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| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:04 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:10 | |
| All right. Thank you. New business take call for nominations for election of the President. | 00:00:17 | |
| I like to nominate. | 00:00:24 | |
| Alchemy a second. All right, I have a motion a second. All in favor, aye? Aye. | 00:00:26 | |
| Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure serving 2023 and I'll double down my efforts for 2024, particularly making sure that | 00:00:34 | |
| door is open before the meeting starts. | 00:00:40 | |
| Now we'll take a call for Vice President. I'd like to nominate John Schellenberger for Vice President and I will second that all | 00:00:46 | |
| in favor, aye. | 00:00:50 | |
| All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Next we want to announce the Floyd County appointments for 2024. | 00:00:56 | |
| These have all been decided beforehand, but we do want to run through these. | 00:01:05 | |
| So I'm going to take page one and then John, if you'll do page two, OK, so. | 00:01:12 | |
| President will be out Cable vice president John Schellenberger, attorney Rick Fox service officer Marty Snyder. | 00:01:20 | |
| The ABC board Steve Roberts, Community Action of Southern Indiana. La Micro. Martin. | 00:01:27 | |
| Weights and Measures. Steve Ingram. | 00:01:33 | |
| Floyd County Community Action. | 00:01:36 | |
| Committee John Schellenberger. | 00:01:39 | |
| RH Regional Planning. | 00:01:42 | |
| Council we Don lop. | 00:01:45 | |
| Kept the board of directors John Schoenberger. | 00:01:47 | |
| Kept a transportation technical coordinating elements committee or Commission. I think it's a committee. Your ratio, your ETA. | 00:01:50 | |
| Horseshoe Foundation, now Knavel. | 00:01:55 | |
| Floyd County Police bargaining, Jason Sharp, Regional Housing Committee, Nick Creevy Youth Shelter, Alkanable Legacy Foundation, | 00:02:00 | |
| Bill White. | 00:02:05 | |
| And Legacy Foundation Alcohol Planning Commission Jason Sharp motion to approve, I'll say all in favor, aye. | 00:02:11 | |
| OK for the Redevelopment Authority yearly and see Roberts, Ray Chan and Bill White. | 00:02:21 | |
| For the Redevelopment Commissioner. | 00:02:27 | |
| The Redevelopment Commission is Robert Wolseley, Rich Bowling and myself. | 00:02:31 | |
| The River Hills is myself. | 00:02:37 | |
| Chris Welch, La Micra Martin, Jeremy Kramer and Sean Carruthers. | 00:02:40 | |
| The Peter Boa is David Riley, Martin Schmidt and Michelle Cutter. | 00:02:45 | |
| And for the Planning Commission is Victoria Unruh and the Floyd County BCA is Lee is Larry Beetle Hauser. | 00:02:51 | |
| All right. Seek a motion to approve motion to approve those, and I'll second all in favor, aye? | 00:02:59 | |
| All right. I believe that was all the business that we had. Does that cover all the bases, Susannah? | 00:03:06 | |
| All right. Motion to adjourn. All right. | 00:03:11 | |
| We back in five. | 00:03:15 | |
| Oh, sure. | 00:03:25 | |
| All right. Welcome to the Board of Commissioners of Floyd County. First meeting for the year 2024. I think I knew a couple of | 00:03:28 | |
| other people joined us. So I think we'll do the pledge again. Doesn't hurt. | 00:03:33 | |
| Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible liberty and | 00:03:42 | |
| justice for all. | 00:03:47 | |
| All right. Welcome everyone. Thank you for being here. If you'll please silence your cell phones. | 00:03:53 | |
| And join me in a moment of silence. | 00:04:00 | |
| For individual prayer, meditation, or reflection. | 00:04:03 | |
| Thank everyone again for being here. We have a relatively short agenda tonight and we're going to have ample time for public | 00:04:26 | |
| comment. | 00:04:30 | |
| So, to begin with, Director of Operations Planning Don Lott. | 00:04:36 | |
| Good evening. First item I have is a contract of ideology. It's our renewal of their contract. They do marketing and assist with | 00:04:46 | |
| websites for us and other items. | 00:04:51 | |
| And so that amount for this renewal is 36,000. | 00:04:57 | |
| It's gonna be, it's gonna be by Mr. Fox and everything. | 00:05:03 | |
| Is in order. How many years have they been? This is their second year, second year, OK. Was there a big jump in price on that | 00:05:06 | |
| actually reduction? | 00:05:10 | |
| OK. Motion to approve. I'll second it all in favor. Aye, aye. Thank you. Second, I'm just a real quick update on the Charlestown | 00:05:15 | |
| Rd. Trail project. | 00:05:21 | |
| Nick Creepy was at and meeting with Kipta. We had that project in two phases, one in 2024, one in 2026. There's been some funding | 00:05:27 | |
| that's become available through INDOT. | 00:05:34 | |
| It's going to move the project from March of this year letting to July in dots working with us through that. There will be a | 00:05:41 | |
| engineering contract for construction engineering RFP that's went out for inspection, but it's looking like at the least it's an | 00:05:47 | |
| 8020. | 00:05:53 | |
| Match which we were going to have to put more in because if it was kept to funds and it's possibility of even a 9010 match | 00:05:59 | |
| according to. So we'll give you more information as we get it, but looks like that project can actually be done. It'll be done | 00:06:06 | |
| with less local local monies than what we had originally planned and sooner. | 00:06:13 | |
| And with the project go ahead, we got all have we purchased all the right aways and easements and all that, everything is ready | 00:06:20 | |
| right away, utilities been relocated and so. | 00:06:25 | |
| It is ready to go through in dot, letting in dot would let it and then manage the financials and then we would just work with | 00:06:31 | |
| their inspector in terms of. | 00:06:36 | |
| The inspection of project and this starts. We're about some trust Rd. in the. | 00:06:43 | |
| It would connect with the Kevin Hammersmith Park and County Line. | 00:06:49 | |
| Going directly up the County line and that's as far as it goes in, yeah, I would stop there at the at the crossroads between | 00:06:54 | |
| County Line and Charleston. | 00:06:58 | |
| Good job. OK. And that had been in jeopardy of some delay because of our internal funding, correct? | 00:07:03 | |
| Our internal funding and also in our crypto funding. | 00:07:12 | |
| But we were able to, we were able to get that funding for 26 and then dot has funds that they have made available to actually do | 00:07:16 | |
| it all now in one, one, one phase. So all right, well, job well done on that. | 00:07:23 | |
| Nick, creepy one, probably deserved a lot of credit because he was he's kind of shepherd that. So good deal. Thank you, Don. | 00:07:32 | |
| All right, Boarding committee reports. | 00:07:40 | |
| All right. So we're not going to have any EMS meetings until after the RFP. | 00:07:45 | |
| Or turn in in February. | 00:07:53 | |
| We get those back in, we'll start having those meetings again mid February. February 1st is when we're supposed to get the RFP's | 00:07:55 | |
| and I believe it's February 5th maybe. | 00:08:00 | |
| OK. Yeah, we'll have a meeting on February 5th and we'll have a. | 00:08:08 | |
| Another one, I think 13. | 00:08:11 | |
| Let's see. | 00:08:16 | |
| December 28th attended the Joint Commissioner and Council meeting and immediately afterwards attended the Council meeting that | 00:08:18 | |
| immediately preceded our joint meeting. | 00:08:23 | |
| I had a couple opportunities to spend some time with our employees for some couple Christmas luncheons. | 00:08:28 | |
| Which is nice. I mean, we got a very dedicated group of county employees, so it was good to spend a little bit of time with them. | 00:08:34 | |
| That's all I got today. | 00:08:37 | |
| John, OK. | 00:08:42 | |
| I got it down just a couple paragraphs here. Again, attended the joint meeting, council meeting on 12/28 and we had a good time | 00:08:47 | |
| with our taking our operations. | 00:08:53 | |
| Employees out as well as we had pizza with our Rd. department last Friday, I think it was. | 00:09:00 | |
| Had a good time and also very good pizza too so. | 00:09:08 | |
| And the other thing is that last week Don and Nick and myself we met with mainstream to talk about the next level phase four for | 00:09:10 | |
| broadband, a very good, very productive meeting. And so we're trying to digest that and hoping that we'll be talking with one of | 00:09:19 | |
| the other carriers vendors as well to see what's what kind of plans they have phase for phase four. | 00:09:28 | |
| There's a there's another program called Bead, which is a broadband equalization access. | 00:09:37 | |
| Whatever, I forget what the D is. | 00:09:44 | |
| But it's coming from the from the federal government. So we've got between okra and bead, there are several opportunities for us | 00:09:45 | |
| to complete the broadband in Floyd County. So that's all I have. | 00:09:51 | |
| 12/23 I attended a breakfast with Nomad St. Ministry Down on Oak St. New Albany. They do ongoing important work trying to help the | 00:09:59 | |
| homeless situation in New Albus Lloyd County. | 00:10:04 | |
| 1227 Attended the swearing in ceremony for our newly elected County officials 12/28 joint meeting that evening. Attended the | 00:10:10 | |
| swearing in of Councilwoman Stephanie Griffith. | 00:10:16 | |
| A 12/29 met with newly sworn in City Councilman Chris Fitzgerald. He's District 4 and. | 00:10:23 | |
| Trying to see where we could work together on the northern part of the Grant Line corridor, which runs through his district, but | 00:10:33 | |
| also a. | 00:10:37 | |
| Incorporates the Grant line, Rd. frontage of the Annex and the. | 00:10:42 | |
| The park there, so. | 00:10:48 | |
| And then again, a couple good holiday gatherings with some of our employees. So I look forward to a busy, productive 2024. | 00:10:50 | |
| I need approval of the commissioners meeting minutes for December 19, 2023. Motion to approve. I'll second all in favor. | 00:11:01 | |
| Approval of Payroll and claims. | 00:11:11 | |
| All in order motion to approve. I'll second all in favor. Aye. We also had a storm water meeting at 4:30 PM this evening. Our next | 00:11:14 | |
| meeting will be January 16th, 2024 at 6:00 PM. | 00:11:20 | |
| Do we have any public? | 00:11:29 | |
| Officials who would like to comment tonight. | 00:11:32 | |
| County Council, I just want to say hope everybody had a great holiday season and looking forward to working with Y'all next year | 00:11:40 | |
| and going forward. | 00:11:44 | |
| Thank you very much. We reciprocate those feelings. | 00:11:49 | |
| Hope we can keep up with our joint meetings. | 00:11:53 | |
| Any public comments tonight? | 00:11:57 | |
| Yep. | 00:11:59 | |
| Good evening gentlemen. Joseph Moore, Georgetown Township. First, I know I wish you good holidays and Christmas last time and. | 00:12:08 | |
| Our statement I disagree with you guys sometimes on issues, but I appreciate the amount of effort and work you put in, including | 00:12:16 | |
| outside of this, remember? So I've noticed that. | 00:12:21 | |
| Two things that were discussed one last time and one this time. Did you say there would be meetings on the new EMS expansion on | 00:12:27 | |
| February 5th and 13th? Is that what I heard? | 00:12:32 | |
| Those will be the scheduled meetings for the EMS board. 5th I believe is a workshop. That's what we just opened up the bids and | 00:12:39 | |
| talk about it and then we have a meeting, Jason, is that right? Yeah, the regular scheduled meeting I believe is the 13th. | 00:12:45 | |
| I've seen interest. I've heard from people because my. | 00:12:51 | |
| Community environment. I've seen it on social media. | 00:12:55 | |
| People are interested in this. I presume there's going to be some public notice or public meetings before decisions are made, or | 00:12:58 | |
| is that going to be in the course of a regular commissioner meeting? | 00:13:03 | |
| Any idea? | 00:13:09 | |
| Well, the EMS board meetings are open to the public directions, so the Advisory Board meetings are open to the public. | 00:13:10 | |
| Our joint meetings with the Council are open to the public, I will say that. | 00:13:18 | |
| You know, there are none scheduled at the moment because we don't know who the new council president is going to be and whether | 00:13:23 | |
| they'll wish to, you know, continue with those. My hope is that they are. | 00:13:27 | |
| And I have committed to at least one of those meetings before we make a final decision on that. I understand the they're open, but | 00:13:32 | |
| considering some people aren't want to be involved, but there's a limit to their. I won't say apathy versus time, but for the | 00:13:38 | |
| meetings that where you guys or anybody who makes the actual decision voting to approve of a contract or bid or to expend money. | 00:13:44 | |
| I'd like to keep track of that so I can make sure people know if they want to save up their appearance for the big game, if you | 00:13:51 | |
| know what I mean. | 00:13:57 | |
| But I think they're all important, so I do too. So I, you know, football games are four quarters for a reason, right? So I I, I | 00:14:04 | |
| encourage involvement whenever anyone from the public with an interest can be here. | 00:14:10 | |
| And I guarantee that whether they speak at the first meeting or the last meeting. | 00:14:17 | |
| Those thoughts will be taken into consideration. You're speaking to the choir, but I'm saying that some people don't show up until | 00:14:21 | |
| the Super Bowl. Understood anyhow. | 00:14:26 | |
| The so I appreciate that. The other thing is when you mentioned last time about the bank withdrawing the building offer for any | 00:14:30 | |
| county building downtown. | 00:14:35 | |
| I mentioned this once before, if I made a note, I just wanted to remind you, please in any consideration you give to a new | 00:14:41 | |
| building, new facility, it's got a parking has to be a priority. It can't just be an adequate parking for the employees and maybe | 00:14:46 | |
| a couple of spots. | 00:14:52 | |
| It's got to be enough that people conducting their business or for meetings they can partners, judges. The one building the was it | 00:14:58 | |
| the Pearl St. White House. The White House. That one harbor parking situation because it wasn't even enough parking for the | 00:15:04 | |
| employees within a reasonable distance. So I'm just saying please. | 00:15:10 | |
| Number one, I appreciate our ongoing football analogy, but I'll kill it here with this one. But one of the the things on the | 00:15:18 | |
| learning curve in public versus private is you know, our, our private business open 2 new facilities last year. Nobody knew about | 00:15:23 | |
| that until we had a ribbon cutting. | 00:15:29 | |
| Publicly, every step along the way it has to be public, which is great. I applaud that and I welcome it. But that means if we're | 00:15:36 | |
| actually looking at a building such as the old White House, we have to publicly acknowledge that we're doing that. Even though | 00:15:42 | |
| part of the process is looking at the parking. It invites people to say, well, have you looked at the parking, have you looked at | 00:15:48 | |
| the parking? And so you know that is something that probably would have been ruled out very, very quickly and actually was as one | 00:15:54 | |
| of the larger, but. | 00:15:59 | |
| It's just a little bit different when you're doing things publicly versus privately because you're kind of thinking out loud and | 00:16:06 | |
| in front of. | 00:16:09 | |
| Anyone else? | 00:16:41 | |
| I'll look for a motion to adjourn. So moved. All right, second, second. | 00:16:44 |
Transcript
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:00:04 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:00:10 | |
| All right. Thank you. New business take call for nominations for election of the President. | 00:00:17 | |
| I like to nominate. | 00:00:24 | |
| Alchemy a second. All right, I have a motion a second. All in favor, aye? Aye. | 00:00:26 | |
| Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure serving 2023 and I'll double down my efforts for 2024, particularly making sure that | 00:00:34 | |
| door is open before the meeting starts. | 00:00:40 | |
| Now we'll take a call for Vice President. I'd like to nominate John Schellenberger for Vice President and I will second that all | 00:00:46 | |
| in favor, aye. | 00:00:50 | |
| All right. Thank you, gentlemen. Next we want to announce the Floyd County appointments for 2024. | 00:00:56 | |
| These have all been decided beforehand, but we do want to run through these. | 00:01:05 | |
| So I'm going to take page one and then John, if you'll do page two, OK, so. | 00:01:12 | |
| President will be out Cable vice president John Schellenberger, attorney Rick Fox service officer Marty Snyder. | 00:01:20 | |
| The ABC board Steve Roberts, Community Action of Southern Indiana. La Micro. Martin. | 00:01:27 | |
| Weights and Measures. Steve Ingram. | 00:01:33 | |
| Floyd County Community Action. | 00:01:36 | |
| Committee John Schellenberger. | 00:01:39 | |
| RH Regional Planning. | 00:01:42 | |
| Council we Don lop. | 00:01:45 | |
| Kept the board of directors John Schoenberger. | 00:01:47 | |
| Kept a transportation technical coordinating elements committee or Commission. I think it's a committee. Your ratio, your ETA. | 00:01:50 | |
| Horseshoe Foundation, now Knavel. | 00:01:55 | |
| Floyd County Police bargaining, Jason Sharp, Regional Housing Committee, Nick Creevy Youth Shelter, Alkanable Legacy Foundation, | 00:02:00 | |
| Bill White. | 00:02:05 | |
| And Legacy Foundation Alcohol Planning Commission Jason Sharp motion to approve, I'll say all in favor, aye. | 00:02:11 | |
| OK for the Redevelopment Authority yearly and see Roberts, Ray Chan and Bill White. | 00:02:21 | |
| For the Redevelopment Commissioner. | 00:02:27 | |
| The Redevelopment Commission is Robert Wolseley, Rich Bowling and myself. | 00:02:31 | |
| The River Hills is myself. | 00:02:37 | |
| Chris Welch, La Micra Martin, Jeremy Kramer and Sean Carruthers. | 00:02:40 | |
| The Peter Boa is David Riley, Martin Schmidt and Michelle Cutter. | 00:02:45 | |
| And for the Planning Commission is Victoria Unruh and the Floyd County BCA is Lee is Larry Beetle Hauser. | 00:02:51 | |
| All right. Seek a motion to approve motion to approve those, and I'll second all in favor, aye? | 00:02:59 | |
| All right. I believe that was all the business that we had. Does that cover all the bases, Susannah? | 00:03:06 | |
| All right. Motion to adjourn. All right. | 00:03:11 | |
| We back in five. | 00:03:15 | |
| Oh, sure. | 00:03:25 | |
| All right. Welcome to the Board of Commissioners of Floyd County. First meeting for the year 2024. I think I knew a couple of | 00:03:28 | |
| other people joined us. So I think we'll do the pledge again. Doesn't hurt. | 00:03:33 | |
| Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible liberty and | 00:03:42 | |
| justice for all. | 00:03:47 | |
| All right. Welcome everyone. Thank you for being here. If you'll please silence your cell phones. | 00:03:53 | |
| And join me in a moment of silence. | 00:04:00 | |
| For individual prayer, meditation, or reflection. | 00:04:03 | |
| Thank everyone again for being here. We have a relatively short agenda tonight and we're going to have ample time for public | 00:04:26 | |
| comment. | 00:04:30 | |
| So, to begin with, Director of Operations Planning Don Lott. | 00:04:36 | |
| Good evening. First item I have is a contract of ideology. It's our renewal of their contract. They do marketing and assist with | 00:04:46 | |
| websites for us and other items. | 00:04:51 | |
| And so that amount for this renewal is 36,000. | 00:04:57 | |
| It's gonna be, it's gonna be by Mr. Fox and everything. | 00:05:03 | |
| Is in order. How many years have they been? This is their second year, second year, OK. Was there a big jump in price on that | 00:05:06 | |
| actually reduction? | 00:05:10 | |
| OK. Motion to approve. I'll second it all in favor. Aye, aye. Thank you. Second, I'm just a real quick update on the Charlestown | 00:05:15 | |
| Rd. Trail project. | 00:05:21 | |
| Nick Creepy was at and meeting with Kipta. We had that project in two phases, one in 2024, one in 2026. There's been some funding | 00:05:27 | |
| that's become available through INDOT. | 00:05:34 | |
| It's going to move the project from March of this year letting to July in dots working with us through that. There will be a | 00:05:41 | |
| engineering contract for construction engineering RFP that's went out for inspection, but it's looking like at the least it's an | 00:05:47 | |
| 8020. | 00:05:53 | |
| Match which we were going to have to put more in because if it was kept to funds and it's possibility of even a 9010 match | 00:05:59 | |
| according to. So we'll give you more information as we get it, but looks like that project can actually be done. It'll be done | 00:06:06 | |
| with less local local monies than what we had originally planned and sooner. | 00:06:13 | |
| And with the project go ahead, we got all have we purchased all the right aways and easements and all that, everything is ready | 00:06:20 | |
| right away, utilities been relocated and so. | 00:06:25 | |
| It is ready to go through in dot, letting in dot would let it and then manage the financials and then we would just work with | 00:06:31 | |
| their inspector in terms of. | 00:06:36 | |
| The inspection of project and this starts. We're about some trust Rd. in the. | 00:06:43 | |
| It would connect with the Kevin Hammersmith Park and County Line. | 00:06:49 | |
| Going directly up the County line and that's as far as it goes in, yeah, I would stop there at the at the crossroads between | 00:06:54 | |
| County Line and Charleston. | 00:06:58 | |
| Good job. OK. And that had been in jeopardy of some delay because of our internal funding, correct? | 00:07:03 | |
| Our internal funding and also in our crypto funding. | 00:07:12 | |
| But we were able to, we were able to get that funding for 26 and then dot has funds that they have made available to actually do | 00:07:16 | |
| it all now in one, one, one phase. So all right, well, job well done on that. | 00:07:23 | |
| Nick, creepy one, probably deserved a lot of credit because he was he's kind of shepherd that. So good deal. Thank you, Don. | 00:07:32 | |
| All right, Boarding committee reports. | 00:07:40 | |
| All right. So we're not going to have any EMS meetings until after the RFP. | 00:07:45 | |
| Or turn in in February. | 00:07:53 | |
| We get those back in, we'll start having those meetings again mid February. February 1st is when we're supposed to get the RFP's | 00:07:55 | |
| and I believe it's February 5th maybe. | 00:08:00 | |
| OK. Yeah, we'll have a meeting on February 5th and we'll have a. | 00:08:08 | |
| Another one, I think 13. | 00:08:11 | |
| Let's see. | 00:08:16 | |
| December 28th attended the Joint Commissioner and Council meeting and immediately afterwards attended the Council meeting that | 00:08:18 | |
| immediately preceded our joint meeting. | 00:08:23 | |
| I had a couple opportunities to spend some time with our employees for some couple Christmas luncheons. | 00:08:28 | |
| Which is nice. I mean, we got a very dedicated group of county employees, so it was good to spend a little bit of time with them. | 00:08:34 | |
| That's all I got today. | 00:08:37 | |
| John, OK. | 00:08:42 | |
| I got it down just a couple paragraphs here. Again, attended the joint meeting, council meeting on 12/28 and we had a good time | 00:08:47 | |
| with our taking our operations. | 00:08:53 | |
| Employees out as well as we had pizza with our Rd. department last Friday, I think it was. | 00:09:00 | |
| Had a good time and also very good pizza too so. | 00:09:08 | |
| And the other thing is that last week Don and Nick and myself we met with mainstream to talk about the next level phase four for | 00:09:10 | |
| broadband, a very good, very productive meeting. And so we're trying to digest that and hoping that we'll be talking with one of | 00:09:19 | |
| the other carriers vendors as well to see what's what kind of plans they have phase for phase four. | 00:09:28 | |
| There's a there's another program called Bead, which is a broadband equalization access. | 00:09:37 | |
| Whatever, I forget what the D is. | 00:09:44 | |
| But it's coming from the from the federal government. So we've got between okra and bead, there are several opportunities for us | 00:09:45 | |
| to complete the broadband in Floyd County. So that's all I have. | 00:09:51 | |
| 12/23 I attended a breakfast with Nomad St. Ministry Down on Oak St. New Albany. They do ongoing important work trying to help the | 00:09:59 | |
| homeless situation in New Albus Lloyd County. | 00:10:04 | |
| 1227 Attended the swearing in ceremony for our newly elected County officials 12/28 joint meeting that evening. Attended the | 00:10:10 | |
| swearing in of Councilwoman Stephanie Griffith. | 00:10:16 | |
| A 12/29 met with newly sworn in City Councilman Chris Fitzgerald. He's District 4 and. | 00:10:23 | |
| Trying to see where we could work together on the northern part of the Grant Line corridor, which runs through his district, but | 00:10:33 | |
| also a. | 00:10:37 | |
| Incorporates the Grant line, Rd. frontage of the Annex and the. | 00:10:42 | |
| The park there, so. | 00:10:48 | |
| And then again, a couple good holiday gatherings with some of our employees. So I look forward to a busy, productive 2024. | 00:10:50 | |
| I need approval of the commissioners meeting minutes for December 19, 2023. Motion to approve. I'll second all in favor. | 00:11:01 | |
| Approval of Payroll and claims. | 00:11:11 | |
| All in order motion to approve. I'll second all in favor. Aye. We also had a storm water meeting at 4:30 PM this evening. Our next | 00:11:14 | |
| meeting will be January 16th, 2024 at 6:00 PM. | 00:11:20 | |
| Do we have any public? | 00:11:29 | |
| Officials who would like to comment tonight. | 00:11:32 | |
| County Council, I just want to say hope everybody had a great holiday season and looking forward to working with Y'all next year | 00:11:40 | |
| and going forward. | 00:11:44 | |
| Thank you very much. We reciprocate those feelings. | 00:11:49 | |
| Hope we can keep up with our joint meetings. | 00:11:53 | |
| Any public comments tonight? | 00:11:57 | |
| Yep. | 00:11:59 | |
| Good evening gentlemen. Joseph Moore, Georgetown Township. First, I know I wish you good holidays and Christmas last time and. | 00:12:08 | |
| Our statement I disagree with you guys sometimes on issues, but I appreciate the amount of effort and work you put in, including | 00:12:16 | |
| outside of this, remember? So I've noticed that. | 00:12:21 | |
| Two things that were discussed one last time and one this time. Did you say there would be meetings on the new EMS expansion on | 00:12:27 | |
| February 5th and 13th? Is that what I heard? | 00:12:32 | |
| Those will be the scheduled meetings for the EMS board. 5th I believe is a workshop. That's what we just opened up the bids and | 00:12:39 | |
| talk about it and then we have a meeting, Jason, is that right? Yeah, the regular scheduled meeting I believe is the 13th. | 00:12:45 | |
| I've seen interest. I've heard from people because my. | 00:12:51 | |
| Community environment. I've seen it on social media. | 00:12:55 | |
| People are interested in this. I presume there's going to be some public notice or public meetings before decisions are made, or | 00:12:58 | |
| is that going to be in the course of a regular commissioner meeting? | 00:13:03 | |
| Any idea? | 00:13:09 | |
| Well, the EMS board meetings are open to the public directions, so the Advisory Board meetings are open to the public. | 00:13:10 | |
| Our joint meetings with the Council are open to the public, I will say that. | 00:13:18 | |
| You know, there are none scheduled at the moment because we don't know who the new council president is going to be and whether | 00:13:23 | |
| they'll wish to, you know, continue with those. My hope is that they are. | 00:13:27 | |
| And I have committed to at least one of those meetings before we make a final decision on that. I understand the they're open, but | 00:13:32 | |
| considering some people aren't want to be involved, but there's a limit to their. I won't say apathy versus time, but for the | 00:13:38 | |
| meetings that where you guys or anybody who makes the actual decision voting to approve of a contract or bid or to expend money. | 00:13:44 | |
| I'd like to keep track of that so I can make sure people know if they want to save up their appearance for the big game, if you | 00:13:51 | |
| know what I mean. | 00:13:57 | |
| But I think they're all important, so I do too. So I, you know, football games are four quarters for a reason, right? So I I, I | 00:14:04 | |
| encourage involvement whenever anyone from the public with an interest can be here. | 00:14:10 | |
| And I guarantee that whether they speak at the first meeting or the last meeting. | 00:14:17 | |
| Those thoughts will be taken into consideration. You're speaking to the choir, but I'm saying that some people don't show up until | 00:14:21 | |
| the Super Bowl. Understood anyhow. | 00:14:26 | |
| The so I appreciate that. The other thing is when you mentioned last time about the bank withdrawing the building offer for any | 00:14:30 | |
| county building downtown. | 00:14:35 | |
| I mentioned this once before, if I made a note, I just wanted to remind you, please in any consideration you give to a new | 00:14:41 | |
| building, new facility, it's got a parking has to be a priority. It can't just be an adequate parking for the employees and maybe | 00:14:46 | |
| a couple of spots. | 00:14:52 | |
| It's got to be enough that people conducting their business or for meetings they can partners, judges. The one building the was it | 00:14:58 | |
| the Pearl St. White House. The White House. That one harbor parking situation because it wasn't even enough parking for the | 00:15:04 | |
| employees within a reasonable distance. So I'm just saying please. | 00:15:10 | |
| Number one, I appreciate our ongoing football analogy, but I'll kill it here with this one. But one of the the things on the | 00:15:18 | |
| learning curve in public versus private is you know, our, our private business open 2 new facilities last year. Nobody knew about | 00:15:23 | |
| that until we had a ribbon cutting. | 00:15:29 | |
| Publicly, every step along the way it has to be public, which is great. I applaud that and I welcome it. But that means if we're | 00:15:36 | |
| actually looking at a building such as the old White House, we have to publicly acknowledge that we're doing that. Even though | 00:15:42 | |
| part of the process is looking at the parking. It invites people to say, well, have you looked at the parking, have you looked at | 00:15:48 | |
| the parking? And so you know that is something that probably would have been ruled out very, very quickly and actually was as one | 00:15:54 | |
| of the larger, but. | 00:15:59 | |
| It's just a little bit different when you're doing things publicly versus privately because you're kind of thinking out loud and | 00:16:06 | |
| in front of. | 00:16:09 | |
| Anyone else? | 00:16:41 | |
| I'll look for a motion to adjourn. So moved. All right, second, second. | 00:16:44 |