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the strength here and to listen and
understand. Lord always, please forgive

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us for all the times we fail. Jesus
Christ's Lord name I pray. Amen.

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I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic

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for it stands one nation
indivisible

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for all.

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Thank you, sir.

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I hereby approve the minutes from the
July 16th, 2026 county meeting and the

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August 6, 2026 call meeting as they are
presented. You have all been provided a

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copy of these minutes with the
[snorts] first on the list is the

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presentation. The first item again this
morning will be Sheriff Shawn Dy. John

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Dy will be receiving lifesaving
rewards to some of our local public

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safety employees. Mr. D.

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[clears throat] First off, I'd like to
thank everybody for coming today and uh

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everybody that's here that don't know.
It's uh great to to live in any county

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and have some of the best first
responders anywhere in the state in my

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opinion. And this one you're going to
get to hear a few stories of how good

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they really are. And at this time, I'd
like for uh Deputy Ber, please come up

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and join me up here. And
I'll tell you a little story that that

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happened. Um
back in let's see it was May

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um Saturday morning we get a phone call
that uh Mr. over was at home having

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chest pains and thank goodness his wife
talked him into calling 911 and the uh

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EMS and uh fire department responded to
his residence and made the scene what

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they were having. They uh transported
him to uh fire station 13 on Murphy

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Highway
where they began doing test and during

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that Mr. went into full cardiac arrest.
their quick actions and experience, they

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were able to
start CPR so they could get uh the

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proper life saving equipment on him uh
and shocked him back and got him back.

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And without their without that station
being there where they were able to do

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this and without the honest
professionals, Mr. Shoulder wouldn't be

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here today. And I'm I'm real proud of
that. At this time I'd like for me

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Travis Nixon
I think is not here now he's on vacation

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and y'all please come up

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» folks. This is the people
that save Mr. public life and when

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they're working you can you can and
anybody else that works in fires you can

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you can be assured they're going to do
everything they can do to keep you alive

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and I'm I'm really proud of that this
time we're going to be presenting them

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with awards

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» How are
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» Well, there's not a whole lot I remember
Actually,

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I want to understand they had to shot me
twice before I went on a helicopter.

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Once on the helicopter and one more time
in Northeast, Georgia. So, that's four

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times that they brought me back to life.
So, I will be

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I've got uh one more here or two more
that I want to recognize. Still my

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deputies responded to a cardiac arrest
on track off road and when they got

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there they found a female that was in
full cardiac arrest or anything like

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that.
Uh, Deputy CJ Towns and Michael Karns

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started life saving technique with CPR.
Deputy started CPR before right before

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Deputy Townson got there. And uh Deputy
Townson was also a volunteer fire

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and in his patrol vehicle drop down in
his patrol vehicle. He carries an AED

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and uh he retrieved that got it in got
it on the female and delivered the shop

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and got her part back and she's alive
today because of the the life saving

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efforts of these two right here. One
thing that's that's put on my top

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priority for next year's budget is I
would like to have one of those machines

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in every patrol car I got because you
never know what we might need or

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somebody might need that life saving
equipment and uh one of my goals is to

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get that every card that we have and uh
and do what [groaning] we can. I really

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appreciate these guys on the uh present
certific.

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I'd like to thank all and uh I
appreciate everything you all do. I

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think the paper said they'd like to get
a group before we all slip out. I want

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to thank everybody here that's that's
come here today. Also, thank you

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We had
over Ready.

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One, two, three.

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» I knew that.
>> Uh the next on the list is maven.

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Emergencies and disasters can occur
unexpectedly both missing threats of

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life and property and private
and the community of community services,

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local emergency managers, public safety
agencies, community partners,

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volunteers, private sector
organizations, state agencies, and the

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federal emergency management agency
dedicate countless hours to developing

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and supporting preparedness, response,
recovery, and mitigation programs that

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protect the residents and community of
Union County. The Union County Emergency

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Management Agency is charged

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with coordinating capabilities,
resources, plans, and partnerships

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necessary to prepare for, respond to,
recover from, and mitigate emergency

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disasters affecting the county.
Emergency management professionals serve

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the public with commitment, compassion,
and profession. Often working behind the

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scenes before, during, and after
emergencies to protect lives, property,

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and essential services, the efforts of
emergency management and their partners

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at residents, businesses, local
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prepare, recover, rebuild, and become
more that resilient can face adversity.

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I have a proclamation here
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Uh
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this
feedback

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I just want to talk a little bit about
emergency management just for a second.

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This is the main crew staff of the
emergency management fire department.

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Fire department and emergency management
are together in this county. Uh which is

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pretty common throughout fire in the
United States. But emergency management

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is something that ever really thinks
about until of course there's an

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emergency and we handle everything
everything from hurricanes that may

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happen here, winter storms, ice storms,
uh flooding, any kind of things like

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that that would affect the whole entire
county. So, it's a very important

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there's a lot of hard work that goes in
involved in that. There's a lot of

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planning that goes in that that people
really never see or know anything about,

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but there's a lot of plans that have to
be put together so when a disaster

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happens, we are able to respond and we
are able to recover, which is a big huge

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deal for our economy and for our county
as a whole. And not only do we take care

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of any kind of disasters, but also
things like the last big surge we had,

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the harsh surge, which happened last
November. Everybody heard about all

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that. That's something emergency
management takes care of. So sort of an

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unsung hero and you don't really see
emergency management up front, a lot of

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things, but they're behind the scenes. I
always working with something. So keep

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that in mind. Also want to while I'm up
here though, we do think about the new

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emergency response um notification
system that we have called RA. If you

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want to go website, you can see that and
encourage everybody to sign up for that

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to get emergency alerts for each type of
session that we have. Thank y'all very

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much. Say thank you to the staff. Also,
I'll have an opportunity to thank you to

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the sheriff for recognizing our
firefighters during a couple of calls.

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Thank you.
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Thank you.

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The next proclamation,
this next proclamation is very important

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to our community. John Harkings is going
to come up and read the proclamation for

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national month.
Before M comes up here, before reading

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the prom, I would like to talk a little
about volunteering.

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I would like to point out that this lady
here should have her picture next to

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volunteer in dictionary. I have gotten
to know her since taking office last

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year and I am so impressed by her
dedication and commitment to the

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recovery community.
If there is a recovery event she is not

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only attending but helping organize plan
set up and plan. If there is an

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individual that needs help starting
their recovery journey, gaining mental

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health services, getting access to
services and food from one place to

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stay,
not just there, she is helping with her

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whole heart any time of the day or
night, weekday or weekend, volunteering

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hours upon hours to help those in the
recovery community in any way she can.

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Our rec recovery community would not be
what it is without her. In addition to

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all her volunteering activities, she
worked more than a full-time job and

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additionally volunteered her three times
serving on the Union County Development

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Board. She asked for no recognition for
her volunteer commitments and shied away

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from recognition for all that she gives
to our community. If you all could join

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me in recognizing Sean for all he does
for our community.

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» I was expecting that, so I appreciate
that. But um hello, I am Sean Hkins and

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I do a lot of different things in our
community, but it's because I love my

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community. Um I have two volunteers here
from positive pathways and they're

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really what makes all the work happen.
Um but this is the proclamation for

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national recovery month. It is September
2026 in which we will be having a free

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um recovery month event called the
mountains. This is our sixth year

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putting this on and it's just a bunch of
peers in our community, different

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organizations
for treatment, just peers telling their

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stories and we'll have free food, all
kinds of everything is free. It will be

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at park on September 12th from 4 to 7 4
to 8 and the recovery tour bus will be

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there. So I encourage you all to come
out and just see what we have to offer.

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Um I'll go ahead and read this
proclamation. Whereas behavioral health

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is an essential part of one's overall
health and wellbeing. And whereas

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recovery from addiction occurs every day
through a variety of recovery support

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services and treatment options. Whereas
[snorts] prevention of substance use

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disorders work, treatment is effective
and people recover across Georgia and

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around the nation. and whereas millions
of people across the United States are

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living happy, joyous, and free in
long-term recovery. And as whereas the

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2026 Georgia Recovers and Communities
Bus Tour celebrates that recovery is

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real and recognizes that we are never
alone on this journey through recovery.

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And whereas the Georgia Recovers and
Communities Bus Tour will deliver 100

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overdose aid kits to communities across
Georgia to be accessible in local

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government buildings. And whereas
education throughout our communities

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about recovery and addiction is
essential to combating the stigma and

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discrimination faced by young people in
recovery and whereas to help more people

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experience and sustain long-term
recovery, the Georgia Department of

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Behavioral Health and Developmental
Disabilities, the Georgia Council for

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Recovery, Serb RX, and the Georgia
General Assembly working group on

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addiction and recovery invite all
residents of the state of Georgia to

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participate in National Recovery Month.
Now, therefore, Collins Union County

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Sole Commissioner does hereby proclaim
the month of September 2026 as National

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Recovery Month in Union County, Georgia.

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doesn't work hard. But uh in this era, I
have here untieed up my hand in causing

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the seal of the county of Union to be
fixed this 20th day of August, 2026.

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Once again, I'd like to say that
recovery isn't a one-stop shop. It's

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continuous about life. It is a journey.
and everyone walking in recovery, no

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matter what it may be. A lot of people,
you know, the stigma says she with

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recovery just means address. But it's if
you think of anything like breaking your

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leg or having medical emergency, you're
still recovering. All of us can recover

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in some form or fashion. And overall
well being of a person is the utmost cuz

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truly none of us really know what a
person is going through. So I appreciate

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you all. Thank you. [applause]

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» Thank you, Sean.
And a little more on that. Uh [sighs]

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she also tried to race car
through that.

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Thank you again, John.

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Uh number five is adoption.
I hereby adopt the revised personal

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policies and procedure of Union County
employees.

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This provision adds a comp time policy
to the Union County employee handbook

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and go into effect on August 30th, 2026
to align with the start of the next full

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pay period.
Number six is agreement. I hereby accept

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this agreement between Carter
Engineering Consultant and Union County,

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Georgia for operatical surveys,
construction drawings and specification

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and structural design related to creek
road

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repair. The total cost of this agreement
is not to exceed $18,000

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with an effective date of July 23rd,
2026.

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Number seven is agreement. I hereby
accept this agreement between Glenn

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Power LLC and Union County, Georgia for
architectural and structural engineering

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design services for the canopy edition
in the Union County Library. The total

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cost of this agreement is $8,500
with an effective date of August 6,

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2026.
We are adding a 26 by8 covered canopy to

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the existing library building. The
canopy will connect and blend with

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existing reading and provide more
coverage on the outside of the building

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to allow more usable space.
Number eight is agreement.

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I hereby accept this agreement between
UT Solutions and Union County, Georgia

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to amend the original agreement
effective October 1st, 2025

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to change the provider of the driver of
the new 911 center from AT&T

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Solutions. There's no charge in the cost
of this agreement. There's no change in

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this agreement with it remaining at 6
$699.95.

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Number nine is business license.
I hereby approve all business license

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issued in Union County from July 14th,
2026 to August 14th, 2026

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for the purpose of operating a
short-term rental in Union County. A

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list of events license issued and
attached in your package and will be

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made a part of the minutes.
Number 10 is notice award. I hereby

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check this notice award to custom truck
and body work incorporated dated August

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20th, 2026
for the Union County Fire Department

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Rescue Quick Attack Fire Apparatus in
the amount of $282,715.

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If you die with
elaborate on that a little bit more.

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» We're very happy for this award. This is
for a new rescue truck for station 13.

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We just talked about station 13 in
response to uh Mr. Silver's medical

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emergency. This is the rescue truck that
would be in that same area. replacing

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the rescue truck that we currently have,
which is older and is kind of breaking

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down. So, we're very happy with this.
We're going to be probably 12 months out

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before this thing actually gets built,
but we're very happy we got this. Thank

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you.

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[applause]

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I need

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a war.
I hereby accept this notice award of

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contracting truck dated August 20th,
2026

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for asphalt research through the York
Department of Transportation local

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maintenance and improvement grant in the
amount of 1,18,740

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for the 2026
Lwig grant

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haven of the city of Fortune
If you were presented at the May and

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June meeting county meeting, you might
remember that we accepted a notice award

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contract and then the contract October.
We performed the LED paving for Union

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County Roads. The bid process included
both the county and the city a paving

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project. The city need to wait and
revisit their portion of the bid. They

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have completed
that process

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and we are now accepting the notice of
award of contract and the contractor

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code incorporated for the portion of
roadway that are being paid in the city

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of L and the city will reimburse any
cost of their payment.

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Uh under that act, companies cannot
contract with

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certain military companies from China.
Um so anyone in that chain, if they have

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a contract with certain military
companies from China, they're they're

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not allowed to have and that's backed up
by federal law. There you have a bar

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from
indirectly or directly being controlled

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by any company or associated with any
company in the department of defense

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section uh 1268
of that same act that that changes quite

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a bit. So there's a lot of companies
with any affiliation they can't be here.

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Um, also batteries cannot be sourced
from any Chinese company. And that's any

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part of the battery. That's the battery
itself. It's a component of the battery.

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That is all in section
154 of that National Defense Act. And so

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that gets put in there. Also in the same
sections, it goes down to computer

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parts. Computer parts made with certain
elements. Those helicops were mined or

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had anything to do with the countries
listed in that act. Obviously, they're

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barred from happening. This is a big
deal when we talk about computer servers

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because parts come from overseas all the
time. So, everything would have to

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comply with the National Defense
Authorization Act from 2024.

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Um and also anyone in the there's
certain countries and companies that are

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not allowed to have uh
intellectual property associated with

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the companies. So consultants uh people
that provide software things like that

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those are barred under the national
defense act in which we were we are also

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associating in this ordinance.
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setbacks
got from half a mile to a mile. The

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acres went from 500 to 1,000 acres
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The setback from schools, farms, and
churches now has to be 5 miles.

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There is a full breakdown
before we have a have a action plan for

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spillages and recovery and anything of
hazardous materials. There's a full

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action plan listed that that's a minimum
of what they must comply with in this

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ordinance. Now, also we uh had several
evaluations that had to take place prior

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to the permitting process, which would
be your environmental uh evaluation,

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your cultural heritage evaluation. We
have outlined the minimum standards of

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what they have to show the county prior
to any permitting being in there.

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There's no tax abments of any kind
written in there. There also have

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written in there that when not only they
have no tax abments but any DHI club

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will be appraised on an income approach
year over year.

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Fulton County started this with their
data centers and I believe those data

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centers taxes for each year went from
somewhere to from like 2030 I can't

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remember it's like 20 $30 million to
buildings.

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So we're going to use their standard for
this if one decides to come here. Also,

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uh they will have to be appraised on
their personal property and inventory

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and contents inside the building on an
annual basis on their add taxes each

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year. Um

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I'm not going to go over all the
requirements of the environmental and

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cultural impacts, but you can read those
in the copies that we've provided.

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There's there's quite a few of them. And
again, that's a minimum standard they

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have to meet and improve.
Uh we did put in only closed loop

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cooling systems.
You will notice that while we're only

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allowing closed loop cooling systems,
there's still other water regulations in

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there. And you might look at it and go,
why? Well, if you have cold flu cooling

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system, you need all the other water
regulations cuz technology changes.

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That's exactly why technology changes
and something come out that could be

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technically called a cold loop a closed
loop cooling system and still have some

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sort of water for anything else. So
we're just covering all our bases. Um

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only permanent structures are allowed
beforehand. Uh we have different things

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for prefab structures, shipping
containers, things like that. We cut all

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that out. Only permanent structures are
allowed. 50% of the power that they use

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are going to be required to come from
solar power. So you would have to um

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they'd have to prove that 50% of their
power usage is going to come from solar

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power on their own property. If they
have to have 1,000 acres, they should

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have plenty of room for solar panels. Uh

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we did add to the vegetative buffers um
about native plants. What native plants

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if there's not a natural buffer already
there? and plant native plants and what

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kind of plants you have to plant, what
kind of plants you can't plant.

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Also, any no trees should be removed
from 100 ft of any structure that is

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outside of that barrier that's already
there. Meaning, if a building's there

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and a road's there, they just don't
clear cut all the way to the barrier.

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They have to keep the natural vegetation
there at least 100 foot out from any

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building.
Uh then while we already had um the

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majority of dark sky skies major already
in there, we just made a little more

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clear that it shall meet or exceed dark
side sky standards with no more than 32

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to 4K and light. So those were the
additions.

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Yes sir.
>> Point of clarification. You said,

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confused acres, but here it says
hundreds.

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Which section are you looking at?
>> Page 11 of 15.

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» Page you bring me one of the copies that
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» That's a Thank you for catching that.
That should be a th000.

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» Oh, okay.
Any

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other questions? Yes, sir.

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I can

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see
that

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» uh it should be Another

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15.

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If you look at page 11 of 15 under
section O2,

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the facility will only use closed loop
waterproof.

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That's on page 11
section two.

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[snorts]
Anything else?

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All right. Thank you.

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Uh I start out on the road department.
Uh all these pop up storms that we've

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been ahead of
they stay busy. road work maintains

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road cutting through trees down. They
they hide it all day. Uh do a lot of

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work.
Uh we've got pavement down road to

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finish it up this week. Got starting up
the medicine circle next week. Uh

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trucking been down back down on
Colorado road finishing up down there.

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Uh I do want to touch touch on that just
a little bit on that. How well uh

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Columbus is doing that as we talked
earlier calling the LD

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what we do every year uh we reach out
apply for a grant grant and what that

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grant's based off of is population of
the county and my lecture grows and they

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they determine the amount of money that
you receive through that through that

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elig grant and uh the county has to
match 30% of

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Basically what it's been doing the past
couple of years if we get say about 7

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and 12 mile of road uh
on on our cost roughly $350,000

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and with LP includes which is lower than
a million dollar. So we're getting 700

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miles a road basically $350,000
on a normal basis on a mile of road two

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lane road it cost about $200 $210,000 a
mile. So, uh, with the LED grant, it was

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great. Uh,
helps county out tremendously on cars on

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roads and, uh, on that from last year.
I've it brought to my attention that,

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uh, felt like the county was wasting
some money on that hollow. Uh, but

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that's not the case. what took place
last year. We had three in the road

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and I think two back paperwork two and a
half mile on Patwell

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where I was gas over such and down
through road. What happened there is

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when got finished on Pat Hallwell road
down to the stopping point to stop they

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had a certain amount of time as left
over rather than just throw it to the

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wind. They let it go on down the road.
We actually went down the road had

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safety the road that was starting to get
bad and they went in life cap over get

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us through the winter until this big
money come in this year and finish the

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road. That's where that took place at
not no repayment just they kept that one

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little bad section to get us through the
winter.

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Uh
but the transportation office we're

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waiting on framing to come in on
that. So we get that in make decisions

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here. Take a few weeks we get started on
the transportation office. Uh new dog

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park made a lot of progress in the past
month. All the rain plumbing has been

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inspected on concrete for the floor.
Uh we're actually uh out senior center.

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We are getting work fire department
building department and uh getting we're

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going to install hardwire fire smoke
detectors throughout the facility. We're

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looking at getting quotes on that. Also
looking at doing flooring upgrade be

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installing some new flooring out there
pretty soon. Uh farmers market trash

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treasures building department range golf
course creek camp ground fire groups

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center. Uh they're all staying busy. Uh
good to see that. Uh our maintenance

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department, they've been really busy. Uh
every idea they got on going with all

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the different facilities going in
changing out, having to do different

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things throughout our rec department as
always. Adult league softball's finished

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up. Uh we we have the following sports
going up now. Follow baseball, softball,

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cheerlead, football, and soccer. Uh
numbers that are real quick. All

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baseball we have 40, softball 23,
cheerleading 143, football 142, soccer

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243 for a total of 591 children
activities right now. Uh wrestling

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uh boys girls basketball registration
now open. We should have some good solid

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numbers on that uh in the next meeting.
Also notified yesterday

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uh at big park pool uh the kind of our
lifeguards life our school children in

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high school and college use all going
back to school. We got two or three

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adults that are around able to help but
that being said they are short on life

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guards they're having to put a cap on
attendance on Saturday I think it's 75

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that's what I have for this week.

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Thank you.
Comment. Uh

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uh last meeting we uh I directed any
questions coming to the meeting would be

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answered in the newspaper and the
following week we made a twoe talk. That

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will be the same same way this morning.
We have a lot of good comments from a

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lot of people uh that work in media.
They like to hear what they've asked and

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how the question can be answered. So we
try to find out the best answer

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far as legally and everything. We
consult with our attorney if we need to

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uh every time he can't be here for some
question.

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We uh we look at all and try to give you
the honest and right answer to your

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questions. Uh we have one more
thing on the agenda. Mhoff will be doing

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this thing. Miss

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apologize. I didn't bring my reading
glasses. I'll do my best. Um, this is a

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resolution of the commissioner of Ludy
County, Georgia, authorizing the

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transmitt of an application to the State
Road and Tollway Authority, SRTA,

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requesting a grant from the Georgia
Transportation Infrastructure Bank, GTI,

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to construct a roundabout on Blueidge
Highway and committing to provide

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matching funds and committing to
construct roundabout with these GTIP

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funds expeditiously.
and for the purposes um the grant

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deadline for this GTI survey application
is tomorrow. That's why we want to make

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sure we get the resolution authorizing
the commissioner to sign this grant

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application. Um we have a just a small
concept design what could look like if

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we get the grant money. Um we're asking
for $2 million.

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um we don't know if we'll get the grant,
but if we do um we would commit uh

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580,000 from SWAT to complete that
roundabout. So that's what the

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resolution has cleared.

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» I am so
>> I am so sorry

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this month. Um it's a lage highway at
the intersection of Multi Gap and Cali.

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Um that roundabout has been needed for a
long time. We looked at it several

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times. Um the GTIP funding was what we
used for the roundabout the patron

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road there at the hospital. So you know
if we get the funding we can look at

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putting roundabout there to make that
those intersections safer.

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» Thank you ma'am.
This time I'll adjourn the meeting and

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open the floor up to questions. Uh

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I'll ask anybody have we just start kind
of order. Uh anybody have any question

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for any merger
walk back

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any question for merger on anything.

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Um I can send you some like public um
the June meeting. I thought it would

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several people had asked that anyh
three miles from the nearest residence,

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not one.
No, at the June meeting it was a half a

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mile. It was it was 500 continuous acres
with a half a mile half a mile distance

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from the edge of the building to a
property line. So they upped it now to

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um 1,000 continuous acres and one mile.
Where you may be getting confused, sir,

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is we had a notification to every
resident in a 3m radius of the facility.

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» That's still there.
>> I'm just wondering.

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Well, these

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question
can there or will there be any

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protection from decreased property
values?

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» I I don't think it can. Um the permit
process violation says that um the

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decision to cancel the permit process.

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I'm thinking why amount
that it can be

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or not. And if so, you have a fine peri.
There is a fine per incident and

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violation in there. Uh it's a county
ordinance. So, county ordinances can

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carry up to $1,000 fine per incident per
day and up to 60 days in jail per

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incident per day. That's the maximum
amount the county ordinance can carry.

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