that's all that I had on my list we have made it

765
00:59:35,750 --> 00:59:36,950
And change to the agenda.

766
00:59:39,830 --> 00:59:43,670
I believe I got it. I believe I got it. I had it delivered to me. I think we're good.

767
00:59:46,270 --> 00:59:49,110
Was there another song? Please, please, please call.

768
00:59:51,980 --> 00:59:54,120
You're number 13. Are you sure?

769
00:59:57,560 --> 00:59:58,580
Name and address please.

770
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,820
This is Erica Incock from the 6161-way drive.

771
01:00:04,340 --> 01:00:09,700
Excuse me, I didn't attend the speaker, I'm a little nervous, but one of the main concerns

772
01:00:09,700 --> 01:00:12,560
that everyone is speaking about is the safety of their children.

773
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,900
But what about the children that have to go home every day to drive their users?

774
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:21,860
Do they not get a fair chance to have parents that are drug-free?

775
01:00:23,060 --> 01:00:24,440
I speak with my father.

776
01:00:25,180 --> 01:00:33,920
I was under us when I was growing up and luckily my mother wasn't and my parents divorced and

777
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:40,540
I was able to live with my mother and I grew up in a very safe home but I have a lot of

778
01:00:40,540 --> 01:00:51,060
memories from things that I've seen from my father and some kids don't have the,

779
01:00:52,700 --> 01:00:55,920
They're not blessed with the fact that they get to grow up in a drug-free home.

780
01:00:56,220 --> 01:01:03,060
So I understand that it is a concern that your kids are running around here with a methadone

781
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:09,820
clinic right down the road, but there are some kids that they don't get to go home to a drug-free home.

782
01:01:11,940 --> 01:01:19,220
They need to have parents who have an option or resources to get treatment for their safety.

783
01:01:19,220 --> 01:01:23,980
If you're going to think about one set of kids, then you need to think about all the kids.

784
01:01:24,460 --> 01:01:30,920
You need to think about everybody that this can impact, and not just one small set of people.

785
01:01:31,660 --> 01:01:38,100
This is huge. This is a big thing, and this can impact more than just a small group.

786
01:01:38,860 --> 01:01:41,220
And I just think that people need to start considering that.

787
01:01:41,400 --> 01:01:45,500
When you think about safety of kids, you need to be thinking about safety of children

788
01:01:45,500 --> 01:01:49,420
But don't get to go home to say, um, like your children do.

789
01:01:50,200 --> 01:01:51,780
And that's all I need to say. Thank you.

790
01:01:52,440 --> 01:01:52,780
Thank you.

791
01:01:58,180 --> 01:02:01,020
Mayor, can I use my other 10 minutes, but it needs...

792
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:04,740
Please, I guess I wouldn't have to take a motion from the council today.

793
01:02:05,900 --> 01:02:07,020
You're going to let me...

794
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:08,640
Oh, that's...

795
01:02:10,910 --> 01:02:14,270
If the mic was taken from the washroom, I would not be there.

796
01:02:14,430 --> 01:02:17,310
I'd be able to show you something, but if the mic is taken from the washroom,

797
01:02:17,310 --> 01:02:18,310
we won't be able to touch that.

798
01:02:27,030 --> 01:02:31,850
If someone would like to make a motion, that would entertain a motion, that's it, no one would like to, I'll move on.

799
01:02:37,140 --> 01:02:42,280
We did move to make the council comments to the public to just under citizens' comments.

800
01:02:48,140 --> 01:02:51,560
So I'd like to start. I have a couple of things I'd like to say.

801
01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:55,560
First off, I want to thank

802
01:02:55,560 --> 01:03:02,440
everyone who came. I don't see anything except passion for our community and for the people

803
01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:07,400
in our community on both sides. And I just really appreciate you coming and speaking

804
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:13,700
your heart and it fills my heart to see a full courtroom and I just really from the bottom

805
01:03:13,700 --> 01:03:18,180
of my heart want to thank you for coming and sharing with us what you have.

806
01:03:20,260 --> 01:03:26,420
There is a couple of points that I think that it's important to make about what the city's

807
01:03:26,420 --> 01:03:33,000
role is in this process. I know that there's a lot of people arguing for the clinic

808
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:42,000
and against the clinic and I do want to say that and this is to me is a bigger

809
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:49,920
issue that is preceded this is the state has such control over this process and

810
01:03:49,920 --> 01:03:54,360
this is an issue that we've been dealing with the state with not just with

811
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:58,360
this issue in my opinion but there's a lot of things that the city needs to

812
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:05,440
more control over this being one of them and so and so we are happy that our state delegation

813
01:04:06,680 --> 01:04:10,920
fought so hard to put in a moratorium so that we could at least examine the issue

814
01:04:10,920 --> 01:04:17,460
and if they didn't necessary give local communities the tools they need to better

815
01:04:17,460 --> 01:04:23,260
decide how we want to grow our communities. So they have been receptive to that,

816
01:04:23,260 --> 01:04:30,520
there is a current moratorium and we are diligently working throughout this process to try to make

817
01:04:30,520 --> 01:04:38,520
sure that they do give the cities the tools that they need to be more self-determined whichever

818
01:04:38,520 --> 01:04:46,510
way that might be. And so I did want to share that. As far as the the Lawson's seeing and

819
01:04:46,510 --> 01:04:53,350
permitting goes. That's, unfortunately, because this is handled at the state level, something

820
01:04:53,350 --> 01:04:58,390
that we were not privy to whenever they made their application. It's not something that

821
01:04:58,390 --> 01:05:04,350
they informed the city about. There's a late in the process. They do apply for a business

822
01:05:04,350 --> 01:05:10,870
tax permit. That's just for us to collect the tax from them. But again, I'm looking

823
01:05:10,870 --> 01:05:14,810
forward to what the state of Tennessee, or I'm sorry, the state of Georgia does,

824
01:05:14,810 --> 01:05:16,850
to give us some of the tools that we need.

825
01:05:18,830 --> 01:05:23,750
This application did come in for the moratorium took place and so we have a full

826
01:05:23,750 --> 01:05:24,470
quarter in tonight.

827
01:05:26,170 --> 01:05:31,810
We are diligently, as a city, and this is an important job that we're doing,

828
01:05:32,430 --> 01:05:35,970
we are diligently making sure that they meet all the requirements because

829
01:05:37,090 --> 01:05:39,070
that's one of the things that we're supposed to do.

830
01:05:39,210 --> 01:05:42,610
That's our job as a city, as a city is to make sure that they are meeting

831
01:05:42,610 --> 01:05:48,850
each and every single one of those requirements and we understand the concerns that are brought

832
01:05:48,850 --> 01:05:56,810
up on both sides and I do want you to know that the city and a lot of people are bringing

833
01:05:56,810 --> 01:06:01,610
things to the city for us to look at and we always welcome people within the community

834
01:06:01,610 --> 01:06:08,050
who live and where we can play here, bring things to us so that we can make the most

835
01:06:08,050 --> 01:06:14,690
important decisions that we can. And so that's where we're at right now in this

836
01:06:14,690 --> 01:06:21,790
process, verifying that sort of thing. And then on the back end, really the only

837
01:06:21,790 --> 01:06:26,410
authority that we have is zoning, ensuring that the zoning is enforced.

838
01:06:28,010 --> 01:06:32,770
And they have zoning that they have to meet ahead of time. And also once they

839
01:06:32,770 --> 01:06:36,690
begin operating, they have to comply with the zoning for a medical

840
01:06:36,690 --> 01:06:42,490
facility. That's how it's done. And so that would be the city's role at that point. And

841
01:06:42,490 --> 01:06:48,030
so I wanted to put that information out there to make sure everybody knew where the city

842
01:06:48,030 --> 01:06:54,090
was at, what we're doing, and what our role actually is. I would welcome any comments

843
01:06:54,090 --> 01:06:57,430
from the council that would like to speak.

844
01:07:01,450 --> 01:07:09,250
Thank you. Thank you all for coming and sharing your points of view and I'm sure all of us

845
01:07:09,250 --> 01:07:14,910
on the council will be agreeable to this but I'm going to suggest that the minutes from

846
01:07:15,610 --> 01:07:20,990
that have been shared, the minutes taken from the comments are provided not only to our

847
01:07:20,990 --> 01:07:28,550
Commissioner of Public Health who is actually over the department which license clinics

848
01:07:28,550 --> 01:07:29,510
of this nature.

849
01:07:30,290 --> 01:07:37,810
Commissioner Rees has provided that material, as well as our Senator, Senator Jeff Mullis,

850
01:07:37,910 --> 01:07:44,330
has been working as well as several of our legislative delegations have worked to create

851
01:07:44,330 --> 01:07:49,570
the moratorium and actually the Senator will be chairing the committee that's going to

852
01:07:49,570 --> 01:07:55,870
be working over the next year that we'll be developing the various decisions that

853
01:07:55,870 --> 01:08:02,370
the state will eventually make a politics of this nature and put it to law in the coming

854
01:08:02,370 --> 01:08:07,590
legislative period next spring. But he has shared with me that he's planning on bringing

855
01:08:07,590 --> 01:08:14,110
that committee to Ringgold. I encourage you, but no matter which side of the issue you're

856
01:08:14,110 --> 01:08:19,330
on, when you see that, watch for that, please come and share your views with that committee

857
01:08:19,330 --> 01:08:25,170
because that will have an impact not only in Ringgold but all across the state relating

858
01:08:25,170 --> 01:08:31,770
to these. He has expressed to me that it would come up sometime in the very near future. So

859
01:08:31,770 --> 01:08:36,350
it could be this month, it could be next, but watch your local newspaper, I'm sure they'll

860
01:08:36,350 --> 01:08:42,650
be announcing that when that comes to pass. So I encourage we also share our minutes with

861
01:08:42,650 --> 01:08:49,210
that body, with the state. I want to thank you once again for being here. As far as

862
01:08:49,210 --> 01:08:55,070
the mayor has covered most of our responsibilities, unfortunately our power has given to

863
01:08:55,070 --> 01:09:03,030
us by the state. We're limited to what we can do related to any facility of many different

864
01:09:03,030 --> 01:09:08,550
kinds, but especially in this area, the state has retained the power to make decisions relating

865
01:09:08,550 --> 01:09:15,350
to this. So we have to defer you and encourage you to talk with our friends at the Department

866
01:09:15,350 --> 01:09:22,010
of Public Health and share your concerns with them as well as the governor. We

867
01:09:22,010 --> 01:09:28,990
through overseas that ultimately you can share with either of those offices and I'm sure they

868
01:09:28,990 --> 01:09:33,930
would love to hear from you, no matter which side of the issue you're on. So thank you, Mr. Mayer.

869
01:09:34,610 --> 01:09:37,970
Thank you. Anyone else? Please, Jane.

870
01:09:38,410 --> 01:09:46,830
I'd like to say thank you all. This is an issue that once you start looking at it,

871
01:09:46,830 --> 01:09:52,450
I'm just taking a little bit of drugs on one of the worst things that's here in our company and it's just massive.

872
01:09:53,290 --> 01:09:55,870
Not even massive, the hold that it's got.

873
01:09:57,850 --> 01:10:02,010
I don't have a quick solution. I don't think you think that I have a quick solution.

874
01:10:04,090 --> 01:10:10,070
Well, this is our hometown. Joel mentioned how long you've been here. I think we've been here in Hawaii in our time.

875
01:10:10,750 --> 01:10:14,290
45, 46 years. Wouldn't want to move anywhere else.

876
01:10:16,090 --> 01:10:21,130
We've got things that we have to work with, the laws of the federal government, the state.

877
01:10:21,930 --> 01:10:24,530
These kind of things, that's unfair to see.

878
01:10:25,390 --> 01:10:31,270
On the other side, everybody here has their opinion, whether it's good, bad, or indifferent.

879
01:10:32,490 --> 01:10:33,950
And we're all involved in that opinion.

880
01:10:34,490 --> 01:10:35,290
We're in America.

881
01:10:35,710 --> 01:10:40,370
That's why we have to be able to see it and talk as openly as we have tonight.

882
01:10:41,230 --> 01:10:43,130
I do encourage all of them.

883
01:10:43,930 --> 01:10:51,390
Don't stop at our board level. Go to the state. Get your governor, get your senator. Get all of these people.

884
01:10:52,230 --> 01:10:57,670
And let them know how you feel. Because everyone's a city doctor, they're on the right path in this one.

885
01:10:58,410 --> 01:11:02,250
And hopefully when it comes out, it will be one that we can all get to them.

886
01:11:02,710 --> 01:11:07,130
That it will be one that just got them to us. I can't tell you who will or won't.

887
01:11:07,790 --> 01:11:13,250
But if they send the mandate up here and the vote comes up, you don't have to vote that

888
01:11:13,250 --> 01:11:13,470
way.

889
01:11:14,190 --> 01:11:20,030
So this is your time to get in here and try to change their opinions and give them your

890
01:11:20,030 --> 01:11:21,050
opinions about this.

891
01:11:22,430 --> 01:11:26,170
Drop that cornering slot and make the phone call and say, hey, this is what I want, or

892
01:11:26,170 --> 01:11:26,930
this is what I want.

893
01:11:27,570 --> 01:11:29,130
It looks like you all have your time.

894
01:11:31,570 --> 01:11:33,090
What do you want us to do, Tony?

895
01:11:34,430 --> 01:11:35,030
Please say.

896
01:11:35,030 --> 01:11:42,630
Again, I'd like to thank all of you for coming and I don't want to take up very much time

897
01:11:42,630 --> 01:11:53,430
because it's been said that the city really had no responsibility, no authority in this

898
01:11:53,430 --> 01:12:01,310
area, whether we like it or whether we don't, it was a state issue, it is a state permit.

899
01:12:01,310 --> 01:12:10,450
So, what I'm going to do is just encourage all of you again to come and follow the State

900
01:12:10,450 --> 01:12:10,930
Committee.

901
01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:19,810
Jeff Mullis, who is our Senator, will be actually chairing those meetings during this year when

902
01:12:19,810 --> 01:12:23,310
there will be no clinics opened in Georgia.

903
01:12:23,890 --> 01:12:30,190
And I am hopeful that what comes out of this is standards.

904
01:12:30,190 --> 01:12:37,150
standards that if you're if you're afraid of what comes in standards that we can

905
01:12:37,150 --> 01:12:45,270
then have power as a local community to enforce so again I encourage everybody

906
01:12:45,270 --> 01:12:54,190
to talk to their state representatives to go to those meetings held by Senator

907
01:12:54,190 --> 01:13:02,830
Demolus, hopefully one soon we'll be up here, voice your opinion, but act on that as well.

908
01:13:03,250 --> 01:13:12,930
Say what can we do if the answer is not going to be yes and no, if the answer is going to

909
01:13:12,930 --> 01:13:21,350
be higher standards to meet in order to allow a treatment facility to exist, then I hope

910
01:13:21,350 --> 01:13:29,330
you participate in that process, too, and what would be those standards to keep our children

911
01:13:29,330 --> 01:13:36,470
safe and at the same time allow treatment for drug addiction, right?

912
01:13:38,710 --> 01:13:45,310
Yes, what I would like to do is say thank you for the speaker. I think we heard a wealth

913
01:13:45,310 --> 01:13:52,370
of information from both sides, for and against. Like another side, born and raised here in

914
01:13:52,370 --> 01:13:54,350
when I'm concerned about quality of life.

915
01:13:55,070 --> 01:13:57,810
I think we had some real good issues that came forward

916
01:13:57,810 --> 01:14:01,590
and this file presented to CAD documents

917
01:14:01,590 --> 01:14:03,110
that shows the number of calls.

918
01:14:04,150 --> 01:14:06,390
I know from being the chief at Quilford,

919
01:14:06,770 --> 01:14:09,770
the concern that we had there,

920
01:14:10,170 --> 01:14:12,830
and it's been expressed is the number of cars

921
01:14:13,470 --> 01:14:15,650
that would come in in the wee hours of the morning

922
01:14:15,650 --> 01:14:17,190
and would stay there on the parking lot.

923
01:14:17,310 --> 01:14:19,370
We'd probably have to send those calls for service

924
01:14:19,370 --> 01:14:20,170
for the police department.

925
01:14:21,190 --> 01:14:31,010
So going forward, I share a lot of those concerns because of our community and what I would like to address specifically as I think going forward,

926
01:14:31,750 --> 01:14:43,930
if we see this treatment center open, because each one of us knows that it's the opiate addiction of what we're seeing from the mixing of methadone

927
01:14:43,930 --> 01:14:53,030
And I think one of our speakers briefly touched on the problems of mixing medication and methadone

928
01:14:53,030 --> 01:14:59,390
mixing with the adenzones, which is something that is commonly done, which causes a lot of the deaths.

929
01:15:02,660 --> 01:15:06,860
There are a lot of concerns in this area. There's a lot of good ordinance for and against.

930
01:15:07,060 --> 01:15:13,280
I hope, going forward, if this treatment center opens, that you will have a lot of safe courts

931
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:18,380
in place, that you will be very responsible. I would encourage you also to look into possibly

932
01:15:18,380 --> 01:15:23,320
having that all night security and that security in those wee hours of the morning is something

933
01:15:23,320 --> 01:15:28,280
I would recommend just to police that parking lot. I think that's a great idea. I would

934
01:15:28,280 --> 01:15:34,260
do that with law enforcement and not just private security. So addiction is a terrible

935
01:15:34,260 --> 01:15:38,600
problem in our country. We see it, but we talked about the medication from the

936
01:15:38,600 --> 01:15:42,180
doctors prescribed the medication over prescribed the medication that we've

937
01:15:42,180 --> 01:15:46,840
seen from hydrocodone, oxygen codone, and we can go on and on and on. So it's a

938
01:15:46,840 --> 01:15:50,520
problem that we have to figure out how going forward as Americans to

939
01:15:50,520 --> 01:15:54,660
effectively deal with that percentage of people that have a problem with

940
01:15:54,660 --> 01:15:59,900
addiction, whatever that addiction is. So thank you. Each one of you, it takes a lot of courage

941
01:15:59,900 --> 01:16:06,460
to come up to that microphone and speak. And I agree with Mr. Chandler that it scares me

942
01:16:06,460 --> 01:16:07,800
also. Thank you.

943
01:16:12,620 --> 01:16:16,480
At this time, I would like to take a five-minute intermission. I know some of you may or may

944
01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:18,240
not want to. Intermission?

945
01:16:18,780 --> 01:16:19,180
Recess.

946
01:16:19,780 --> 01:16:22,820
Recess. Recess. It's not a property word. They're recessed.

947
01:16:22,820 --> 01:16:23,500
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

948
01:16:23,500 --> 01:16:29,020
motion to recess can get second motion second on favor and you're welcome to

949
01:16:29,020 --> 01:16:31,580
state for the rest of our meeting if you'd like to go go we're just gonna

950
01:16:31,580 --> 01:16:33,720
take a moment to visit the restrooms

951
01:16:54,540 --> 01:16:55,740
That's what this is.

952
01:16:55,940 --> 01:16:57,220
Well, I'm not so sure.

953
01:16:57,520 --> 01:16:59,060
I'm just waiting for you here.

954
01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:01,620
Thank you.

955
01:17:02,100 --> 01:17:03,200
How do you...

956
01:17:03,200 --> 01:17:03,780
How do you...

957
01:17:03,780 --> 01:17:04,200
How do you...

958
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:04,320
How do you...

959
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:05,160
How do you...

960
01:17:05,160 --> 01:17:05,460
How do you...

961
01:17:05,460 --> 01:17:06,620
How do you...

962
01:17:06,620 --> 01:17:16,400
How do you...

963
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,500
How do you...

964
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:19,480
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

965
01:23:49,860 --> 01:23:57,640
I'm going to call on you all, we just want to thank you for joining us today.

966
01:23:57,640 --> 01:23:58,180
Thank you so much.

967
01:23:59,080 --> 01:23:59,340
Thank you.

968
01:23:59,620 --> 01:24:00,480
Thank you.

969
01:24:01,140 --> 01:24:02,040
Thank you.

970
01:24:02,180 --> 01:24:02,880
Thank you.

971
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:05,260
Thank you.

972
01:24:05,880 --> 01:24:06,800
Thank you.

973
01:24:06,980 --> 01:24:08,160
Thank you.

974
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:10,240
Thank you.

975
01:30:03,020 --> 01:30:03,900
I'll see you in a second.

976
01:30:11,920 --> 01:30:13,760
I'll take a look at that.

977
01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:19,020
Thank you.

978
01:30:19,020 --> 01:30:19,800
Thank you, everybody.

979
01:30:20,180 --> 01:30:20,640
Thank you.

980
01:30:20,660 --> 01:30:20,780
Thank you, everybody.

981
01:30:21,020 --> 01:30:24,760
Thank you.

982
01:30:28,980 --> 01:30:30,500
Thank you.

983
01:31:00,500 --> 01:31:02,660
Can I get a motion to call the meeting back to order, please?

984
01:31:02,880 --> 01:31:03,620
Sorry, wait.

985
01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:04,180
Do I need to wait?

986
01:31:05,620 --> 01:31:06,340
No, wait.

987
01:31:06,440 --> 01:31:06,800
Just a moment.

988
01:31:10,020 --> 01:31:10,740
Shall we move?

989
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:12,520
Second.

990
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:15,640
I have a motion to second to come back in session.

991
01:31:15,880 --> 01:31:16,300
All in favor?

992
01:31:18,140 --> 01:31:19,880
I take that as unanimous four.

993
01:31:24,760 --> 01:31:26,020
We are in public hearings.

994
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:30,360
Were we going to add the notice of the property tax into our public hearings?

995
01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:34,500
It's already advertised, it just didn't get on the discussion.

996
01:31:35,660 --> 01:31:37,500
Okay, so I'm just going to include those.

997
01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,700
I'll just take it as I'm being under public hearing.

998
01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:45,160
So item A, William H. Colbury is requesting a variance,

999
01:31:45,460 --> 01:31:50,380
and there were 1,500 square feet for a top one single family detached dwelling

1000
01:31:50,380 --> 01:31:53,940
in C1 zone to 850 plus minus square feet,

1001
01:31:54,100 --> 01:31:57,060
located at tax map R bug partial 4.

1002
01:31:57,060 --> 01:32:02,620
Is there anyone here that would like to speak on this public hearing?

1003
01:32:07,380 --> 01:32:10,200
Hearing no one, I'll close the public hearing for that item.

1004
01:32:13,380 --> 01:32:18,360
And then I'll open up for our notice of our property tax increase.

1005
01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:26,160
This is a tax increase that's about $6 on a $100,000 piece of property for the year.

1006
01:32:29,100 --> 01:32:32,640
We have our notes here on 125,000. It would be $7.60.

1007
01:32:36,310 --> 01:32:40,090
So if anyone would like to speak on that, I'll leave the floor open for that.

1008
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:50,720
And so I'll close the public hearing on that.

1009
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:55,380
Okay, so we moved a couple of things.

1010
01:32:56,860 --> 01:32:58,100
I'm on the new business.

1011
01:32:58,660 --> 01:33:00,540
Oh, okay. So we need to, that's right.

1012
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:01,620
I'm developing a public hearing.

1013
01:33:02,360 --> 01:33:05,620
So out of my own public hearing, how will the council like to proceed?

1014
01:33:05,620 --> 01:33:06,760
Mr.

1015
01:33:09,330 --> 01:33:19,710
Mayor, I'll move that we allow this variance that Mr. Copper is required and as stated in

1016
01:33:19,710 --> 01:33:25,050
the planning and zoning that this variance, and I think that's our norm, the variance does

1017
01:33:25,050 --> 01:33:31,910
not continue should the property owner change, if my memory serves me correctly, so that

1018
01:33:31,910 --> 01:33:33,090
should be the case here.

1019
01:33:34,090 --> 01:33:39,510
a motion in a second to approve all in favor. You now have a score.

1020
01:33:40,310 --> 01:33:44,510
But you did add that with the perception that it's planning the zoning path.

1021
01:33:45,370 --> 01:33:50,030
I think that's normal in our case. It's in our planning the zoning phase.

1022
01:33:52,010 --> 01:33:54,310
If the property owner changes.

1023
01:33:55,170 --> 01:34:00,270
The variance doesn't continue. It dies with the change of property owner.

1024
01:34:00,270 --> 01:34:03,910
I was believing that, but I noticed they put it down the plate of his own.

1025
01:34:04,010 --> 01:34:07,110
So either way, it's a new

1026
01:34:10,860 --> 01:34:11,260
business.

1027
01:34:11,680 --> 01:34:12,000
I don't know.

1028
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:14,200
Integral agreement.

1029
01:34:15,460 --> 01:34:19,620
I don't think we have to find a separate rate.

1030
01:34:19,920 --> 01:34:20,960
Yes, this is the third.

1031
01:34:21,220 --> 01:34:21,880
That's okay.

1032
01:34:22,480 --> 01:34:26,620
So notice the property tax increase motion to approve.

1033
01:34:27,140 --> 01:34:30,940
You see we're at 3.15 mils.

1034
01:34:30,940 --> 01:34:32,360
Can I, can I get a motion to that effect?

1035
01:34:33,880 --> 01:34:34,420
So, Moody.

1036
01:34:35,340 --> 01:34:36,640
A motion, do I have a second?

1037
01:34:38,420 --> 01:34:38,940
So, okay.

1038
01:34:39,760 --> 01:34:40,780
We've got a motion and a second.

1039
01:34:40,920 --> 01:34:41,300
All in favor?

1040
01:34:42,720 --> 01:34:43,560
You know what it's for?

1041
01:34:50,010 --> 01:34:51,970
We really want to go to your business side of mind now.

1042
01:34:54,150 --> 01:34:55,370
But, Intergovernment will agree that

1043
01:34:55,370 --> 01:34:58,350
between Cattice Utility District and the city

1044
01:34:58,350 --> 01:35:00,590
for relocation of Waterline on Chapman Road

1045
01:35:01,070 --> 01:35:02,990
and for the Highway 41 project, yeah?

1046
01:35:03,390 --> 01:35:05,030
Yes, there is, of course, Phil.

1047
01:35:05,030 --> 01:35:10,370
here if you have any real big questions we'd like to answer. Mainly what we're

1048
01:35:10,370 --> 01:35:16,630
doing here is we're adding relocation of a water line that's in conflict with our

1049
01:35:16,630 --> 01:35:21,290
new structure that we plan to put on Chapman Road to help with the flooding

1050
01:35:21,290 --> 01:35:26,830
issues or the white flooding issues into our contract and it'll be get out

1051
01:35:26,830 --> 01:35:34,630
as a separate item so that we'll be able to track what that cost and then

1052
01:35:34,630 --> 01:35:36,690
to only have one contractor on the job

1053
01:35:37,180 --> 01:35:38,410
rather than multiple contractors.

1054
01:35:41,070 --> 01:35:43,490
How do we move the improvement on improvement?

1055
01:35:43,850 --> 01:35:44,610
Emotion to approve.

1056
01:35:44,810 --> 01:35:45,310
Can I get a second?

1057
01:35:46,070 --> 01:35:46,350
Sorry.

1058
01:35:46,930 --> 01:35:47,690
Emotion to second.

1059
01:35:47,830 --> 01:35:49,970
Alan Baker, T9 School.

1060
01:35:56,380 --> 01:35:58,560
Highway 41, Chattanooga Improvement Project

1061
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:00,340
Amendment for Professional Services,

1062
01:36:00,540 --> 01:36:02,480
provided by CTI, Dan.

1063
01:36:02,860 --> 01:36:06,440
Yes, originally we only approved a contract

1064
01:36:06,440 --> 01:36:09,420
for the design and now we're to the point

1065
01:36:09,420 --> 01:36:16,640
where Phillip is ready to put that to bed, and this would be not only to cover doing our defense facts

1066
01:36:16,640 --> 01:36:22,580
and do the bed and the board's assistance, but also for the construction management

1067
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:29,660
or administration of the project. And that's where if that a contractor has problems,

1068
01:36:29,860 --> 01:36:34,740
then you will be able to call Phillip, Phillip or his staff will be able to do inspections to

1069
01:36:34,740 --> 01:36:38,360
make sure that we get what we have been after.

1070
01:36:38,420 --> 01:36:41,720
This is especially important since this is the DOP project.

1071
01:36:43,140 --> 01:36:45,480
And so you're just, in order to move forward,

1072
01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:47,120
you're needing a motion that would

1073
01:36:47,120 --> 01:36:50,540
say that we're going to amend our budget.

1074
01:36:50,720 --> 01:36:54,740
Operate as a lawyer to face the Q and A number one.

1075
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:57,240
We're making a motion.

1076
01:36:57,480 --> 01:36:58,020
Thank you, Randall.

1077
01:36:58,260 --> 01:36:58,440
Second.

1078
01:36:59,500 --> 01:36:59,920
Second.

1079
01:37:00,560 --> 01:37:01,420
Motion to second.

1080
01:37:01,700 --> 01:37:02,080
All in favor?

1081
01:37:02,960 --> 01:37:03,620
None on this one.

1082
01:37:03,620 --> 01:37:04,700
outside

1083
01:37:08,950 --> 01:37:11,330
City Limit, waterway adjustment proposal?

1084
01:37:12,590 --> 01:37:24,350
Yes sir, we had an old timing rate structure then back in the, I think it was in the 70s when the cities had to provide water service outside the City Limit.

1085
01:37:24,350 --> 01:37:31,330
primarily up on therapy drives going north, there was a differential of just maybe a few

1086
01:37:31,330 --> 01:37:38,450
dollars and then over the last 30 or 40 years when the city would take a 5%, 10%, or 15%

1087
01:37:38,450 --> 01:37:47,830
rate increase, that differential grew from $14.03, the inside minimum rate to $31.48.

1088
01:37:49,250 --> 01:37:55,270
What we'd like to say or what we would recommend to the council is use the same differential

1089
01:37:55,270 --> 01:38:02,270
that the Board of County Commissioners has authorized on sewer, which is 130%, and that

1090
01:38:02,270 --> 01:38:11,270
would reduce that $31.48 down to $18.24, and then the additional usage would still be built

1091
01:38:11,270 --> 01:38:12,190
if we need one.

1092
01:38:14,200 --> 01:38:15,720
Can I get a motion to?

1093
01:38:16,140 --> 01:38:19,260
No back motion to the security duration for the raid?

1094
01:38:19,540 --> 01:38:20,740
Sir, motion is second.

1095
01:38:20,860 --> 01:38:21,120
All in favor?

1096
01:38:22,500 --> 01:38:23,360
To none, it's four.

1097
01:38:26,330 --> 01:38:29,410
A change order, recommendation for Paulster Hills

1098
01:38:29,410 --> 01:38:31,310
and Woodstraw's sanitary sewer, Dan?

1099
01:38:31,730 --> 01:38:32,190
Yes, Mayor.

1100
01:38:32,430 --> 01:38:34,050
This is only a recommendation.

1101
01:38:34,470 --> 01:38:36,610
This is actually a Catoosa County project

1102
01:38:37,390 --> 01:38:41,590
that will be ours once it is completely finished

1103
01:38:41,590 --> 01:38:43,170
and inspected and accepted.

1104
01:38:44,470 --> 01:38:49,050
However, it has been customary that the Board of County Commissioners, since it is quote,

1105
01:38:50,010 --> 01:38:56,910
see the funds with the squash they like for us to make a recommendation to accept the change order.

1106
01:38:57,450 --> 01:39:01,910
This is pretty much, we hope to be a final change order as well.

1107
01:39:01,910 --> 01:39:22,210
and it's a $231,227.61 change order bringing the total to $1,637.01, $1,637,271.51, and it will also increase the counter day by 123 days.

1108
01:39:22,210 --> 01:39:28,570
This was recommended by our sewer director, Mark Vaughn, and he's also been working with

1109
01:39:28,570 --> 01:39:32,390
the contractor along with Crystal Thomas, the party to know the story.

1110
01:39:34,940 --> 01:39:36,000
Have you approved this plan?

1111
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:37,700
I have a motion to approve the change plan.

1112
01:39:38,500 --> 01:39:39,080
Can I?

1113
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:42,880
Well, let me get a second, and if there's a second, we'll discuss it.

1114
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:44,220
Or did you want to change it?

1115
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:45,940
We have an issue with your original motion.

1116
01:39:46,100 --> 01:39:46,200
Yeah.

1117
01:39:46,420 --> 01:39:46,700
Please.

1118
01:39:47,380 --> 01:39:49,460
Would you please add to your motion.

1119
01:39:49,460 --> 01:40:03,120
And you move to approve, how do I say this, based on producer counties signing off of this.

1120
01:40:03,700 --> 01:40:09,940
In other words, we're approving this before the county commission has approved for this.

1121
01:40:10,300 --> 01:40:16,760
Yes, I'm moving to approve, okay, move to approve our recommendation that they follow through with this.

1122
01:40:18,240 --> 01:40:27,480
As long as we only do this, as long as family agree, if they agree.

1123
01:40:28,080 --> 01:40:28,900
Okay, go ahead.

1124
01:40:28,900 --> 01:40:30,700
You seem like we're going in front of them.

1125
01:40:30,980 --> 01:40:31,460
But, okay.

1126
01:40:31,820 --> 01:40:32,940
Do you have a motion there?

1127
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:33,940
I have.

1128
01:40:34,260 --> 01:40:35,600
I'm sorry for the recommendation.

1129
01:40:36,060 --> 01:40:37,060
Okay, let me, I'm sorry.

1130
01:40:37,160 --> 01:40:37,760
Let me just be sure.

1131
01:40:37,880 --> 01:40:43,100
This is a motion to send a recommendation.

1132
01:40:44,180 --> 01:40:44,540
Correct.

1133
01:40:44,540 --> 01:40:54,480
It's just a recommendation, because if you look at the owner name, it's Catoose County and the contractor is Mace Construction, so we can only recommend it to the board.

1134
01:40:54,880 --> 01:41:00,300
Okay, a motion is taken to send this recommendation to the county, on a paper. On a paper.

1135
01:41:00,940 --> 01:41:02,640
On a board

1136
01:41:05,940 --> 01:41:08,880
board treatment plan, chemical feeding and storage improvements contract.

1137
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:16,900
Yes sir, we have a representative here from Taines, Allegra. Mr. Gray Johnson in the back, I think he was the author of Reduction.

1138
01:41:18,400 --> 01:41:20,160
Is that how I want you to say it?

1139
01:41:23,560 --> 01:41:29,360
And you know, we graduated from high school together, so I think we should make him come to the podium.

1140
01:41:33,820 --> 01:41:41,200
All seriousness, or being serious about this, we did go out to rebad and was able to lower

1141
01:41:41,200 --> 01:41:49,040
the total price of almost $40,000 and get some additional services because teams came to play

1142
01:41:49,040 --> 01:41:51,540
with any local contractor we're proud that they did.

1143
01:41:52,240 --> 01:41:54,740
They've done members jobs over the years.

1144
01:41:55,380 --> 01:42:03,540
Not particularly this kind of work, but for those of you that are not aware, they do a lot of work for B.K.B. and that's real testing.

1145
01:42:03,820 --> 01:42:06,520
So they have all the skills in the world.

1146
01:42:07,280 --> 01:42:16,860
We make them build our engineer and carry high power, and all of it seems like they've lost some excellent funds to the table.

1147
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:20,360
And I think we'll wind up with a good project.

1148
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:27,080
We really need to move forward, so we've got that $86,000 worth of debt forgiveness that's on the hook.

1149
01:42:27,720 --> 01:42:36,040
Now we've got a firm promise we will go back and see if we might be able to get another couple of dollars since the budget price moves up a little bit.

1150
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:43,860
I move we award the Water Treatment Plan Chemical Healing and Storage Improvement to contracts

1151
01:42:43,860 --> 01:42:50,540
to team members, teams of, can I get a second?

1152
01:42:50,820 --> 01:42:51,260
Thank you.

1153
01:42:51,600 --> 01:42:53,660
I have a motion and a second.

1154
01:42:53,900 --> 01:42:54,420
All in favor.

1155
01:42:55,440 --> 01:42:55,960
You know what I'm just for?

1156
01:42:56,580 --> 01:42:58,320
Do we have anything for executive session?

1157
01:43:02,700 --> 01:43:03,920
Mr. Mayer, all in favor.

1158
01:43:04,200 --> 01:43:04,600
We adjourn.

1159
01:43:04,760 --> 01:43:05,480
Motion to adjourn.

1160
01:43:05,580 --> 01:43:05,760
Second.

1161
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:06,940
All in favor.