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uh it's recording I'm not promising that
it's live okay the is

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on okay it's 601 we'll call this bar
meeting

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order and roll call everybody's here
Jeremy Heath Tim Sean and Carol yeah

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that's great
so uh I didn't agree to have anybody

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comment we'll go first okay um last
meeting we had a lot of discussion about

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um Investments of the the money off the
sale of the

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farm we have how many ACR is it total
two it's it's like 197.4

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close to 200 some of them been calling
it two and it's okay let's call it two

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let's
say we get this money from the sale of a

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farm and uh we're going to invest it
what kind of investment numbers are we

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talking over the last let's say a couple
years what's like what's a what's a

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common number right now do you know
anybody C easier make than 6 and a half%

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I think okay they are yeah I'd like to
see one six month

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ones I've seen are like
5.4 and that might be un likee we were

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discussing at church I think and they
were six and a half or seven six seven

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months 54 I was just that all the banks
up here yesterday 5.4 okay so let's say

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it's an even 5% for fairness um I mean
yeah I guess that sounds like a good

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number compared to the 01 we were
getting a few years ago I mean there was

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nothing and of course savings doesn't
draw nothing um but when you look into

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the way that our monies are being
invested I just happen to have a whole

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stack of
statements so we've got a

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1.1 0 1 1.0

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1.12 um and these are two different
banks 0. five. five let me just put in

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the middle here
1.01 another 1.01 here's a 1.12 again

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1.01
1% um lots of

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ones5 1.26 there's a biggy so we've got
millions of dollars and I think it would

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be fair to say that byy and far based on
those just you know going through there

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you can look through them if you want
but they're mine um the we're talking

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about
1% okay we're not talking about 15%

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when you pull a crop off that farm and
you put it in the bank and you can

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invest in it let's say 5% put in C for
5% um every year you know you can add to

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your dollar amount make more money but
the current state of our investment

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policies is not to make money apparently
because all of our accounts could go

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through the Illinois first program I
think the last I knew was 5 25 something

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like that so we're already missing out
on 4% there so if you take the 4% let's

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say just let's say an average of 4%
on I don't know how many millions in the

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budget right now I I can't tell it's
Millions it's more than more than enough

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to pay our bills a couple years over um
and then we've got tax money coming in

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that's a lot of money when you miss 4%
on that kind of dollars you know if you

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got 50,000 you miss 4% not a big amount
but you start putting a million behind

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it you got a lot of money so you take
that you take um

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you know everybody's talking about
liability I don't know how the rest of

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y'all I think some of you guys know
about cash rent and know about what kind

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of liability there is if you own a piece
of ground Jeremy you should know I know

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he knows um there is no liability there
no it's 200 Acres times whatever the bid

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was and you put the money in the bank
it's done there's no liability if

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everything dries up and goes to crap
that's just the risk the farmer takes

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it's not the risk on the count count is
risk of a farmer so that liability issue

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is gone with cash R and that's what I
advocate for because we all can't seem

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to get along to negotiate anything else
we kind of we've kind of made our local

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vendors angry because we don't want to
pay our bills that's our fault we have

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to correct that but when you start
talking about this man account this

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isn't all of them and that kind of
dollar amount and then our Treasurer

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said over here a couple meetings ago and
said um well but we don't really need

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40,000 I got news this is a community
what 25 26,000 people you take that

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40,000 all the interest lost on this all
that interest adds up and I doubt very

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much that anytime soon any of you or
anyone on the board that has Farm ground

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or has Stander at Farm ground a lot of
us have Farm ground in our family I

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doubt anyone of you is going to put a
sales sign in the front of your field

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so uh this notion of it not being you
know not having a public purpose and all

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that
nonsense I haven't seen anybody with

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actual the actual sorry but the actual
balls to go to the state and say look

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here's the deal I want to sit down with
somebody I want to R this get this done

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once and for all what you know is has
there been a determination that it's

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unlawful there hasn't and the next thing
we could do is if we're concerned about

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that being an issue I mean we've had a
rescue squad issu solved recently um

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using our legisl later so why not
propose an amendment that you know it's

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been determined that the purpose of the
um income off the farm is to supplement

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the the running of our government and
then we're done but nobody wants to do

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that they want to sit and tear little
piece of paper in a strips and say why

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they want to sell it um I've had
constituents I'm not currently a board

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member but I will be I've had more than
I can count call me and say what is the

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end
game this has been going on since 21

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this is just a fleeting thought and my
way of thinking if you're here to sell

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our farm you probably need to you
probably need to resign because people

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are not going to put up with it and that
goes for all y'all I'm not looking at

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Carol because I know where her heart is
I think I know what Tim feels about it

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and Heath and I have talked about it
jeremi have had words Sean I'm sorry I

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don't know you very well you you come to
meetings we appreciate you being here I

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hope you listen to each of us and ask us
if you have questions but when it comes

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right down to it if you're on our Farm
committee you don't want to see our farm

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tended to as it has been you need to
find a different committing or quit

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because these people out here is a
pretty good representation of what your

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constituents expect and my constituents
are HED and these are people that farm

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and they know what the risks are they do
it every year they do it every season

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they take a risk every time but you know
what they keep doing it and there's

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going to be years they're not going to
make a lot of money and then there's

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going to be years they do but the
easiest way to get through this is to

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start farming our ground put our money
in the bank and when the state's

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attorney or when the U attorney general
if there would be a time that they would

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come at us and say Here's your letter
it's not

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constitutional The Next Step handle that
the way the law works is you go to your

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legislator and you ask for how do we
make it constitutional solve the problem

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we all somehow lose our our problem
solving abilities I think we need to

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start thinking about how we solve
problems we don't quit give up and sell

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what the hell would our world be if we
just quit every time said well somebody

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told me I couldn't so I couldn't I mean
you know it's it's time that we really

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think about realistically what your
constituents want and I know what mine

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want they want they want this nonsense
to be over I mean what are they going to

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do there's been all these threats about
what they would do here and there and

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know they they file charges against us
what they going to do send it to Vietnam

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you're County Board member you're
supposed to do with the r rules that you

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see your your job is not to determine if
it's constitutional that is their job

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and if you need help with that there's
numbers you can call there's people you

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can sit down with and I'm sure that
there would be a couple people even that

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are non- board members that would go
with you to ask some questions that

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would be
important so I think we need to try a

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little bit harder to find a solution
because boy if you give up in life that

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easy that's that's really a
problem any other public body comment

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as Farm chair are you able to put on the
agenda to resend the sale of the County

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Farm for the next board
meeting I don't know I don't know the

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answer to that
question and my question is is anybody

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that voted to sell the farm would you
consider resending the sale Mr

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Marks I'd like I wanted to table it so I
could get some M from my new State's

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Attorney and do some more research and
it didn't go twice so well it's already

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recent I mean it's already been voted to
sell so it would need to be enable to do

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that we would need to resend the vote so
would you be a willing to vote to resend

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the sale of the farm if that was on the
agenda I cannot com I cannot commit to

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that at this time but you you you're
saying that you want better legal advice

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or different legal advice our new States
Attorney advice I wanted to postpone so

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the new State's Attorney could provide
her legal advice I always like to have

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as much legal advice as you can get I I
understand thank you for your for your

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maybe I can find out I don't I don't
know the rules on that

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sorry but I mean I my uh so my my
purpose of asking that question is I

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remember a meeting oh I believe it was a
couple years ago maybe three uh where

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decision was made on EMA and then I
believe you were sended the vote uh I

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can't quite remember what that was over
but I think it had something to

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do with
um Ambulance Service of some sort and I

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believe a boat was resented anybody
remember that I do I remember yep so

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that is a possibility and I think Carol
as Farm chair you could put that on the

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agenda and I'd like to see it there and
so like Christine said the people that

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live in her districts which is the same
district as Mr Williams don't want to

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see our farm
sold and I would I would like to see

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Bruce send the sale of the farm on the
next agenda you have a new State's

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Attorney and you would have time to get
legal advice on what her opinion is if

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it's
constitutional uh and and her view on

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public
purpose and so if you could get I I'm

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requesting and I know she's busy because
she just came into off came into office

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but I would hope
that maybe she could give a few words on

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what her position is on
Farming and then put that back on the

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well put it back on the agenda and see
what the advice is and then let's see

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what happens because I think it's
important

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uh to to let the people have a an
opportunity to think about the decision

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they made I think some people went home
after they made the decision were not

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really comfortable with it when they
found out the consti is were not uh

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happy so just something to consider okay
thank you I'll find

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out any other public body

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comment I feel like Christine does it
should be um

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farmed um once it's
sold there will never be any other

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income off of that land it'll be gone so
I just think it should be

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fed any other public body comments I
have a

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question I recently received my tax bill
you did it

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yes interesting I'm wanted a but anyway
it's gone up

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$400 is my tax bill gone up because
there's no money coming in off this Farm

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why is my tax bill going up that much I
have a townhouse I don't have a farm I

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don't even have a freestanding
house that my tax bill went up

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$400 that would be a question for Debbie
dway in the assessor's office did you

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see where I'm coming from her tax bill
tells her where it went

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up the multiplier or it's usually this
it's usually the school stuff driving it

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up or this that kind of thing but the
state mandates

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yeah the state mandates that and the
multiplier is that what you're I think

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that's is that right

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anybody
we as a county we voted on that 20 years

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ago didn't we to go to be yeah and
that's we don't have control over

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that so the budget you have for next
year has nothing to do with our tax

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we don't have a budget for next year
yet I thought it was already agreed on

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not not 2025 we don't do that till July
I believe every Department then gives

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their budget
to um what's his

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name BR budget committee will begin
putting next year's budget together

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there's a long there's a guy that does
it with us that calls us and tells us

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bther yeah bellweather yeah Bruce Bruce
bellweather he goes

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over um the budget with all the
committee people like they called me

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last year about the farm budget you know
how how I wanted what I wanted in it and

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just decided to have it the same as it
was the year before it was kind of easy

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for me but you know other departments
have a lot bigger budgets um Carol but

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bellweather yeah Teresa the last time I
talked to bellweather he hadn't gotten

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the letter from a return letter from the
county requesting his services does

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anybody know if they've even contacted
him about

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helping last time I talked to him he
hadn't been contacted but the 25 budget

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will be worked on in July I believe and
then the new year starts December 1st so

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what we're working on now goes through
November 30th the 2024 budget use the

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mic sorry
people around here saying they can't

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hear did you all hear me did that answer
your question somewhat okay but I would

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suggest you talk to Debbie dway and the
assessor's office and I think they can

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explain
it or the board of

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review they're back in session okay and
I think they're there on Wednesday

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Thursday Friday they're not here every
day they're not here every day Wednesday

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Thursday Friday certain days only till
noon and they're the I believe they're

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the ones I expected it to go up some
what nothing STS to say in this economy

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but well a few months back we all got
like a projected tax thing and I think

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everybody's went up and it was because
of that multiplier and something else

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I'm
sorry I'm not a tax person

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so any other public m

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there is so we'll go to number four I
know if you all have an agenda or not so

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number four is to discuss and V to send
to the full Lord two foxes offered to

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plant beings again um the county will
have to P for the chemicals amounting to

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about 23
468 and the insurance is $83 actually

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the insurance is in with I sent you all
that projection that he sent me the

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chemicals and the brought Insurance
together he came up with $

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22,4
70 did you all get

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that um he has the SE beans
donated we had noxious weeds at the farm

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if we um
if we plant beans it will take care of

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the noxious weeds we won't be in trouble
with the health department he has also

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offered to mow the waterways the road
the

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cemetery the lane at no cost to the
county which is quite a saving I mean

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this is this is huge I think what he is
offering just because

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he loves to farm and doesn't want to see
doesn't want to see the farm

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so I'm going to make a motion that we
send this offer to the full

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board do I have a
second I'll

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second can I make a comment second just
a second we'll

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talk sorry I have to write all this down
that's all right tra

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now now we comment discussion thank you
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um but do we not need that
resolution to go to the board first to

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farm the farm and then this could go we
aren't hiring a farmer okay all right he

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isn't this isn't a private farmer that
is making a profit from this this is

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what I understand not making a
profit he is donating his

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time and his
resources and what we're paying for are

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basically the
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inputs so my question is this if the if
he plants this crop and the farm gets

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sold he gets he gets the the harvest
okay we would have to make

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a something in there that he plans it he
would get the Harvest from that well he

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would get it because he would sell it
and give it to the

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county okay okay just like he did last
time we got

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$174 for left two years ago when he did
this so he would Harvest

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it have a check made out to the county
so the county is not losing anything I I

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was more worried about him being
offended or upset because of something

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in there so
what what you mean well if if you know

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if he planted the crop and was taken
care of it and then it sold and then oh

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and that person got the got the crop or
whatever you know he had donated his

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time and and equipment and then but with
you I think we put that in his provision

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that he gets that the county gets the
proceeds

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from yes so this is a this is a type of
custom farm uh arangement

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then I guess last time gave us a dollar
it was a

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dollar um has has this has this been bit

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out doesn't have to be bit out he's
doing it for free do you know somebody

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else is going to do it
for no what I what I what I do what I do

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understand is that it needs to be bit
out the law says it needs to be bit out

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it wasn't last time it wasn't last
that doesn't make last time right it

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still needs to be bit
out think so not I mean he he's offering

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he could go out there right now and pl
those be he's offering to do this for

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free it's a donation no money it's a Don
but I believe the law requires it to be

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bit out can you show me that law I don't
have the statute right in front of me I

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just it just occurred to me I believe
just you might you might want to ask

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before we take anything to the board or
anything here I might want to ask the

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state attorney about that statute there

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too why wouldn't you be that it's a it's
a free

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donation it is it's a donation it's a
free donation he is saving do you know

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how much many he's saving us by
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mowing it's $500 every time K Compton
moves out there and he mowed

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twice the cemetery looks like H I'll
call Bru and ask

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her theary needs to be Tak care of we
have two Civil War veterans that are

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buried out there that we're just we
don't pay any attention to these people

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these 75 people that we know of that are
buried there there at least 100 that are

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buried
than we're showing no respect whatsoever

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by letting that Cemetery but I was there
the other day and and the weeds are past

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my
knees I can't even find Melinda fluky

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Stone and I have a metal flag in there
to show her her spone is and I can't

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find it to me that's so
disrespectful Sue has offered to mow

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that Cemetery as many times as needed
right now he could probably bail hay up

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there it's so it's so tall so um and you
can't drive down Lane because the weeds

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are taller than your knees it's you
can't go down get a

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car so I I I I believe this may still
need to be bit out um but one I think

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she I think Miss mlock stepped out to
call the state's attorney and that's

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that's fine but I want to um I want to
in encourage us to get uh to get

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something in in writing and not taken
off the cuff opinion that hasn't that we

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know of been thoroughly
researched um so you know taking an

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offthe cup opinion winds up getting me
in trouble sometimes

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because I I think if an opinion what's
that what are you talking about an

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opinion a written legal opinion on
whether or not it needs to be bit out uh

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so because if it does and we don't then
then that's that's a violation of the

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law canot be done and still added on
next week's agenda Carol is it time for

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you to do that actually next week is
about the last week we can probably plan

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meetings and he knows that and you know
that this is this is a stall IDE you not

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want to farm you're a correct I do not
want step off the F because we would

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rather spend 10 $220,000

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you we would rather spend 10 to $20,000
to burn the

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weeds and and to disc we have to get rid
of the weeds yes we are going to get

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fine if we do not get rid of the weeds
so we're going to spend money and get

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nothing in
return or we're going to spend money and

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and be guaranteed about
$100,000 with insurance we are

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guaranteed $100,000
the other the other concern that I had

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was um the county will pay for chemicals
and and insurance so those those are

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part of the inputs which are part of the
investments in in operating a farm and

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um any any any farmer will tell you
there is some risk associated with

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farming and any any investment into the
input would be an

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investment into a
risk we have have no risk because if we

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buy insurance we're
guaranteed in insurance insurance does

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not mean you're not taking a risk
Insurance everything's a risk Insurance

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actually acknowledges and admits that we
are taking a risk and that risk would be

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taken with taxpayer money there is there
is no permission

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$74,000 there is no permission anywhere
in statute that I'm aware of to invest

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taxpayer money in anything that bears
any risk so you want to so you want to

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$20,000 to kill the weeds and that's
taxpayer that you don't

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care it's that means nothing that would
be that would be maintaining our

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property which we have statutory
authority to do and it's not a

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risk it's was money how do the how do
the rest of you guys see this that are

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sitting there quiet what do you guys
think on this the uh the only kinds of

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things that the public funds investment
act permits investment in are things

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like interest bearing accounts things
that bear no risk to the principal oh

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there's risk in Shelby County there's a
lot of risk like 4% worth the risk there

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so 4% minimum it's things like bonds and
I've got it pulled up right here it's

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it's bonds it's going to be savings
accounts it's going to be CDs things

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that bear no risk to the principal but
taking out insurance yes is a risk

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mitigation
tool but it acknowledges and admits that

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we still take the
risk it it it is it is proof that we are

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taking a risk with taxpayer money and
this is your legal

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opinion no

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actually yeah I

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am I feel like it's a mistake to sell
the farm

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however at the last board meeting there
was a vote

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taken and the majority voted to sell the
farm I don't agree with it I think it's

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a
mistake but that's what the vote was 12

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to9 I believe 12 to
S okay there were 19 people there

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okay
I but that doesn't mean we can't have a

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crop this year before it
sells we don't know when it's going to

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sell it could be next winter

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I mean right it hasn't been appraised it
hasn't been surveyed you make a good

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point I I feel like the vote was taken
to sell

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it you voted the for we did without
legal

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opinion I'm sorry I voted yeah yeah I
voted yes yes I did yeah but we lost we

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lost
so do you feel like we shouldn't grow a

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crop while it's while we have all the
weeds out

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there get as much as we can and then
when it setts it

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yeah what would it hurt to have Ruth
come and discuss the options and the

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legalities of it I don't know if you I
don't know if that matters Crystal we

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well not we but the board the board
voted to sell the farm but without a but

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without a current legal
opinion do you think that's going to

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change the vote I think it could Sean
expressed concern that he'd like to

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speak with Ruth about it and I he didn't
really elaborate on how he tried to do

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it twice and it didn't happen but I
would think Ruth would be approachable

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for him to discuss it with her and to
get some answers because I think

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everybody needs some answers because
Jeremy's legal opinion is not a legal

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opinion it's his opinion he's not each
of you should be Ruth on your own but it

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would be prudent I think for everyone to
step and say well we got to stop this in

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his tracks this is a very Bal issue we
need Ruth to come in and sit down and

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let us answer some
questions what we have on the agenda

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right now is about St it isn't about
selling the

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farm can I say some I am on the board
sure why is it such a hard thing to

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think that you could have stew farming
you can get some Revenue off of it and

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even if you sell it that money goes into
into the general fund to help pay bills

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how hard is that for people to
understand I don't if any one of you had

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that option with your own personal
finances you would walk away from

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it yes you would no I wouldn't oh God
then why are you doing that with our

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farm
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not Mr chairman if I if I
may it is not the role of the government

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to be a proactive player in the private
sector it is not the role of government

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to compete
economically with its own

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constituents legal

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opinion it is if it were private ground
as was just just said then a private

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citizen would not have this problem they
could do any of the above options that

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we've discussed and probably a lot that
we haven't but I I am going to make the

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motion to table until we can do exactly
what has been suggested and that is get

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a written legal opinion from the state's
attorney on on specifically

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addressing uh whether or not we can
invest taxpayer funds in in in a in a

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risk and whether or not the uh whether
or not it needs to be bid out if I could

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get a second take a vote there's already
a motion on the table

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sorry I think Jeremy talked to Mr
Handlin more than anybody sitting up

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there and he I know that they've had
conversations about

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it okay Jeremy has made a motion to
table is there a second

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so we just so let me State your motion
again I I made the motion to T until we

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get a written legal opinion from the
state's attorney on whether or not we

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can invest and knowing if you too
late money into into a risk investment

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no risk and on on whether or not it
needed to be

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out there was no second
table it don't go on the meeting next

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week too late can you table it and have
have call meeting next week before the

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board
meeting why is he so generous to do this

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because he's a farmer he's always been a
farmer he's like a third generation

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farmer May before he hates to see the
ground and girl in Weeds he did this for

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two years
ago the county ended up with

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$174,000 which more than paid for uh the
St the assistant States Attorney

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severance package and other person um
$12,500 that nobody knows

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um who and it's not taxpayer money that
is revenue from the crop it is not

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taxpayer money and I know Jeremy likes
to say once you put that money into the

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general fund it's taxpayer money but it
is not we sold that crop it went into

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the F and it goes out and pays for all
sorts of stuff it is public funds it is

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public funds it is public funds it is
not taxpayer money those those tax it is

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not taxes on your tax form that paid for
any that that is free money from the

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sale of that crop but those two terms
are

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interchangeable but it's not taxpayer
money like you said okay so it's public

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so it's public funds it's still public
funds but it is not taxpayer money so

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taxpayers if you look on your tax bill
it did not say that this money went to

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the farm it just went into the general
fund and it paid for the State's

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Attorney's Office it paid for a de
gunway or anybody it it was a huge

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amount of money who was
donating

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somebody I don't know who it is but if
you want me to

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call up
any more discussion on I'm kind of

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leaning toward let's go ahead and plant
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yes

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sense the public purpose of doing so is
what the public purpose of the use of

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the land when planting beans is what she
just told is to pay

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for um County expenses and to relieve
the burden of the taxpayers

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so so so making money then we're going
to call making money a public purpose

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that's that's what you're saying we're
going to go into private business when

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when the Supreme Court has already ruled
that counties are not are not authorized

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to go into private business the Illinois
Supreme Court has held that the statutes

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are presumed to be constitutional and
the Supreme Court has held that the

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legisl decides what a public
purposes so in uh dun versus the county

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of Rock Island and versus Johnson when
the Supreme Court ruled that counties

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are not authorized to enter into private
business we're going to compete with our

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own constituents our local
farmers with

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anybody with you absolutely we
are the new Farm Bill recognizes the

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farming as serving a public purpose in
that the revenue is used to pay County

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expenses and it relieves a burden on the
tax taxers ex ex there you GOP didn't

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they didn't they didn't they remove that
wasn't that in this first the first

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amendment in the Senate CU they had in
there funding the operations of the

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government like was said earlier and the
Senate removed that

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language they removed that before they
passed HB 1076 because they saw the

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Constitutional
concern I do remember that the they

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asked the senator
if he was trying to change the

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Constitution and he said no he was not
trying to change the Constitution I do

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remember reading that when I did all the
research on that 1076 bills yeah Senator

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Plummer was asked that in in in
Springfield in session right before they

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voted on that no we still 76 says you do
not have to have a specific purpose

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correct and that that is uh that you
don't you don't designates like a couple

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years ago the board considered farming
the farm and allocating

417
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the profits to courthouse maintenance
right you can't you

418
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:13,720
can't do that just go the general Cas
for stuff it's paying is $74,000 to what

419
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:17,880
name so law designating designating the
profits from the

420
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:21,640
farm is a specific public purpose you
don't designate a specific public

421
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:25,119
purpose we're not desting going to put
your we're not designating anything it's

422
00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:29,000
going into the general I didn't say we
were I'm giving an example while I lead

423
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:34,000
into
something if we were to designate that

424
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:38,520
would be a specific public purpose die
there's no second that would be a

425
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:43,640
specific public purpose but we can't do
that and that's why that's why you don't

426
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:48,520
have a specific public purpose it
removed the requirement because you

427
00:37:45,119 --> 00:37:51,800
never have a requirement for that so but
you still have to you have to have a

428
00:37:50,359 --> 00:37:55,200
public
purpose you don't you don't put it

429
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:59,480
toward this or put it toward that or put
it toward the next thing it has to have

430
00:37:56,599 --> 00:38:04,000
a public purpose in a in a general sense
okay we're going to vote on this yes

431
00:38:02,079 --> 00:38:10,119
could I I
yeah wouldn't farming the farm be a

432
00:38:06,839 --> 00:38:13,800
public purpose in itself it's um well
the noxious weeds are a problem if we

433
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:21,040
knock down the weeds that serving a
public purpose so you dis the weeds

434
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:27,280
under that's another option yeah that's
$6,000 yeah my challenge is

435
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:32,240
is with everything that Stew's offering
to donate it's like our our cost is

436
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:35,319
almost equal like I agree in principle
with everything but I'm like well we're

437
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:39,359
going to have the same you know disc in
the weeds yet solves the problem today

438
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:44,400
but a month from now the weeds are
back the cover crop solve the same

439
00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:48,440
problem you do not cover till the all
but but we're spending you know we're

440
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:52,640
spending money that will not generate
any income I'm like

441
00:38:50,079 --> 00:38:58,200
well so if your principle of public
purpose is over here and the donation is

442
00:38:55,640 --> 00:39:04,640
over here how
how much how much are the principles

443
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:09,119
worth are they worth the farm inputs are
they worth the Constitutional violation

444
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:12,319
are they worth it's not a constitutional
are they worth abandoning the oath of

445
00:39:10,760 --> 00:39:19,920
office to honor the Constitution or
uphold the Constitution we've voted to

446
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:24,720
sell it Jeremy we're farming it one more
time yeah then then let then let's PL a

447
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:27,800
cover crop let's do something good for
the so

448
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:39,680
okay I'm going to call for a
vote Jeremy what exactly are we oh we're

449
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:46,440
voting on number four for Sue to plant
the beans the county will pay for the

450
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:53,560
inputs the chical and the
insurance um the SE be are donated St

451
00:39:50,119 --> 00:39:59,319
will mow the waterways the roads the
cemetery at no cost to the county

452
00:40:00,079 --> 00:40:13,599
I vote
Yes T yes Jeremy no Carol yes Sean yes

453
00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:16,599
ke yes four yes one
no

454
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:28,520
passes so we will put that on the agenda
for an hour we talk to that stuff number

455
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:34,400
five is discuss and go the County Farm
only if it isn't Farms I don't even know

456
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:40,079
if we need to go to this um I talked to
Candy Compton

457
00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:43,800
he he mowed twice last year at $500 each
time but he did not mow the cemetery

458
00:40:41,720 --> 00:40:49,440
more than twice and I feel like the
cemetery needs to be mowed more and St

459
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:53,720
says he would take care of it as many
times as it needs to be mowed do we need

460
00:40:51,599 --> 00:40:59,400
which I think is quite generous do we
need to vote to send this to the board

461
00:40:55,599 --> 00:41:05,200
in case item four fails at the full
board cuz if item four fails at the full

462
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:10,839
board then we're back to square one with
nobody Mowing and everything else do we

463
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:14,000
need to vote I'm I'm just trying to
cover all our bases here cuz we're going

464
00:41:12,319 --> 00:41:17,640
to have a mess we got a mess out there
now we need we do have a mess so let me

465
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:21,359
read this so it's discuss and vote on
wearing County Farm only if the ground

466
00:41:19,240 --> 00:41:28,119
is not farmed can you pump waterways in
Cemetery for $500 each time to diss your

467
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:33,560
entire Farm approximately 28 Acres he
charged us $6,000 last

468
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,560
fall
so

469
00:41:37,079 --> 00:41:46,480
if if we don't Farm
it and we have to mow it I believe it's

470
00:41:42,640 --> 00:41:52,480
still has to have a burn
down I'm not sure the dis being

471
00:41:49,599 --> 00:41:55,160
would take care of that's just another
burn down

472
00:41:56,240 --> 00:42:03,720
$1,000 and that's basically the first I
don't know that

473
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:09,560
you when he dissed it last year it
was so hard because we hadn't had any

474
00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:15,240
rain the there there actually we have
wheat growing out of the farm right now

475
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:19,319
it's volunteer weed from you have to
walk through the weed to get to the

476
00:42:17,119 --> 00:42:23,760
cemetery and the weeds aren't actually
as tall as the weed but you're

477
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:30,160
tall
um yeah if you just it now to get rid of

478
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:34,520
that it would have to be done again
unless you get a crop unless you get a

479
00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:39,400
cover crop or beans planted in it but
you don't do a cover crop you can do

480
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:45,280
cover I I read from the ufi that you can
do cover crops in both warm season and

481
00:42:42,599 --> 00:42:48,160
fall there's cover crops you can do in
the spring and the summer and then

482
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:54,079
there's cover crops that you can do in
the fall so I was researching that cover

483
00:42:50,839 --> 00:42:57,720
crop because um it was on the agenda
okay well let's go back to let's wait

484
00:42:55,960 --> 00:43:02,480
and do that that's
there so does somebody want to make a

485
00:43:00,240 --> 00:43:08,160
motion to put the
mo on the agenda or do you want to skip

486
00:43:06,559 --> 00:43:14,280
it
that's I'll make a motion that we that

487
00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:18,920
if it's not put if the county Farm's not
is not V on to be farmed this year that

488
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:23,319
we entertain this well we need do we
need to take bids for mowing no cuz

489
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:29,359
normally I thought we had to take bids
for everything as long as it falls under

490
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:32,319
the bid so I'll make a motion that we if
the if the County Farm is not voted on

491
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:37,520
to be farmed
it we send this to the county board for

492
00:43:34,839 --> 00:43:47,319
approve second okay 10 seconds we got to
do something right something has to be

493
00:43:40,359 --> 00:43:52,760
done okay any other discussion on
can

494
00:43:49,880 --> 00:44:01,960
any if not we'll take a
vote all those in favor yes yes yes

495
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,960
opposed Samson

496
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:09,720
all number six is a discuss vote to
receive bids for a cover crop including

497
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:13,170
chemical seed applications planning
hiring a

498
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:19,240
farmer
[Music]

499
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:25,520
um on st's proposal he also had cover
crop estimates on his estimate came up

500
00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:31,079
to $116,000 low over
$16,000 that was to spray the chemical

501
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:39,720
because you have to have a burn down
first you have to get rid of the

502
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:39,720
weeds and then the crop the

503
00:44:40,119 --> 00:44:49,040
drilling you have to hire a farmer this
just doesn't get done by

504
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:56,079
itself I Jeremy had a
proposal but it didn't say anything

505
00:44:51,599 --> 00:45:01,960
about hiring a farm yeah um I uh I
reached out to K and he didn't get back

506
00:44:58,359 --> 00:45:09,240
with me with an email but he did um he
he did he did discuss with me um uh he

507
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:14,440
and several others uh mentioned kitchen
seeds which is the place in Arthur they

508
00:45:12,319 --> 00:45:20,480
uh they specialize in small seed like
that uh there were there were a few

509
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:27,280
options um the one that he recommended
was to do uh uh he said barley is good

510
00:45:23,839 --> 00:45:31,280
ahead of corn because uh Ry and corn can
carry the same kinds of diseases so you

511
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:37,640
put Rye ahead of beans and barley ahead
of corn uh he said barley at 49 cents a

512
00:45:34,720 --> 00:45:42,240
pound at 50 lb an acre and he also
recommended uh to mix some radish in

513
00:45:40,359 --> 00:45:48,200
there because that will help put some
nitrogen back in soil that will be that

514
00:45:44,800 --> 00:45:53,559
will be uh good for the soil uh radishes
at $2 a pound at 5 lb an acre uh so and

515
00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:58,839
I I told him just to use the rough
average at 200 200 acres and that came

516
00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:03,640
out to uh
6,900 for for that mix to help put

517
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:10,720
nitrogen back in the soil it would also
keep the weeds down and for application

518
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:14,280
purposes I spoke with Kenny and he uh is
not going to do

519
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:17,280
it
no

520
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:27,160
okay okay that's he told you something
different than he told me did he tell

521
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:27,160
you he do

522
00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:32,839
I see from what I understand the farmers
IO

523
00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:42,200
um radish and the
other green cannot be sewn at the same

524
00:46:40,079 --> 00:46:47,280
time so that's different passes that's
not just one

525
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:51,839
pass I believe you can mix those in
that's what I've been told I've always

526
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:57,920
did it together
but did radish turnips and red clovers

527
00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:01,640
together just a spinner truck and then
we dissed it

528
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:08,240
in and then I also heard that radishes
smell really bad and it's like somebody

529
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:13,839
died they that that's actually then were
turnips one or the other can but you'd

530
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:20,559
have to have a really thick stand like I
don't I really don't think at that rate

531
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:26,280
it'd be a problem yeah so Kenny uh Kenny
said uh there were there were different

532
00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:31,800
options you can you can drill those in
or you can broadcast them and dis them

533
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:36,880
in and he doesn't drill what's that he
does not drill I believe didn't he

534
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:41,040
drilled the
wheat I don't think yeah he farmed a

535
00:47:39,720 --> 00:47:46,280
wheat crop last year he drilled the
wheat in did did he drill it though like

536
00:47:43,559 --> 00:47:51,559
I me we used to just just weed it too I
mean I don't know how he did it okay did

537
00:47:48,559 --> 00:47:56,640
he said he would do it he said uh let's
see here uh if you want me to disc in

538
00:47:54,760 --> 00:48:01,640
The Barley turnips and radishes which is
your just barley and radishes I could do

539
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:06,720
it for $30 an acre and again the same
offer as last year for the mowing that

540
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:12,280
that you you already had in there so and
I I've uh I've discussed the possibility

541
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:17,599
with uh with some different folks
and because there because of the weeds

542
00:48:15,839 --> 00:48:26,119
you could disc the weeds
down broadcast the seed disc it

543
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:29,800
in or you could disc the weeds and drill
the seed in

544
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:33,720
[Music]
the the drilling is the better the

545
00:48:31,839 --> 00:48:40,319
better option for it to take root and
come up and germinate and all that

546
00:48:37,319 --> 00:48:45,240
um but a second pass with the disc isn't
a bad idea

547
00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:49,760
either can someone clarify what it costs
an acre all total versus beans that's

548
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:53,160
what I want to know because you're
coming up with all these numbers and by

549
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:56,440
the time you're got all said and done
may as well just put beans in and got

550
00:48:54,680 --> 00:49:01,839
income off of it because the cover crap
get till

551
00:48:58,720 --> 00:49:07,480
under girl
left I mean they're saying 30 bucks an

552
00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:12,160
acre to disc so yeah so that's what he
charged last year so that's six grand

553
00:49:09,799 --> 00:49:15,760
and then if you do if you either disc it
in again or drill it assuming that's 30

554
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:20,319
bucks an acre a second time so there's
another six so there's 12 if you got to

555
00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:24,240
make two passes and then you I guess you
wouldn't have a burn down then you'd

556
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:29,160
have your seeg cost which was what 7,000
almost yeah 7,000 so that's

557
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:32,200
and what are beans what would bean price
be just for beans knowing you're going

558
00:49:30,559 --> 00:49:36,640
to get a profit off of it cuz the
intention of a cover crop correct me if

559
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:40,720
I'm wrong people that don't know it's to
improve the Organics of the soil if you

560
00:49:38,359 --> 00:49:44,559
got a really heavily clay sometimes
they'll do things like they Trad K and

561
00:49:43,079 --> 00:49:48,400
all these other mixes and turnips and
stuff to add some of that back to the

562
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:52,520
soil so you don't you don't get a crop
off of it you don't sell anything

563
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:57,720
typically correct sometimes people bail
it but I mean erosion control in our

564
00:49:54,880 --> 00:50:03,000
case the cover crop my mind is to choke
the weeds out so that we're not spraying

565
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:09,150
it or dis if we're going to settle it
why would we

566
00:50:05,599 --> 00:50:12,599
have it would put nitrogen back in the
[Music]

567
00:50:10,319 --> 00:50:18,000
soil
why back in if somebody's going to buy

568
00:50:15,079 --> 00:50:22,799
the prop which would make it which would
make it more

569
00:50:19,799 --> 00:50:22,799
marketable

570
00:50:23,839 --> 00:50:32,440
as over the
I say from a nitrogen standpoint I don't

571
00:50:29,200 --> 00:50:38,200
necessarily care but buying 200 Acres
that's got you know noxious weeds This

572
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:42,839
Tall versus buying 200 Acres that has
some cover crop there is to Jeremy's

573
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:47,720
point value in there being cover crop on
it and it not having that weed bank so

574
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:52,680
how much value does it have when there's
a when it's producing a crop though eth

575
00:50:50,559 --> 00:50:58,760
it's producing let's say I don't know
eight a bush acre beans yeah 260 Bush an

576
00:50:55,960 --> 00:51:03,119
acre corn how much that got versus
govern you know it'll produce something

577
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:05,799
it depends on which point of view you're
looking at are you're looking at it from

578
00:51:04,240 --> 00:51:10,200
the County's point of view as income or
you looking at it as somebody buying it

579
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:14,599
I mean we shouldn't be worried about
somebody buying that's the whole point

580
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:18,640
would be P you know if we this about
what's best for all if we justed it

581
00:51:15,839 --> 00:51:23,490
twice and then put the cover crop in the
radishes and and barley right then

582
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:30,640
that's
[Music]

583
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:38,480
19k and chemicals alone according to
St is 21k so that's and then the crop

584
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:44,799
insurance here 22 you spend 22k or you
spend 19k you get Revenue with the 22k

585
00:51:41,920 --> 00:51:52,520
you get you get
money only if go yeah

586
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:58,300
only I got4 cover crop I
would what you say

587
00:51:56,640 --> 00:52:01,429
Mark
[Music]

588
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:11,400
you so do we have a motion for

589
00:52:12,599 --> 00:52:23,000
this I'll make the motion to do the the
the cover crop with the uh from from

590
00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:30,440
Kitchen seed with the uh with the
numbers provided for barley and radishes

591
00:52:26,760 --> 00:52:35,680
um and uh and for Kenny to to do what he
said he would do unless he told you

592
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:41,799
something different
since since he spoke to

593
00:52:38,839 --> 00:52:47,799
me Carol can you text him and see Ken
says he cannot drill the seed he would

594
00:52:44,559 --> 00:52:52,359
need somebody else to do that all he can
do is dis the ground and he could he

595
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:57,640
could broadcast it in disc this the
ground and I have no way of planting he

596
00:52:54,640 --> 00:53:04,079
said I how did he plant the we then he
probably just used a he would dis for

597
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:10,079
$30 an acre and mow the grass and water
weights

598
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:17,280
for so he will not do the
cut um he could uh I think he told me he

599
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:22,040
he could broadcast it and disc it in or
or we could have um we could have I

600
00:53:20,319 --> 00:53:26,599
think South Central has done our our
stuff before hasn't it but we don't know

601
00:53:24,400 --> 00:53:31,720
how much that is
no

602
00:53:27,839 --> 00:53:38,640
idea all we know is
that the the seed

603
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:47,200
is6 than that we don't have any other
numers would have to be out

604
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:53,319
I and to me that's like
farming you want put that that's farming

605
00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:58,319
just like he did he did tell me on on
Monday that he would he would dis in

606
00:53:56,599 --> 00:54:03,160
turnips and radishes which this is just
barley and radishes and he do it for $30

607
00:54:00,680 --> 00:54:07,559
an acre the same as discing that's
that's what he told me he would

608
00:54:04,880 --> 00:54:13,799
do and then we have an application fee
for somebody to spread it right for FS

609
00:54:10,839 --> 00:54:13,799
or whoever to spread

610
00:54:14,839 --> 00:54:18,000
it do

611
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:26,920
that is that farming because it's
farming like just like st's farming that

612
00:54:25,799 --> 00:54:32,680
would that would
that would just be maintenance of the

613
00:54:29,079 --> 00:54:38,119
property would that have b out like the
lab and stuff as long as it falls

614
00:54:35,440 --> 00:54:44,720
beneath the bid threshold and no that's
farming Jeremy that's not

615
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:49,319
M far for nothing it's the bid
threshold for nothing

616
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:53,680
threshold you just said you were going
to have to put it out for bid and stew

617
00:54:50,720 --> 00:54:56,680
was going to farm it for free m but if
it falls underneath the bid threshold

618
00:54:55,319 --> 00:55:01,319
you don't have to bid it out so what's
the bid threshold st's going to do it

619
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:05,799
for nothing so what's the bid threshold
you got to give you 10 bucks it was a

620
00:55:03,799 --> 00:55:12,240
dollar last oh
sorry well I mean come

621
00:55:08,640 --> 00:55:16,480
on we got to put it out for bid no we
don't for Christ's sake talking out both

622
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:24,520
sides of your
mouth okay so Jeremy's made a motion on

623
00:55:19,839 --> 00:55:29,920
this I I thought we already had a motion
to plant beans and we did this is a

624
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:35,160
motion cover we're sending it to the
full board what if full board doesn't I

625
00:55:32,839 --> 00:55:40,440
think we need to send options I mean
okay if we send one thing in the boat in

626
00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:44,599
the board boats no one farming be or
putting the beans then we're screw then

627
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:51,079
we're back to square one and another
down the

628
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:51,079
road if somebody decides they

629
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:59,520
don't I'll second Jeremy's motion on the
cover crop just in case the beans don't

630
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:01,839
okay we got to do something with that
land

631
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:11,280
out but we still don't have

632
00:56:13,400 --> 00:56:20,599
numbers we can't have probably by the
board me absolutely what's that we can't

633
00:56:18,319 --> 00:56:25,359
have by the board meeting sure so that's
next

634
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:29,640
Thursday by Tuesday to have it on the
agenda to have it by Tuesday for the

635
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:40,559
agenda all those in favor of covered
crop I I

636
00:56:37,440 --> 00:56:40,559
yes how

637
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:53,240
manys four yeses and one no I'm going to
vote

638
00:56:51,280 --> 00:56:57,240
now
okay um

639
00:56:58,359 --> 00:57:01,200
we have any old

640
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:13,720
business we
have

641
00:57:09,240 --> 00:57:13,720
L old business we a new

642
00:57:19,079 --> 00:57:22,079
business

643
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:34,480
bu no
are we

644
00:57:28,920 --> 00:57:34,480
done motion to Sean makes a motion

645
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:50,079
to did somebody second it I'll second 10
seconds all those in favor hi

646
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:54,799
opposed this okay an hour hey
that's that's good thank you everybody

647
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:58,559
we have Public Safety tomorrow evening
guys saf

648
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:05,359
at
6:30 I 6 I won't either okay I told um

649
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:09,640
you told Tad that I would not I got to
teach class tomorrow final

650
00:58:12,200 --> 00:58:19,039
class I appreciate you standing up and
advocating last board meeting for that

651
00:58:17,039 --> 00:58:23,680
and I wish the other two could come with
you and make a passionate oh as

652
00:58:22,520 --> 00:58:29,200
passionate of a thing and I think more
people might come along if it wasn't

653
00:58:25,160 --> 00:58:33,960
just Mom sorry about last month I was
tired when I was talking to you at the

654
00:58:32,079 --> 00:58:40,559
at the cookout and I didn't forgot all
about I had to be I had an officer

655
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:45,599
meeting and and association meeting I
forgot thank

656
00:58:43,119 --> 00:58:52,079
you thank you yeah I can't move those
chairs there and put that up there over

657
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:52,079
the road

658
00:59:00,319 --> 00:59:09,520
I can probably get it you not yet not
yet I I will here just a

659
00:59:06,839 --> 00:59:13,000
minute should be off while
everybody yeah it

660
00:59:15,160 --> 00:59:18,160
should

661
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:24,640
off please