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[0:04] We'd like to go to meeting the order for November 2, 2021. Thank for the fire by this year. As they say in South Louisiana, we have a little bit of business to take care of.
[0:17] So, we're thankful for all our years that have come. I'd like to see big crowds of their meetings, but I know the very special meeting for a whole lot of people.
[0:26] And we're grateful for you, we're grateful for a lot of work that's been done here and our community and in our county.
[0:34] With that said, I want to ask Commissioner David Gamble to ask an indication and I ask you to please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance.
[0:44] First of all, here in the Father, we're kimchi not just tea, we love you and thank you for your blessings.
[0:50] You've blessed us a lot from watching over us.
[0:52] We just ask for your guidance to not.
[0:55] And wisdom is we conduct business for the county and this pasture got us to be upon it.
[1:01] Just be with all the ones that's traveled out to not.
[1:05] And ask for safe travels as we travel home.
[1:08] And everything we do to not give you all the glory.
[1:10] You can Jesus name amen.
[1:11] Amen.
[1:14] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, and the law, and indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
[1:42] Okay, first out on the business item, D is our minutes from October 9, 2021, I hope that everybody has that opportunity to read those.
[1:51] We have a motion to approve the minutes.
[1:55] Senator, second, any discussion of the minutes?
[1:59] I don't play for this range at home,
[2:03] it's approved.
[2:04] Budget amendments and transfer of Mr. Yates.
[2:08] Yes, Mr. Chairman.
[2:09] We have budget amendment number nine from the Health Department.
[2:13] And Ms. Willard is here to explain these and Mr. Huffman also.
[2:18] And this is no county money.
[2:19] It's all grant money that's involved in this.
[2:31] Great to wear.
[2:32] Thank you.
[2:36] All right.
[2:37] We have most of the brief, budget member number nine.
[2:42] Second.
[2:45] Thank you.
[2:45] I'm going to start.
[2:46] Yes.
[2:47] And second.
[2:48] In-scussion of the budget member.
[2:51] I hope please raise your hands.
[2:53] Great.
[2:54] Thank you.
[2:58] Department of Social Services, Mr. John Blavins.
[3:03] Hello, John.
[3:07] Peter.
[3:08] John, you've got a lead.
[3:09] are honest and you normally have.
[3:13] I know, I make me a little nervous.
[3:16] Well, I'll sit in front of the box.
[3:18] So Greg won't fuss at me.
[3:19] Talk to me.
[3:22] I hope y'all have good evening, everything.
[3:25] Thank you.
[3:26] So you're good crowd out tonight, and that's good.
[3:29] So I threw a few things here.
[3:30] Get through it so we can get on with the other business at hand.
[3:35] Greg meant to call me this past month, and he said that he has resigned
[3:39] from the North Carolina Association,
[3:40] the County Board of Substance Services.
[3:42] He was the Regent to Director,
[3:46] and that included Allegheny Ash, Alexander Davy Wilkes,
[3:49] and Surrey.
[3:51] They meet Coraline Burlington and he wanted me to call
[3:54] and pass along to you all that if you wanted to appoint someone
[3:57] to that, that you could.
[3:59] And so I'll leave that up to you if you do.
[4:02] You can contact me and I'll get you in touch
[4:04] with whoever you need to speak with on that.
[4:07] You don't have to, but you know, it's a representation on there from our county as well.
[4:13] So I'm going to pass that on.
[4:16] With our daycare, DCDE due to COVID, they're not requiring families to pay their parent fees.
[4:23] For the month of November 3 January.
[4:25] So that's going to be another benefit to our families who get subsidy.
[4:29] They will have to pay those parent fees for those months.
[4:34] November's national adoption month.
[4:36] I want to mention that. We're currently trying to locate adoptive homes for 17 children.
[4:42] I've got a boy age four, one age 10.
[4:46] At four boys age 12, a boy age 13, four boys that are age 14 and a boy age 16.
[4:55] We have a girl age six, a girl age 11 and two girls age 14 and one age 15.
[5:01] All those are free for adoption, looking for a permanent home.
[5:07] I've got just a brief little story here about it.
[5:10] We have one right now, he's the 12-year-old male.
[5:13] He's in 7th grade at a local middle school here.
[5:17] He came in there across the May of 2015, 2015.
[5:22] And he's five years old, and he's been through multiple different placements.
[5:28] We've had him in different places, you know,
[5:30] a lot of times they've disrupted, and we've had to moving.
[5:35] And even on Christmas Eve, we had a family,
[5:38] when he was with, he'd been with a short amount of time,
[5:41] called and said, they couldn't take him anymore,
[5:44] and we had to find another placement for him.
[5:48] That's happened with foster children a lot of times,
[5:50] and he said, it's tough.
[5:53] We've got him not now in a therapeutic placement,
[5:57] And he's looking for a home, he's a good kid, you know, obviously a lot of those foster children
[6:03] they have a lot of issues when they come out of those homes and they need 11 families.
[6:07] They need people to care for them, 11 women and things are going good, 11 women and things are going bad.
[6:15] He's had many laptops for three last several years, but he's still like a big doctor.
[6:20] And he still wants to be a doctor.
[6:23] He wants to be a part of a family and everything.
[6:24] So anybody that wants to be a foster parent or a doctor child up and encourage them to contact
[6:30] social services.
[6:31] Obviously, I've named Alpha, list of children in their ages that we have available right
[6:37] now.
[6:39] And like a color office, 651, 7490, and would be happy to put them together with someone
[6:45] my dad.
[6:46] Because these children, they need a forever home.
[6:49] They need someone to love them, care for them, and watch out for them.
[6:53] really, that is a real need. And I want to just briefly tell you about our recruitment efforts
[6:58] right over. I'm trying to each month, you know, we've talked about what we want to do to recruit
[7:02] more foster parents and our social worker. We had one that does the licensing and foster children.
[7:10] Now we've got two. She completed her training on the eighth of October. So that's going to help
[7:17] that would give more manpower to get things done.
[7:21] We have an ad running in the journal Petriev.
[7:24] And ads on 3WC radio, we've got an electronic out.
[7:29] .
[7:30] And I don't know if any of you all the commissioners seen our ad on WXI, and we've got it out on there. And it's running. So, hopefully you'll see it. If you go to the website, you can see it as well. Another thing we're thinking about doing is also WGHB. We're saying about putting that ad out on there as well. So, it gets more eyeballs and stuff. We're working on with Greg. We're working on getting a website for our recruitment as well. That will have a web address just for that.
[8:00] And our teams are going to go to, we're taking our foster parents to the Alpha Omega, whatever we're going to go to the next thing.
[8:09] Cornelese, thank you.
[8:12] I'm getting out.
[8:13] Sometimes we'll let it go away.
[8:16] The corn maze on the 116.
[8:19] And they're also going to have booth on the light up downtown on the 19th as well.
[8:22] They may have hot chocolate.
[8:24] So they must come by and get hot chocolate.
[8:25] We've got little things with our logos on it and stuff that we can hand out at that point of time.
[8:31] And we want to do a Christmas party for our foster parents as well, show our appreciation to them.
[8:36] So we try to do things throughout the year to help them and encourage them and thank them for what they do and for helping our children and our council as well.
[8:47] Briefly, I gave you all the annual report, I wanted you to see that as well.
[8:52] Obviously, we won't go through the whole thing, one couple of items I wanted to mention.
[8:56] As you can see on that inner fell there, our total budget, this was for the period of 2020-2021,
[9:03] 162 million, 529,642 dollars.
[9:08] 67% of that was federal money, 29% of state and 4% was county.
[9:13] It's breaking down and you break down the bottom down at that pot chart and majority of that is 71% is Medicaid and food nutrition is 17%.
[9:23] Looking on the inside of it, I will obviously go through all that.
[9:28] I hope that when you all have time, definitely perizot things, just a couple of items.
[9:34] You think about the financial support of the social services brings into the county.
[9:40] On the third column over, when you look at that, the Food Nutrition Services.
[9:46] We had 505,828 households on average received Food Nutrition Services per month.
[9:53] Into our county, we brought in 28,000, 318,699 dollars, the health sport, our local grocery
[10:01] stores and our families here, our low-income energy assistance, where we help our people
[10:06] with energy, $418,250, $8,000, and then we had some pandemic layout that was added to it
[10:14] through, called the COVID as 187,331 dollars and 90 cents.
[10:19] And then the crisis program, that's to help with heating and cooling needs, $357,403 dollars.
[10:27] Those are items that help our citizens here, and one thing that a lot of people, I'm sure a lot
[10:34] people in this room with children in school, the pandemic, EBT, when the schools were closed,
[10:39] the health with that.
[10:41] There was 9,323 children served, 4 million, 19,053 dollars and 28 cents, was issued to our
[10:51] citizens in the county.
[10:53] It's just great.
[10:54] I'm glad that many were able to come into our county and help our citizens.
[10:58] But if you ever have any questions about that, please ask me and glad to get that out.
[11:03] If you're ready, we'll go into the numbers,
[11:09] keep growing.
[11:10] We're just, just, y'all, sure.
[11:15] To emphasize the amount of money that's coming in
[11:19] of the county through your report.
[11:22] Totally, it would be better than a hundred million dollars.
[11:27] What would you say, 110, 120 million, probably so?
[11:31] And that's each year.
[11:34] And that money is rounded, if it wasn't for that money coming in, we wouldn't have a hospital
[11:41] like we have, we wouldn't have the physicians that we have, we wouldn't have the pharmacies.
[11:46] All that money has been spent at the groceries, the supermarket, so it is a huge generator
[11:53] to the economy in Wilts County.
[11:55] I mean, you know, you're helping people, but also it does help the economy, it's a nice, exactly, you know, and that's a good point because, you know, the food nutrition services, that's not county money, that's a hundred percent.
[12:16] So that's money that comes into our county from outside to the hills.
[12:20] I just wanted to like that because I think it was worthwhile to make that point.
[12:27] Great.
[12:29] The numbers here that we're going to go over is for September.
[12:33] And we will start with the adult Medicaid.
[12:36] As you can see in September there are 7,675 cases in adult Medicaid.
[12:40] Family Medicaid is 8,898 cases, the Medicaid transportation is 2,291 food nutrition services in September
[12:51] is 6,341 and is 2,853,084 dollars, it came in food nutrition.
[12:59] The LEAP and SIP program we had 116 cases and we provided 15,273 dollars and 97 cents and benefits.
[13:07] Our daycare is $248 and $116,470 that goes to the support of our local child care as well.
[13:19] Work first, we had 97, child support, $2,865 and they collected $299,120 dollars in 69 cents.
[13:28] Our APS services were 71, we had 35 APS investigations.
[13:34] CPS case management was 37, CPS investigations was 112, we had 103 CPS intake reports.
[13:43] We have currently who have 222 children in foster care and we have 330 adoption assistance
[13:50] cases.
[13:51] If you look at the financial report for foster care, the September, our expenditure was 223,154
[14:01] or she's 68 cents, that's well under our allocation for the budget, so there's no issues with that.
[14:07] The adoption services were $37,610.51, well under our allocation of $41,666.
[14:17] And our child care was 116,470, we're under the allocation, we will spend all of that one,
[14:24] and we're working, we don't have a wait list at this time, we're working to get as much of that spent.
[14:32] If you look at the CPS foster government report in September, we had six homesteadies and
[14:39] cysts.
[14:39] We've completed two TPRs.
[14:42] We have 37 adoption cases.
[14:44] We have 17 children on the waiting list as I mentioned earlier.
[14:48] We've completed two step relative independent adoptions in the 330 adoption cases total.
[14:54] There's 31 foster homes in our county and we've received five applications which is good.
[15:00] We'd like, obviously, to have more. The next page, told a number of active cases for foster care, was 244. Those
[15:10] is monitoring 13 or the 18 to 21 year old VPAs, one guardianship assistance, so that that gives you the 222. Our foster care funding,
[15:22] 111 state, three weren't determined as of this report, 13 were the VPAs and four monitoring.
[15:29] And then our placements, we have 140 licensed placements, 34 are placed within our county and 106 outside.
[15:37] We have 69 kingship relative placements, six trial placements, two runaways, three hospitalizations, and 80 children are receiving links to this.
[15:50] John, this big crowd, that is a good point that we have 240 total active foster care cases that we need more adoptive parents.
[16:05] And that's just a good point to make.
[16:08] I appreciate comments from both of you.
[16:11] It is a great need in our county, and because we want our children to stay in Williams County.
[16:18] and go to the Wilkes County Schools and have a Wilkes County home grow up in.
[16:23] And the more cost of homes that I have that are in this county, the more that we can make that happen,
[16:28] and not have them spread out all over, because we do have them all over the state and in other states as well.
[16:36] How many homes do you need in Wilkes County to take care of this one of six?
[16:45] Probably, it would be good if we had probably up in the 50s, but if the ohms, yeah, I
[16:50] would barely be helpful.
[16:52] You know, right now, if you say it's from barely over 30.
[16:55] 50 more, 50 total.
[16:57] 50 total.
[16:58] Some are in a narrow, really hell.
[16:59] Because, you know, obviously we're using kinship, placing a switch, commissioning
[17:02] angle, and I agree with this, the best option.
[17:06] Right off the bat, as many of those as we can use.
[17:09] But if not, then we have that option as well.
[17:12] You know, we can get, but like I say, we're going to still look at Channel 8, we've got
[17:17] on Channel 12, and we'll start putting them back into movie theaters again when we all get
[17:22] to go back to the movies, you know, feel comfortable about it.
[17:26] So we've lived around 30 foster homes for several years since I've been on this.
[17:31] We have.
[17:32] We have.
[17:33] And that's one of the things that we're trying to do with these new outreach efforts
[17:39] try to get more and more eyeballs to see it.
[17:43] The next month I hope to bring on autumn and I'm
[17:46] she'll tell you about our recruitment efforts as well as she can talk about it.
[17:50] Anybody have anything else for social service director?
[17:56] Nice haircut.
[17:58] Lock your chair.
[18:01] It's easy.
[18:01] Take care of it.
[18:03] Take care of it.
[18:04] Enough, ma'am.
[18:05] Thank you.
[18:06] Good job, ma'am.
[18:06] Thank you.
[18:08] Thank you.
[18:12] Next be Mr. Tim Pennington.
[18:18] I love the MS director.
[18:21] We've got a two franchise agreements to him.
[18:25] Yes, sir.
[18:25] Mr. Chairman, Commissioner, here's not for round two in our final approval of the Wilkes County
[18:31] Annual Exchange Alliance between Wilkes CMS and Wilkes Rayski Squad, so you can final approval
[18:38] on this, as I mentioned last meeting, a lap patient who has been submitted, everything is
[18:44] in order, both parties are in good standing with the state, to part of health, hymn services
[18:50] are in North Carolina, OEMS.
[18:53] So, this is our second level, it will finalize the French eyes on this.
[19:01] The second level is the motion, the motion, the motion, the motion, the motion, the
[19:03] motion, the motion, the motion, the motion, the motion, the motion, the motion, the motion,
[19:07] But the motion needs to reflect this, the second, so we need a motion to approve, we
[19:15] have to do this separately, right?
[19:19] I don't want French House agreement with Wilkes County, EMS, and then the motion has to reflect
[19:24] that it is a second, but make a motion to approve the second vote, French House agreement
[19:31] with Wilkes County, EMS.
[19:33] Thank you, Casey.
[19:34] We have a second.
[19:36] Thank
[19:38] you.
[19:39] Any discussion on this county MS franchise orders?
[19:46] All in favor please raise your hand.
[19:50] Item two, franchise agreement, Wilkes County Rescue Squad.
[19:54] Also leads to reflect that is a second vote in the motion.
[20:04] Okay.
[20:05] I'll make a motion for the franchise agreement for Wilkes County Rescue Squad.
[20:09] Second vote.
[20:13] with the first, so if any discussion on this,
[20:18] okay, then none, let's raise your hand.
[20:20] Thank you.
[20:23] Good job, Liam.
[20:24] Thanks, sir.
[20:25] Be too for too.
[20:28] Thank you, thank you.
[20:30] Thank you.
[20:30] Thank you.
[20:30] Thank you.
[20:30] You know it is the tiny questions.
[20:32] I'm glad to have that.
[20:34] Thank you.
[20:37] Don't move text on the door for the school.
[20:40] And then take a little bit.
[20:42] Second.
[20:42] Does anybody leave?
[20:43] Yeah, I'll make each of you leave it?
[20:45] We're going to move them to add them to add them to add first.
[20:49] Okay. Very good.
[20:51] We have a consensus from board to do.
[20:52] That's fine.
[20:53] If you have a consensus, that's fine.
[20:55] Well,
[20:57] our staying tax administrator.
[21:02] Earlier in North Carolina.
[21:05] Get even this chairman.
[21:06] Good morning.
[21:06] Good morning.
[21:12] Thank you.
[21:13] I have a list in front of you.
[21:16] This list is the court request for the least support of months.
[21:21] to the point of one.
[21:24] It was $104 total to a dollar value.
[21:27] They think $1,216 is the only one since.
[21:33] But we have it from our main question,
[21:34] we call these tax releases.
[21:43] The locomotion will put in the tax release.
[21:46] Thank you, please.
[21:47] Second, first of all, second.
[21:50] Any discussion on these tax release?
[21:53] I'll favor please raise your hand.
[21:56] Will?
[21:58] Good job.
[22:01] All right, our last order of business, so there's no business and news business and we're going to have a conversation tonight.
[22:10] Yes, we are.
[22:12] We'll be out of that.
[22:13] Each resolution for life, David Dyer, and Miss Susan Sturgeon.
[22:40] David, I think everybody may have statements that want to make or whatever and I'm sure you probably got one too, but before we get started, do you want to read the resolution tonight or do you want to list it?
[22:58] I'd love for y'all to do. Okay, that would be y'all gonna pass?
[23:12] I do want to say before we get into it and I'm going to give it both over the time, you
[23:21] know, to speak, it what's needed to do.
[23:25] This resolution is not passing judgment on anybody, nobody in the world.
[23:30] It's a voice for the unborn.
[23:37] It's a stand for the right for life.
[23:42] I know that that rest of independence, which is in this, which is in this right here,
[23:47] affirms that all men are created equal and have been a doubt by their creator with certain unalignable rights.
[23:53] Chief among them the right to life.
[23:57] And that the protection of these rights is the fervent duty of the federal, the state,
[24:03] in the local board. We can't pass a law in here, but we can pass a resolution.
[24:10] Scripture says, I knew you in the womb. To me, that's enough, that's all I need.
[24:19] I certainly am prayerful that we've not aborted the person that had the cure of cancer.
[24:25] I don't know. Somebody called me and said, you need to know the science.
[24:31] I do know this that in the State of North Carolina finds unborn at the stage of the
[24:37] village. If a pregnant woman is killed in her unborn, that's two deaths.
[24:44] I think it should
[24:44] be that way from start to begin in our country. So you see, and I certainly am grateful for
[24:53] They've done so using to bring this dark tension to bring it forward.
[24:58] I've thought about it a long time, but I'm thankful for it.
[25:02] And I'm going to turn over to you first.
[25:05] Thank you.
[25:06] Thank you.
[25:08] Commissioners, and I especially want to thank everyone in attendance tonight for your show of support for the unborn.
[25:17] That's why we're here because they're not.
[25:20] That's why we speak because they can't, and it's our duty as followers of Christ to stand in the gap on their behalf.
[25:30] Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5, and you referenced it a moment ago, Eddie.
[25:35] This is what God said to the prophet Jeremiah.
[25:39] I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb.
[25:44] He takes ownership over life.
[25:47] He told Isaiah, the great prophet, the same thing in chapter 49, verse 1, the Bible says,
[25:53] the Lord called me before my birth, from within the womb.
[25:59] He called me by my name.
[26:03] The words of the Bible speak clearly concerning the issue of life, its value, and when it
[26:10] begins.
[26:12] God told both Jeremiah and Isaiah.
[26:14] Even when you were unknown to anyone else, you were known to me.
[26:21] I formed you, I gave you purpose, and I called your name.
[26:27] I'm thankful for the opportunity we have tonight to stand on the behalf of the unborn.
[26:33] This resolution represents the deeply held convictions of thousands of citizens in Wilkes County.
[26:40] Men and women from across this county have signed their names in support of this effort to declare that a child in the womb has equal value to you and to us.
[26:53] And in my hands, I hold 1,835 signatures of Wilkes County citizens supporting this resolution.
[27:09] For a long time, people have prayed for these precious babies.
[27:14] For decades, we've cried out for their protection.
[27:18] Our hearts are grieved that their innocence is so easily overlooked by this current culture.
[27:24] We are saddened when we hear the monthly and yearly statistics telling us that the lives of thousands upon thousands of those made in the image of God have been extinguished.
[27:40] As followers of Christ, we cannot stand by in silence and witness this.
[27:46] When we read the Scriptures, we find that we are commanded to speak and to act on the behalf
[27:53] of these precious little ones.
[27:55] The Bible says in Proverbs, chapter 24, verses 11 and 12, these words.
[28:03] Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die, save them as they stagger to their death.
[28:13] Don't excuse yourself by saying, look, we didn't know,
[28:22] for God understands all hearts, and
[28:26] he sees you.
[28:28] He who guards your soul knows you will.
[28:32] He will repay all people as their actions deserve.
[28:38] We cannot claim ignorance concerning this issue.
[28:41] The ability of an ultrasound machine has shown us the miracle of life in the womb.
[28:49] We can watch and hear the heartbeat of an eight-week-old baby.
[28:55] We can see a child stretch out his arms, kick his feet, and suck his thumb.
[29:04] And we can witness the pain and suffering of these sons and daughters as they are pierced
[29:10] and prodded and poisoned by those who claim to have the right to end their life.
[29:20] We will not remain silent.
[29:23] We cannot allow this to continue.
[29:27] God knows that we know the truth and He will hold us accountable for what we do with the truth.
[29:38] This is the moment that we have been given to declare that we, as a county, believe in the
[29:46] value of every person, including those who have yet to be born.
[29:53] Tonight is a meaningful step that we take as a community to make it known.
[30:00] That we stand boldly for life. Thank
[30:18] you very much, Mr. Chairman and Commissioner, thank you for the opportunity to come before you tonight.
[30:28] You know, this resolution that has been presented represents what the pregnancy care center has been doing for 25 years in Wilkes County.
[30:36] And it is, it's very heartening to see the community which has supported this work for 25 years.
[30:45] We have been solely supported by this community, but to see the community come out in such great support
[30:51] and to see our county commissioners paying attention to this issue, something we have valued for these 25 years.
[30:59] You know, Mr. Chairman, you mentioned the fact that you're very thankful that the cure
[31:06] for cancer might not have been aborted, but you know, many children have been to the
[31:14] tune of 60 plus million. And that's just since 1973 since we started counting. And that
[31:23] even doesn't count some of the ones that are aborted to the abortion pill, which records
[31:28] are not kept as accurately today as they should be.
[31:32] So when we look at it and we say,
[31:34] where would we be today if we weren't awarding
[31:38] our most precious commodity?
[31:41] And that's our children, that's our unborn.
[31:44] I don't know of another species in this world
[31:47] that devalues their unborn, like we have.
[31:51] And so thank you so very much for this resolution,
[31:54] and for bringing this forward for the church that has come out for this community that has come
[32:01] out to say, yes, we agree with this. We want to see this. This is what we believe and
[32:06] moving forward. We're going to walk that way and we're going to honor the unborn.
[32:12] Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Susan.
[32:32] I think we would be remiss if we didn't recognize our former Senator Charlie Randallman for her tireless efforts in the legislation passing laws to protect the animal.
[32:45] Have
[32:57] one, could you tell us how many churches are represented roughly?
[33:01] I know you probably don't know everyone, but I know a lot through our temporary Bible,
[33:05] and maybe the denominations are the different denominations.
[33:09] Let's see, I'd say at this point, because I stood at the door like a Walmart creator,
[33:13] so everybody walked in.
[33:16] I'd say we've got well over 30 churches represented and probably about seven different denominations in our count represented here.
[33:25] And
[33:32] I have just wanted to thank you.
[33:34] I have just wanted to thank you.
[33:35] I have just wanted to thank you.
[33:35] Anybody else?
[33:40] I would like to.
[33:41] As I was entering, I would say ask,
[33:44] oh, you've been able to stand up for the unborn.
[33:48] And I said certainly.
[33:51] It was not a question.
[33:56] But I would like to take the opportunity
[33:58] we just heard from social service.
[34:01] I'd like to stand, I'd like for people to stand up for the ball and also, I'd just say,
[34:05] remember these small stricots, and if you got the opportunity and able to do it,
[34:12] it would be great to take the training, I've done it, I've done it, I've done it, I don't do it now,
[34:17] I've got sort of burn out on it.
[34:20] It's good to see you.
[34:20] It's good to see you.
[34:21] But it would be good to do it, because you do have kids to need these help and you gotta use them.
[34:33] I've been excited all day long to be here tonight and appreciate you all being here.
[34:39] I'll show you support for this resolution.
[34:42] It's an exciting night for Wilts County and for North Carolina.
[34:45] I believe we are the third county.
[34:48] I think to do this resolution, so what an exciting night, what a difference.
[34:52] You were all making being here tonight.
[34:54] I have the privilege to serve on the board at the Wilkes Prennese Care Center, and I appreciate all they do to support women and men and families.
[35:06] And we recently had a fundraiser, and Pastor David Jones from Baptist Home. He may be here tonight.
[35:15] And I talked to him today to ask if I could just share something that he shared that not in his testimony.
[35:22] He just really resonated with me and I thought about it many times since that night that he said that there was a 14-year-old girl who found herself pregnant in a predicament and she had choices.
[35:37] All these different choices things that she can do and because she chose life, he got to be a father.
[35:45] And I have
[35:54] two children and one is not a week's old.
[35:58] And when I first heard that heartbeat, I just thank God for that.
[36:02] And it's honor to be a part of this board and honor to vote on this resolution to not.
[36:07] And appreciate all of you being here. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[36:09] I appreciate it. Thank you. I think everyone's being here and turn around in there.
[36:15] My wife.
[36:18] I don't know if I've ever seen her commercially.
[36:23] She made sure it
[36:25] It does, right? Thank you.
[36:31] Anyway, I'm glad we got a life too. It's good.
[36:35] I'm going to read a resolution and we'll take the vote.
[36:40] Resolution for life, a resolution of the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners declaring
[36:44] Wilkes County North Carolina to be a strong advocate for life and urging the citizens
[36:49] of the county to promote and defend the unalemable right of look to life and the inherent
[36:55] dignity of all human beings, including the unborn from conception or fertilization through
[37:02] all stages of development.
[37:03] Whereas, the Declaration of Independence affirms that all men are created equal and have been
[37:09] endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, chief among them, right to
[37:14] laugh, and that the protection of these rights is an affirmative duty of federal, state, and
[37:19] local governments, and whereas the fifth and fourth-teenth amendments of the United States Constitution
[37:25] provide for the protection of human life and liberty.
[37:28] we're at
[37:30] As Article 1 of the Constitution and North Carolina states that all persons are creating equal, that they are endowed by their creator, with certain invisible rights, that among these are life liberty, the enjoyment of the fruits of their own labor and pursuit of happiness, whereas James Madison, who is considered to be a father of the United States Constitution, wrote that the activation of all powers, legislative, executive and judiciary, in the same hands, may just be pronounced.
[38:00] announced the very definition of tyranny.
[38:03] Whereas the federal judiciary, as in the opinion of the Board of Commissioners,
[38:09] accumulated an exercise power as far in excess of its proper role under the United States
[38:13] Constitution, in its rulings concerning the rights of the unborn, and has violated the
[38:19] above-stated precepts of the Declaration of Independence.
[38:22] The United States Constitution and the State of North Carolina, whereas the Supreme Court
[38:27] of the United States, in the case of poker versus dough for 32, concluded that the Constitution
[38:33] does not forbid a state or city, pursuant to democratic process from expressing a preference
[38:39] for normal childbirth instead of abortion.
[38:44] We're asked the Wilkes County Board of Commissioners, desires to express its strong feeling
[38:49] and deep concern that all human beings in the County of Wilkes, at every stage of development,
[38:55] including before birth, should be a 40 protection for max of cruelty and be humainly treated and with dignity.
[39:03] Whereas the Willis County Board of Commissioners further desires to declare Willis County
[39:08] be a strong advocate for life, the urge county citizens promote and defend the undelitable
[39:13] right to life and inherit dignity of all human beings, including the unborn from concession
[39:19] or fertilization through all stages.
[39:24] Now, therefore, beer resolved that the Wilts County Board of Commissioners hereby expresses
[39:29] its strong feeling, deep concern that all human beings in the County of Wilts have every
[39:34] stage of development, including before birth, should be a 40 protection from acts of cruelty
[39:39] and being humainly treated and with dignity, be it further resolved that the Wilts County Board
[39:44] of Commissioners hereby declares Wilts County to be a strong advocate for life and urges
[39:49] the county citizens to promote and defend the unalignable right to life and inherit dignity
[39:54] of all human beings, including the unborn from conception or fertilization through all stages
[40:00] of development.
[40:02] And be it further resolved that the Wilst County Board of Commissioners hereby resolves
[40:05] to use all means within its power to support the sanctity of human life in accordance with
[40:11] its God given responsibilities as the people's elected governing body.
[40:16] Be it further resolved that a plaque be erected by the Wilts County Board of Commissioners
[40:21] at such a time and place in such a manner as the Board shall deem appropriate.
[40:25] Memorizing this resolution adopted this second day November 2021, 80d settle chairman.
[40:34] Do you have any comments?
[40:36] Any discussion?
[40:39] Now we're there to have a motion.
[40:42] Vice President.
[40:44] Motion to adopt resolution.
[40:46] Thank you.
[40:47] First and a second. I don't favorite without this resolution, please raise your hand first
[41:19] Like how many resets so everybody knew that
[41:29] We
[42:17] got to give you the old business
[42:24] New business
[42:25] I got some big business.
[42:27] I was in a phone conference by last Friday,
[42:32] and they now have 31 counties in our region.
[42:35] And we're going to have to appoint one county commissioner
[42:39] to our new board, plus one person from either DSS director,
[42:47] criminal justice, or a health director.
[42:51] Do you say it's criminal justice and what else?
[42:55] It has to be from one of those fields.
[42:57] The SS director are criminal justice or the health director.
[43:02] So it has to be one from those areas and one county commissioner.
[43:09] But what would you say?
[43:10] One county commissioner.
[43:12] And they have to go to ash.
[43:14] That's now because our region will be Wilkes, Ash,
[43:18] We'll talk about Allegheny,
[43:22] we're in region over and there's several counties in each county.
[43:25] We're rolling in on the rest of the churches.
[43:28] Yeah.
[43:28] We're rolling in on the rest of the churches.
[43:30] In region over.
[43:31] We're rolling in.
[43:33] We're rolling in.
[43:33] So via via splitting.
[43:37] We're still going by.
[43:39] They'll still be by you because we like that.
[43:41] By you took it over Cardinal.
[43:42] What'll happen is there's 31 counties.
[43:45] said they're all being broken out into full regions and we're region three and then we
[43:52] like I say rowing is one then wheel sash, Allegheny, we'll talk about it.
[43:56] I believe I read in the pages where they were tied, they were with
[44:15] They may have there.
[44:16] They may not be in the map at all, but I do know that we're going to, we have the
[44:21] County Commissioner, and we have to have this first, these two people appointed by the
[44:28] Simbers, the first meeting in December.
[44:32] Okay, we don't have much time to get done, but I do have to let them know who it's going
[44:36] to be.
[44:37] So like I said, one County Commissioner, one DSS, criminal justice or hail.
[44:42] It's good. I've not been able to talk with Rachel and I've not been able to talk with me
[44:46] by some criminal justice, but I did talk with John Blavins. He is willing to serve
[44:51] if we do choose him.
[44:53] Hail Susan Bokmer, oh, no.
[44:59] Hail Threat.
[45:02] In the health report, not from the health report from the health director. So it has to be the health director.
[45:09] Sheriff Chris you or the DSS director.
[45:13] You know, they're a point, that's right.
[45:15] Yeah, they're a point. That's right.
[45:17] They're a point.
[45:19] Yeah, I'm not kidding.
[45:21] It's not a point.
[45:22] It's a direct point.
[45:23] It's a direct point.
[45:24] I understand that, but a representative from the health department, it usually says,
[45:29] or there a point. That's why.
[45:31] That's not that late this time.
[45:34] I would be a great door system.
[45:35] Okay. Yeah, that's what it should be.
[45:37] I can't wait to have a minute.
[45:39] Yes. Sorry, I forgot that one.
[45:41] I keep looking at one of those.
[45:42] We all go to work on it.
[45:44] And like I said, I did talk to John
[45:45] but I had talk to God to talk to Rachel.
[45:48] Okay.
[45:49] What's the one we have on this?
[45:50] Zach Sherford will be giving us an update too.
[45:53] We're next meeting.
[45:54] And so it'd be perfect.
[45:55] Yeah, by that.
[45:56] Okay, we'll work on, and we'll still be with Brian Sheaping. He'll still be our regional contact.
[46:03] But we will not, we won't be going to ask you.
[46:08] I won't be traveling at that school.
[46:09] We have a real lot of barriers.
[46:11] Good news.
[46:13] Anybody got anything else?
[46:18] I'll get the light and the light.
[46:21] Elections.
[46:22] Yeah, get home.
[46:24] Don't eat up.
[46:26] Hey, fellas.
[46:33] I think we're going to go and go and give us that, I'll give you the word of speech, the speech that I'll give you.
[46:43] We need a motion to go into closed session to consult with the Board's attorney to protect the attorney client privilege and to consider or give instructions concerning what is known as the opioid lawsuit.
[46:52] Sound moved.
[46:54] Tech.
[46:55] I don't like it.
[46:58] We are in trouble.
[47:14] To adjourn.
[47:15] Say it.
[47:16] I don't like everybody.
[47:17] Or adjourn.
[47:19] There you go.