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I now call to order the Floyd County Council regular meeting for Tuesday, July 8. 00:00:02
Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:07
United States. 00:00:12
Stands. 00:00:16
One nation under God, indivisible. 00:00:17
Let the record show that we have a full forum tonight. 00:00:29
Mr. Tran, would you lead us in prayer, please? 00:00:32
Would you pray with me? 00:00:38
Our Father God in heaven, we come before you tonight with grateful hearts. 00:00:40
Thanking you for this day that you have blessed us to see. 00:00:44
We realize it's a day we have never seen before and. 00:00:49
We shall never see again. 00:00:53
Thank you for this opportunity to serve this great community. 00:00:55
We ask your guidance and your wisdom as we conduct the business of this. 00:00:59
Meeting, uh. 00:01:04
May our discussions be productive, our decisions be fair and thoughtful. 00:01:05
And our goals be aligned with the best entrance. 00:01:11
Of all those who we represent. 00:01:14
We pray for the prosperity and well-being of our community. 00:01:17
Bless our residents with peace. 00:01:21
Opportunity. Umm. 00:01:24
And Unity. 00:01:25
And we also lift up all public servants. 00:01:26
Those in this room and beyond. 00:01:29
Protect them, strengthen them. 00:01:32
And remind them. 00:01:34
Of the great purpose in their surface. 00:01:36
We pray for all those who have been affected by. 00:01:38
The flooding in Texas. 00:01:42
And we ask that you would grant us. 00:01:44
A spirit of. 00:01:47
Cooperation and respect. 00:01:48
And may everything we do bring honor and progress. 00:01:51
To the place that we so proudly call home, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. 00:01:54
All right, acceptance of tonight's. 00:02:02
Agenda. 00:02:05
So move. 00:02:06
Second motion a second, any discussion on the agenda? 00:02:08
All in favor say aye aye opposed. 00:02:12
That carries approval of minutes from. 00:02:16
June 10th meeting. 00:02:18
So moved OK. 00:02:19
Motion a second. Any discussion on those minutes? 00:02:21
All in favor say aye. 00:02:24
Any opposed? 00:02:26
Is our proof. 00:02:27
We're going to move into our public comment portion. 00:02:29
We have. 00:02:32
14 or so signed up to speak. 00:02:33
I'm going to. 00:02:36
Set out a couple of simple little ground rules. 00:02:38
Keep discussion civil. 00:02:43
If somebody has stated. 00:02:45
Your thought before. 00:02:47
Agree with them and. 00:02:49
Move on to another point that you have to make. 00:02:51
I'm going to allow about. 00:02:56
2 minutes. 00:02:58
Each to speak. 00:02:59
If you're on a roll and you need a little bit longer, I'll grant it, but we're going to try to keep. 00:03:01
For two minutes each. 00:03:05
All right. 00:03:07
Rebecca Lee. 00:03:08
Hello, my name is Rebecca Lee. I'm a Floyd County resident. 00:03:12
I'm speaking tonight to ask you to please continue funding and supporting the Floyd County Recycling Program. 00:03:15
They project they will take in 900 tons of material this year alone, preventing hazardous and unnecessary waste from entering our 00:03:21
landfills. 00:03:26
Leaching into our groundwater. 00:03:30
Scrap metal, e-waste, aluminum and cardboard recycling also generated $74,000 of revenue last year. 00:03:32
Recycling conserves natural resources, creates jobs, promote sustainability for future generations. 00:03:40
Using recycled materials and manufacturing uses significantly less energy. 00:03:46
Than using brand new materials. 00:03:51
I feel sad I have to stand here to justify the need for recycling in our community. 00:03:53
I'm a teacher and as the woman who spoke at the last meeting said. 00:03:58
I hope I have not been giving my students and my own personal child a pipe dream. 00:04:01
Because we will not be recycling anymore. 00:04:06
Dissolving it all together. 00:04:08
Sends the message that recycling in a clean environment are not important to the. 00:04:10
Community when you consider the long term environmental costs. 00:04:15
For health due to contaminants from the groundwater. 00:04:18
Increased workload on our garbage pickup services. 00:04:21
Lost their recycling worker jobs. Additional stress on the landfill. 00:04:24
Recycling is more cost effective than waste disposal. 00:04:28
Councilmember Denise Conkel said it was financially feasible to continue the program because there is money in the budget. 00:04:31
I hope you will hear her out and listen to her ideas the next time that you speak before. 00:04:38
Maybe we can save money by consolidating the program into just one drop off site with fewer hours. 00:04:42
Or perhaps the city of New Albany could find a way to help. 00:04:48
Please show the community you care about having clean groundwater and keeping. 00:04:51
Recyclable trash out of the landfills. 00:04:55
By continuing to fund and support this program. 00:04:57
Thank you. 00:05:00
Thank you. 00:05:01
Dennis Watson. 00:05:07
Good evening. 00:05:13
My name is Dennis Watson. 00:05:14
Resident Talk. 00:05:16
6th grade. 00:05:18
Employee county system for about 30 years. 00:05:19
And during that time, I always encouraged my students to be good stewards of the community. 00:05:22
And I hope that those words don't take on a hollow ring now. 00:05:28
If this. 00:05:33
The elected officials here. 00:05:35
Who are responsible for the welfare or community? 00:05:37
Choose not. 00:05:41
To reinforce that. 00:05:43
That teaching. 00:05:45
I think. 00:05:49
It's been mentioned that the. 00:05:49
Recycling has generated. 00:05:52
About $74,000 of revenue. 00:05:54
I know there are other departments. 00:05:57
That generate 0. 00:05:59
And perhaps they could be tweaked. 00:06:01
Are reduced in order to help sustain. 00:06:03
The recycling program. 00:06:07
I would hope that. 00:06:10
You, as a elected body, would make a decision. 00:06:12
That would benefit the community as a whole. 00:06:16
That's all I have. Thank you. 00:06:19
Susan Lockhart. 00:06:26
Good evening. I'm Susan Lockhart. I live outside of Georgetown. 00:06:35
Right here in Floyd County. 00:06:39
And. 00:06:41
My adage is if it isn't broken, there's no need to fix it. 00:06:42
I feel like the Floyd County Waste Management is doing a wonderful job. 00:06:46
I go to the Galena library site. 00:06:52
People there. 00:06:55
They're friendly, they're knowledgeable, they're helpful. 00:06:56
They get all the. 00:07:00
10,000 cat food cans out of my car they show me. 00:07:02
They show me where to put everything so. 00:07:06
Not only are they collecting what they need to collect for recycling, but they're also educating the public. 00:07:09
With what they know and passing that knowledge on to us. 00:07:16
I think having. 00:07:21
The county County. 00:07:22
Waste management doing our recycling also, we have financial transparency and accountability because it's within the county. 00:07:24
I think if we get a private company in to do this. 00:07:33
They're going to be for profit. 00:07:37
They're going to take in what makes the most money for them. 00:07:39
And I think Floyd County is very open. 00:07:43
About what they take in to help. 00:07:46
To help us keep the county clean and environmentally safe. 00:07:48
So. 00:07:52
I would really like to see them continue on with our recycling here in Floyd County. 00:07:53
Thank you. 00:07:59
Paige Adams. 00:08:07
Greetings everyone. 00:08:13
I am Paige Adams. 00:08:14
3017 Brazil Lake Parkway in Georgetown, IN. 00:08:17
To say that you have. 00:08:23
I've made the decision, or at least considering dissolving the Floyd County recycling program. 00:08:25
By dissolving the Floyd County Solid Waste District. 00:08:32
Is a massive disappointment. 00:08:36
I've done the research and it has been going since 1990. 00:08:39
That's well before I was even born. 00:08:44
30 years. 00:08:46
And you guys want to dissolve it? 00:08:48
Why is that? 00:08:50
You guys say you don't have enough money to keep it running. 00:08:52
But as another speaker has already said. 00:08:55
Denise gave you evidence that states otherwise. 00:08:58
And I remember you stating that you would need money for snowplows in the future at the first meeting. 00:09:02
But yet I also recall you stating that you wouldn't need those snowplows for another 5 to 10 years. 00:09:08
So even if you don't have the money for that now. 00:09:16
You would have enough time to invest for that later. 00:09:19
We need to focus on doing what's right here and now. 00:09:23
By keeping recycling in Floyd County going. 00:09:27
It is estimated that only 30% of all recyclable material nationwide gets recycled. 00:09:32
So we need to do better. 00:09:40
And that starts here. 00:09:42
And if you don't think that's enough? 00:09:44
Let's look at the alternative. 00:09:46
What if recycling does get cut? 00:09:48
CO2 emissions will increase along with our energy resources spent. 00:09:51
Jobs and money will be lost. 00:09:56
And if. 00:09:59
Landfills overflow. 00:10:00
And or if hazardous waste is improperly disposed of. 00:10:02
People could end up hurt, sick. 00:10:07
Or even dead. 00:10:10
You would be gambling. 00:10:12
With human health. 00:10:14
Is this really what you guys want? 00:10:16
Thank you. 00:10:22
Lunch. 00:10:30
Next person is a. 00:10:32
After 35 years of marriage, my father-in-law couldn't get it right. 00:10:37
So how's that? 00:10:41
Took my best guess. My name is Manoj Shankar. 00:10:42
And my wife and I are newcomers to Floyd County. We just moved here five months ago from Kentucky. 00:10:47
And uh. 00:10:52
I like what everybody said eloquently so far, but I just have two points. 00:10:54
1 is. 00:10:58
After coming here, I realized that everybody. 00:11:00
Look at the audience here. 00:11:03
Values sustainability. 00:11:04
And by getting rid of the program. 00:11:07
We're sort of devaluing what they want. 00:11:10
As a community. 00:11:12
But the second thing is. 00:11:13
My respect is more important. 00:11:15
It's a state law, the law, and I was looking at your. 00:11:16
It says I'll reset. 00:11:20
Under Indiana code 13-19. 00:11:22
The stage requires municipalities. 00:11:26
To encourage recycling. 00:11:28
The next I see. 00:11:30
Dash 20 says. 00:11:32
They said a 50% municipal recycling goals statewide. 00:11:33
Cutting the program puts us out of step with state policy. 00:11:37
Jeopardizes reporting compliance and potentially disqualifies us from any state grants that could have. 00:11:41
Offset this cost. 00:11:47
So by. 00:11:49
Not by not having recycling in our county we have basically. 00:11:51
Not meeting statewide goals. 00:11:56
Thank you. 00:11:59
Ellen Kelly. 00:12:07
Good evening. I'm Ellen Morrison Kelly. I am a Floyd County resident, actually a New Albany resident. 00:12:13
And I pay to have recycling come to my house, a private company, but I don't really use them because. 00:12:20
We all know that a private company will recycle what will make the money, not what's good for. 00:12:28
The Earth. 00:12:36
And so I take my things to Brett Line Rd. 00:12:37
When I can. So we collected 1130 signatures. 00:12:41
In a mere 3 days. 00:12:48
And then of those, 320 were online. But in three days we collected these signatures from people who said to me. 00:12:51
I've heard about it, Let me sign. 00:13:01
I can't wait. Let me have my wife sign. 00:13:04
They were. 00:13:08
Very adamant about getting their voices heard. Some of them might be here tonight. 00:13:09
Some of them might have had childcare issues tonight or their son was playing a baseball game or something, but believe me, people 00:13:15
are aware of this and they're mad about it. 00:13:21
So nearly 20 people. 00:13:29
Helped me collect these signatures. 00:13:32
And I had more people begging to help. 00:13:36
So if we had more time. 00:13:39
We could have probably gone to all the doors of Floyd County and gotten more signatures, kind of like what Election Day is, where 00:13:42
you go and you collect signatures on an issue. 00:13:47
So I would like to present these to you. 00:13:53
Thank you. 00:13:58
Doctor Gordon. 00:14:09
Is it Harry? 00:14:11
Henry. 00:14:13
Looks like he wrote a prescription. 00:14:15
Couldn't resist. 00:14:20
Go ahead. 00:14:22
As a management professor and consultant, I spend a lot of my time. 00:14:24
Trying to convince CEO's and other business leaders to. 00:14:28
Pay a little more attention to the long term. 00:14:31
Effects of their decision making. 00:14:34
Rather than just sort of. 00:14:36
Knee jerk reactions to the. 00:14:38
Most immediate. 00:14:40
Financial circumstances in which they find themselves. 00:14:42
I realized that the purpose of governmental. 00:14:47
Agencies is not to turn a profit, but to provide services for the. 00:14:50
For the community. 00:14:54
But I think a lot of my fellow residents have done a pretty good job of explaining the community building. 00:14:57
And uh. 00:15:03
Environmental benefits of a. 00:15:03
Robust recycling program. 00:15:06
I would ask you to pay. 00:15:09
As much attention as you can to the long term. 00:15:10
Economic benefits. 00:15:13
Of such a program. 00:15:16
Other people have mentioned jobs. 00:15:18
Conserving landfill space. 00:15:22
Conserving transportation. 00:15:24
And dumping fees. 00:15:27
But but it goes beyond that. 00:15:30
It's not just front end jobs, it's not just materials handling, it's not just processors. 00:15:32
The thousands of communities, including dozens in Indiana. 00:15:38
Have seen great benefits. 00:15:43
In innovation. 00:15:45
In engineering. 00:15:47
And coming up with new ways to use recyclable materials. 00:15:49
Whole new industries. 00:15:53
Have been started because communities. 00:15:55
Committed. 00:15:58
To robust comprehensive recycling program. 00:15:59
And so. 00:16:03
I ask you to spend some time attending to the long term. 00:16:04
Economic benefits. 00:16:08
Recycling program. 00:16:10
And not just the short term. 00:16:12
Umm. 00:16:14
Financial exigencies in which you find yourselves today. 00:16:14
Appreciate it. Thank you. 00:16:18
David Isaacs. 00:16:26
My name is David Isaacs. Further about the last 10 years I've been the public. 00:16:39
At the meetings of the solid waste district. 00:16:43
Wish we'd had this crowd all the time. 00:16:48
I want to thank everybody who is. 00:16:52
They talk and who's been here? 00:16:54
I want to thank you guys for listening. 00:16:56
I did not get that impression at the. 00:16:59
First council meeting. 00:17:01
I'm cutting. 00:17:04
Things left and right as I go through this. 00:17:05
I believe that our planet does need recycling in order to. 00:17:09
Avoid running out of critical material. 00:17:12
And space for land. 00:17:15
That may be far, far in the future. 00:17:17
But I have not heard any date yet set for restoring, recycling and. 00:17:20
For Johnny. 00:17:24
I do not wish to single out any other department. 00:17:27
But I have thought about. 00:17:31
Contradicting the argument that we don't provide a valuable service. 00:17:33
The Parks Department. 00:17:37
What concrete service do they provide? 00:17:39
Well, they brought a lot of good things that make this place a better place to live. 00:17:43
I I'd like to think we are just as important. 00:17:48
And if we are, then I think we. 00:17:53
We need have a right to exist. 00:17:55
I am OK with reducing the current. 00:18:00
Department. 00:18:04
Budget. 00:18:05
We had a financial crisis crisis so many years ago. 00:18:06
And recycling in the animal shelter were the first victims. 00:18:10
And they were not illuminated, they were just cut in half. 00:18:14
It was nice to know that we had company down there. 00:18:18
I would like to hope. 00:18:22
That you guys will keep us from being. 00:18:24
Cut because it's a lot easier to come back from reduced. 00:18:26
Than it is to come back from dead. 00:18:30
Thank you. 00:18:33
Give me just a second here. 00:18:45
Emily Grants. 00:18:47
Hi, my name is Emily. 00:18:54
I moved to New Albany in 2015. Charlestown Crossing apartments. 00:18:56
Which did not offer any sort of recycling pickup option. 00:19:01
And so I've been going to the Floyd County Recycling, waste Management. 00:19:04
Ever since then. 00:19:08
45% of. 00:19:11
Residents of New Albany are renters. 00:19:13
Apartment buildings like the Breakwater, Sheffield Square. 00:19:16
Knobs Point, Charlestown Crossing. 00:19:19
None of these places offer a recycling option for the residents. 00:19:22
I currently live at Slate Run condominiums. 00:19:26
And even as an owner. 00:19:29
We also don't have any sort of recycling pickup options. 00:19:31
It's a high percentage of the population that you'd be taking away an option to recycle if you decide to dissolve this program, 00:19:35
and I like recycling. 00:19:39
Andrew Raker. 00:19:51
Good evening, Andrew Breaker from up in Floyd's Knobs. I have been a volunteer at Hope Southern Indiana for nine years now. 00:20:01
And I just want to commend the recycling program for being great partners with us. 00:20:08
As you can imagine, food comes in a lot of packaging and we have just a storage shed. 00:20:13
Recycling came and picked up that cardboard today. That's cardboard that's not going to the landfill. 00:20:19
And we have already filled it up again because the demand for food is so high. 00:20:25
We won't be able to function and do our important work of feeding the neediest in Floyd County and in southern Indiana. 00:20:30
Without the partnership we have with recycling. 00:20:39
And all the material we go through will just take up more room and the Clark Floyd landfill. That will cost more money in the long 00:20:42
run. 00:20:46
And we'll eventually run out of space. 00:20:51
And besides the usefulness of taking. 00:20:54
What we don't need? 00:20:57
Recycling is a great community resource in collecting food for hope. 00:20:58
I know as our demand has gone up, they've been asking the folks to. 00:21:04
Drop off some full cans along with their empty cans and it's feeding the neediest in our community. 00:21:07
I also, you know, many of us here are longtime Floyd County residents, but I'm glad some of our newcomers have been speaking. 00:21:13
Because as I talk with friends throughout the metro area. 00:21:19
They ask, well, what are you doing these days? And I say, I'm going to a lot more county Commission and County Council meetings 00:21:23
than normal. 00:21:26
And they said, Oh yeah, we heard that your county is thinking about getting rid of recycling. 00:21:30
For people that are thinking about moving here. 00:21:35
That live within the metro area. 00:21:38
This is a giant red flag that Floyd County is not. 00:21:40
Necessarily the best county to live in. 00:21:45
I've lived here since I was two. I'm proud of where I'm from. 00:21:48
I want to share our hospitality of the goodness of the people with lots of people, but. 00:21:52
You know, we have to be aware that the message this is sending not just to the residents of Floyd County, but the wider area. 00:21:57
Thank you. 00:22:01
Susie, is it coaching? 00:22:11
Good evening. I'm Susie Kochert from Floyd Knobs, Indiana. 00:22:21
And as a retired teacher, I have a visual aid here. 00:22:25
I want to say that. 00:22:30
I'm always interested in the young people because that was my passion and my life. 00:22:32
And I think we have an obligation. 00:22:38
To leave. 00:22:41
Our world as good as we can to these younger people. 00:22:42
And if we don't? 00:22:47
Recycle it goes into. 00:22:49
The landfill and what happens when the landfill gets full? 00:22:52
They have to have another landfill. 00:22:56
Who wants a landfill in your backyard? Raise your hand. Who wants a landfill? 00:22:58
OK, people don't wetlands. 00:23:03
Landfills are not good. 00:23:06
Recycling is good. My purse I brought up here is made out of recycled. 00:23:07
Plastic bottles. 00:23:12
This is what we can do with our. 00:23:14
So do we want more landfills? 00:23:19
Or do we want more things made out of plastic bottles? 00:23:21
And the other thing I wanted to say is that there are grants available. 00:23:25
Up to $100,000. 00:23:30
From the Indiana Department of. 00:23:32
Indiana Department of Hazardous Management Waste Management. 00:23:35
And you have to apply for it, of course. 00:23:40
But surely you know about this? 00:23:42
Why don't we look into this and get some of this money? 00:23:44
To help finance what's going on here. 00:23:48
If you'd like this paper, I'll give it to somebody. 00:23:50
So that you can have it. 00:23:53
But let's let's keep this going. We don't. We don't want to leave. 00:23:54
Our children and grandchildren. 00:23:59
A pile of landfills all around the county. 00:24:01
Tom Snyder. 00:24:14
Good evening. I'm Tom Slater, also from New Albany area. 00:24:20
And it's hard to follow up that it's hard to follow an educator. But I do want to bring forth one other discussion area and that 00:24:22
is. 00:24:26
I've been in the technology field for over 35 years of my career. 00:24:29
Telecommunications and computing. 00:24:33
And of course, it may or may not be known to everyone here. 00:24:35
But you need to use electronic device is hazardous waste. 00:24:38
And to simply state that we're going to take this hazardous waste. 00:24:42
And simply throw it into landfills. 00:24:46
Really leads to long term. 00:24:48
Consequences. 00:24:50
That we need to face directly. 00:24:51
This is all tied together with the notion. 00:24:53
Let's help our planet, and let's do so for our children. 00:24:55
It's an important topic. 00:24:58
I hope you strongly reconsider the citizens. 00:25:00
Thank you. 00:25:02
Jeff Beck. 00:25:09
Jeff Deck from. 00:25:18
I live in Highlander village there. 00:25:22
150. 00:25:25
And uh. 00:25:26
They call me a recycling net. 00:25:27
Because every time I see something, don't throw that away, that's recycling. 00:25:29
And I recycle in our house which compared to trash I do about three times recycle compared to track on the amount of trash. 00:25:34
And I recycle from a church and daycare. 00:25:43
And uh. 00:25:46
I really never thought I'd ever see. 00:25:49
Floyd County come to the end of recycling. 00:25:51
I've taken mine out to Glean and like somebody said, they're amazing out there. 00:25:55
And there's a lot of days they have 400 vehicles. 00:26:00
Now picture this, people taking their time, their busy schedule. 00:26:03
And and 400 vehicles rolling in there every Wednesday. 00:26:08
From 8:00 to 5:00. 00:26:12
That just blows my mind. 00:26:15
That people as busy as they are with their families and everything. 00:26:17
That they take time out. 00:26:21
Recycling. 00:26:23
I think that says a whole lot, and I think it would be a horrible, horrible mistake. 00:26:25
To eliminate recycling in Floyd County. 00:26:30
Thank you very much. 00:26:32
All right, that ends our. 00:26:46
Public comments section We are now on to old business you so you. 00:26:48
Ready. 00:26:53
For those who don't know me, I'm. 00:27:02
Director. 00:27:06
County solid waste. 00:27:07
Took over late last year. 00:27:10
Hey, Scott Stewart. 00:27:12
So we have a PowerPoint that. 00:27:13
Kind of roll through. 00:27:17
Current staffing. 00:27:19
So currently we have. 00:27:20
14 employees. 00:27:22
I'm the only full time employee. 00:27:26
We have an office manager. 00:27:28
5 transporters. 00:27:30
That are part time and six operators. 00:27:32
That are part time. 00:27:36
We have one person that will be leaving at the end of July. 00:27:38
Bring our numbers down will be challenging to. 00:27:43
Keep our current. 00:27:46
Operations going. 00:27:48
Since we are also under a hiring freeze. 00:27:50
That was. 00:27:53
Given to us by the. 00:27:55
Solid Waste Council. 00:27:57
Next page. 00:28:00
Talk about our current services. 00:28:01
Currently we operate 2 drop off locations. 00:28:03
Grant Line Rd. is our main drop off. 00:28:06
Open 9:00 to 5:00, Tuesday through Friday. 00:28:09
9:00 to 2:00 on Saturday. 00:28:12
We also. 00:28:14
The household. 00:28:15
Waste out of this location. 00:28:17
April through October, 2nd week of each month. 00:28:19
Our average traffic count for. 00:28:23
Grant line is about 3328. 00:28:26
Patrons. 00:28:30
Galena is only open. 00:28:32
One day a week. 00:28:35
And 9:00 to 5:00 on Wednesday. 00:28:36
This is kind of what we call our superstar. 00:28:39
Of the recycling locations. 00:28:42
Like Jeff said, you know we see 400. 00:28:45
Cars on a regular basis. 00:28:47
Earlier this year we had. 00:28:49
A Wednesday where we. 00:28:51
Had 600 cars. 00:28:53
Go through there. 00:28:55
Followed up by the next Wednesday with 500. 00:28:56
So. 00:28:59
To say that our people. 00:29:00
The people in Floyd County are serious about. 00:29:01
Recycling and. 00:29:04
Doing away with this will take away that opportunity. 00:29:06
So we also. 00:29:10
Operate a. 00:29:12
Neighborhood outreach program. 00:29:14
That is in this final phase. 00:29:16
This was a program that was funded by. 00:29:19
And which also funded, which gave us our payload that we currently use. 00:29:23
And three pieces of equipment. 00:29:27
So we serve roughly 30 neighborhoods. 00:29:29
Throughout this. 00:29:33
Neighborhood Program. 00:29:35
The other thing that we do that a lot of people aren't aware of is we. 00:29:37
We have a recycle pickup. 00:29:41
Operation for. 00:29:44
36 local businesses and government centers. 00:29:46
Which includes. 00:29:49
Five schools. 00:29:50
3 government centers and two chairs. 00:29:53
And that is run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 00:29:56
And those guys on some months go. 00:29:59
They will. 00:30:02
Process, you know, 20 to 25 tons. 00:30:03
Artboard it's it's amazing how much they can pull in from these businesses. 00:30:06
And you and you never know what you're going to. 00:30:11
Walk into. 00:30:13
You know, we may walk into the day where? 00:30:14
There's only maybe, you know. 00:30:16
6000 lbs. And then the next week. 00:30:18
There's £15,000. 00:30:20
So it's, you know. 00:30:22
It's constant. 00:30:24
So the next pages talks about our. 00:30:27
Dashboard, I'm not going to. I'm just going to kind of read the highlights. 00:30:29
Skip another 2 pages. 00:30:33
And this is highlights as of the. 00:30:37
End of May 2025 compared. 00:30:39
To the prior year. 00:30:42
So. 00:30:44
We're up 16. 00:30:45
Percent in total recycling product volume. 00:30:47
Traffic count was up about 12. 00:30:51
Well over 12%. 00:30:52
Cardboard. 00:30:55
We're up 32%. 00:30:57
Carpet volume, I mean, that's, that's huge. 00:30:59
For small county. 00:31:02
That we have of 80,000. 00:31:04
People. 00:31:07
About 1/2 percent increase in a single stream. 00:31:08
And. 00:31:11
Our revenue. 00:31:12
Is up about 20. 00:31:13
20% of. 00:31:14
Year to date. 00:31:17
So that's really the numbers around the. 00:31:19
Currently cycling program. 00:31:20
And I'll turn this off. 00:31:24
I'm Denise Cockle. 00:31:29
On the County Council so. 00:31:31
I just wanted to give a few financial facts about. 00:31:34
The recycling program in 2026. 00:31:37
The projected minimum cost for the recycle is 487. 00:31:41
1000, that's what we appropriated in the budget. 00:31:46
For them to have the county subsidizes. 00:31:49
Oh, I'm sorry, that's the total amount. The county subsidizes 400,000 of it. 00:31:53
And the recycling generates about 75,000. 00:31:59
Based on the net assessed value of 3.1. 00:32:05
Billion dollars in Floyd County. 00:32:09
I calculated that an average household employee county is. 00:32:12
Paying about $30 annually. 00:32:17
To support a recycling program. 00:32:20
The county last year passed the largest tax increase in Floyd County history. 00:32:26
And we have. 00:32:32
13 months out, $13 million of unallocated unappropriated. 00:32:35
Funds projected by the end of this year. 00:32:40
And the impact? 00:32:46
Of SB1 on Floyd County levies in 2026 is less than $1,000,000, which is. 00:32:49
More umm. 00:32:55
Been offset by the tax increase that would put in place. 00:32:56
Last year are in 2024 of 6.2 million. 00:33:00
OK. 00:33:11
OK, so. 00:33:13
I laid out a few options here for us to use instead of. 00:33:17
Voting to get rid of. 00:33:22
This and I know there's 180 days. 00:33:24
Between us voting and when this this actually happens. 00:33:28
But we all know. 00:33:33
And we've all seen that once you vote this, it's hard to stop it. 00:33:34
And I know we're looking at third party resources. 00:33:39
To take over this but why haven't we seen any kind of. 00:33:43
Presentations by these third party. 00:33:49
Providers. 00:33:52
So that we understand what we're going to get in the county before we vote. 00:33:54
To get rid of the program that we currently have. 00:33:58
We can't. We have enough money in our riverboat funds. 00:34:03
That we could actually pay for this. The riverboat fund is not taxpayer dollars. If we wanted to use that money, we absolutely 00:34:07
could use this. 00:34:11
Use that money. 00:34:16
The the. 00:34:20
Recycling program. 00:34:23
I don't know if this is a possibility, but. 00:34:27
It's something that I wanted to throw out. Maybe we could implement a service fee for the recycling program and allow people to 00:34:29
opt into it. 00:34:34
If they. 00:34:39
If they choose to do that. 00:34:40
So my ask is let's put together the 2026 budget and see if we. 00:34:44
Can't afford to continue the recycling program. 00:34:49
Let's not get in a rush. Let's not make decisions where we don't have all the facts. 00:34:53
In place and let's make. 00:34:59
A database decision here where we have all the facts on the table. 00:35:01
Thank you. 00:35:08
OK, we're on to Item 1B, which is Ordinance 2025-09 showing intent in favor of dissolution of Floyd County. Saw the waste 00:35:30
Management district. I'm going to quickly read this. 00:35:35
Into the record. 00:35:40
This is previously passed. 00:35:41
Unanimously by the Floyd County Commissioners. 00:35:44
Whereas we can't solve Waste Management district was established as a single county district by police county commissioners on 00:35:47
June 3rd, 1991 where. 00:35:51
Floyd County Council has the intent and desire to dissolve the Fleet County Waste Management District. 00:35:54
And in coordinates with Indiana code 13-201-3-1. 00:35:59
Now, therefore, be it ordained that the County Council of Floyd County, Indiana, that this ordinance. 00:36:04
Ordinance will be effective immediately and that the Floyd County Council is in favor of dissolution. 00:36:08
Of the Floyd County Solid Waste Management District. 00:36:12
That's what the ordinance reads. 00:36:16
I will entertain a motion. 00:36:19
Or this ordinance. 00:36:21
I'll make a motion. 00:36:25
2nd. 00:36:27
Motion in a second on this ordinance. Any discussion? 00:36:28
Could I ask Mr. did you come back to the podium, please, Sir? 00:36:35
First of all I want to say I am for recycling. 00:36:42
And I've I've had. 00:36:46
Hundreds of phone calls. 00:36:47
Because our numbers are given out at your locations, which I have no problem with personally. 00:36:50
I've had several emails and I've tried to respond to everybody. I've tried to call everybody back. I don't. 00:36:56
People in this room, I recognize their names a little bit. 00:37:01
I think I've talked to him or tried to call him back. 00:37:04
I saw where the budget you said it was $487,000 for 2026, but. 00:37:10
Last year's budget. 00:37:16
And I got this off gateway so if it's right or wrong was 515,000. 00:37:18
$976 right with. 00:37:23
Let me finish and I'll let you speak. 00:37:27
With almost. 00:37:29
With 365,000. 00:37:32
73731. 00:37:35
As. 00:37:38
Personal Services. 00:37:39
And then services and charges 106,000. 00:37:41
700, which comes with that total. 00:37:46
Are you proposing you're going to reduce your budget this year? That's what we were. 00:37:50
We went through and looked at. 00:37:54
Some areas that we were. 00:37:55
We actually had our. 00:37:58
Our education manager. 00:38:00
Could you speak up a little bit? You're hard to hear. I'm sorry. Can you hear me here? OK, so we went through the budget and based 00:38:01
on one. 00:38:06
One of the issues our education manager. 00:38:10
Is leaving us at the end of July. 00:38:13
So we took out her salary and benefits. 00:38:15
So that was a reduction of the budget. 00:38:18
And we looked at other areas that we could potentially. 00:38:20
Reduce, umm. 00:38:23
And that's what we came up with. 00:38:25
So yes, we were. 00:38:27
Do you have any unmanned sites? 00:38:29
In your location like some other counties have? No, we don't. And the reason for that is when it's unmanned. 00:38:31
Then you get a lot of trash coming in. 00:38:39
Even, umm. 00:38:42
At a man's site. 00:38:43
We will go. 00:38:44
Back and pull out stuff that's not supposed to be in the recycling. 00:38:45
Bins. So I'm sure you know Harrison County. 00:38:50
Struggles with that. 00:38:54
OK, that's. 00:38:56
Any other questions? 00:39:01
I don't have a. 00:39:04
Question, but I just have a comment if I made Mr. President. 00:39:05
I too, like I'm sure everyone else, received. 00:39:10
A lot of phone calls, matter of fact. 00:39:14
I probably received more. 00:39:17
Communication about this issue than I have any other issue since I've been. 00:39:20
On the Council. 00:39:24
I understand how important. 00:39:27
This is and the job that the Floyd County Solid Waste Management District. 00:39:31
That they perform on a daily basis. 00:39:37
It's more than a disposal service. 00:39:41
It's a vital resource. 00:39:44
For environmental education. 00:39:46
Recycling and community stability. 00:39:49
I had the privilege of serving as the. 00:39:54
Director of the management district. 00:39:58
At one time. 00:40:00
And. 00:40:02
And I understand the INS and outs of the operation. 00:40:04
And how important that is become to the citizens. 00:40:10
Of this county. 00:40:14
I'm afraid that if we dissolve the district. 00:40:16
That, umm. 00:40:19
We will see. 00:40:20
Hazardous waste. 00:40:23
In our neighborhoods, under our overpasses. 00:40:27
And in our waterways. 00:40:30
And we don't want. 00:40:33
That to happen and I just. 00:40:35
Think that we should do everything that we can and exhaust every effort to. 00:40:37
To make sure. 00:40:42
That the district is not dissolved. 00:40:45
Well, I've been consistently probably the most Conservative council member on when it comes to tax increases. 00:40:58
Budget cuts, anything that goes associated with that. 00:41:05
But I do feel that I represent the taxpayer. 00:41:09
And the majority of taxpayers that I talked to. 00:41:12
Yeah, especially in my district have always supported these but. 00:41:15
But I have gotten an overwhelming. 00:41:18
Support and keeping this service to the community. 00:41:20
And this is one that I actually do believe that it's worth the money. I think there are so many other things that we could find. 00:41:23
To eliminate if we were really in such dire needs of these budget cuts. But I think as Denise has pointed out. 00:41:30
This new public safety tax. 00:41:36
We're not. I'm not seeing it yet and I haven't seen everything on paper yet to justify something like this. So there's I see no 00:41:38
justification for cutting up programs. It's so vital to our community. 00:41:44
I've said a lot already, but I'll just say that I probably had. 00:42:01
As Tony said. 00:42:08
More calls, more people talk to me about this than any issue that I have. 00:42:10
Heard of in nine years that I've been doing this. 00:42:15
This is something that I believe in. I think our constituents want and. 00:42:19
I don't understand the logic. 00:42:27
Of getting rid of this. 00:42:31
It's not money and it's not paying attention to our constituents. 00:42:33
So I have no idea. 00:42:39
Yeah, I would just add that I'd truly appreciate everybody coming out tonight and sharing their opinions and I wish the community 00:42:48
would be this involved with all of the matters that go before the commissioners and the Council. 00:42:54
I weigh in a little bit. I. 00:43:09
As miss. 00:43:13
I live in the city. 00:43:15
I paid $18.00 a month. 00:43:16
Or a fee to. 00:43:19
They come by twice a week, I mean every day on garbage day they have. 00:43:22
Garbage truck come by and then we slip the truck come by. 00:43:25
I will add just for fun last week. 00:43:28
I drove around my neighborhood and. 00:43:31
Kind of route and I didn't see very many recycling receptacles set out for the recycling program that we pay for in city of New 00:43:33
York. 00:43:37
I won't state that. 00:43:42
Well before I almost forgot this. 00:43:44
I commend everyone for staying under the two-minute. 00:43:47
Time frame when you spoke everybody. 00:43:50
I commend you for that. 00:43:53
And I agree with Mr. Miley's that. 00:43:54
We should we are participatory form of government and we should be out more than. 00:43:58
They're just issues that we care about when she had to be out all the time looking. 00:44:03
And one more thing. 00:44:08
The questions been asked here. 00:44:11
This is not really our decision to make. 00:44:13
Commissioners, it's their decision to make. 00:44:16
And I. 00:44:19
Facetiously, I said to someone there, I said we could vote to fund it. 00:44:21
The commissioners could say, go # Sam, we're not doing it. 00:44:25
So. 00:44:28
It's statute says we have to do this. 00:44:29
But, and I I'm in favor of recycling. I mean, I do recycle. 00:44:33
Every week at my home. 00:44:36
I just. 00:44:39
I there is there was options on the back of what we could do. 00:44:42
And I did. Did I see in here that they don't accept hazardous waste anyway? 00:44:46
And that's the biggest concern, man, some of. 00:44:50
They take. 00:44:54
Oil based paint, all that stuff. 00:44:56
Because I, I don't know, I've mentioned to the Commissioner that's one of the very important, big, important things to me. 00:45:00
Is hazardous waste. 00:45:05
And like I said last time, I think in our. 00:45:08
Joint workshop is that. 00:45:11
I'm old enough to remember that some of them I see people in the room here. 00:45:13
Probably I don't want you to. 00:45:17
Time to state yourself. 00:45:20
In the old days, people just poured it all out on the in the ditch. They poured paint out. We don't do that anymore. 00:45:23
I mean, and then I guess I would say. 00:45:28
Mr. Massengale. 00:45:31
If you cut your budget because you don't have an educator. 00:45:33
Is it important that we have an educator? 00:45:36
Tell them what the benefits of recycling are. 00:45:40
So but she quit. 00:45:44
And you cut the position. 00:45:45
If you're looking for areas. 00:45:48
So. 00:45:54
And I don't think anybody. I don't want to speak for anybody speak for me. 00:45:57
I don't think anybody wants recycling to go away. 00:46:00
We just maybe don't want it in the form that it's in. 00:46:04
Well, I'm going to concur with. 00:46:13
Councilman Bagshaw. 00:46:17
I'm sorry. 00:46:19
Are you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? 00:46:21
These things don't work all the time. I apologize. 00:46:26
I concur with Councilman Bagshaw. 00:46:29
You know this, this ordinance that we're looking at is a. 00:46:32
Showing of intent. 00:46:36
It's not a final say. I've talked to people on the phone. 00:46:38
I will tell you I'm not in favor. 00:46:42
Totally disbanding. 00:46:44
Recycling for our county and I'm not, I wouldn't vote for that. 00:46:46
But I, I do think fiscally, I think we could do a better job. I don't know whether we need. 00:46:50
That many employees I don't know if we need. 00:46:55
If we could better do with with other. 00:46:58
Programs without. 00:47:01
Paying that half $1,000,000 to recycle. 00:47:03
We spent 67, about 60, seven, $70,000 for the recycle fee, correct? Is that about correct? 00:47:08
Mr. Massengill. 00:47:14
Right and. 00:47:16
Where do you actually take that to? 00:47:17
The recycling, the. 00:47:19
So the single stream. 00:47:22
Recycling goes to West Rock in Louisville. 00:47:24
Where it's separated, it's a fully automated system. It's pretty amazing to see. So there's less than 5% of that. 00:47:27
That is pushed down at the end, that goes to the landfill. 00:47:35
So our cardboard goes to West Rock also. 00:47:38
Cardboard can be recycled 8 times. 00:47:42
So 80% of the cardboard that we shipped to Louisville. 00:47:44
Stays right here in the US. It goes to Alabama. Is reprocessed. 00:47:48
Stays right here in the US. 00:47:52
The other 20% goes to the New York area. 00:47:54
Where it's shipped out as needed. 00:47:58
I'm I'm all for the service, don't get me wrong, it's just I just think our administrative fees. 00:48:00
Are a little bit high. That's just my opinion on this. I think you're gonna find a. 00:48:05
That's a third string operator. 00:48:10
Anyone private operator that can do it any cheaper than me? 00:48:13
Well, that's I guess that's the history. 00:48:17
Be seen I don't know and if it and like I said. 00:48:19
This ordinance is just a showing of intent. 00:48:23
It's not a final say on anything. 00:48:26
And it's six months process when I understand. 00:48:28
So. 00:48:32
But I want to assure you that. 00:48:34
I personally, and I think everybody on this board wants to see Floyd County to continue a recycling program. 00:48:35
I just. 00:48:47
I just want to. 00:48:49
I want to state some facts. 00:48:51
And facts are a strange thing because. 00:48:54
They are what they are. 00:48:57
And. 00:48:59
So a citizen sent me the the flyer that you were handing out. 00:49:01
Your county employee, correct? 00:49:04
I don't know if you received a handbook and I'm not trying to rile you up, but. 00:49:06
And I don't mind constituents calling me. I love it. I love to talk to people because I explained my position to everyone that 00:49:11
would listen. 00:49:14
But on this flyer I don't know if you typed it up or not, but. 00:49:19
I can show you a copy of it if you want. It's the one that with all of our phone numbers on it. 00:49:25
That is not the county government. 00:49:29
Well, private. 00:49:31
OK, well, it was handed out at the recycling center. OK, let's, let's I want to go through it quickly here. 00:49:33
It says. 00:49:40
Closing the department will mean an end to. 00:49:42
To recycling centers. 00:49:44
That's not necessarily true. 00:49:47
A private company may still operate the same 2 centers. 00:49:49
That goes to a private company. 00:49:51
It says it's the IT will be the elimination of hazard of waste collection. 00:49:54
That's not true. 00:49:57
Private company could still collect that if that's the contract that we signed. 00:49:59
Termination of a youth education program. 00:50:04
Which we don't have any any longer anyway. 00:50:06
And having to pay significantly more money, dispose of televisions, computers and other electronic. 00:50:08
Equipment. 00:50:13
Is everybody aware that there's a recycle center in downtown New Albany on Troy St. 00:50:15
That will take your electronics for free. 00:50:19
Bluegrass Recycling. 00:50:23
There's two other recycling centers in this county. 00:50:25
There's one on Grant Line Rd. There's one on Troy St. 00:50:27
It's not OK. It's been there 5 * 5 times. 00:50:31
You may need to call for an appointment, I don't know. 00:50:37
I mean, I don't know. 00:50:40
But it. 00:50:42
OK. 00:50:45
But. 00:50:49
This process. 00:50:51
Starts a clock. 00:50:53
It doesn't finalize any decisions. 00:50:54
All the decisions that Denise put on. 00:50:57
The Backpage. 00:51:00
Are still available. 00:51:03
This is a procedural process to allow the Commissioners to make the decision. 00:51:06
Of how they wanted to look in the future. 00:51:10
OK, and as Dale said. 00:51:12
Could we fund it? 00:51:16
We can't compel them to do it. 00:51:18
So. 00:51:22
If we give them the funds. 00:51:23
It may not necessarily go to that. So that's that's not even. 00:51:26
An option. 00:51:29
At this point, unless there was an agreement between the two bodies. 00:51:30
So. 00:51:34
It's it's a procedural issue for. 00:51:35
The council at this point and I've asked council on both sides and they assured me that. 00:51:40
On this. 00:51:44
On this topic, it involves us even though it's. 00:51:45
Their project. 00:51:49
It's third apartment. 00:51:51
So. 00:51:52
I know people are passionate about this. 00:51:55
And it's understandable. 00:51:57
But. 00:51:59
This vote tonight. 00:52:01
Starts a clock. 00:52:03
For decisions to be made down the road. 00:52:05
It doesn't end anything tomorrow. 00:52:07
If we take this boat tonight. 00:52:09
A matter of fact, I don't expect anything to be unanimous. So it'll be. 00:52:11
It'll go to a second vote. 00:52:14
So. 00:52:16
If you want to recycle, you'll still have opportunities to recycle. 00:52:17
In some form. 00:52:25
I'm not going to speak for the commissioners, but in our joint meeting it sounded like they were. 00:52:27
At the very minimum, going to provide hazardous waste. 00:52:35
Disposal. So I'm not, I'm not going to speak for them, but that was. 00:52:38
That's what I heard at the Joint. 00:52:43
So is there any other discussion? 00:52:45
There anything up here? 00:52:47
Everybody good, we have a motion in a second on. 00:52:50
Floyd County Ordinance, 2025-09. 00:52:54
All in favor say aye aye. 00:52:57
Any opposed? 00:53:00
Aye, that. 00:53:02
Passes umm. 00:53:04
But what about? 00:53:06
People have to say. 00:53:08
That man that passed public comment is passed. Thank you though. Thank you. We are on to new business. 00:53:09
Diana, are you speaking for Judge Granger? 00:53:20
The votes already passed. 00:53:25
He was. 00:53:29
There's public comment at the end of the meeting. Just a. 00:53:33
New business Item 1. 00:53:39
Superior Court 3. 00:53:41
I'm covering for Judge Granger this evening and. 00:53:45
This is just her commercial. 00:53:48
For grant fund, she's just looking for appropriations lines that are listed. 00:53:49
This is for Judge Grangers Commercial Court grant fund. 00:53:56
She's just looking for appropriations, these lines so that we can continue to utilize the funds that were given. 00:54:01
Motion to approve 1A as public as advertised. We have a motion a second for one a any discussion? 00:54:08
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:54:17
That carries. 00:54:21
No, Sir. 00:54:24
Mr. President, he asked that I would cover this tonight. 00:54:26
To a. 00:54:31
Is a reimbursement for. 00:54:33
Into the LEP. 00:54:36
LEPC Training. 00:54:39
It's money for. 00:54:41
The facilities. 00:54:43
Chemical. 00:54:46
Assessments that the companies have to pay that we get a portion of. 00:54:47
Motion to approve to a as advertised. 00:54:53
2nd I have a motion and 2nd for 2A any discussion or questions? 00:54:55
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:55:00
That carries. Thank you. 00:55:03
The rights called me today. He's got a grant from Caesars Foundation that he needs. 00:55:05
Appropriated so if you can put it to use. 00:55:11
Rushing to it through 3A. 00:55:15
2nd, we have a motion and a second for 3A. Any discussion? 00:55:18
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:55:23
That carries. 00:55:27
For a Highlander fire. 00:55:28
Protection District. 00:55:30
Have a PowerPoint as well. 00:55:46
Good evening. My name is Keith Young. 00:55:57
Captain at Highlander fire. I'm currently the. 00:56:00
EMS director, Chief Supervisor. 00:56:03
Whatever title you want to put there. 00:56:06
When we. 00:56:11
When my chief and I came to the joint meeting. 00:56:12
With the Commissioners and the Council. 00:56:15
We wanted to speak. 00:56:18
To dispel some of the. 00:56:20
As communications. 00:56:22
And I will admit that there are miscommunications. I came to the commissioners. 00:56:23
At their last meeting. 00:56:29
And spoke with them and we realized that there was. 00:56:30
Between previous administration and current administration, a lot of miscommunication between us. 00:56:33
And government. 00:56:39
So. 00:56:41
Some of the things that were said that we wanted to put. 00:56:43
Behind us. 00:56:45
We do have some one and three-year goals laid out. 00:56:47
We developed a stipend. 00:56:50
Which I'll I'll start with the call volume. 00:56:53
We made 137 total calls in the month of June. 00:56:57
115 of those 83% of our calls are EMS related calls. 00:57:02
We're on track for approximately 1400 EMS calls for. 00:57:10
End of year, End of 2025. 00:57:15
There's been significant growth growth in not only the Highlander area, with some new apartments going up on Hwy. 150 Nevilleton 00:57:19
Rd. area. 00:57:23
Along with a new housing complex down in. 00:57:27
Old Vincennes Road and Schreiber Rd. Area. 00:57:32
There's also growth in the neighboring areas, housing and apartments development. 00:57:34
Down in Georgetown off Hwy. 64 and Oaks Way. 00:57:39
There's also. 00:57:43
Also multiple housing and nursing developments along Grant Line Rd. which we will be providing mutual aid for both of those areas. 00:57:44
That we're being utilized for mutual aid almost daily. 00:57:52
Same with Ameripro. 00:57:55
When we it happened today. 00:57:57
We got, I apologize, it happened yesterday. We had four calls. 00:57:59
Within 30 minutes. 00:58:03
Both Highlander trucks are out, both the Mayor Pro trucks were out and there was nobody left. 00:58:06
In the area except for the city. 00:58:10
So we're constantly running both sides. 00:58:14
To show that we're serious about keeping our EMS as of July 1st, 2025. 00:58:18
We passed a stipend as a union to be. 00:58:24
It was placed in effect as of 2020. 00:58:28
As of July 1st. 00:58:30
For EMT, advanced and paramedic certifications, those with an advanced EMT certification get an extra $5000 a year. 00:58:32
And those that are paramedic certified get an extra $12,000 a year. This is to incentivize those that are with us to progress to 00:58:40
those higher levels of care. 00:58:45
And give that higher level of care to those first on scene. 00:58:49
We've switched to Med Bill. 00:58:56
They build only the insurance, not the patients. 00:58:59
We made that very clear in our contract with. 00:59:02
Med Bill. And I know that was a point that was brought up. 00:59:05
In the joint meeting that. 00:59:09
That's what the county needs, is what the county wants. There's no reason to pay a tax and then get billed for that tax that 00:59:11
you're paying. 00:59:14
They also provide us with on site training sessions to make sure that our documentation is correct and legal and. 00:59:18
Done in a timely manner. 00:59:26
We have a projected reimbursement for one year. 00:59:28
At $595,000. 00:59:31
And that's. 00:59:34
Just billing the insurances alone. 00:59:34
If we were to. 00:59:37
Get every penny back on. 00:59:39
All 1400 runs we would look at $1.6 million. 00:59:41
Because insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, they don't want to pay every penny that we charge for. 00:59:46
We're looking at. 00:59:52
Approximately 585,000 of that. 00:59:53
Little, little less than 1/3. 00:59:56
We're also starting the first mobile integrated health program or community. 01:00:01
Community Paramedicine. 01:00:07
In Floyd County. 01:00:09
We're working with the hospitals. 01:00:10
Both Floyd and Clark. 01:00:12
We're also working with. 01:00:14
Error probe and the surrounding departments to make sure this is implemented correctly. 01:00:16
It's going to help reduce the hospital readmissions, it's going to lower healthcare costs in the area. 01:00:21
It's going to decrease the non-emergency 911 calls. 01:00:27
It'll be. 01:00:32
Smooth integration with some social and behavioral health services. 01:00:34
That we we'd be able to provide. 01:00:37
It will have improved clinician and EMS group well-being because you're not going to have those. 01:00:41
As many frequent flyer calls. 01:00:47
It's also going to be more cost effective for the community as we won't have the ambulances out running around as much as we will. 01:00:49
One or two paramedics going on the lower acuity calls and helping the people get the care they need. That may not be the hospital. 01:00:55
Some other things. 01:01:05
Like I stated, better care for frequent 911 callers. 01:01:06
We'll be able to hit the rule areas. 01:01:10
If you've been out to Gordon, Starlight those areas. 01:01:12
It's fairly rule hard to get to. 01:01:16
We'll be able to get out to those areas. 01:01:19
And. 01:01:21
Do some Wellness checks, vaccines, chronic care, different things like that. 01:01:22
Like I stated before, we're having we will have partnership opportunities with the local hospitals and clinics. 01:01:27
We'll be able to do some telehealth stuff. 01:01:33
With some physicians. 01:01:35
And again, support for the vulnerable populations. 01:01:38
If the city allows us in, we can help with homeless population, opioid affected individuals throughout. 01:01:42
Counting different things there. 01:01:48
We have a third ambulance that's scheduled to be here in December. 01:01:53
That's going to help us replace. 01:01:57
One of the two aging squads. As you can see, we have two. 01:01:59
We have squad one and Squad 3, which are. 01:02:03
A 2022 and a 2023. 01:02:06
Ambulance. 01:02:09
2:00 and 4:00. 01:02:10
Our 2003 and a 2008, both of them. 01:02:11
They drift more than they drive. 01:02:16
And we've got the third ambulance coming, it'll be put into a rotation. 01:02:20
Will end up selling or. 01:02:26
Donating one of the other two. 01:02:28
Aged ones. 01:02:30
And with that third one? 01:02:31
Through the week will while administration is in the office. 01:02:34
We'll have a third ambulance to help with the district. 01:02:38
We're planning on making all of our engines, both Engine 31, Rescue One and Quad 11. 01:02:44
They're going to make those ALS engines where we will have advanced EMT's. 01:02:51
For paramedics on the engines. 01:02:56
So when the when the situation arises that there are no ambulances in the area. 01:02:58
We will still have. 01:03:03
A paramedic or an advanced EMT on staff on the engine. 01:03:05
To be able to initiate. 01:03:09
CPR care or advanced care for whatever. 01:03:11
The situation arises whatever may be needed. 01:03:14
They'll allow for more comprehensive on scene care. 01:03:16
The advanced personnel working with the ambulance. 01:03:21
It will increase our system efficient efficiency. 01:03:24
Greatly. 01:03:27
The mobile rehab unit. 01:03:30
We were also thinking about taking one of the older ambulances and turning it into a rehab unit that we did use countrywide. 01:03:32
On days like today, where we had. 01:03:39
A large. 01:03:41
Fire out off of 150. 01:03:42
Over in Greenville. 01:03:45
We had a lot of firefighters with. 01:03:47
Getting overheated. 01:03:49
And leading place to rehab, we had a rehab unit. We would have been able to better take care of that. 01:03:51
It will improve the firefighters safety, increase operational efficiency. 01:03:57
And it'll demonstrate professionalism to the public as they'll see that we're taking care of each other. 01:04:01
With our own stuff. 01:04:07
Or taking care of the surrounding. 01:04:08
Fire, Fire departments. 01:04:10
There was one more slide that we presented. 01:04:13
During the last joint meeting. 01:04:17
It was stated that we have a mountain of debt. 01:04:19
I was. We did have the slide initially. 01:04:23
And I sent the wrong one, that was my. 01:04:27
I bought. 01:04:28
We do have. 01:04:31
Station 1 Renovation and rescue. One loan or a bond? 01:04:32
That's valued at $659,673.00 with an interest rate of 4.42%. 01:04:36
We make biannual payments on that. 01:04:43
Not set to mature until 2032. 01:04:46
Engine 31. 01:04:49
Which is in. 01:04:50
Galena right now. 01:04:52
Has a balance of $369,647. 01:04:54
With an interest rate of 2.18%. 01:04:58
We make biannual payments on that. It is also set to mature in 2032. 01:05:01
The new Quad 11 that we have. 01:05:06
Of the current balance on that one is 870,441 thousand. 01:05:09
Sorry, 870,441 dollars. 01:05:15
With a rate of 4.94%. 01:05:19
Again, biannual payments. 01:05:22
That one's set to mature July 1st, 2039. 01:05:24
Which gives us a total. 01:05:29
Bond or loan amount of. 01:05:31
$1.9 million. 01:05:33
Are there any questions or anything for me at this time that I might be able to? 01:05:39
Help clarify our answer. 01:05:43
It's one of those engines for. 01:05:45
You're selling, correct? 01:05:47
The new Quad 11. 01:05:50
There was. 01:05:52
It was spectrum. 01:05:55
And it is now too large to drive safely on the county roads that we have. 01:05:57
So it is. 01:06:03
Currently, yeah. 01:06:04
Not in use. 01:06:05
It is being taken care of. We're. 01:06:07
Still doing maintenance and everything else. 01:06:09
And we have it listed with I think two different brokers to help us try and. 01:06:11
Sell it to different departments. 01:06:16
We do have interested parties, none have made. 01:06:18
Purchase yet? Do you know about what we're asking for? 01:06:21
I think. 01:06:24
Don't take my word for it, I think it's 900,000 is what we're trying to get. 01:06:26
It's between. 01:06:32
The 1,000,000 that we paid and 900,000. 01:06:33
I think the price has actually come down some. Again, don't take. 01:06:36
My word is gospel is I don't know the specific number. 01:06:40
So you're gonna. 01:06:44
You're going to have three ambulances, right? 01:06:45
In the future you plan on having three ambulances, correct? We're we're planning on taking delivery of the third one in December. 01:06:48
Do you ever see a point? Maybe? 01:06:56
Cover the whole county. 01:06:57
I mean, you're already covering Georgetown, Lafayette, all we're talking about. 01:07:00
Or Greenville. You were talking Georgetown and. 01:07:04
New Albany Township in the county. 01:07:06
I think that with the right. 01:07:09
The right funding, the right leadership and the right teamwork from the right people. 01:07:11
We could very well move into. 01:07:15
At very least. 01:07:18
Supply, at the very least, providing coverage for. 01:07:20
The. 01:07:24
Was Floyd County Fire Protection? 01:07:27
Area. 01:07:30
Think that that's not the right words, but. 01:07:32
I think we could very well move into that. 01:07:35
We've even made calls, several calls into the city over the year. 01:07:38
Since January 1, we've made 52 mutual aid calls. 01:07:42
But Ameripro. 01:07:46
They're in the city, correct? 01:07:48
Correct. Ameripro is currently covering the city. 01:07:49
They also have a second contract which covers the county with two ambulances, one on. 01:07:53
Charlestown Road and one in Georgetown. 01:07:59
So, so the truck that was spectral. 01:08:04
When was that order? 01:08:07
That was ordered. 01:08:09
Prior to my being. 01:08:11
On the department. 01:08:13
We took. 01:08:14
Took delivery. 01:08:15
Of that truck around August or September of last year. 01:08:17
So was that. 01:08:20
Previous chief that ordered that or was that? 01:08:22
To my knowledge, yes, but I don't know who placed the actual order. 01:08:25
How long have you all been doing the? 01:08:29
Balance of billing. 01:08:32
Or you don't. 01:08:33
We recently switched to Med bill as we were having issues with previous billing company. 01:08:34
We switched to them as of June 1st. 01:08:42
Actually, the actual date was May 27th. 01:08:45
I just like to say I commend you for having lofty goals. 01:08:50
I like this mobile integrated health program. 01:08:55
Now see, it says improve rural health outreach. 01:08:59
Proactive Wellness check you're gonna. 01:09:02
Who's gonna do that? You got volunteers? You're gonna. 01:09:04
Staff up more people. 01:09:07
That's pretty ambitious thing right there. 01:09:09
What's it called Mobile integ? 01:09:12
Integrated health program. 01:09:15
I mean, if you're going to check on people, Wellness checks. 01:09:18
Was that going to take 235 people? 01:09:22
It depends on. 01:09:26
How much we want to do, how far out we want to go. 01:09:28
At this. 01:09:30
Current time it'll be one or two including myself. 01:09:31
So they'll take you off of an engine or an ambulance. 01:09:36
To go check on someone. 01:09:39
I'm currently not on an engine or an ambulance. 01:09:40
I'm in an office providing. 01:09:43
A secondary ambulance when needed. 01:09:45
Or when somebody gets sick when somebody calls out I. 01:09:47
I've covered that spot on the ambulance so they can have their time. 01:09:51
OK this. 01:09:54
Seems like you're gonna have to hire a lot of staff in my opinion. 01:09:55
Are you fully staffed now? 01:09:58
On the ambulance side. 01:10:00
With the contract that we currently hold. 01:10:02
We have the staffing. 01:10:05
Fully staffed to the contract. 01:10:08
According to the contract, yes, we would like to. 01:10:09
The current contract states that we have 124 hour. 01:10:13
Seven day a week ambulance. 01:10:16
The second ambulance is required to be. 01:10:18
Staffed five days a week. 01:10:20
50 hours a week. 01:10:23
And we are currently doing that. 01:10:24
We would like to see 224 hour ambulances. 01:10:27
And we are. 01:10:30
Two personnel away from that. 01:10:32
Are you? 01:10:34
So is your personnel on the. 01:10:36
The emergency side. 01:10:38
They're not farming. 01:10:40
We the last hiring process that we had, we specifically looked for dual certified. 01:10:42
Individuals. 01:10:48
So that way should the need arise. 01:10:49
We can move people around to accommodate whatever. 01:10:52
May be needed. 01:10:56
Could could be, you know. 01:10:57
Somebody could. 01:10:59
Go on a run on an ambulance and not be available for a truck. 01:11:01
We we will not pull people from the engine to make ambulance calls. 01:11:05
We will call in people we have mandatory. We also have. 01:11:12
A lot of personnel that are working 48 hour shifts. 01:11:16
To make sure that our ambulances and our engines are both covered by. 01:11:19
Captain, thank you for your presentation. I appreciate it. 01:11:24
Maybe I misunderstood you. 01:11:28
Are all of your staff dual certified? 01:11:29
Currently. 01:11:33
What we have on staff as full time we have. 01:11:34
Two people that are not dual certified. 01:11:38
They are EMS only. 01:11:41
And we are working on getting them into a firefighter one and two course so that way we can have everybody across the board dual 01:11:43
certified. 01:11:46
In both fire and EMS. 01:11:50
It seems like. 01:11:56
And just from my view, I'm a. 01:11:58
I'm a professed novice at. 01:12:02
At all this, but it seems like there's been a lot of. 01:12:04
Attention and effort put into. 01:12:07
The ambulance side of the operation. 01:12:10
Is is the fireside keeping up? I mean when was the last time new equipment was? 01:12:14
Purchase for that. 01:12:20
Up to code there and. 01:12:22
So there was a misunderstanding during the last meeting. 01:12:24
The year situation. 01:12:28
Has been rectified across the board at this time. 01:12:31
We just placed a. 01:12:34
$220,000 Order. 01:12:37
To have new fire gear. 01:12:39
For every frontline. 01:12:41
Firefighter. Uh. 01:12:44
As long as well as. 01:12:46
Less expensive EMS gear which still provides you. 01:12:49
Protection during extrications and things of that nature. 01:12:52
Over the last few years. 01:12:57
Any new full-time firefighter was issued. 01:12:58
Gear that was within date. 01:13:02
The last bulk purchase was. 01:13:04
I think 10 years ago. 01:13:08
Was the last bulk purchased for everybody across the board? 01:13:11
As gear was needed, it was purchased individually. 01:13:14
And that was information that I got after our meeting with. 01:13:18
The Commissioners. 01:13:22
What are the regulations specify as far as upkeep on gear? 01:13:23
Is 10 years normal I guess is my question. 01:13:28
It's supposed to be 5 years. 01:13:30
Depending on. 01:13:33
The brand, the make. 01:13:34
It's between 5:00 and seven years. 01:13:36
I'm going to go ahead and. 01:13:40
Aggravate my friend Diane. I'm just a dumb old builder. 01:13:42
But it sounds to me like your model going forward. 01:13:46
Is the same model that we ran a company out of this county. 01:13:50
Was following. Maybe that's inappropriate to bring that up, but. 01:13:54
That was one of their big complaints that we heard. 01:13:57
Was they can't be firing him at the same time. We're taking people off the off the apparatus. One of my animals. 01:14:00
Come in from a fire. Hope you guys jump on the Hammond to go out. 01:14:06
And and I don't want to bring up old news, but it seems like your plan going forward is. 01:14:10
Same plan that they had, that was. 01:14:16
That there's somewhat of an issue. 01:14:19
The difference between. 01:14:20
That plan and our plan is we will have the staffing. 01:14:22
We will not pull personnel from the engines. 01:14:25
And we will find a way to. 01:14:28
Cover the ambulances we are. 01:14:31
As we get the. 01:14:34
Funding and as the budget. 01:14:35
Changes. 01:14:37
We will increase our staffing levels so that we will have extra people. It is our end goal. 01:14:38
To have 4 personnel per engine. 01:14:45
And our chief would like to see us have. 01:14:48
Three people per ambulance, which is still. 01:14:50
One person over the required 2. 01:14:53
Pretty ambitious. 01:14:56
I don't. I do not disagree with you. It is ambitious, but we are. 01:14:59
We are fighting against a contract. 01:15:04
At the moment. 01:15:06
That seems like it was designed to. 01:15:07
Almost make us fail. 01:15:11
And it seems like. 01:15:13
We're fighting hard to. 01:15:16
Prove that wrong. 01:15:18
But didn't you guys have the? 01:15:21
Didn't you have the, well, didn't you have the ability to review that contract and decided on it before you signed it? 01:15:25
I did not. 01:15:31
That contract was signed well before I was an employee. 01:15:32
That is somebody who's been in emergency services for 20 years. There was. 01:15:37
Quite a few issues with the contract that was signed. 01:15:42
Would you like specific because? 01:15:46
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. 01:15:48
I'd have to have the contract in front of me to nip it. 01:15:51
Well, I was a state. I personally take offense that. 01:15:54
I'm not trying to make implying that we set you up to fail. That is not true. 01:15:58
I'm out here. I'm not implying that anybody here. 01:16:03
Was the ones that set us up to fail. 01:16:06
Well, this body. 01:16:09
Approve that contract. 01:16:10
And it's no offense to you. 01:16:14
Or two previous personnel. 01:16:17
But the contract was. 01:16:21
Brought in. 01:16:24
EMS person or to add EMS personnel. 01:16:25
And people that don't understand EMS were the ones that made the contract. 01:16:29
So that's not in a. 01:16:35
Not an attack at you. 01:16:36
It's not an attack in previous administration, it's just. 01:16:38
There were things that. 01:16:42
Weren't known at the time. 01:16:43
OK. Well, I don't want to get the weeds, but I can assure you that contract. 01:16:46
You could not run another ambulance. 01:16:50
From the next 16-17 months and you would still get paid. 01:16:52
That's how that contract reads. 01:16:56
I've I've just got one more question. Are you all able to care? 01:16:59
Narcotics on your ambulance. 01:17:02
We are certified for narcotics and we're actually trying to work with Doctor Potter. 01:17:05
Our medical director to increase our repertoire. 01:17:10
Good deal. Thanks for coming. That's all I have. 01:17:15
Anybody. 01:17:18
Thank you. Thank you all for. 01:17:22
Stand still here. 01:17:26
Good evening, Stan Howe. 01:17:42
#5 here is the. 01:17:45
Red wire monies. 01:17:48
What we're doing is the draw comes monthly, so as the cash gets deposited. 01:17:50
Rio, Sharman. 01:17:55
The construction company for the red bar. 01:17:56
Process out and Innovation park. We owe them. 01:17:59
For the construction process. So this is just asking for the. 01:18:04
Appropriation to spend the monies that we collect. 01:18:09
Motion to approve 5A as advertised. 01:18:12
Second motion is second. Any questions for Stan? 01:18:15
Just trying to get to clarification, you're asking for 2 million and it's only showing 1.8. 01:18:19
Yeah, I'm not sure if it was the timing issue. 01:18:23
I can assure you that we're not. We have a $1.2 million bill due to Sharman. 01:18:26
So when I pulled the number and then when the auditor's office pulled it, it may have been. 01:18:30
There may have been some payments. 01:18:36
Process. I'm not sure. 01:18:38
I'll confirm with Diana before we move forward with anything for sure. 01:18:39
OK. 01:18:45
It was today, OK. 01:18:48
We'll wait to get the numbers before we go. 01:18:52
But we've got more than. 01:18:54
What's even requested at this time? 01:18:56
There's currently 2.2 million dollars, 2.2 in the is the balance. 01:18:59
Any other discussion? 01:19:05
All in favor of 5A say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:19:07
That carries 5 feet. 01:19:11
Fabi, this is just the bond payment for the Chase billing. We just needed to do an appropriation. 01:19:13
From the CCD fund. 01:19:22
Motion to approve 5B as advertised. 01:19:24
Second motion in a second. 01:19:27
Any questions on the bond pay? 01:19:30
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:19:33
That carries. Thank you. 01:19:36
Stand. It's interesting to see you in a different shirt. 01:19:38
It feels different, Sir. 01:19:41
Commissioner. 01:19:43
So, um. 01:19:49
Many of you know that the building authority has transitioned to. 01:19:51
Let's say reduce the responsibilities considerably. They've not gone away, they still exist. 01:19:58
And we need to have them in place for bonding for. 01:20:05
City Council. 01:20:11
Which is a county building. 01:20:12
Purchases in the future. 01:20:14
So they still exist. 01:20:16
But the Commissioners are taking over the transition. 01:20:18
Of the operations. 01:20:21
Of not only this. 01:20:23
The county building. 01:20:25
But as you're well aware. 01:20:27
We've purchased other buildings in recent months. 01:20:29
And so we're trying to put more things under one umbrella. 01:20:33
So, umm. 01:20:38
We we hired Donnie Hare to run the facilities. He's our our new facilities director to take care of the maintenance overseeing. 01:20:39
Of all of the buildings. 01:20:50
And so. 01:20:54
When we did that, we needed to go ahead and take. 01:20:55
The people that were in the building authority budget. 01:20:59
And move them over. 01:21:03
So that's what this is about. We just need the additional appropriations to make the transfer of those building authority. 01:21:05
People into the county. 01:21:14
And that's what we're doing. 01:21:17
Stand you want to speak to the numbers on that? 01:21:19
Real quick. 01:21:22
I know you sent out. 01:21:23
A spreadsheet on it, but. 01:21:25
There was at least one that. 01:21:27
Open. So yeah, I'm sorry, Jim, I don't know. 01:21:29
What the issue was, My apologies. 01:21:32
I don't know why it was difficult to open. 01:21:34
But what we're doing actually is there are 7 custodial employees and two maintenance employees. 01:21:38
Who will be transitioning? We'd like to see transition. The commissioners would like to see transitioned over the county. 01:21:43
Umbrella Umm. 01:21:48
To be able to manage and control all the aspects. 01:21:49
Facilities as we move forward. 01:21:53
The seven custodial employees, we paid out the edit fund. 01:21:56
We currently have a mate we have. 01:22:00
Current maintenance staff in a. 01:22:02
Custodial staff in Pineview right now, so we're just going to start paying them from that particular line. 01:22:06
Until we kind of get all the money settled with the building authority to get that transitioned over into the edit fund to 01:22:12
continue supplementing the process. 01:22:16
And also not making the lease payment here in early July. 01:22:20
Freed up some monies and yet a fund to help support this process as well. 01:22:24
So, yeah. And then one of the, of course you know, tree supplies is. 01:22:30
As retiring. 01:22:34
So one of the folks that are transitioning over from the building authority will be assuming her position. 01:22:36
And she'll be paid out of the same fund that Teresa was paid out of. 01:22:41
Which was the MVH unrestricted fund? 01:22:45
And then the maintenance to maintenance guys will be also. 01:22:49
Out of the. 01:22:53
As it finds as well. 01:22:54
This will just get us through to the remainder of this year. 01:22:55
And then when we submit our budget for next year? 01:22:59
Everybody under 1 brush. 01:23:03
But right now we're just taking the money that. 01:23:05
The building authority had and then. 01:23:08
From our lease payment. 01:23:10
And moving it over. 01:23:11
So it's. 01:23:13
Pretty much cost neutral at this point. 01:23:14
Well, that was my that was my question. This is all net neutral. This is just a reallocation of the same heads. Not additional 01:23:16
heads, same funds other than. 01:23:22
Donnie's position, it's at the same dollars. 01:23:28
And we have people, some of them or. 01:23:31
$16.00 an hour. Some of them were at 20. 01:23:34
And we have to. 01:23:38
Figure that out moving forward before our submitted budget. 01:23:39
But you'll see that during budget time. 01:23:43
Michelle, do you want to speak to the salary ordinance part of it or? 01:23:47
So I don't think there's a need to speak to the salary ordinance at this point. I it needs council's approval and the ordinance 01:23:53
will be updated quarterly. 01:23:58
So it'll be updated. 01:24:03
For your review third quarter. 01:24:06
So Stan, do you want these new line items? Do you want me to? 01:24:10
On on part A, it really is a new line items just yet. It's actually just the process of you don't want new line items yet. No, 01:24:15
ma'am, they're going to be paid from the they're going to be paid from the existing payroll. This is just approval of 01:24:20
appropriation from the lease payment into. 01:24:25
Into the salad. 01:24:31
Yes, yes, Sir. 01:24:32
I'll make a motion to approve 6A. 01:24:34
I'll second we have a motion and 2nd for 6A, any further discussion for this group? 01:24:37
All in favor say aye aye. 01:24:45
Any opposed? 01:24:47
That cares. 01:24:48
The next part actually there. 01:24:50
I may have. 01:24:52
Request. 01:24:53
It was a little garden and I apologize for that. 01:24:54
This was the first request was to create 3 new lines. 01:24:57
It was 11761022. 01:25:01
One and then the res zeros, which is the Chief Operating Officer. 01:25:05
The second line to be requested to be created is the one. 01:25:10
Edit line 1. 01:25:15
222. 01:25:17
500533 and that's the Director of Facilities position. 01:25:19
And then the third one is the edit line 10223. 01:25:24
And that's for the CFO, for this, the Floyd County commissioners. 01:25:31
So it's the line creation request. 01:25:34
First of all. 01:25:37
Motion to approve. 01:25:40
As Dan asked. 01:25:43
2nd. 01:25:45
We have a motion and a second for 6B as explained. 01:25:47
Any discussion or questions for Stan? 01:25:51
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:25:54
So the the the next item I am actually item B. 01:26:02
Is the appropriations for the Director of Facilities? 01:26:06
That's pay periods 14 through 26 for the balance of this year. 01:26:10
And then also for the CFO. 01:26:15
Floyd County Commissioners. 01:26:18
Again, that amount is also for pay periods 14 through the end of this particular year as well. 01:26:19
Before we take a motion. 01:26:24
The one we just voted on was C. 01:26:27
Correct. 01:26:30
And now we're going back to be. 01:26:31
They're all kind of that together. 01:26:34
What are we going to call this one? 01:26:37
We'll call this 1B. 01:26:38
OK. 01:26:41
Just kind of assume that under the. 01:26:42
Appropriation. So we'll call this 6B. 01:26:44
Yes. 01:26:47
OK. 01:26:49
Motion to approve 6B as advertised. 01:26:50
Second, have a motion a second for 6B. Any further discussion? 01:26:53
All in favor say aye. 01:26:58
Any opposed? 01:27:00
That carries. 01:27:02
And then the final 1C is actually just. 01:27:03
Next position, the CEO actually. 01:27:07
His salary was commingled with other employees in the 1176 MPH. 01:27:10
Unrestricted fund. 01:27:15
We thought it was wise to break his position out independently as the directors or the chief operating officer so. 01:27:17
This just transfers his salary from. 01:27:24
The other employees line up into the newly created COO line. 01:27:27
So again, this is net neutral. 01:27:33
This is the same salary. Yes, Sir. 01:27:35
I'll make a motion to approve. 01:27:38
Second motion in a second for 6C. 01:27:40
Any questions or discussion? 01:27:43
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:27:46
That carries. Thank you. So you know. 01:27:50
Going forward. 01:27:52
Since we. 01:27:54
Uh, higher stand that you're gonna see a lot more. 01:27:55
Transparency and cleaner budget. 01:27:58
Moving forward because that's how he operates. 01:28:01
So. 01:28:03
You will expect to see. 01:28:04
These things happen. 01:28:07
On a regular basis moving forward, we got a lot of things that we want to. 01:28:09
Clean up and make them a little bit more. 01:28:14
Also I'd like to take. 01:28:17
And introduce our new. 01:28:20
Highway Superintendent. 01:28:22
This. 01:28:24
And uh. 01:28:25
He started Monday to take Ronnie Tools spot. 01:28:26
So we're pretty excited to have him on board. 01:28:30
We just need your phone number. 01:28:38
Thank you. 01:28:47
Thank you. 01:28:48
Miss Topping, you are up. 01:28:49
Good evening. 01:28:58
Good evening. 01:28:59
So Diana Topping, Floyd County Auditor. I had sent an e-mail out. 01:29:01
Last week to all of you. 01:29:06
With a spreadsheet. 01:29:10
And a letter explaining. 01:29:11
What my intent is? 01:29:14
One of the biggest things that was asked of me when I took office was to. 01:29:17
Streamline some things. 01:29:22
Bring efficiency to the office and clean up the funds. 01:29:24
I can't do that by myself. I I like to think that I'm a one woman show, but. 01:29:27
My staff has. 01:29:32
They've come through in a really big way in the last 2 1/2 years. 01:29:36
Just to name a few things. 01:29:39
That they have managed to do. 01:29:41
We implemented new financial and taxing software. 01:29:44
To help clean up. 01:29:47
All of the misreporting that was happening. 01:29:49
We found. 01:29:54
Over half $1,000,000. 01:29:56
Of tax dollars that were stagnant and funds that hadn't been distributed. 01:29:58
To the taxing districts and we got that taken care of. 01:30:02
My first year in office was an absolute nightmare. 01:30:05
Because. 01:30:08
The previous office holder had missed putting. 01:30:09
A specific set of values on what's called the CNAPP. It's our certified, not assessed values and so it starts the property taxing 01:30:12
process. 01:30:17
We almost. 01:30:23
If it hadn't been caught, we would have cost the tax base 1.1 million and extra tax dollars that we managed to catch it. 01:30:25
And we had to do a rebuilding. 01:30:33
And that was. 01:30:35
Extreme umm. 01:30:36
So in my first year in office. 01:30:38
Between the over half $1,000,000 in tax dollars that we found and distributed and the $1.1 million error. 01:30:41
That we found we've saved the tax dollars almost $2,000,000 so. 01:30:47
These are just some things that I'm pointing out because I don't very often come before you with asks. 01:30:52
Usually I'm up here covering for somebody else or. 01:30:58
Really, it's covering for somebody else. 01:31:02
9 out of 10 times. 01:31:04
One of the most efficient things that. 01:31:06
With recently is that. 01:31:09
The new programs that you all. 01:31:12
Approved for us. 01:31:14
Have done wonders as far as our processes. Now it has also brought additional responsibilities to our office. 01:31:16
Responsibilities on every desk inside my office have increased. 01:31:22
The state is. 01:31:25
Putting more and more. 01:31:27
Reporting responsibilities on our office. This year I got the. 01:31:28
Delightful addition of the redevelopment. 01:31:33
Authority being added to part of my reporting. 01:31:37
Which is. 01:31:40
Not something I was hoping for, but it is something that we've gotten. 01:31:41
So we've been slowly transitioning some of the duties off of my chief deputy's desk to more appropriate desks so that she can 01:31:45
assist with other things because she was buried and I was buried and. 01:31:50
We needed help. 01:31:55
I've had some massive transition in my office this year. 01:31:57
And I currently have two empty desks. 01:32:01
And I would like. 01:32:04
To combine those two desks to a new. 01:32:06
Job description that I did send to you all that has been rated by Wis. 01:32:09
And in the process of this I would also like. 01:32:14
To increase. 01:32:16
Salaries in my office for the last 11 payrolls of the year. This wouldn't take effect until. 01:32:17
July 19th. 01:32:23
Because everyone is working harder than they were. 01:32:26
Everyone was already working hard. 01:32:28
And so they all have additional responsibilities. We're doing our best to make sure that. 01:32:30
All of the taxpayers needs are being met. All of the counties needs are being met. 01:32:35
I know that a lot of the public probably doesn't know what the auditor's office does, but we are the financial highway for the 01:32:40
county, so every penny. 01:32:44
That comes in or out. 01:32:48
Is tracked reported. 01:32:50
Documented in one million different ways through our office. 01:32:53
All of the taxing offices. So your surveyor, your treasurer, your reporter. 01:32:56
Your assessor, they all send all of their information to our office where it's all combined. 01:33:00
So we and and we do the financials for every single department. 01:33:07
In this county. 01:33:11
I spent the last two business days. 01:33:13
Importing everyone's budgets for first round review. 01:33:15
So that that is my ask. 01:33:21
I will tell you that. 01:33:23
In the grand scheme of things, my ask actually saves. 01:33:24
Our county general fund. 01:33:28
For this year alone, about $60,000 because it saves an entire salary for my office plus the FICA and perf that would have been 01:33:29
spent for that position. 01:33:35
Additionally. 01:33:42
What I'll be requesting as my first round for budgets for next year. 01:33:43
Is actually $10,000 less than my approved salary budgets for this year. 01:33:47
So that is my ask. My ask is that you reward a team that has. 01:33:52
Busted their tails on behalf of. 01:33:57
The citizens in this county to clean up an office that was an absolute hot mess when we took it over. 01:34:01
I don't get anything out of this ask this year. 01:34:07
Elected officials legislatively are not allowed to have their salaries changed after the first of the year. 01:34:10
So this is not for me. 01:34:16
This is for the people who work for me. 01:34:18
I'm happy to. 01:34:22
Address any questions that anybody might have. 01:34:23
I just wanted to make a clarification the the. 01:34:26
Raises that you're asking for are still within. 01:34:29
These stage levels. 01:34:32
So they don't. 01:34:35
Beyond the. 01:34:36
The levels. 01:34:38
Those ranges for this year, yes. And again, remember that. 01:34:39
Those ranges are 21 numbers that were published in 22. 01:34:43
So. 01:34:47
But for this year, yes, next year they will go slightly above those. 01:34:48
Five year old numbers. 01:34:53
But that's kind of appropriate considering the amount of work that's been added to our office and inflation. 01:34:55
And again, it still saves the county general. 01:35:01
Money because we are a general fund reliant department. So my goal was to find. 01:35:04
Something efficient? 01:35:09
Something workable, something that saves the county money but still rewards. 01:35:10
A staff that. 01:35:15
Has been dedicated to making sure things got cleaned up. 01:35:17
How are these? 01:35:20
Job. 01:35:23
Classifications going to line up with other. 01:35:24
Same the same people that have the same job classifications in other. 01:35:29
In other. 01:35:35
So it's still. 01:35:36
This year it would still be within the same race, while it would not necessarily be the same pay. 01:35:37
I'm not backfilling my 2 empty desks. 01:35:42
I'm getting rid of 1 and then I'm saving the county general money. 01:35:45
So that is why I am asking for. 01:35:48
For this. 01:35:50
I'll make a motion to approve 7A. 01:35:53
2nd, we have a motion and a second for seven A. Any further questions for Miss Topping? 01:35:56
I don't have a question, but I have. 01:36:01
Comment I truly appreciate you know. 01:36:03
The work that your office does and the fact that you're actually looking at. 01:36:06
Not backfilling a position. 01:36:10
Saving the county money. 01:36:13
Saving your budget. 01:36:14
Highly commendable. 01:36:16
Going into budget season, I hope that. 01:36:17
That's an example for others. 01:36:21
I appreciate it. 01:36:23
They work really hard. 01:36:25
I don't. 01:36:29
I don't know that I can say more than that. 01:36:32
Any other questions for Diana? 01:36:36
All in favor of seven a say aye. 01:36:39
Aye, any opposed? 01:36:41
That carries. Thank you. 01:36:43
Miss Danita Burks has. 01:36:45
A request right along the same lines. 01:36:49
You know, so you save money. 01:36:54
I see it. Did you get my? Did you get my e-mail? 01:36:57
OK so this is my only second time ever coming here. 01:37:02
Just write that down, I don't want to come here. 01:37:06
But I do want to say the county money. I'm in the same boat. I do have a position. I can fill it if you would prefer. I do that, 01:37:10
that's great. If not, I can save the county money with all the things we've already listed. As Diana said, my office does a little 01:37:14
bit different work than hers. 01:37:19
We serve the courts. 01:37:24
The girls work very hard so that for the few $1000 that difference that would be, I think in the long run it's would be. 01:37:26
The best choice? 01:37:33
There you have it. 01:37:35
Simple. 01:37:36
Did you send something out? 01:37:38
I did. 01:37:40
I didn't get anything that I. 01:37:41
Can remember. 01:37:44
I did, I did. It was the same. 01:37:47
It was a myself spreadsheet. It's a spreadsheet just like Diana had. Did you get one? Yeah. 01:37:49
Where's my letter? 01:37:59
Where's the rest? 01:38:02
And this is along the same lines. 01:38:06
No, the last e-mail that I received was. 01:38:09
6925. 01:38:11
So you're get. 01:38:15
You're getting rid of a person. 01:38:16
You're not backfilling. How's that working? 01:38:18
Reallocation of duties. 01:38:24
I know. But you, you, you are not filling a position that is empty right now. Is that what's that's the choice that we have? Yeah. 01:38:26
I don't have to kill it or I can't. I just wanted to make sure. Are we getting rid of somebody or is it? 01:38:32
People come go. It is that way. 01:38:40
And this is the. 01:38:43
Second time in your tenure that. 01:38:45
So this is the second. Yes, I eliminated position in 2020. 01:38:47
Right. 01:38:51
And this is the same situation where it doesn't. 01:38:54
Doesn't go outside of the. 01:38:58
Guidelines for those salary levels. That is correct. 01:38:59
This one will start on July 19th as well. 01:39:04
Yes. 01:39:07
I move, we approve. 8A. 01:39:09
Second, All right, we have a motion and a second. You all need some more time. 01:39:11
Over numbers. 01:39:15
Looks like there's about a $2000 increase. 01:39:18
On many of. 01:39:22
Jobs. 01:39:23
2400. 01:39:26
Dollars. 01:39:27
What percentage is that? 01:39:30
It's right at 3 percent, 3%. So you're gonna say 3% raise and then another 3% just to finish up last year, yes. 01:39:32
It's just think exactly. 01:39:39
Exactly. 01:39:41
Did a copycat. We did a copycat with the analysis. 01:39:42
Just for the finish up this year. 01:39:45
And I apologize you didn't get it. I don't. I don't know what happened. 01:39:51
What's the sightings? 01:39:54
I think I'm looking at six fifty 656,000 versus 600 and 39640, so a $16,000. 01:39:55
Savings. 01:40:06
Is that right? 01:40:08
It should be a little bit more than like it's 27. 01:40:09
Yeah, it should be about 27. 01:40:11
OK, I did the math. 01:40:13
Yeah, it's 2727 thousand dollar savings. 01:40:15
Plus, like her longevity. 01:40:21
Right insurance and health insurance taxes. 01:40:23
Are you all prepared? 01:40:29
To vote Are you good? 01:40:30
I'm done. OK, we have a motion, a second for a day. 01:40:31
In favor say aye aye. 01:40:34
Any opposed? 01:40:36
Thank you. And can I give a shout out to the new guy, Donnie? We have these lights now in my office and we can all see and I'm 01:40:39
very appreciative. 01:40:42
Sheriff Bush. 01:40:49
How you doing? I'll be very quick and. 01:40:53
Had a long meeting so this is reference to body Cam. 01:40:56
I was elected 2 1/2 years ago. 01:41:00
Discussion we had back then. 01:41:02
Never really made it to the top. 01:41:04
Priority but since that time doing Police Department and Clark County Sheriff's Office had went to body camp so we're only the 01:41:05
only agency. 01:41:08
In this area that does not happen, so we looked at it again. 01:41:12
And Chris Lane, the floating across here is here and he can talk on a court case that was prevalent here just recently that came 01:41:15
about if he chooses. 01:41:19
A lot of the. 01:41:23
Positive is accountability for the officers, accountability for the community. 01:41:25
Better court cases. 01:41:29
Compare better with these cameras. 01:41:30
Cut down on litigation. 01:41:32
Better report writing. 01:41:34
And cuts down an officer, complaints and transparency to the community. In terms of the body cancer, I think everybody's aware. 01:41:35
If you just flip through the slide. 01:41:43
Keep going. 01:41:47
So it's not right there, so some of keep going. 01:41:53
Helps out with use of force. 01:41:57
Well, when we get used to the cameras. 01:41:58
There are some concerns from the public in terms of. 01:42:01
Invasion of privacy, but we will redact. 01:42:04
Videos and we have that capability. 01:42:07
Office resistance to it. You know once they get used to it, it'll be better prepared. 01:42:10
As we go through the process and I'll get to the meat of really what you all want. 01:42:14
Here anyways. 01:42:18
As I think Christian gets in the video but I'm not sure if you can play that video. Play the video and not. 01:42:20
This will give you an example of what. 01:42:28
Picture you'll be seeing. 01:42:31
Hey, hey, hey. 01:42:44
That's not me running, by the way. 01:42:50
So that gives you kind of an idea. Again, sometimes there's good and bad with the video. It doesn't get the whole big picture at 01:42:59
times. 01:43:02
Gives you a good indication of what's going on, what officers have to deal with during those interactions with the community. 01:43:05
My last my last day working New Albany I had two foot pursuits. 1 lasted 2 miles going over the canine bridge. I wish I had bought 01:43:10
again then, but I didn't of course. 01:43:14
So let's just get to the straight to the meat of what we're dealing with. 01:43:18
So there's different options with the cameras and we've not been set on what we want to do. 01:43:22
Part of the high end. So just so you know, as we prepared for our first round budgets, we did put the high end in our budget. So 01:43:28
obviously that can change. 01:43:31
We're going to meet with Sam Matt and we'll go over that, discuss that Sam has experience, so. 01:43:35
Looking to him for some guidance as well. 01:43:40
But the high end right now is 396,000. 01:43:42
A year. They do a five year contract. 01:43:44
And so all that's built in. 01:43:47
I had. 01:43:49
We've just recently met with IU Professor Dave Lassie at IUS. He has a team that's going to write grants and so we'll partner with 01:43:50
them. 01:43:53
Try to get a grant in. 01:43:57
To pay for some of the equipment as well. 01:43:59
Well, so that could even go down, down the road. 01:44:00
The low end is around 2:00 and 4:00. 01:44:03
1000 in with these cameras. 01:44:05
The basic cameras you can get, that's the low end. It's just cameras. 01:44:07
You know, if we add in, so that's basically 50. 01:44:10
For our agency. 01:44:13
Gives a couple extras that you have in car cameras we can add into this price tag that's 30 for the cars it's on patrol. 01:44:15
We can also add into the jail. 01:44:21
We added in our this presentation. 01:44:23
43. 01:44:26
But we're still not undecided about that. We already have cameras in the jail. Do we need to go in and have body cams? 01:44:27
Into the jail itself, we would dock them, they would have them personally. 01:44:32
But there are some correction officers that go out in the community. 01:44:35
So we would consider that as well, but that number can be reduced as well. And then you add in Tasers. 01:44:38
You can have our current Tasers do work with it, but. 01:44:43
Clark County, I know they didn't get paid for the first but now they're going to the new Tasers with the body Cam. 01:44:46
So we're looking at that option. 01:44:51
Well. 01:44:54
Yes, so that's the that's the nuts and bolts of the presentation. It's been a long evening. 01:44:55
And so I'm sure y'all aware of this, I'm not asking for a vote tonight. 01:45:00
I'm gonna leave it to you in terms of that. We have to put this in our budget if we do this down the road. 01:45:05
If we wait till next year, which is fine, prices could go up as well. 01:45:10
And again, I'm going to work with Matt and Sam in terms of. 01:45:15
Talking to them or anybody that wants ask questions or wants to meet with us to look at them to see. 01:45:18
You know, it's about a six month process once we get approval to move forward, if we want to test them and then we want to write 01:45:23
policy and then we want to have officers get trained on them so. 01:45:28
There's a lot to it. Not just get approval tomorrow, we have. 01:45:32
That's gonna be the case. 01:45:36
So I'll take any questions or. 01:45:37
Sheriff, what changed priority wise over the past? 01:45:40
Three years public perception. 01:45:43
Honestly, you know, we were public or. 01:45:45
Public perception. Yeah. Yeah. 01:45:48
Because at the very beginning I'm not far against them, but it's a lot of money. 01:45:50
And I don't think the Sheriff's Office. 01:45:54
A lot of compliance. 01:45:56
Either as well. They do a fabulous job, a great professional and what they do when they interact with community. 01:45:57
And so did we want to spend a lot of money up front? 01:46:02
Especially being a new sheriff. 01:46:05
We had a lot of priorities elsewhere and what we were doing, so we talked about it, had discussions, but initially it wasn't. 01:46:06
Main priority right away. 01:46:12
And then being the last agency in this area, that perception of that. 01:46:13
This little pressure on. 01:46:17
In terms of is this the right thing to do? Should we do? 01:46:18
And so I wanted to come to you all and give you a presentation because you have the first screen. 01:46:21
Our streams into putting our budget and how. 01:46:25
We move forward with that together. 01:46:27
From a prosecutor's office perspective. 01:46:29
Do body cams. 01:46:37
Have a history of. 01:46:38
Preventing crime? Do they allow you to have a higher conviction rating? 01:46:41
I don't think they prevent. 01:46:47
I just don't, I don't think I've been on the on the other side of the camera yet, so. 01:46:49
I'm sure. 01:46:53
But I think what they do is just. 01:46:55
They do help with trials. 01:46:58
You just had a drug trial. It should be an open, shut trial. 01:47:00
Church delivery for hours on hours now. 01:47:04
You haven't lost trial in years. 01:47:07
I don't say that one. 01:47:08
But it got tougher. 01:47:09
And when the body Cam. 01:47:11
Is that simple? 01:47:12
If someone gets pulled over and they make an accusation. 01:47:14
How do you know it wasn't planted right? 01:47:17
Now I always was against. 01:47:19
Up until about 3 years ago. 01:47:21
Is you should be able to trust an officer. 01:47:23
Tony's on the. 01:47:26
Bad officers, but they're gone. 01:47:30
We'll keep them around. 01:47:33
What Sam's been through a 2. 01:47:34
Just different now. 01:47:37
Each one of you pull out your camera. 01:47:39
Tape that you expect. 01:47:41
So. 01:47:43
That's just the World War and that said. 01:47:44
It's a lot of money. 01:47:46
And I'm not advocating for spending money, I'm just saying. 01:47:48
It's something that the public, I think. 01:47:51
Expense so. 01:47:54
That's just how it is. You saw right there that changes your whole view and report it would say. 01:47:57
Defendant Ram. 01:48:02
You watch that. You see the defendant ran against four lanes of the highway. 01:48:04
64. 01:48:07
How dangerous is that for those officers? How dangerous is for the defendant? 01:48:09
Then he's going to make accusations that he was making. 01:48:13
Be beaten. Let's say it's. 01:48:16
It's concluding you didn't make those, but if he did, that helps, right? 01:48:18
It shows everything. 01:48:21
Yeah, but the cost is absorbed. 01:48:23
I get that. So thank you. I appreciate your perspective, you guys. 01:48:25
Any further questions? 01:48:31
Anything else for the share? 01:48:34
The only thing I would ask is. 01:48:36
What's the next step for you all? 01:48:37
Terms of giving a presentation, we're going to meet with Sam and Matt in a couple weeks to go over our budget. 01:48:39
You know, we can continue to discuss it amongst ourselves. I can come back here by. 01:48:45
Next month. 01:48:48
And to figure out, you know. 01:48:49
Next steps. 01:48:51
Improve the budget. 01:48:52
Level 10. So I have several questions in terms of how we're going to get a peak at budgets. 01:48:53
Tomorrow. 01:48:59
And we've got a lot to look at, you see. 01:49:00
Where that bottom line is. 01:49:05
And what the options are. 01:49:07
So we. 01:49:10
You know, we may ask you to come back, it may be something we just take up at budget time. 01:49:12
See if it if it connect. 01:49:19
To communicate with Sam and Matt and yourself as president. 01:49:22
And then we'll decide, is it in your budget numbers for? 01:49:24
Have the high end again, there's different discussions still to have. 01:49:29
With that, do we need Tasers right away? Can we do them later? Do we need in car cameras? 01:49:33
Play with just the basic cameras. 01:49:37
Not do anything at all. 01:49:40
So there's a range from. 01:49:41
214,214. 01:49:42
In that price tag as well as AI helps offers right reports. 01:49:44
That's something we can do with that. But you know, we've been talking with you all, me and Clark County. 01:49:49
And got a lot of report from them, what was working what, what didn't work, what they should have. I think they both. 01:49:54
I think Clark County has AI, I'm not sure. 01:49:59
So the officers don't have Tasers now or these are specific Tasers to work with the cameras? OK, thank you. 01:50:02
So officers do adaptation. 01:50:07
Gotcha. And it's. 01:50:09
If an officer. 01:50:12
If you got the Tasers that were integrated, if an officer pulls A Taser it will activate the camera. That is correct. 01:50:13
OK. Anything else for the sheriff? 01:50:21
Thank you very much. Thank you. 01:50:23
Miss Topping, you are up again. 01:50:27
This is a part of the evening where I cover for other departments. This is when you normally see me. 01:50:32
So we have. 01:50:39
Request for transfer for the Health Department. 01:50:40
We're just decreasing contract employees and increasing miscellaneous supplies and office equipment. 01:50:43
As advertised. 01:50:50
Thank you. Have a motion to 2nd for 10/8 any other? 01:50:51
Questions or discussion? 01:50:54
All in favor say aye. 01:50:57
Aye, any opposed? 01:50:58
Motion to approve 10B as advertised. 01:51:01
2nd we have a motion and 2nd for 10B. 01:51:05
Any discussion? 01:51:08
All in favor say aye aye. 01:51:11
Motion to approve 10 C Second. Motion a second for 10C. 01:51:13
Any discussion? 01:51:19
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:51:21
That cares. 01:51:24
This is me. 01:51:28
Sorry, I was. 01:51:29
So excited that everybody didn't need me to explain things that I just kind of. 01:51:31
Letting things go. 01:51:35
So this is just a request for an additional appropriation. 01:51:36
I'll be honest and tell you I don't remember if I sent the e-mail to you guys that I was supposed to send, and if I did it was 01:51:39
probably about a month ago. 01:51:43
So this is just a refresher. 01:51:46
This is additional appropriations for some costs that were approved by the Opioid Oversight Committee and then again approved at 01:51:48
the commissioners meeting. 01:51:53
Primarily what this covers is training. 01:51:58
It's for game training. 01:52:01
Up in Chicago, the opioid. 01:52:03
Committee approved. A7. 01:52:06
Individuals, and not necessarily all county individuals, I was actually very excited about that. 01:52:08
So this is a joint effort between multiple law enforcement agencies where we're sending seven individuals up to Chicago for gang 01:52:13
training. 01:52:17
Are he's gone, but our prosecutor and our chief deputy prime. 01:52:22
Chief deputy prosecutor and then one other individual, I believe, from the prosecutor's office. 01:52:25
An individual from NAPD, a probation officer, and then we are also covering a corrections officer to go. I don't know if you're 01:52:30
aware of this and I might misquote the information. 01:52:35
But our prosecutor's office did their first ever. 01:52:41
In the history of Floyd County gang charge this year. 01:52:44
First ever. I will tell you as someone who worked in the Sheriff's Department's Corrections Division. 01:52:47
We've had gang issues for a while, so I found it very exciting that that was finally being utilized. 01:52:52
So this covers all of the training costs. 01:52:59
To send those 7 individuals. 01:53:02
And then it's also a. 01:53:03
Some additional funds for. 01:53:06
Equipment that is being purchased and if I failed to send that e-mail, which I will look and see, I will resend it. Motion to 01:53:09
approve 10D as advertised. 01:53:14
Second, have a motion. 01:53:20
Yeah, Didn't we discuss this at our last session? I was thinking that we already screwed this, but I thought maybe I understand 01:53:24
this. 01:53:27
I don't think so. Maybe. I think we discussed it, but we didn't have it up for. 01:53:31
I wasn't approving. It wasn't advertised. Yeah. 01:53:36
Yeah, yeah, we did have a short discussion on it. 01:53:40
Any other discussion? 01:53:44
I guess it'll get double approved if we approve it again. Does that mean you get double money? Yeah, we won't. We won't put it in 01:53:45
there if we don't need it. 01:53:49
Anything else on this? 01:53:54
Item All in favor of 10 D say aye aye. 01:53:56
Opposed that carries. 01:53:59
Item number 11 A is for tonight's transfer. 01:54:02
Ordinance 2025-10. 01:54:06
I make a motion to approve 11A. 01:54:10
Second motion, a second for. 01:54:13
The transfers, any discussion on what we've done this evening? 01:54:16
All in favor say aye. 01:54:20
11B is a joint resolution 2025 dash O3. 01:54:25
Floyd County and Floyd County Library District to. 01:54:29
Transfer ownership of the. 01:54:31
Galena library property. 01:54:34
I believe they sent out the. 01:54:38
I'll make a motion to approve 11B. 01:54:44
2nd. 01:54:46
Like this, This also includes. 01:54:48
Termination of. 01:54:50
The interlocal agreement. 01:54:52
By Floyd County and. 01:54:55
Library district and then transfers ownership of the property. 01:54:57
Commissioners have already. 01:55:03
Have approved this and now it's. 01:55:04
Far turn. 01:55:06
To approve it. 01:55:08
We get a motion in a second. 01:55:10
Any discussion on that? 01:55:11
Seeing none, all in favor say aye. 01:55:15
Any opposed? 01:55:18
That carries. 01:55:19
All right, we are at the end of our agenda. If there's anybody from. 01:55:22
That's how it was read in. Is that? Is that how your motion? 01:55:28
I can redo my motion if you'd like. Let's do it just for the record. 01:55:32
All right, So my motion is approve 11B and C. 01:55:35
It's on Spring. 01:55:41
Oh yeah. 01:55:45
OK. We have we have a motion. Is there a second, second. 01:55:46
We have a motion second for 11 PNC for the termination. 01:55:49
Of the interlocal and the resolution transfer. 01:55:52
Any questions? 01:55:56
All in favor say aye. 01:55:58
Aye, any of those. 01:56:00
That carries. 01:56:02
All right, we're at the end of our agenda if there is anybody from the public. 01:56:03
Would like to speak. 01:56:06
Please come forward, state your name. 01:56:09
How much is real? Briefly. 01:56:12
Jim Harbison. 01:56:14
3820 Edwardsville Galena Rd. 01:56:16
I'm just trying to clean it guest clean up a couple misunderstandings. 01:56:19
And I might be wrong, I might have got. 01:56:23
Got misunderstood, Mr. Sarkisian, and I might. 01:56:25
Misunderstood, Mr. Sharp, but I think both those gentlemen were under the impression. 01:56:28
That Mister Massengill or somebody from his. 01:56:34
Department. 01:56:39
Had typed up a handout to see him and said something about. 01:56:40
To Mr. Mass and GAIL, your handout. 01:56:43
And somebody from his department had. 01:56:46
Handed those things out. 01:56:49
And that wasn't the case. Ellen Worse and Kelly tightened up. 01:56:51
The handout and. 01:56:56
There were. 01:56:58
To volunteers. 01:56:59
Every hour. 01:57:01
That were there and someone. Mr. Matt. I just want you guys to know that OK, no problem. Yeah, I was just told it was my staff. 01:57:03
Mr. Short, I might have misunderstood, you know. No, that was my OK, Was my cinema all right. But that wasn't the way to. 01:57:11
Yeah. OK. Thank you. 01:57:17
Hi, my name is Melissa Frye Conti and I live in Georgetown. 01:57:22
Other end of Edwards. 01:57:26
And I just. 01:57:29
Want to note that. 01:57:31
What I heard and saw here tonight was that. 01:57:32
You all recognize that the people don't want to give up recycling. You even agree that recycling has value. You recognize there's 01:57:35
public health. 01:57:39
Impacts. What you do, the land you do to the people, there's no question. 01:57:43
It would impact our air and water quality. 01:57:47
And yet. 01:57:51
Because you see it as the beginning of a timeline and your friends on the Commission. 01:57:52
Say they want to do this. 01:57:57
You still vote in favor of it. 01:57:58
Despite what the people have to say. 01:58:00
And with the facts about its potential impacts. 01:58:02
And the people who live here now and in the future. 01:58:05
Are you still vote in favor of it? 01:58:08
And I just think that's really. 01:58:10
Anti democracy. 01:58:12
And I think you have no integrity. 01:58:14
Thank you. 01:58:18
Ellen Worse and Kelly again. 01:58:27
I would like to commend Dale Mann tonight, who has been coming before the Commissioners and the Council for over a year now, 01:58:29
talking about body cams. 01:58:35
And so he did that. He introduced the subject. The sheriff has been talking about body cams for several meetings. 01:58:41
He's now going to put the information together and meet on the budget. 01:58:50
This is how change is done in government. 01:58:56
Not the. 01:59:00
Quick, secretive things that have been going on. 01:59:01
With recycling. 01:59:05
And with the youth shelter. 01:59:07
This is the right way to do it and what has happened with these solid waste is the wrong way in government. Thank you. 01:59:09
Tracy Faucet. 01:59:21
Resident Floyd County. 01:59:23
Specifically addressing you all, who kind of? 01:59:24
Chastise people you know, You should come to our meetings, get more involved. 01:59:28
A room full of people showed up and were involved and you didn't. 01:59:31
Listen. 01:59:35
You voted against us. 01:59:37
So you wonder why people don't come and get involved? 01:59:38
I think tonight shoulder. 01:59:41
Dale Manor George I don't know why don't tell very many council meet. 01:59:52
You know, I've been for the taxpayer. 01:59:58
Every time. 02:00:01
But what Steve Wish brought up about body cameras I've been pushing for. 02:00:03
More, a lot more than a year. 02:00:07
Matter of fact, I really started pushing. 02:00:10
Citizens of our county got shot by the county deputy sheriff's. 02:00:12
In your own home. 02:00:16
And all the explanation we had. 02:00:17
Here site that's right. 02:00:19
That I know. 02:00:21
And there's ways to pay for it? I asked. 02:00:23
I asked for it when we had all the AARP money. 02:00:25
Of course, nobody wanted to do it then. 02:00:28
It would have paid for that. 02:00:30
207,000 a year. 02:00:32
But there's ways in that. 02:00:35
Mr. Bush, he said something. 02:00:36
That I've been saying. 02:00:38
The prosecutor said something It saved them money. 02:00:40
It saves the judges, so you might be looking some money from their budgets to help pay for these cameras. 02:00:42
I know I'll probably get locked up. 02:00:48
It's there. 02:00:52
And y'all look at the budget if you're going to save money, and we'll save money. 02:00:53
How can you pray I'm not getting drunk out when you're somebody? 02:00:58
You know you won't be going trial. 02:01:01
And you won't be cutting deals across here. It won't be cutting deals and it will save money. 02:01:02
You might be a little way to pay for it, but I have been pushing this for years. 02:01:07
Thank you. 02:01:11
I'm going to finish everything out here. 02:01:22
I'm Dana Frazier. I'm in college crossing. 02:01:24
I just wanted to bring up. 02:01:27
Actually, you mentioned that Gerber in your neighborhood you saw very few recycle bins sitting out. 02:01:29
What? You're making assumptions. 02:01:34
Looking at over 1000 signatures that were gathering. 02:01:35
The reason you might not have seen so many recycle bins sitting out is because. 02:01:39
Private companies like Sweet Lane. I remember when I moved here, I called around. 02:01:44
Peggy, who takes her cycle because I didn't know it was different than. 02:01:48
You know what I mean? That was a quick lesson. 02:01:52
But they only took cardboard and aluminum. 02:01:54
Which is what makes them money. 02:01:57
So, umm. 02:01:59
You can. What's that? 02:02:00
Yeah, right, right. So I was like, well, I'm not gonna use them. 02:02:04
So our neighbors right next door do use them and very often they have like a little side thing on their truck and that's where 02:02:07
they place their recycle. 02:02:11
So I watched the guy. He'll go and grab their stuff. 02:02:15
He'll come to the side, he'll just get rolled. 02:02:19
Like he'll go and throw it in the back of the truck. 02:02:22
What are the odds, do you think, that they go? 02:02:24
Back to the dump at the end of the day and sort through the truck. 02:02:27
And pull that recycle out. 02:02:30
That's what's going to happen with the private company. 02:02:31
So I've I've seen with my own eyes. 02:02:34
Thanks. 02:02:38
Excuse me, my name is Gina Crone. I'm from Floyd's Knobs. 02:02:45
Is it too late to ask why we couldn't? 02:02:49
Look into Miss Conkel suggestion. 02:02:52
Of trying to use other funds. 02:02:55
Can that not be answered? I mean if there's money available. 02:03:00
And in three days we have over 1000. 02:03:05
Signatures and A room. 02:03:09
Full of people and y'all have gotten more calls, more emails. 02:03:11
Why can't we look at her suggestion? Why is it just no? 02:03:15
Are you able to go ahead and answer that? 02:03:22
I can answer it. 02:03:24
This falls under the purview of the Commissioners. 02:03:27
And we could give them. 02:03:29
Money all day long. 02:03:30
They can choose to defund this department. 02:03:32
And for? 02:03:34
And they they have their, they have their own budget. 02:03:38
You'll have to ask the attorney statutorily. We had to vote on this. 02:03:44
That's that's the only. 02:03:48
Statute. 02:03:50
But if you if you vote in a positive manner that you. 02:03:52
You are not for dissolution. 02:03:56
Obviously then. 02:03:59
It will go back to them and maybe they will say it's over or we'll use whatever money however. 02:04:01
But I mean, tonight it's over. So if you could extend it and we had more time. 02:04:09
Why make it so final tonight? 02:04:16
Story A couple years ago we we did something similar to this. 02:04:19
Where we decided. 02:04:23
Not to fund a certain. 02:04:25
Department. 02:04:27
And uh. 02:04:28
We were. 02:04:31
We were chastised. 02:04:32
That can't believe you all would do something like that. 02:04:34
And uh. 02:04:37
When it comes under their purview. 02:04:40
We cannot compel. 02:04:41
Them. 02:04:43
Executive side. 02:04:43
To provide a service. 02:04:45
And. 02:04:47
If we fund it, we can't compel them to use those monies. 02:04:49
For that purpose, we cannot do that. 02:04:53
So for fear of chastisement, you're just not going to do anything? I mean, we all have to be courageous. 02:04:56
For what we truly believe in. 02:05:02
And you all obviously believe in recycling. 02:05:05
Have an entire room full of people who were here petitions. 02:05:07
So we have to be brave, we have to say. 02:05:12
Go for this. 02:05:16
I don't understand just saying it's over, it's over. 02:05:17
It's not, it's not over. 02:05:21
Well, I know, but privatization? 02:05:24
You presented nothing how that might work. 02:05:27
Again, that's not. 02:05:30
In our purviews. 02:05:32
That is not that is not for us to decide. 02:05:33
That is not for. 02:05:36
The council to decide. 02:05:38
How that goes forward? 02:05:40
Thank you. 02:05:43
So I. 02:05:48
Andrew Raker, still from Floyd's Knobs, haven't moved in the past two hours. 02:05:50
My comment for the four of you who did vote to move forward. 02:05:55
I understand there are some legal niceties that I. 02:05:59
Don't understand because you have to be a parliamentarian to understand them and I have other hobbies. 02:06:03
So I understand where you were coming from, Luther Vaux. 02:06:09
But uh. 02:06:12
Considering that you did speak up with recycling and that you do have better connections with the county commissioners than I do. 02:06:12
You have relationships through Floyd County politics. 02:06:19
I would encourage you. 02:06:23
Over the next 180 days, at least 180 days. 02:06:25
Until this final process. 02:06:29
To share with our Commissioners. 02:06:31
You know the frustration, the support. 02:06:33
All the feelings that you've seen tonight, I know we're going to have a big turn out at that final meeting. 02:06:36
But I hope we get constructive plans from the Commissioners before we get to that, and I would encourage you to use your role as 02:06:43
public servants to help them understand our feelings. Thank you. 02:06:48
Anyone else wish to speak? 02:06:59
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. 02:07:08
My name is John. 02:07:10
I wouldn't want our identities that lives in Floyd County, has Lanesville address, Franklin Township and all that other good 02:07:11
stuff. But anyway. 02:07:15
I came to work. 02:07:21
Football County solid waste because of Dave Mexican. 02:07:22
We work together. 02:07:26
Truck Plant. 02:07:27
I was responsible for. 02:07:31
$1.4 million in sales, 5 manufacturing plants and 2000 employees. Jobs and their livelihoods. 02:07:32
Closely because I work for another company. 02:07:42
When we when we got together, we had. 02:07:46
Decision to make. 02:07:48
And that was what is the best for at that point the company. 02:07:49
My point what I'm saying is. 02:07:53
We didn't have taxes. 02:07:56
Pay your money. 02:07:57
We had. 02:07:59
X amount of money. 02:08:00
That was only. 02:08:01
That's it, and our thing was to save as much money as we possibly. 02:08:02
I will tell you for about Dave Massengill. 02:08:09
Takes there the recycling center as if it's his own checkbook and. 02:08:11
Writes those out so when he says 1415 employees. 02:08:17
Me working there being a part of it. 02:08:21
I'm telling you. 02:08:23
We work hard. 02:08:24
We get our stuff done and then we go home. 02:08:26
When I retired two years ago. 02:08:29
The day after I retired, my resting heart rate dropped 10 beats a minute. 02:08:32
That's the kind of pressures and that's the kind of stuff I was under. 02:08:37
On a daily basis. 02:08:40
I don't have to. 02:08:42
But I will tell you. 02:08:45
The community is the reason that I do. 02:08:46
And from a standpoint like what? 02:08:49
Our other fine. 02:08:52
Servicemen and women that work in our county. 02:08:56
I know for a fact. 02:09:00
That when you come to any other facility, Greenville or whatever. 02:09:02
You're greeted with hello. 02:09:06
How are you today? What's going on? 02:09:08
And you're told before you leave. I hope you have a great day. 02:09:10
I know for a fact. 02:09:13
There are a lot of people. 02:09:15
Don't hear that except when they come up. 02:09:16
We're just reaching out the way we would. 02:09:20
Want to be treated ourselves? 02:09:23
And I think that's the coolest thing again. 02:09:25
The only reason I do it. 02:09:28
I don't have to. 02:09:30
I worked almost 45 years in the automotive industry. 02:09:31
And like I said, I don't want an increased target. 02:09:34
So. 02:09:38
At that point. 02:09:39
For the community and the expert. 02:09:40
And to let the commissioners that aren't in charge of this part. 02:09:42
What I ask anyone of you? 02:09:46
Join us on. 02:09:49
Join us any day, maybe. 02:09:52
Saturday at annex there on on Grant Line Rd. 02:09:54
Be one of the extras that helps. 02:09:59
Because we also have. 02:10:01
People that are. 02:10:03
3/3. 02:10:04
Paying their debt to society on Saturdays to come in. 02:10:07
They actually leave. 02:10:13
What the better feeling of themselves? 02:10:14
Just by how we treated people. 02:10:16
And so that's what I have. 02:10:18
Come join us. 02:10:20
I would love for you guys to come. 02:10:22
And be a part and see. 02:10:24
We want to talk about talking to constituents. 02:10:25
All right, wherever else that one day you go see you. 02:10:28
So thank you for your time. 02:10:34
I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. 02:10:44
So moved. 02:10:46
2nd. 02:10:49
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Event transcript
I now call to order the Floyd County Council regular meeting for Tuesday, July 8. 00:00:02
Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. 00:00:07
United States. 00:00:12
Stands. 00:00:16
One nation under God, indivisible. 00:00:17
Let the record show that we have a full forum tonight. 00:00:29
Mr. Tran, would you lead us in prayer, please? 00:00:32
Would you pray with me? 00:00:38
Our Father God in heaven, we come before you tonight with grateful hearts. 00:00:40
Thanking you for this day that you have blessed us to see. 00:00:44
We realize it's a day we have never seen before and. 00:00:49
We shall never see again. 00:00:53
Thank you for this opportunity to serve this great community. 00:00:55
We ask your guidance and your wisdom as we conduct the business of this. 00:00:59
Meeting, uh. 00:01:04
May our discussions be productive, our decisions be fair and thoughtful. 00:01:05
And our goals be aligned with the best entrance. 00:01:11
Of all those who we represent. 00:01:14
We pray for the prosperity and well-being of our community. 00:01:17
Bless our residents with peace. 00:01:21
Opportunity. Umm. 00:01:24
And Unity. 00:01:25
And we also lift up all public servants. 00:01:26
Those in this room and beyond. 00:01:29
Protect them, strengthen them. 00:01:32
And remind them. 00:01:34
Of the great purpose in their surface. 00:01:36
We pray for all those who have been affected by. 00:01:38
The flooding in Texas. 00:01:42
And we ask that you would grant us. 00:01:44
A spirit of. 00:01:47
Cooperation and respect. 00:01:48
And may everything we do bring honor and progress. 00:01:51
To the place that we so proudly call home, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. 00:01:54
All right, acceptance of tonight's. 00:02:02
Agenda. 00:02:05
So move. 00:02:06
Second motion a second, any discussion on the agenda? 00:02:08
All in favor say aye aye opposed. 00:02:12
That carries approval of minutes from. 00:02:16
June 10th meeting. 00:02:18
So moved OK. 00:02:19
Motion a second. Any discussion on those minutes? 00:02:21
All in favor say aye. 00:02:24
Any opposed? 00:02:26
Is our proof. 00:02:27
We're going to move into our public comment portion. 00:02:29
We have. 00:02:32
14 or so signed up to speak. 00:02:33
I'm going to. 00:02:36
Set out a couple of simple little ground rules. 00:02:38
Keep discussion civil. 00:02:43
If somebody has stated. 00:02:45
Your thought before. 00:02:47
Agree with them and. 00:02:49
Move on to another point that you have to make. 00:02:51
I'm going to allow about. 00:02:56
2 minutes. 00:02:58
Each to speak. 00:02:59
If you're on a roll and you need a little bit longer, I'll grant it, but we're going to try to keep. 00:03:01
For two minutes each. 00:03:05
All right. 00:03:07
Rebecca Lee. 00:03:08
Hello, my name is Rebecca Lee. I'm a Floyd County resident. 00:03:12
I'm speaking tonight to ask you to please continue funding and supporting the Floyd County Recycling Program. 00:03:15
They project they will take in 900 tons of material this year alone, preventing hazardous and unnecessary waste from entering our 00:03:21
landfills. 00:03:26
Leaching into our groundwater. 00:03:30
Scrap metal, e-waste, aluminum and cardboard recycling also generated $74,000 of revenue last year. 00:03:32
Recycling conserves natural resources, creates jobs, promote sustainability for future generations. 00:03:40
Using recycled materials and manufacturing uses significantly less energy. 00:03:46
Than using brand new materials. 00:03:51
I feel sad I have to stand here to justify the need for recycling in our community. 00:03:53
I'm a teacher and as the woman who spoke at the last meeting said. 00:03:58
I hope I have not been giving my students and my own personal child a pipe dream. 00:04:01
Because we will not be recycling anymore. 00:04:06
Dissolving it all together. 00:04:08
Sends the message that recycling in a clean environment are not important to the. 00:04:10
Community when you consider the long term environmental costs. 00:04:15
For health due to contaminants from the groundwater. 00:04:18
Increased workload on our garbage pickup services. 00:04:21
Lost their recycling worker jobs. Additional stress on the landfill. 00:04:24
Recycling is more cost effective than waste disposal. 00:04:28
Councilmember Denise Conkel said it was financially feasible to continue the program because there is money in the budget. 00:04:31
I hope you will hear her out and listen to her ideas the next time that you speak before. 00:04:38
Maybe we can save money by consolidating the program into just one drop off site with fewer hours. 00:04:42
Or perhaps the city of New Albany could find a way to help. 00:04:48
Please show the community you care about having clean groundwater and keeping. 00:04:51
Recyclable trash out of the landfills. 00:04:55
By continuing to fund and support this program. 00:04:57
Thank you. 00:05:00
Thank you. 00:05:01
Dennis Watson. 00:05:07
Good evening. 00:05:13
My name is Dennis Watson. 00:05:14
Resident Talk. 00:05:16
6th grade. 00:05:18
Employee county system for about 30 years. 00:05:19
And during that time, I always encouraged my students to be good stewards of the community. 00:05:22
And I hope that those words don't take on a hollow ring now. 00:05:28
If this. 00:05:33
The elected officials here. 00:05:35
Who are responsible for the welfare or community? 00:05:37
Choose not. 00:05:41
To reinforce that. 00:05:43
That teaching. 00:05:45
I think. 00:05:49
It's been mentioned that the. 00:05:49
Recycling has generated. 00:05:52
About $74,000 of revenue. 00:05:54
I know there are other departments. 00:05:57
That generate 0. 00:05:59
And perhaps they could be tweaked. 00:06:01
Are reduced in order to help sustain. 00:06:03
The recycling program. 00:06:07
I would hope that. 00:06:10
You, as a elected body, would make a decision. 00:06:12
That would benefit the community as a whole. 00:06:16
That's all I have. Thank you. 00:06:19
Susan Lockhart. 00:06:26
Good evening. I'm Susan Lockhart. I live outside of Georgetown. 00:06:35
Right here in Floyd County. 00:06:39
And. 00:06:41
My adage is if it isn't broken, there's no need to fix it. 00:06:42
I feel like the Floyd County Waste Management is doing a wonderful job. 00:06:46
I go to the Galena library site. 00:06:52
People there. 00:06:55
They're friendly, they're knowledgeable, they're helpful. 00:06:56
They get all the. 00:07:00
10,000 cat food cans out of my car they show me. 00:07:02
They show me where to put everything so. 00:07:06
Not only are they collecting what they need to collect for recycling, but they're also educating the public. 00:07:09
With what they know and passing that knowledge on to us. 00:07:16
I think having. 00:07:21
The county County. 00:07:22
Waste management doing our recycling also, we have financial transparency and accountability because it's within the county. 00:07:24
I think if we get a private company in to do this. 00:07:33
They're going to be for profit. 00:07:37
They're going to take in what makes the most money for them. 00:07:39
And I think Floyd County is very open. 00:07:43
About what they take in to help. 00:07:46
To help us keep the county clean and environmentally safe. 00:07:48
So. 00:07:52
I would really like to see them continue on with our recycling here in Floyd County. 00:07:53
Thank you. 00:07:59
Paige Adams. 00:08:07
Greetings everyone. 00:08:13
I am Paige Adams. 00:08:14
3017 Brazil Lake Parkway in Georgetown, IN. 00:08:17
To say that you have. 00:08:23
I've made the decision, or at least considering dissolving the Floyd County recycling program. 00:08:25
By dissolving the Floyd County Solid Waste District. 00:08:32
Is a massive disappointment. 00:08:36
I've done the research and it has been going since 1990. 00:08:39
That's well before I was even born. 00:08:44
30 years. 00:08:46
And you guys want to dissolve it? 00:08:48
Why is that? 00:08:50
You guys say you don't have enough money to keep it running. 00:08:52
But as another speaker has already said. 00:08:55
Denise gave you evidence that states otherwise. 00:08:58
And I remember you stating that you would need money for snowplows in the future at the first meeting. 00:09:02
But yet I also recall you stating that you wouldn't need those snowplows for another 5 to 10 years. 00:09:08
So even if you don't have the money for that now. 00:09:16
You would have enough time to invest for that later. 00:09:19
We need to focus on doing what's right here and now. 00:09:23
By keeping recycling in Floyd County going. 00:09:27
It is estimated that only 30% of all recyclable material nationwide gets recycled. 00:09:32
So we need to do better. 00:09:40
And that starts here. 00:09:42
And if you don't think that's enough? 00:09:44
Let's look at the alternative. 00:09:46
What if recycling does get cut? 00:09:48
CO2 emissions will increase along with our energy resources spent. 00:09:51
Jobs and money will be lost. 00:09:56
And if. 00:09:59
Landfills overflow. 00:10:00
And or if hazardous waste is improperly disposed of. 00:10:02
People could end up hurt, sick. 00:10:07
Or even dead. 00:10:10
You would be gambling. 00:10:12
With human health. 00:10:14
Is this really what you guys want? 00:10:16
Thank you. 00:10:22
Lunch. 00:10:30
Next person is a. 00:10:32
After 35 years of marriage, my father-in-law couldn't get it right. 00:10:37
So how's that? 00:10:41
Took my best guess. My name is Manoj Shankar. 00:10:42
And my wife and I are newcomers to Floyd County. We just moved here five months ago from Kentucky. 00:10:47
And uh. 00:10:52
I like what everybody said eloquently so far, but I just have two points. 00:10:54
1 is. 00:10:58
After coming here, I realized that everybody. 00:11:00
Look at the audience here. 00:11:03
Values sustainability. 00:11:04
And by getting rid of the program. 00:11:07
We're sort of devaluing what they want. 00:11:10
As a community. 00:11:12
But the second thing is. 00:11:13
My respect is more important. 00:11:15
It's a state law, the law, and I was looking at your. 00:11:16
It says I'll reset. 00:11:20
Under Indiana code 13-19. 00:11:22
The stage requires municipalities. 00:11:26
To encourage recycling. 00:11:28
The next I see. 00:11:30
Dash 20 says. 00:11:32
They said a 50% municipal recycling goals statewide. 00:11:33
Cutting the program puts us out of step with state policy. 00:11:37
Jeopardizes reporting compliance and potentially disqualifies us from any state grants that could have. 00:11:41
Offset this cost. 00:11:47
So by. 00:11:49
Not by not having recycling in our county we have basically. 00:11:51
Not meeting statewide goals. 00:11:56
Thank you. 00:11:59
Ellen Kelly. 00:12:07
Good evening. I'm Ellen Morrison Kelly. I am a Floyd County resident, actually a New Albany resident. 00:12:13
And I pay to have recycling come to my house, a private company, but I don't really use them because. 00:12:20
We all know that a private company will recycle what will make the money, not what's good for. 00:12:28
The Earth. 00:12:36
And so I take my things to Brett Line Rd. 00:12:37
When I can. So we collected 1130 signatures. 00:12:41
In a mere 3 days. 00:12:48
And then of those, 320 were online. But in three days we collected these signatures from people who said to me. 00:12:51
I've heard about it, Let me sign. 00:13:01
I can't wait. Let me have my wife sign. 00:13:04
They were. 00:13:08
Very adamant about getting their voices heard. Some of them might be here tonight. 00:13:09
Some of them might have had childcare issues tonight or their son was playing a baseball game or something, but believe me, people 00:13:15
are aware of this and they're mad about it. 00:13:21
So nearly 20 people. 00:13:29
Helped me collect these signatures. 00:13:32
And I had more people begging to help. 00:13:36
So if we had more time. 00:13:39
We could have probably gone to all the doors of Floyd County and gotten more signatures, kind of like what Election Day is, where 00:13:42
you go and you collect signatures on an issue. 00:13:47
So I would like to present these to you. 00:13:53
Thank you. 00:13:58
Doctor Gordon. 00:14:09
Is it Harry? 00:14:11
Henry. 00:14:13
Looks like he wrote a prescription. 00:14:15
Couldn't resist. 00:14:20
Go ahead. 00:14:22
As a management professor and consultant, I spend a lot of my time. 00:14:24
Trying to convince CEO's and other business leaders to. 00:14:28
Pay a little more attention to the long term. 00:14:31
Effects of their decision making. 00:14:34
Rather than just sort of. 00:14:36
Knee jerk reactions to the. 00:14:38
Most immediate. 00:14:40
Financial circumstances in which they find themselves. 00:14:42
I realized that the purpose of governmental. 00:14:47
Agencies is not to turn a profit, but to provide services for the. 00:14:50
For the community. 00:14:54
But I think a lot of my fellow residents have done a pretty good job of explaining the community building. 00:14:57
And uh. 00:15:03
Environmental benefits of a. 00:15:03
Robust recycling program. 00:15:06
I would ask you to pay. 00:15:09
As much attention as you can to the long term. 00:15:10
Economic benefits. 00:15:13
Of such a program. 00:15:16
Other people have mentioned jobs. 00:15:18
Conserving landfill space. 00:15:22
Conserving transportation. 00:15:24
And dumping fees. 00:15:27
But but it goes beyond that. 00:15:30
It's not just front end jobs, it's not just materials handling, it's not just processors. 00:15:32
The thousands of communities, including dozens in Indiana. 00:15:38
Have seen great benefits. 00:15:43
In innovation. 00:15:45
In engineering. 00:15:47
And coming up with new ways to use recyclable materials. 00:15:49
Whole new industries. 00:15:53
Have been started because communities. 00:15:55
Committed. 00:15:58
To robust comprehensive recycling program. 00:15:59
And so. 00:16:03
I ask you to spend some time attending to the long term. 00:16:04
Economic benefits. 00:16:08
Recycling program. 00:16:10
And not just the short term. 00:16:12
Umm. 00:16:14
Financial exigencies in which you find yourselves today. 00:16:14
Appreciate it. Thank you. 00:16:18
David Isaacs. 00:16:26
My name is David Isaacs. Further about the last 10 years I've been the public. 00:16:39
At the meetings of the solid waste district. 00:16:43
Wish we'd had this crowd all the time. 00:16:48
I want to thank everybody who is. 00:16:52
They talk and who's been here? 00:16:54
I want to thank you guys for listening. 00:16:56
I did not get that impression at the. 00:16:59
First council meeting. 00:17:01
I'm cutting. 00:17:04
Things left and right as I go through this. 00:17:05
I believe that our planet does need recycling in order to. 00:17:09
Avoid running out of critical material. 00:17:12
And space for land. 00:17:15
That may be far, far in the future. 00:17:17
But I have not heard any date yet set for restoring, recycling and. 00:17:20
For Johnny. 00:17:24
I do not wish to single out any other department. 00:17:27
But I have thought about. 00:17:31
Contradicting the argument that we don't provide a valuable service. 00:17:33
The Parks Department. 00:17:37
What concrete service do they provide? 00:17:39
Well, they brought a lot of good things that make this place a better place to live. 00:17:43
I I'd like to think we are just as important. 00:17:48
And if we are, then I think we. 00:17:53
We need have a right to exist. 00:17:55
I am OK with reducing the current. 00:18:00
Department. 00:18:04
Budget. 00:18:05
We had a financial crisis crisis so many years ago. 00:18:06
And recycling in the animal shelter were the first victims. 00:18:10
And they were not illuminated, they were just cut in half. 00:18:14
It was nice to know that we had company down there. 00:18:18
I would like to hope. 00:18:22
That you guys will keep us from being. 00:18:24
Cut because it's a lot easier to come back from reduced. 00:18:26
Than it is to come back from dead. 00:18:30
Thank you. 00:18:33
Give me just a second here. 00:18:45
Emily Grants. 00:18:47
Hi, my name is Emily. 00:18:54
I moved to New Albany in 2015. Charlestown Crossing apartments. 00:18:56
Which did not offer any sort of recycling pickup option. 00:19:01
And so I've been going to the Floyd County Recycling, waste Management. 00:19:04
Ever since then. 00:19:08
45% of. 00:19:11
Residents of New Albany are renters. 00:19:13
Apartment buildings like the Breakwater, Sheffield Square. 00:19:16
Knobs Point, Charlestown Crossing. 00:19:19
None of these places offer a recycling option for the residents. 00:19:22
I currently live at Slate Run condominiums. 00:19:26
And even as an owner. 00:19:29
We also don't have any sort of recycling pickup options. 00:19:31
It's a high percentage of the population that you'd be taking away an option to recycle if you decide to dissolve this program, 00:19:35
and I like recycling. 00:19:39
Andrew Raker. 00:19:51
Good evening, Andrew Breaker from up in Floyd's Knobs. I have been a volunteer at Hope Southern Indiana for nine years now. 00:20:01
And I just want to commend the recycling program for being great partners with us. 00:20:08
As you can imagine, food comes in a lot of packaging and we have just a storage shed. 00:20:13
Recycling came and picked up that cardboard today. That's cardboard that's not going to the landfill. 00:20:19
And we have already filled it up again because the demand for food is so high. 00:20:25
We won't be able to function and do our important work of feeding the neediest in Floyd County and in southern Indiana. 00:20:30
Without the partnership we have with recycling. 00:20:39
And all the material we go through will just take up more room and the Clark Floyd landfill. That will cost more money in the long 00:20:42
run. 00:20:46
And we'll eventually run out of space. 00:20:51
And besides the usefulness of taking. 00:20:54
What we don't need? 00:20:57
Recycling is a great community resource in collecting food for hope. 00:20:58
I know as our demand has gone up, they've been asking the folks to. 00:21:04
Drop off some full cans along with their empty cans and it's feeding the neediest in our community. 00:21:07
I also, you know, many of us here are longtime Floyd County residents, but I'm glad some of our newcomers have been speaking. 00:21:13
Because as I talk with friends throughout the metro area. 00:21:19
They ask, well, what are you doing these days? And I say, I'm going to a lot more county Commission and County Council meetings 00:21:23
than normal. 00:21:26
And they said, Oh yeah, we heard that your county is thinking about getting rid of recycling. 00:21:30
For people that are thinking about moving here. 00:21:35
That live within the metro area. 00:21:38
This is a giant red flag that Floyd County is not. 00:21:40
Necessarily the best county to live in. 00:21:45
I've lived here since I was two. I'm proud of where I'm from. 00:21:48
I want to share our hospitality of the goodness of the people with lots of people, but. 00:21:52
You know, we have to be aware that the message this is sending not just to the residents of Floyd County, but the wider area. 00:21:57
Thank you. 00:22:01
Susie, is it coaching? 00:22:11
Good evening. I'm Susie Kochert from Floyd Knobs, Indiana. 00:22:21
And as a retired teacher, I have a visual aid here. 00:22:25
I want to say that. 00:22:30
I'm always interested in the young people because that was my passion and my life. 00:22:32
And I think we have an obligation. 00:22:38
To leave. 00:22:41
Our world as good as we can to these younger people. 00:22:42
And if we don't? 00:22:47
Recycle it goes into. 00:22:49
The landfill and what happens when the landfill gets full? 00:22:52
They have to have another landfill. 00:22:56
Who wants a landfill in your backyard? Raise your hand. Who wants a landfill? 00:22:58
OK, people don't wetlands. 00:23:03
Landfills are not good. 00:23:06
Recycling is good. My purse I brought up here is made out of recycled. 00:23:07
Plastic bottles. 00:23:12
This is what we can do with our. 00:23:14
So do we want more landfills? 00:23:19
Or do we want more things made out of plastic bottles? 00:23:21
And the other thing I wanted to say is that there are grants available. 00:23:25
Up to $100,000. 00:23:30
From the Indiana Department of. 00:23:32
Indiana Department of Hazardous Management Waste Management. 00:23:35
And you have to apply for it, of course. 00:23:40
But surely you know about this? 00:23:42
Why don't we look into this and get some of this money? 00:23:44
To help finance what's going on here. 00:23:48
If you'd like this paper, I'll give it to somebody. 00:23:50
So that you can have it. 00:23:53
But let's let's keep this going. We don't. We don't want to leave. 00:23:54
Our children and grandchildren. 00:23:59
A pile of landfills all around the county. 00:24:01
Tom Snyder. 00:24:14
Good evening. I'm Tom Slater, also from New Albany area. 00:24:20
And it's hard to follow up that it's hard to follow an educator. But I do want to bring forth one other discussion area and that 00:24:22
is. 00:24:26
I've been in the technology field for over 35 years of my career. 00:24:29
Telecommunications and computing. 00:24:33
And of course, it may or may not be known to everyone here. 00:24:35
But you need to use electronic device is hazardous waste. 00:24:38
And to simply state that we're going to take this hazardous waste. 00:24:42
And simply throw it into landfills. 00:24:46
Really leads to long term. 00:24:48
Consequences. 00:24:50
That we need to face directly. 00:24:51
This is all tied together with the notion. 00:24:53
Let's help our planet, and let's do so for our children. 00:24:55
It's an important topic. 00:24:58
I hope you strongly reconsider the citizens. 00:25:00
Thank you. 00:25:02
Jeff Beck. 00:25:09
Jeff Deck from. 00:25:18
I live in Highlander village there. 00:25:22
150. 00:25:25
And uh. 00:25:26
They call me a recycling net. 00:25:27
Because every time I see something, don't throw that away, that's recycling. 00:25:29
And I recycle in our house which compared to trash I do about three times recycle compared to track on the amount of trash. 00:25:34
And I recycle from a church and daycare. 00:25:43
And uh. 00:25:46
I really never thought I'd ever see. 00:25:49
Floyd County come to the end of recycling. 00:25:51
I've taken mine out to Glean and like somebody said, they're amazing out there. 00:25:55
And there's a lot of days they have 400 vehicles. 00:26:00
Now picture this, people taking their time, their busy schedule. 00:26:03
And and 400 vehicles rolling in there every Wednesday. 00:26:08
From 8:00 to 5:00. 00:26:12
That just blows my mind. 00:26:15
That people as busy as they are with their families and everything. 00:26:17
That they take time out. 00:26:21
Recycling. 00:26:23
I think that says a whole lot, and I think it would be a horrible, horrible mistake. 00:26:25
To eliminate recycling in Floyd County. 00:26:30
Thank you very much. 00:26:32
All right, that ends our. 00:26:46
Public comments section We are now on to old business you so you. 00:26:48
Ready. 00:26:53
For those who don't know me, I'm. 00:27:02
Director. 00:27:06
County solid waste. 00:27:07
Took over late last year. 00:27:10
Hey, Scott Stewart. 00:27:12
So we have a PowerPoint that. 00:27:13
Kind of roll through. 00:27:17
Current staffing. 00:27:19
So currently we have. 00:27:20
14 employees. 00:27:22
I'm the only full time employee. 00:27:26
We have an office manager. 00:27:28
5 transporters. 00:27:30
That are part time and six operators. 00:27:32
That are part time. 00:27:36
We have one person that will be leaving at the end of July. 00:27:38
Bring our numbers down will be challenging to. 00:27:43
Keep our current. 00:27:46
Operations going. 00:27:48
Since we are also under a hiring freeze. 00:27:50
That was. 00:27:53
Given to us by the. 00:27:55
Solid Waste Council. 00:27:57
Next page. 00:28:00
Talk about our current services. 00:28:01
Currently we operate 2 drop off locations. 00:28:03
Grant Line Rd. is our main drop off. 00:28:06
Open 9:00 to 5:00, Tuesday through Friday. 00:28:09
9:00 to 2:00 on Saturday. 00:28:12
We also. 00:28:14
The household. 00:28:15
Waste out of this location. 00:28:17
April through October, 2nd week of each month. 00:28:19
Our average traffic count for. 00:28:23
Grant line is about 3328. 00:28:26
Patrons. 00:28:30
Galena is only open. 00:28:32
One day a week. 00:28:35
And 9:00 to 5:00 on Wednesday. 00:28:36
This is kind of what we call our superstar. 00:28:39
Of the recycling locations. 00:28:42
Like Jeff said, you know we see 400. 00:28:45
Cars on a regular basis. 00:28:47
Earlier this year we had. 00:28:49
A Wednesday where we. 00:28:51
Had 600 cars. 00:28:53
Go through there. 00:28:55
Followed up by the next Wednesday with 500. 00:28:56
So. 00:28:59
To say that our people. 00:29:00
The people in Floyd County are serious about. 00:29:01
Recycling and. 00:29:04
Doing away with this will take away that opportunity. 00:29:06
So we also. 00:29:10
Operate a. 00:29:12
Neighborhood outreach program. 00:29:14
That is in this final phase. 00:29:16
This was a program that was funded by. 00:29:19
And which also funded, which gave us our payload that we currently use. 00:29:23
And three pieces of equipment. 00:29:27
So we serve roughly 30 neighborhoods. 00:29:29
Throughout this. 00:29:33
Neighborhood Program. 00:29:35
The other thing that we do that a lot of people aren't aware of is we. 00:29:37
We have a recycle pickup. 00:29:41
Operation for. 00:29:44
36 local businesses and government centers. 00:29:46
Which includes. 00:29:49
Five schools. 00:29:50
3 government centers and two chairs. 00:29:53
And that is run on Tuesdays and Thursdays. 00:29:56
And those guys on some months go. 00:29:59
They will. 00:30:02
Process, you know, 20 to 25 tons. 00:30:03
Artboard it's it's amazing how much they can pull in from these businesses. 00:30:06
And you and you never know what you're going to. 00:30:11
Walk into. 00:30:13
You know, we may walk into the day where? 00:30:14
There's only maybe, you know. 00:30:16
6000 lbs. And then the next week. 00:30:18
There's £15,000. 00:30:20
So it's, you know. 00:30:22
It's constant. 00:30:24
So the next pages talks about our. 00:30:27
Dashboard, I'm not going to. I'm just going to kind of read the highlights. 00:30:29
Skip another 2 pages. 00:30:33
And this is highlights as of the. 00:30:37
End of May 2025 compared. 00:30:39
To the prior year. 00:30:42
So. 00:30:44
We're up 16. 00:30:45
Percent in total recycling product volume. 00:30:47
Traffic count was up about 12. 00:30:51
Well over 12%. 00:30:52
Cardboard. 00:30:55
We're up 32%. 00:30:57
Carpet volume, I mean, that's, that's huge. 00:30:59
For small county. 00:31:02
That we have of 80,000. 00:31:04
People. 00:31:07
About 1/2 percent increase in a single stream. 00:31:08
And. 00:31:11
Our revenue. 00:31:12
Is up about 20. 00:31:13
20% of. 00:31:14
Year to date. 00:31:17
So that's really the numbers around the. 00:31:19
Currently cycling program. 00:31:20
And I'll turn this off. 00:31:24
I'm Denise Cockle. 00:31:29
On the County Council so. 00:31:31
I just wanted to give a few financial facts about. 00:31:34
The recycling program in 2026. 00:31:37
The projected minimum cost for the recycle is 487. 00:31:41
1000, that's what we appropriated in the budget. 00:31:46
For them to have the county subsidizes. 00:31:49
Oh, I'm sorry, that's the total amount. The county subsidizes 400,000 of it. 00:31:53
And the recycling generates about 75,000. 00:31:59
Based on the net assessed value of 3.1. 00:32:05
Billion dollars in Floyd County. 00:32:09
I calculated that an average household employee county is. 00:32:12
Paying about $30 annually. 00:32:17
To support a recycling program. 00:32:20
The county last year passed the largest tax increase in Floyd County history. 00:32:26
And we have. 00:32:32
13 months out, $13 million of unallocated unappropriated. 00:32:35
Funds projected by the end of this year. 00:32:40
And the impact? 00:32:46
Of SB1 on Floyd County levies in 2026 is less than $1,000,000, which is. 00:32:49
More umm. 00:32:55
Been offset by the tax increase that would put in place. 00:32:56
Last year are in 2024 of 6.2 million. 00:33:00
OK. 00:33:11
OK, so. 00:33:13
I laid out a few options here for us to use instead of. 00:33:17
Voting to get rid of. 00:33:22
This and I know there's 180 days. 00:33:24
Between us voting and when this this actually happens. 00:33:28
But we all know. 00:33:33
And we've all seen that once you vote this, it's hard to stop it. 00:33:34
And I know we're looking at third party resources. 00:33:39
To take over this but why haven't we seen any kind of. 00:33:43
Presentations by these third party. 00:33:49
Providers. 00:33:52
So that we understand what we're going to get in the county before we vote. 00:33:54
To get rid of the program that we currently have. 00:33:58
We can't. We have enough money in our riverboat funds. 00:34:03
That we could actually pay for this. The riverboat fund is not taxpayer dollars. If we wanted to use that money, we absolutely 00:34:07
could use this. 00:34:11
Use that money. 00:34:16
The the. 00:34:20
Recycling program. 00:34:23
I don't know if this is a possibility, but. 00:34:27
It's something that I wanted to throw out. Maybe we could implement a service fee for the recycling program and allow people to 00:34:29
opt into it. 00:34:34
If they. 00:34:39
If they choose to do that. 00:34:40
So my ask is let's put together the 2026 budget and see if we. 00:34:44
Can't afford to continue the recycling program. 00:34:49
Let's not get in a rush. Let's not make decisions where we don't have all the facts. 00:34:53
In place and let's make. 00:34:59
A database decision here where we have all the facts on the table. 00:35:01
Thank you. 00:35:08
OK, we're on to Item 1B, which is Ordinance 2025-09 showing intent in favor of dissolution of Floyd County. Saw the waste 00:35:30
Management district. I'm going to quickly read this. 00:35:35
Into the record. 00:35:40
This is previously passed. 00:35:41
Unanimously by the Floyd County Commissioners. 00:35:44
Whereas we can't solve Waste Management district was established as a single county district by police county commissioners on 00:35:47
June 3rd, 1991 where. 00:35:51
Floyd County Council has the intent and desire to dissolve the Fleet County Waste Management District. 00:35:54
And in coordinates with Indiana code 13-201-3-1. 00:35:59
Now, therefore, be it ordained that the County Council of Floyd County, Indiana, that this ordinance. 00:36:04
Ordinance will be effective immediately and that the Floyd County Council is in favor of dissolution. 00:36:08
Of the Floyd County Solid Waste Management District. 00:36:12
That's what the ordinance reads. 00:36:16
I will entertain a motion. 00:36:19
Or this ordinance. 00:36:21
I'll make a motion. 00:36:25
2nd. 00:36:27
Motion in a second on this ordinance. Any discussion? 00:36:28
Could I ask Mr. did you come back to the podium, please, Sir? 00:36:35
First of all I want to say I am for recycling. 00:36:42
And I've I've had. 00:36:46
Hundreds of phone calls. 00:36:47
Because our numbers are given out at your locations, which I have no problem with personally. 00:36:50
I've had several emails and I've tried to respond to everybody. I've tried to call everybody back. I don't. 00:36:56
People in this room, I recognize their names a little bit. 00:37:01
I think I've talked to him or tried to call him back. 00:37:04
I saw where the budget you said it was $487,000 for 2026, but. 00:37:10
Last year's budget. 00:37:16
And I got this off gateway so if it's right or wrong was 515,000. 00:37:18
$976 right with. 00:37:23
Let me finish and I'll let you speak. 00:37:27
With almost. 00:37:29
With 365,000. 00:37:32
73731. 00:37:35
As. 00:37:38
Personal Services. 00:37:39
And then services and charges 106,000. 00:37:41
700, which comes with that total. 00:37:46
Are you proposing you're going to reduce your budget this year? That's what we were. 00:37:50
We went through and looked at. 00:37:54
Some areas that we were. 00:37:55
We actually had our. 00:37:58
Our education manager. 00:38:00
Could you speak up a little bit? You're hard to hear. I'm sorry. Can you hear me here? OK, so we went through the budget and based 00:38:01
on one. 00:38:06
One of the issues our education manager. 00:38:10
Is leaving us at the end of July. 00:38:13
So we took out her salary and benefits. 00:38:15
So that was a reduction of the budget. 00:38:18
And we looked at other areas that we could potentially. 00:38:20
Reduce, umm. 00:38:23
And that's what we came up with. 00:38:25
So yes, we were. 00:38:27
Do you have any unmanned sites? 00:38:29
In your location like some other counties have? No, we don't. And the reason for that is when it's unmanned. 00:38:31
Then you get a lot of trash coming in. 00:38:39
Even, umm. 00:38:42
At a man's site. 00:38:43
We will go. 00:38:44
Back and pull out stuff that's not supposed to be in the recycling. 00:38:45
Bins. So I'm sure you know Harrison County. 00:38:50
Struggles with that. 00:38:54
OK, that's. 00:38:56
Any other questions? 00:39:01
I don't have a. 00:39:04
Question, but I just have a comment if I made Mr. President. 00:39:05
I too, like I'm sure everyone else, received. 00:39:10
A lot of phone calls, matter of fact. 00:39:14
I probably received more. 00:39:17
Communication about this issue than I have any other issue since I've been. 00:39:20
On the Council. 00:39:24
I understand how important. 00:39:27
This is and the job that the Floyd County Solid Waste Management District. 00:39:31
That they perform on a daily basis. 00:39:37
It's more than a disposal service. 00:39:41
It's a vital resource. 00:39:44
For environmental education. 00:39:46
Recycling and community stability. 00:39:49
I had the privilege of serving as the. 00:39:54
Director of the management district. 00:39:58
At one time. 00:40:00
And. 00:40:02
And I understand the INS and outs of the operation. 00:40:04
And how important that is become to the citizens. 00:40:10
Of this county. 00:40:14
I'm afraid that if we dissolve the district. 00:40:16
That, umm. 00:40:19
We will see. 00:40:20
Hazardous waste. 00:40:23
In our neighborhoods, under our overpasses. 00:40:27
And in our waterways. 00:40:30
And we don't want. 00:40:33
That to happen and I just. 00:40:35
Think that we should do everything that we can and exhaust every effort to. 00:40:37
To make sure. 00:40:42
That the district is not dissolved. 00:40:45
Well, I've been consistently probably the most Conservative council member on when it comes to tax increases. 00:40:58
Budget cuts, anything that goes associated with that. 00:41:05
But I do feel that I represent the taxpayer. 00:41:09
And the majority of taxpayers that I talked to. 00:41:12
Yeah, especially in my district have always supported these but. 00:41:15
But I have gotten an overwhelming. 00:41:18
Support and keeping this service to the community. 00:41:20
And this is one that I actually do believe that it's worth the money. I think there are so many other things that we could find. 00:41:23
To eliminate if we were really in such dire needs of these budget cuts. But I think as Denise has pointed out. 00:41:30
This new public safety tax. 00:41:36
We're not. I'm not seeing it yet and I haven't seen everything on paper yet to justify something like this. So there's I see no 00:41:38
justification for cutting up programs. It's so vital to our community. 00:41:44
I've said a lot already, but I'll just say that I probably had. 00:42:01
As Tony said. 00:42:08
More calls, more people talk to me about this than any issue that I have. 00:42:10
Heard of in nine years that I've been doing this. 00:42:15
This is something that I believe in. I think our constituents want and. 00:42:19
I don't understand the logic. 00:42:27
Of getting rid of this. 00:42:31
It's not money and it's not paying attention to our constituents. 00:42:33
So I have no idea. 00:42:39
Yeah, I would just add that I'd truly appreciate everybody coming out tonight and sharing their opinions and I wish the community 00:42:48
would be this involved with all of the matters that go before the commissioners and the Council. 00:42:54
I weigh in a little bit. I. 00:43:09
As miss. 00:43:13
I live in the city. 00:43:15
I paid $18.00 a month. 00:43:16
Or a fee to. 00:43:19
They come by twice a week, I mean every day on garbage day they have. 00:43:22
Garbage truck come by and then we slip the truck come by. 00:43:25
I will add just for fun last week. 00:43:28
I drove around my neighborhood and. 00:43:31
Kind of route and I didn't see very many recycling receptacles set out for the recycling program that we pay for in city of New 00:43:33
York. 00:43:37
I won't state that. 00:43:42
Well before I almost forgot this. 00:43:44
I commend everyone for staying under the two-minute. 00:43:47
Time frame when you spoke everybody. 00:43:50
I commend you for that. 00:43:53
And I agree with Mr. Miley's that. 00:43:54
We should we are participatory form of government and we should be out more than. 00:43:58
They're just issues that we care about when she had to be out all the time looking. 00:44:03
And one more thing. 00:44:08
The questions been asked here. 00:44:11
This is not really our decision to make. 00:44:13
Commissioners, it's their decision to make. 00:44:16
And I. 00:44:19
Facetiously, I said to someone there, I said we could vote to fund it. 00:44:21
The commissioners could say, go # Sam, we're not doing it. 00:44:25
So. 00:44:28
It's statute says we have to do this. 00:44:29
But, and I I'm in favor of recycling. I mean, I do recycle. 00:44:33
Every week at my home. 00:44:36
I just. 00:44:39
I there is there was options on the back of what we could do. 00:44:42
And I did. Did I see in here that they don't accept hazardous waste anyway? 00:44:46
And that's the biggest concern, man, some of. 00:44:50
They take. 00:44:54
Oil based paint, all that stuff. 00:44:56
Because I, I don't know, I've mentioned to the Commissioner that's one of the very important, big, important things to me. 00:45:00
Is hazardous waste. 00:45:05
And like I said last time, I think in our. 00:45:08
Joint workshop is that. 00:45:11
I'm old enough to remember that some of them I see people in the room here. 00:45:13
Probably I don't want you to. 00:45:17
Time to state yourself. 00:45:20
In the old days, people just poured it all out on the in the ditch. They poured paint out. We don't do that anymore. 00:45:23
I mean, and then I guess I would say. 00:45:28
Mr. Massengale. 00:45:31
If you cut your budget because you don't have an educator. 00:45:33
Is it important that we have an educator? 00:45:36
Tell them what the benefits of recycling are. 00:45:40
So but she quit. 00:45:44
And you cut the position. 00:45:45
If you're looking for areas. 00:45:48
So. 00:45:54
And I don't think anybody. I don't want to speak for anybody speak for me. 00:45:57
I don't think anybody wants recycling to go away. 00:46:00
We just maybe don't want it in the form that it's in. 00:46:04
Well, I'm going to concur with. 00:46:13
Councilman Bagshaw. 00:46:17
I'm sorry. 00:46:19
Are you there? Can you hear me now? Can you hear me now? 00:46:21
These things don't work all the time. I apologize. 00:46:26
I concur with Councilman Bagshaw. 00:46:29
You know this, this ordinance that we're looking at is a. 00:46:32
Showing of intent. 00:46:36
It's not a final say. I've talked to people on the phone. 00:46:38
I will tell you I'm not in favor. 00:46:42
Totally disbanding. 00:46:44
Recycling for our county and I'm not, I wouldn't vote for that. 00:46:46
But I, I do think fiscally, I think we could do a better job. I don't know whether we need. 00:46:50
That many employees I don't know if we need. 00:46:55
If we could better do with with other. 00:46:58
Programs without. 00:47:01
Paying that half $1,000,000 to recycle. 00:47:03
We spent 67, about 60, seven, $70,000 for the recycle fee, correct? Is that about correct? 00:47:08
Mr. Massengill. 00:47:14
Right and. 00:47:16
Where do you actually take that to? 00:47:17
The recycling, the. 00:47:19
So the single stream. 00:47:22
Recycling goes to West Rock in Louisville. 00:47:24
Where it's separated, it's a fully automated system. It's pretty amazing to see. So there's less than 5% of that. 00:47:27
That is pushed down at the end, that goes to the landfill. 00:47:35
So our cardboard goes to West Rock also. 00:47:38
Cardboard can be recycled 8 times. 00:47:42
So 80% of the cardboard that we shipped to Louisville. 00:47:44
Stays right here in the US. It goes to Alabama. Is reprocessed. 00:47:48
Stays right here in the US. 00:47:52
The other 20% goes to the New York area. 00:47:54
Where it's shipped out as needed. 00:47:58
I'm I'm all for the service, don't get me wrong, it's just I just think our administrative fees. 00:48:00
Are a little bit high. That's just my opinion on this. I think you're gonna find a. 00:48:05
That's a third string operator. 00:48:10
Anyone private operator that can do it any cheaper than me? 00:48:13
Well, that's I guess that's the history. 00:48:17
Be seen I don't know and if it and like I said. 00:48:19
This ordinance is just a showing of intent. 00:48:23
It's not a final say on anything. 00:48:26
And it's six months process when I understand. 00:48:28
So. 00:48:32
But I want to assure you that. 00:48:34
I personally, and I think everybody on this board wants to see Floyd County to continue a recycling program. 00:48:35
I just. 00:48:47
I just want to. 00:48:49
I want to state some facts. 00:48:51
And facts are a strange thing because. 00:48:54
They are what they are. 00:48:57
And. 00:48:59
So a citizen sent me the the flyer that you were handing out. 00:49:01
Your county employee, correct? 00:49:04
I don't know if you received a handbook and I'm not trying to rile you up, but. 00:49:06
And I don't mind constituents calling me. I love it. I love to talk to people because I explained my position to everyone that 00:49:11
would listen. 00:49:14
But on this flyer I don't know if you typed it up or not, but. 00:49:19
I can show you a copy of it if you want. It's the one that with all of our phone numbers on it. 00:49:25
That is not the county government. 00:49:29
Well, private. 00:49:31
OK, well, it was handed out at the recycling center. OK, let's, let's I want to go through it quickly here. 00:49:33
It says. 00:49:40
Closing the department will mean an end to. 00:49:42
To recycling centers. 00:49:44
That's not necessarily true. 00:49:47
A private company may still operate the same 2 centers. 00:49:49
That goes to a private company. 00:49:51
It says it's the IT will be the elimination of hazard of waste collection. 00:49:54
That's not true. 00:49:57
Private company could still collect that if that's the contract that we signed. 00:49:59
Termination of a youth education program. 00:50:04
Which we don't have any any longer anyway. 00:50:06
And having to pay significantly more money, dispose of televisions, computers and other electronic. 00:50:08
Equipment. 00:50:13
Is everybody aware that there's a recycle center in downtown New Albany on Troy St. 00:50:15
That will take your electronics for free. 00:50:19
Bluegrass Recycling. 00:50:23
There's two other recycling centers in this county. 00:50:25
There's one on Grant Line Rd. There's one on Troy St. 00:50:27
It's not OK. It's been there 5 * 5 times. 00:50:31
You may need to call for an appointment, I don't know. 00:50:37
I mean, I don't know. 00:50:40
But it. 00:50:42
OK. 00:50:45
But. 00:50:49
This process. 00:50:51
Starts a clock. 00:50:53
It doesn't finalize any decisions. 00:50:54
All the decisions that Denise put on. 00:50:57
The Backpage. 00:51:00
Are still available. 00:51:03
This is a procedural process to allow the Commissioners to make the decision. 00:51:06
Of how they wanted to look in the future. 00:51:10
OK, and as Dale said. 00:51:12
Could we fund it? 00:51:16
We can't compel them to do it. 00:51:18
So. 00:51:22
If we give them the funds. 00:51:23
It may not necessarily go to that. So that's that's not even. 00:51:26
An option. 00:51:29
At this point, unless there was an agreement between the two bodies. 00:51:30
So. 00:51:34
It's it's a procedural issue for. 00:51:35
The council at this point and I've asked council on both sides and they assured me that. 00:51:40
On this. 00:51:44
On this topic, it involves us even though it's. 00:51:45
Their project. 00:51:49
It's third apartment. 00:51:51
So. 00:51:52
I know people are passionate about this. 00:51:55
And it's understandable. 00:51:57
But. 00:51:59
This vote tonight. 00:52:01
Starts a clock. 00:52:03
For decisions to be made down the road. 00:52:05
It doesn't end anything tomorrow. 00:52:07
If we take this boat tonight. 00:52:09
A matter of fact, I don't expect anything to be unanimous. So it'll be. 00:52:11
It'll go to a second vote. 00:52:14
So. 00:52:16
If you want to recycle, you'll still have opportunities to recycle. 00:52:17
In some form. 00:52:25
I'm not going to speak for the commissioners, but in our joint meeting it sounded like they were. 00:52:27
At the very minimum, going to provide hazardous waste. 00:52:35
Disposal. So I'm not, I'm not going to speak for them, but that was. 00:52:38
That's what I heard at the Joint. 00:52:43
So is there any other discussion? 00:52:45
There anything up here? 00:52:47
Everybody good, we have a motion in a second on. 00:52:50
Floyd County Ordinance, 2025-09. 00:52:54
All in favor say aye aye. 00:52:57
Any opposed? 00:53:00
Aye, that. 00:53:02
Passes umm. 00:53:04
But what about? 00:53:06
People have to say. 00:53:08
That man that passed public comment is passed. Thank you though. Thank you. We are on to new business. 00:53:09
Diana, are you speaking for Judge Granger? 00:53:20
The votes already passed. 00:53:25
He was. 00:53:29
There's public comment at the end of the meeting. Just a. 00:53:33
New business Item 1. 00:53:39
Superior Court 3. 00:53:41
I'm covering for Judge Granger this evening and. 00:53:45
This is just her commercial. 00:53:48
For grant fund, she's just looking for appropriations lines that are listed. 00:53:49
This is for Judge Grangers Commercial Court grant fund. 00:53:56
She's just looking for appropriations, these lines so that we can continue to utilize the funds that were given. 00:54:01
Motion to approve 1A as public as advertised. We have a motion a second for one a any discussion? 00:54:08
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:54:17
That carries. 00:54:21
No, Sir. 00:54:24
Mr. President, he asked that I would cover this tonight. 00:54:26
To a. 00:54:31
Is a reimbursement for. 00:54:33
Into the LEP. 00:54:36
LEPC Training. 00:54:39
It's money for. 00:54:41
The facilities. 00:54:43
Chemical. 00:54:46
Assessments that the companies have to pay that we get a portion of. 00:54:47
Motion to approve to a as advertised. 00:54:53
2nd I have a motion and 2nd for 2A any discussion or questions? 00:54:55
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:55:00
That carries. Thank you. 00:55:03
The rights called me today. He's got a grant from Caesars Foundation that he needs. 00:55:05
Appropriated so if you can put it to use. 00:55:11
Rushing to it through 3A. 00:55:15
2nd, we have a motion and a second for 3A. Any discussion? 00:55:18
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 00:55:23
That carries. 00:55:27
For a Highlander fire. 00:55:28
Protection District. 00:55:30
Have a PowerPoint as well. 00:55:46
Good evening. My name is Keith Young. 00:55:57
Captain at Highlander fire. I'm currently the. 00:56:00
EMS director, Chief Supervisor. 00:56:03
Whatever title you want to put there. 00:56:06
When we. 00:56:11
When my chief and I came to the joint meeting. 00:56:12
With the Commissioners and the Council. 00:56:15
We wanted to speak. 00:56:18
To dispel some of the. 00:56:20
As communications. 00:56:22
And I will admit that there are miscommunications. I came to the commissioners. 00:56:23
At their last meeting. 00:56:29
And spoke with them and we realized that there was. 00:56:30
Between previous administration and current administration, a lot of miscommunication between us. 00:56:33
And government. 00:56:39
So. 00:56:41
Some of the things that were said that we wanted to put. 00:56:43
Behind us. 00:56:45
We do have some one and three-year goals laid out. 00:56:47
We developed a stipend. 00:56:50
Which I'll I'll start with the call volume. 00:56:53
We made 137 total calls in the month of June. 00:56:57
115 of those 83% of our calls are EMS related calls. 00:57:02
We're on track for approximately 1400 EMS calls for. 00:57:10
End of year, End of 2025. 00:57:15
There's been significant growth growth in not only the Highlander area, with some new apartments going up on Hwy. 150 Nevilleton 00:57:19
Rd. area. 00:57:23
Along with a new housing complex down in. 00:57:27
Old Vincennes Road and Schreiber Rd. Area. 00:57:32
There's also growth in the neighboring areas, housing and apartments development. 00:57:34
Down in Georgetown off Hwy. 64 and Oaks Way. 00:57:39
There's also. 00:57:43
Also multiple housing and nursing developments along Grant Line Rd. which we will be providing mutual aid for both of those areas. 00:57:44
That we're being utilized for mutual aid almost daily. 00:57:52
Same with Ameripro. 00:57:55
When we it happened today. 00:57:57
We got, I apologize, it happened yesterday. We had four calls. 00:57:59
Within 30 minutes. 00:58:03
Both Highlander trucks are out, both the Mayor Pro trucks were out and there was nobody left. 00:58:06
In the area except for the city. 00:58:10
So we're constantly running both sides. 00:58:14
To show that we're serious about keeping our EMS as of July 1st, 2025. 00:58:18
We passed a stipend as a union to be. 00:58:24
It was placed in effect as of 2020. 00:58:28
As of July 1st. 00:58:30
For EMT, advanced and paramedic certifications, those with an advanced EMT certification get an extra $5000 a year. 00:58:32
And those that are paramedic certified get an extra $12,000 a year. This is to incentivize those that are with us to progress to 00:58:40
those higher levels of care. 00:58:45
And give that higher level of care to those first on scene. 00:58:49
We've switched to Med Bill. 00:58:56
They build only the insurance, not the patients. 00:58:59
We made that very clear in our contract with. 00:59:02
Med Bill. And I know that was a point that was brought up. 00:59:05
In the joint meeting that. 00:59:09
That's what the county needs, is what the county wants. There's no reason to pay a tax and then get billed for that tax that 00:59:11
you're paying. 00:59:14
They also provide us with on site training sessions to make sure that our documentation is correct and legal and. 00:59:18
Done in a timely manner. 00:59:26
We have a projected reimbursement for one year. 00:59:28
At $595,000. 00:59:31
And that's. 00:59:34
Just billing the insurances alone. 00:59:34
If we were to. 00:59:37
Get every penny back on. 00:59:39
All 1400 runs we would look at $1.6 million. 00:59:41
Because insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, they don't want to pay every penny that we charge for. 00:59:46
We're looking at. 00:59:52
Approximately 585,000 of that. 00:59:53
Little, little less than 1/3. 00:59:56
We're also starting the first mobile integrated health program or community. 01:00:01
Community Paramedicine. 01:00:07
In Floyd County. 01:00:09
We're working with the hospitals. 01:00:10
Both Floyd and Clark. 01:00:12
We're also working with. 01:00:14
Error probe and the surrounding departments to make sure this is implemented correctly. 01:00:16
It's going to help reduce the hospital readmissions, it's going to lower healthcare costs in the area. 01:00:21
It's going to decrease the non-emergency 911 calls. 01:00:27
It'll be. 01:00:32
Smooth integration with some social and behavioral health services. 01:00:34
That we we'd be able to provide. 01:00:37
It will have improved clinician and EMS group well-being because you're not going to have those. 01:00:41
As many frequent flyer calls. 01:00:47
It's also going to be more cost effective for the community as we won't have the ambulances out running around as much as we will. 01:00:49
One or two paramedics going on the lower acuity calls and helping the people get the care they need. That may not be the hospital. 01:00:55
Some other things. 01:01:05
Like I stated, better care for frequent 911 callers. 01:01:06
We'll be able to hit the rule areas. 01:01:10
If you've been out to Gordon, Starlight those areas. 01:01:12
It's fairly rule hard to get to. 01:01:16
We'll be able to get out to those areas. 01:01:19
And. 01:01:21
Do some Wellness checks, vaccines, chronic care, different things like that. 01:01:22
Like I stated before, we're having we will have partnership opportunities with the local hospitals and clinics. 01:01:27
We'll be able to do some telehealth stuff. 01:01:33
With some physicians. 01:01:35
And again, support for the vulnerable populations. 01:01:38
If the city allows us in, we can help with homeless population, opioid affected individuals throughout. 01:01:42
Counting different things there. 01:01:48
We have a third ambulance that's scheduled to be here in December. 01:01:53
That's going to help us replace. 01:01:57
One of the two aging squads. As you can see, we have two. 01:01:59
We have squad one and Squad 3, which are. 01:02:03
A 2022 and a 2023. 01:02:06
Ambulance. 01:02:09
2:00 and 4:00. 01:02:10
Our 2003 and a 2008, both of them. 01:02:11
They drift more than they drive. 01:02:16
And we've got the third ambulance coming, it'll be put into a rotation. 01:02:20
Will end up selling or. 01:02:26
Donating one of the other two. 01:02:28
Aged ones. 01:02:30
And with that third one? 01:02:31
Through the week will while administration is in the office. 01:02:34
We'll have a third ambulance to help with the district. 01:02:38
We're planning on making all of our engines, both Engine 31, Rescue One and Quad 11. 01:02:44
They're going to make those ALS engines where we will have advanced EMT's. 01:02:51
For paramedics on the engines. 01:02:56
So when the when the situation arises that there are no ambulances in the area. 01:02:58
We will still have. 01:03:03
A paramedic or an advanced EMT on staff on the engine. 01:03:05
To be able to initiate. 01:03:09
CPR care or advanced care for whatever. 01:03:11
The situation arises whatever may be needed. 01:03:14
They'll allow for more comprehensive on scene care. 01:03:16
The advanced personnel working with the ambulance. 01:03:21
It will increase our system efficient efficiency. 01:03:24
Greatly. 01:03:27
The mobile rehab unit. 01:03:30
We were also thinking about taking one of the older ambulances and turning it into a rehab unit that we did use countrywide. 01:03:32
On days like today, where we had. 01:03:39
A large. 01:03:41
Fire out off of 150. 01:03:42
Over in Greenville. 01:03:45
We had a lot of firefighters with. 01:03:47
Getting overheated. 01:03:49
And leading place to rehab, we had a rehab unit. We would have been able to better take care of that. 01:03:51
It will improve the firefighters safety, increase operational efficiency. 01:03:57
And it'll demonstrate professionalism to the public as they'll see that we're taking care of each other. 01:04:01
With our own stuff. 01:04:07
Or taking care of the surrounding. 01:04:08
Fire, Fire departments. 01:04:10
There was one more slide that we presented. 01:04:13
During the last joint meeting. 01:04:17
It was stated that we have a mountain of debt. 01:04:19
I was. We did have the slide initially. 01:04:23
And I sent the wrong one, that was my. 01:04:27
I bought. 01:04:28
We do have. 01:04:31
Station 1 Renovation and rescue. One loan or a bond? 01:04:32
That's valued at $659,673.00 with an interest rate of 4.42%. 01:04:36
We make biannual payments on that. 01:04:43
Not set to mature until 2032. 01:04:46
Engine 31. 01:04:49
Which is in. 01:04:50
Galena right now. 01:04:52
Has a balance of $369,647. 01:04:54
With an interest rate of 2.18%. 01:04:58
We make biannual payments on that. It is also set to mature in 2032. 01:05:01
The new Quad 11 that we have. 01:05:06
Of the current balance on that one is 870,441 thousand. 01:05:09
Sorry, 870,441 dollars. 01:05:15
With a rate of 4.94%. 01:05:19
Again, biannual payments. 01:05:22
That one's set to mature July 1st, 2039. 01:05:24
Which gives us a total. 01:05:29
Bond or loan amount of. 01:05:31
$1.9 million. 01:05:33
Are there any questions or anything for me at this time that I might be able to? 01:05:39
Help clarify our answer. 01:05:43
It's one of those engines for. 01:05:45
You're selling, correct? 01:05:47
The new Quad 11. 01:05:50
There was. 01:05:52
It was spectrum. 01:05:55
And it is now too large to drive safely on the county roads that we have. 01:05:57
So it is. 01:06:03
Currently, yeah. 01:06:04
Not in use. 01:06:05
It is being taken care of. We're. 01:06:07
Still doing maintenance and everything else. 01:06:09
And we have it listed with I think two different brokers to help us try and. 01:06:11
Sell it to different departments. 01:06:16
We do have interested parties, none have made. 01:06:18
Purchase yet? Do you know about what we're asking for? 01:06:21
I think. 01:06:24
Don't take my word for it, I think it's 900,000 is what we're trying to get. 01:06:26
It's between. 01:06:32
The 1,000,000 that we paid and 900,000. 01:06:33
I think the price has actually come down some. Again, don't take. 01:06:36
My word is gospel is I don't know the specific number. 01:06:40
So you're gonna. 01:06:44
You're going to have three ambulances, right? 01:06:45
In the future you plan on having three ambulances, correct? We're we're planning on taking delivery of the third one in December. 01:06:48
Do you ever see a point? Maybe? 01:06:56
Cover the whole county. 01:06:57
I mean, you're already covering Georgetown, Lafayette, all we're talking about. 01:07:00
Or Greenville. You were talking Georgetown and. 01:07:04
New Albany Township in the county. 01:07:06
I think that with the right. 01:07:09
The right funding, the right leadership and the right teamwork from the right people. 01:07:11
We could very well move into. 01:07:15
At very least. 01:07:18
Supply, at the very least, providing coverage for. 01:07:20
The. 01:07:24
Was Floyd County Fire Protection? 01:07:27
Area. 01:07:30
Think that that's not the right words, but. 01:07:32
I think we could very well move into that. 01:07:35
We've even made calls, several calls into the city over the year. 01:07:38
Since January 1, we've made 52 mutual aid calls. 01:07:42
But Ameripro. 01:07:46
They're in the city, correct? 01:07:48
Correct. Ameripro is currently covering the city. 01:07:49
They also have a second contract which covers the county with two ambulances, one on. 01:07:53
Charlestown Road and one in Georgetown. 01:07:59
So, so the truck that was spectral. 01:08:04
When was that order? 01:08:07
That was ordered. 01:08:09
Prior to my being. 01:08:11
On the department. 01:08:13
We took. 01:08:14
Took delivery. 01:08:15
Of that truck around August or September of last year. 01:08:17
So was that. 01:08:20
Previous chief that ordered that or was that? 01:08:22
To my knowledge, yes, but I don't know who placed the actual order. 01:08:25
How long have you all been doing the? 01:08:29
Balance of billing. 01:08:32
Or you don't. 01:08:33
We recently switched to Med bill as we were having issues with previous billing company. 01:08:34
We switched to them as of June 1st. 01:08:42
Actually, the actual date was May 27th. 01:08:45
I just like to say I commend you for having lofty goals. 01:08:50
I like this mobile integrated health program. 01:08:55
Now see, it says improve rural health outreach. 01:08:59
Proactive Wellness check you're gonna. 01:09:02
Who's gonna do that? You got volunteers? You're gonna. 01:09:04
Staff up more people. 01:09:07
That's pretty ambitious thing right there. 01:09:09
What's it called Mobile integ? 01:09:12
Integrated health program. 01:09:15
I mean, if you're going to check on people, Wellness checks. 01:09:18
Was that going to take 235 people? 01:09:22
It depends on. 01:09:26
How much we want to do, how far out we want to go. 01:09:28
At this. 01:09:30
Current time it'll be one or two including myself. 01:09:31
So they'll take you off of an engine or an ambulance. 01:09:36
To go check on someone. 01:09:39
I'm currently not on an engine or an ambulance. 01:09:40
I'm in an office providing. 01:09:43
A secondary ambulance when needed. 01:09:45
Or when somebody gets sick when somebody calls out I. 01:09:47
I've covered that spot on the ambulance so they can have their time. 01:09:51
OK this. 01:09:54
Seems like you're gonna have to hire a lot of staff in my opinion. 01:09:55
Are you fully staffed now? 01:09:58
On the ambulance side. 01:10:00
With the contract that we currently hold. 01:10:02
We have the staffing. 01:10:05
Fully staffed to the contract. 01:10:08
According to the contract, yes, we would like to. 01:10:09
The current contract states that we have 124 hour. 01:10:13
Seven day a week ambulance. 01:10:16
The second ambulance is required to be. 01:10:18
Staffed five days a week. 01:10:20
50 hours a week. 01:10:23
And we are currently doing that. 01:10:24
We would like to see 224 hour ambulances. 01:10:27
And we are. 01:10:30
Two personnel away from that. 01:10:32
Are you? 01:10:34
So is your personnel on the. 01:10:36
The emergency side. 01:10:38
They're not farming. 01:10:40
We the last hiring process that we had, we specifically looked for dual certified. 01:10:42
Individuals. 01:10:48
So that way should the need arise. 01:10:49
We can move people around to accommodate whatever. 01:10:52
May be needed. 01:10:56
Could could be, you know. 01:10:57
Somebody could. 01:10:59
Go on a run on an ambulance and not be available for a truck. 01:11:01
We we will not pull people from the engine to make ambulance calls. 01:11:05
We will call in people we have mandatory. We also have. 01:11:12
A lot of personnel that are working 48 hour shifts. 01:11:16
To make sure that our ambulances and our engines are both covered by. 01:11:19
Captain, thank you for your presentation. I appreciate it. 01:11:24
Maybe I misunderstood you. 01:11:28
Are all of your staff dual certified? 01:11:29
Currently. 01:11:33
What we have on staff as full time we have. 01:11:34
Two people that are not dual certified. 01:11:38
They are EMS only. 01:11:41
And we are working on getting them into a firefighter one and two course so that way we can have everybody across the board dual 01:11:43
certified. 01:11:46
In both fire and EMS. 01:11:50
It seems like. 01:11:56
And just from my view, I'm a. 01:11:58
I'm a professed novice at. 01:12:02
At all this, but it seems like there's been a lot of. 01:12:04
Attention and effort put into. 01:12:07
The ambulance side of the operation. 01:12:10
Is is the fireside keeping up? I mean when was the last time new equipment was? 01:12:14
Purchase for that. 01:12:20
Up to code there and. 01:12:22
So there was a misunderstanding during the last meeting. 01:12:24
The year situation. 01:12:28
Has been rectified across the board at this time. 01:12:31
We just placed a. 01:12:34
$220,000 Order. 01:12:37
To have new fire gear. 01:12:39
For every frontline. 01:12:41
Firefighter. Uh. 01:12:44
As long as well as. 01:12:46
Less expensive EMS gear which still provides you. 01:12:49
Protection during extrications and things of that nature. 01:12:52
Over the last few years. 01:12:57
Any new full-time firefighter was issued. 01:12:58
Gear that was within date. 01:13:02
The last bulk purchase was. 01:13:04
I think 10 years ago. 01:13:08
Was the last bulk purchased for everybody across the board? 01:13:11
As gear was needed, it was purchased individually. 01:13:14
And that was information that I got after our meeting with. 01:13:18
The Commissioners. 01:13:22
What are the regulations specify as far as upkeep on gear? 01:13:23
Is 10 years normal I guess is my question. 01:13:28
It's supposed to be 5 years. 01:13:30
Depending on. 01:13:33
The brand, the make. 01:13:34
It's between 5:00 and seven years. 01:13:36
I'm going to go ahead and. 01:13:40
Aggravate my friend Diane. I'm just a dumb old builder. 01:13:42
But it sounds to me like your model going forward. 01:13:46
Is the same model that we ran a company out of this county. 01:13:50
Was following. Maybe that's inappropriate to bring that up, but. 01:13:54
That was one of their big complaints that we heard. 01:13:57
Was they can't be firing him at the same time. We're taking people off the off the apparatus. One of my animals. 01:14:00
Come in from a fire. Hope you guys jump on the Hammond to go out. 01:14:06
And and I don't want to bring up old news, but it seems like your plan going forward is. 01:14:10
Same plan that they had, that was. 01:14:16
That there's somewhat of an issue. 01:14:19
The difference between. 01:14:20
That plan and our plan is we will have the staffing. 01:14:22
We will not pull personnel from the engines. 01:14:25
And we will find a way to. 01:14:28
Cover the ambulances we are. 01:14:31
As we get the. 01:14:34
Funding and as the budget. 01:14:35
Changes. 01:14:37
We will increase our staffing levels so that we will have extra people. It is our end goal. 01:14:38
To have 4 personnel per engine. 01:14:45
And our chief would like to see us have. 01:14:48
Three people per ambulance, which is still. 01:14:50
One person over the required 2. 01:14:53
Pretty ambitious. 01:14:56
I don't. I do not disagree with you. It is ambitious, but we are. 01:14:59
We are fighting against a contract. 01:15:04
At the moment. 01:15:06
That seems like it was designed to. 01:15:07
Almost make us fail. 01:15:11
And it seems like. 01:15:13
We're fighting hard to. 01:15:16
Prove that wrong. 01:15:18
But didn't you guys have the? 01:15:21
Didn't you have the, well, didn't you have the ability to review that contract and decided on it before you signed it? 01:15:25
I did not. 01:15:31
That contract was signed well before I was an employee. 01:15:32
That is somebody who's been in emergency services for 20 years. There was. 01:15:37
Quite a few issues with the contract that was signed. 01:15:42
Would you like specific because? 01:15:46
I'm not sure I know what you're talking about. 01:15:48
I'd have to have the contract in front of me to nip it. 01:15:51
Well, I was a state. I personally take offense that. 01:15:54
I'm not trying to make implying that we set you up to fail. That is not true. 01:15:58
I'm out here. I'm not implying that anybody here. 01:16:03
Was the ones that set us up to fail. 01:16:06
Well, this body. 01:16:09
Approve that contract. 01:16:10
And it's no offense to you. 01:16:14
Or two previous personnel. 01:16:17
But the contract was. 01:16:21
Brought in. 01:16:24
EMS person or to add EMS personnel. 01:16:25
And people that don't understand EMS were the ones that made the contract. 01:16:29
So that's not in a. 01:16:35
Not an attack at you. 01:16:36
It's not an attack in previous administration, it's just. 01:16:38
There were things that. 01:16:42
Weren't known at the time. 01:16:43
OK. Well, I don't want to get the weeds, but I can assure you that contract. 01:16:46
You could not run another ambulance. 01:16:50
From the next 16-17 months and you would still get paid. 01:16:52
That's how that contract reads. 01:16:56
I've I've just got one more question. Are you all able to care? 01:16:59
Narcotics on your ambulance. 01:17:02
We are certified for narcotics and we're actually trying to work with Doctor Potter. 01:17:05
Our medical director to increase our repertoire. 01:17:10
Good deal. Thanks for coming. That's all I have. 01:17:15
Anybody. 01:17:18
Thank you. Thank you all for. 01:17:22
Stand still here. 01:17:26
Good evening, Stan Howe. 01:17:42
#5 here is the. 01:17:45
Red wire monies. 01:17:48
What we're doing is the draw comes monthly, so as the cash gets deposited. 01:17:50
Rio, Sharman. 01:17:55
The construction company for the red bar. 01:17:56
Process out and Innovation park. We owe them. 01:17:59
For the construction process. So this is just asking for the. 01:18:04
Appropriation to spend the monies that we collect. 01:18:09
Motion to approve 5A as advertised. 01:18:12
Second motion is second. Any questions for Stan? 01:18:15
Just trying to get to clarification, you're asking for 2 million and it's only showing 1.8. 01:18:19
Yeah, I'm not sure if it was the timing issue. 01:18:23
I can assure you that we're not. We have a $1.2 million bill due to Sharman. 01:18:26
So when I pulled the number and then when the auditor's office pulled it, it may have been. 01:18:30
There may have been some payments. 01:18:36
Process. I'm not sure. 01:18:38
I'll confirm with Diana before we move forward with anything for sure. 01:18:39
OK. 01:18:45
It was today, OK. 01:18:48
We'll wait to get the numbers before we go. 01:18:52
But we've got more than. 01:18:54
What's even requested at this time? 01:18:56
There's currently 2.2 million dollars, 2.2 in the is the balance. 01:18:59
Any other discussion? 01:19:05
All in favor of 5A say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:19:07
That carries 5 feet. 01:19:11
Fabi, this is just the bond payment for the Chase billing. We just needed to do an appropriation. 01:19:13
From the CCD fund. 01:19:22
Motion to approve 5B as advertised. 01:19:24
Second motion in a second. 01:19:27
Any questions on the bond pay? 01:19:30
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:19:33
That carries. Thank you. 01:19:36
Stand. It's interesting to see you in a different shirt. 01:19:38
It feels different, Sir. 01:19:41
Commissioner. 01:19:43
So, um. 01:19:49
Many of you know that the building authority has transitioned to. 01:19:51
Let's say reduce the responsibilities considerably. They've not gone away, they still exist. 01:19:58
And we need to have them in place for bonding for. 01:20:05
City Council. 01:20:11
Which is a county building. 01:20:12
Purchases in the future. 01:20:14
So they still exist. 01:20:16
But the Commissioners are taking over the transition. 01:20:18
Of the operations. 01:20:21
Of not only this. 01:20:23
The county building. 01:20:25
But as you're well aware. 01:20:27
We've purchased other buildings in recent months. 01:20:29
And so we're trying to put more things under one umbrella. 01:20:33
So, umm. 01:20:38
We we hired Donnie Hare to run the facilities. He's our our new facilities director to take care of the maintenance overseeing. 01:20:39
Of all of the buildings. 01:20:50
And so. 01:20:54
When we did that, we needed to go ahead and take. 01:20:55
The people that were in the building authority budget. 01:20:59
And move them over. 01:21:03
So that's what this is about. We just need the additional appropriations to make the transfer of those building authority. 01:21:05
People into the county. 01:21:14
And that's what we're doing. 01:21:17
Stand you want to speak to the numbers on that? 01:21:19
Real quick. 01:21:22
I know you sent out. 01:21:23
A spreadsheet on it, but. 01:21:25
There was at least one that. 01:21:27
Open. So yeah, I'm sorry, Jim, I don't know. 01:21:29
What the issue was, My apologies. 01:21:32
I don't know why it was difficult to open. 01:21:34
But what we're doing actually is there are 7 custodial employees and two maintenance employees. 01:21:38
Who will be transitioning? We'd like to see transition. The commissioners would like to see transitioned over the county. 01:21:43
Umbrella Umm. 01:21:48
To be able to manage and control all the aspects. 01:21:49
Facilities as we move forward. 01:21:53
The seven custodial employees, we paid out the edit fund. 01:21:56
We currently have a mate we have. 01:22:00
Current maintenance staff in a. 01:22:02
Custodial staff in Pineview right now, so we're just going to start paying them from that particular line. 01:22:06
Until we kind of get all the money settled with the building authority to get that transitioned over into the edit fund to 01:22:12
continue supplementing the process. 01:22:16
And also not making the lease payment here in early July. 01:22:20
Freed up some monies and yet a fund to help support this process as well. 01:22:24
So, yeah. And then one of the, of course you know, tree supplies is. 01:22:30
As retiring. 01:22:34
So one of the folks that are transitioning over from the building authority will be assuming her position. 01:22:36
And she'll be paid out of the same fund that Teresa was paid out of. 01:22:41
Which was the MVH unrestricted fund? 01:22:45
And then the maintenance to maintenance guys will be also. 01:22:49
Out of the. 01:22:53
As it finds as well. 01:22:54
This will just get us through to the remainder of this year. 01:22:55
And then when we submit our budget for next year? 01:22:59
Everybody under 1 brush. 01:23:03
But right now we're just taking the money that. 01:23:05
The building authority had and then. 01:23:08
From our lease payment. 01:23:10
And moving it over. 01:23:11
So it's. 01:23:13
Pretty much cost neutral at this point. 01:23:14
Well, that was my that was my question. This is all net neutral. This is just a reallocation of the same heads. Not additional 01:23:16
heads, same funds other than. 01:23:22
Donnie's position, it's at the same dollars. 01:23:28
And we have people, some of them or. 01:23:31
$16.00 an hour. Some of them were at 20. 01:23:34
And we have to. 01:23:38
Figure that out moving forward before our submitted budget. 01:23:39
But you'll see that during budget time. 01:23:43
Michelle, do you want to speak to the salary ordinance part of it or? 01:23:47
So I don't think there's a need to speak to the salary ordinance at this point. I it needs council's approval and the ordinance 01:23:53
will be updated quarterly. 01:23:58
So it'll be updated. 01:24:03
For your review third quarter. 01:24:06
So Stan, do you want these new line items? Do you want me to? 01:24:10
On on part A, it really is a new line items just yet. It's actually just the process of you don't want new line items yet. No, 01:24:15
ma'am, they're going to be paid from the they're going to be paid from the existing payroll. This is just approval of 01:24:20
appropriation from the lease payment into. 01:24:25
Into the salad. 01:24:31
Yes, yes, Sir. 01:24:32
I'll make a motion to approve 6A. 01:24:34
I'll second we have a motion and 2nd for 6A, any further discussion for this group? 01:24:37
All in favor say aye aye. 01:24:45
Any opposed? 01:24:47
That cares. 01:24:48
The next part actually there. 01:24:50
I may have. 01:24:52
Request. 01:24:53
It was a little garden and I apologize for that. 01:24:54
This was the first request was to create 3 new lines. 01:24:57
It was 11761022. 01:25:01
One and then the res zeros, which is the Chief Operating Officer. 01:25:05
The second line to be requested to be created is the one. 01:25:10
Edit line 1. 01:25:15
222. 01:25:17
500533 and that's the Director of Facilities position. 01:25:19
And then the third one is the edit line 10223. 01:25:24
And that's for the CFO, for this, the Floyd County commissioners. 01:25:31
So it's the line creation request. 01:25:34
First of all. 01:25:37
Motion to approve. 01:25:40
As Dan asked. 01:25:43
2nd. 01:25:45
We have a motion and a second for 6B as explained. 01:25:47
Any discussion or questions for Stan? 01:25:51
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:25:54
So the the the next item I am actually item B. 01:26:02
Is the appropriations for the Director of Facilities? 01:26:06
That's pay periods 14 through 26 for the balance of this year. 01:26:10
And then also for the CFO. 01:26:15
Floyd County Commissioners. 01:26:18
Again, that amount is also for pay periods 14 through the end of this particular year as well. 01:26:19
Before we take a motion. 01:26:24
The one we just voted on was C. 01:26:27
Correct. 01:26:30
And now we're going back to be. 01:26:31
They're all kind of that together. 01:26:34
What are we going to call this one? 01:26:37
We'll call this 1B. 01:26:38
OK. 01:26:41
Just kind of assume that under the. 01:26:42
Appropriation. So we'll call this 6B. 01:26:44
Yes. 01:26:47
OK. 01:26:49
Motion to approve 6B as advertised. 01:26:50
Second, have a motion a second for 6B. Any further discussion? 01:26:53
All in favor say aye. 01:26:58
Any opposed? 01:27:00
That carries. 01:27:02
And then the final 1C is actually just. 01:27:03
Next position, the CEO actually. 01:27:07
His salary was commingled with other employees in the 1176 MPH. 01:27:10
Unrestricted fund. 01:27:15
We thought it was wise to break his position out independently as the directors or the chief operating officer so. 01:27:17
This just transfers his salary from. 01:27:24
The other employees line up into the newly created COO line. 01:27:27
So again, this is net neutral. 01:27:33
This is the same salary. Yes, Sir. 01:27:35
I'll make a motion to approve. 01:27:38
Second motion in a second for 6C. 01:27:40
Any questions or discussion? 01:27:43
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:27:46
That carries. Thank you. So you know. 01:27:50
Going forward. 01:27:52
Since we. 01:27:54
Uh, higher stand that you're gonna see a lot more. 01:27:55
Transparency and cleaner budget. 01:27:58
Moving forward because that's how he operates. 01:28:01
So. 01:28:03
You will expect to see. 01:28:04
These things happen. 01:28:07
On a regular basis moving forward, we got a lot of things that we want to. 01:28:09
Clean up and make them a little bit more. 01:28:14
Also I'd like to take. 01:28:17
And introduce our new. 01:28:20
Highway Superintendent. 01:28:22
This. 01:28:24
And uh. 01:28:25
He started Monday to take Ronnie Tools spot. 01:28:26
So we're pretty excited to have him on board. 01:28:30
We just need your phone number. 01:28:38
Thank you. 01:28:47
Thank you. 01:28:48
Miss Topping, you are up. 01:28:49
Good evening. 01:28:58
Good evening. 01:28:59
So Diana Topping, Floyd County Auditor. I had sent an e-mail out. 01:29:01
Last week to all of you. 01:29:06
With a spreadsheet. 01:29:10
And a letter explaining. 01:29:11
What my intent is? 01:29:14
One of the biggest things that was asked of me when I took office was to. 01:29:17
Streamline some things. 01:29:22
Bring efficiency to the office and clean up the funds. 01:29:24
I can't do that by myself. I I like to think that I'm a one woman show, but. 01:29:27
My staff has. 01:29:32
They've come through in a really big way in the last 2 1/2 years. 01:29:36
Just to name a few things. 01:29:39
That they have managed to do. 01:29:41
We implemented new financial and taxing software. 01:29:44
To help clean up. 01:29:47
All of the misreporting that was happening. 01:29:49
We found. 01:29:54
Over half $1,000,000. 01:29:56
Of tax dollars that were stagnant and funds that hadn't been distributed. 01:29:58
To the taxing districts and we got that taken care of. 01:30:02
My first year in office was an absolute nightmare. 01:30:05
Because. 01:30:08
The previous office holder had missed putting. 01:30:09
A specific set of values on what's called the CNAPP. It's our certified, not assessed values and so it starts the property taxing 01:30:12
process. 01:30:17
We almost. 01:30:23
If it hadn't been caught, we would have cost the tax base 1.1 million and extra tax dollars that we managed to catch it. 01:30:25
And we had to do a rebuilding. 01:30:33
And that was. 01:30:35
Extreme umm. 01:30:36
So in my first year in office. 01:30:38
Between the over half $1,000,000 in tax dollars that we found and distributed and the $1.1 million error. 01:30:41
That we found we've saved the tax dollars almost $2,000,000 so. 01:30:47
These are just some things that I'm pointing out because I don't very often come before you with asks. 01:30:52
Usually I'm up here covering for somebody else or. 01:30:58
Really, it's covering for somebody else. 01:31:02
9 out of 10 times. 01:31:04
One of the most efficient things that. 01:31:06
With recently is that. 01:31:09
The new programs that you all. 01:31:12
Approved for us. 01:31:14
Have done wonders as far as our processes. Now it has also brought additional responsibilities to our office. 01:31:16
Responsibilities on every desk inside my office have increased. 01:31:22
The state is. 01:31:25
Putting more and more. 01:31:27
Reporting responsibilities on our office. This year I got the. 01:31:28
Delightful addition of the redevelopment. 01:31:33
Authority being added to part of my reporting. 01:31:37
Which is. 01:31:40
Not something I was hoping for, but it is something that we've gotten. 01:31:41
So we've been slowly transitioning some of the duties off of my chief deputy's desk to more appropriate desks so that she can 01:31:45
assist with other things because she was buried and I was buried and. 01:31:50
We needed help. 01:31:55
I've had some massive transition in my office this year. 01:31:57
And I currently have two empty desks. 01:32:01
And I would like. 01:32:04
To combine those two desks to a new. 01:32:06
Job description that I did send to you all that has been rated by Wis. 01:32:09
And in the process of this I would also like. 01:32:14
To increase. 01:32:16
Salaries in my office for the last 11 payrolls of the year. This wouldn't take effect until. 01:32:17
July 19th. 01:32:23
Because everyone is working harder than they were. 01:32:26
Everyone was already working hard. 01:32:28
And so they all have additional responsibilities. We're doing our best to make sure that. 01:32:30
All of the taxpayers needs are being met. All of the counties needs are being met. 01:32:35
I know that a lot of the public probably doesn't know what the auditor's office does, but we are the financial highway for the 01:32:40
county, so every penny. 01:32:44
That comes in or out. 01:32:48
Is tracked reported. 01:32:50
Documented in one million different ways through our office. 01:32:53
All of the taxing offices. So your surveyor, your treasurer, your reporter. 01:32:56
Your assessor, they all send all of their information to our office where it's all combined. 01:33:00
So we and and we do the financials for every single department. 01:33:07
In this county. 01:33:11
I spent the last two business days. 01:33:13
Importing everyone's budgets for first round review. 01:33:15
So that that is my ask. 01:33:21
I will tell you that. 01:33:23
In the grand scheme of things, my ask actually saves. 01:33:24
Our county general fund. 01:33:28
For this year alone, about $60,000 because it saves an entire salary for my office plus the FICA and perf that would have been 01:33:29
spent for that position. 01:33:35
Additionally. 01:33:42
What I'll be requesting as my first round for budgets for next year. 01:33:43
Is actually $10,000 less than my approved salary budgets for this year. 01:33:47
So that is my ask. My ask is that you reward a team that has. 01:33:52
Busted their tails on behalf of. 01:33:57
The citizens in this county to clean up an office that was an absolute hot mess when we took it over. 01:34:01
I don't get anything out of this ask this year. 01:34:07
Elected officials legislatively are not allowed to have their salaries changed after the first of the year. 01:34:10
So this is not for me. 01:34:16
This is for the people who work for me. 01:34:18
I'm happy to. 01:34:22
Address any questions that anybody might have. 01:34:23
I just wanted to make a clarification the the. 01:34:26
Raises that you're asking for are still within. 01:34:29
These stage levels. 01:34:32
So they don't. 01:34:35
Beyond the. 01:34:36
The levels. 01:34:38
Those ranges for this year, yes. And again, remember that. 01:34:39
Those ranges are 21 numbers that were published in 22. 01:34:43
So. 01:34:47
But for this year, yes, next year they will go slightly above those. 01:34:48
Five year old numbers. 01:34:53
But that's kind of appropriate considering the amount of work that's been added to our office and inflation. 01:34:55
And again, it still saves the county general. 01:35:01
Money because we are a general fund reliant department. So my goal was to find. 01:35:04
Something efficient? 01:35:09
Something workable, something that saves the county money but still rewards. 01:35:10
A staff that. 01:35:15
Has been dedicated to making sure things got cleaned up. 01:35:17
How are these? 01:35:20
Job. 01:35:23
Classifications going to line up with other. 01:35:24
Same the same people that have the same job classifications in other. 01:35:29
In other. 01:35:35
So it's still. 01:35:36
This year it would still be within the same race, while it would not necessarily be the same pay. 01:35:37
I'm not backfilling my 2 empty desks. 01:35:42
I'm getting rid of 1 and then I'm saving the county general money. 01:35:45
So that is why I am asking for. 01:35:48
For this. 01:35:50
I'll make a motion to approve 7A. 01:35:53
2nd, we have a motion and a second for seven A. Any further questions for Miss Topping? 01:35:56
I don't have a question, but I have. 01:36:01
Comment I truly appreciate you know. 01:36:03
The work that your office does and the fact that you're actually looking at. 01:36:06
Not backfilling a position. 01:36:10
Saving the county money. 01:36:13
Saving your budget. 01:36:14
Highly commendable. 01:36:16
Going into budget season, I hope that. 01:36:17
That's an example for others. 01:36:21
I appreciate it. 01:36:23
They work really hard. 01:36:25
I don't. 01:36:29
I don't know that I can say more than that. 01:36:32
Any other questions for Diana? 01:36:36
All in favor of seven a say aye. 01:36:39
Aye, any opposed? 01:36:41
That carries. Thank you. 01:36:43
Miss Danita Burks has. 01:36:45
A request right along the same lines. 01:36:49
You know, so you save money. 01:36:54
I see it. Did you get my? Did you get my e-mail? 01:36:57
OK so this is my only second time ever coming here. 01:37:02
Just write that down, I don't want to come here. 01:37:06
But I do want to say the county money. I'm in the same boat. I do have a position. I can fill it if you would prefer. I do that, 01:37:10
that's great. If not, I can save the county money with all the things we've already listed. As Diana said, my office does a little 01:37:14
bit different work than hers. 01:37:19
We serve the courts. 01:37:24
The girls work very hard so that for the few $1000 that difference that would be, I think in the long run it's would be. 01:37:26
The best choice? 01:37:33
There you have it. 01:37:35
Simple. 01:37:36
Did you send something out? 01:37:38
I did. 01:37:40
I didn't get anything that I. 01:37:41
Can remember. 01:37:44
I did, I did. It was the same. 01:37:47
It was a myself spreadsheet. It's a spreadsheet just like Diana had. Did you get one? Yeah. 01:37:49
Where's my letter? 01:37:59
Where's the rest? 01:38:02
And this is along the same lines. 01:38:06
No, the last e-mail that I received was. 01:38:09
6925. 01:38:11
So you're get. 01:38:15
You're getting rid of a person. 01:38:16
You're not backfilling. How's that working? 01:38:18
Reallocation of duties. 01:38:24
I know. But you, you, you are not filling a position that is empty right now. Is that what's that's the choice that we have? Yeah. 01:38:26
I don't have to kill it or I can't. I just wanted to make sure. Are we getting rid of somebody or is it? 01:38:32
People come go. It is that way. 01:38:40
And this is the. 01:38:43
Second time in your tenure that. 01:38:45
So this is the second. Yes, I eliminated position in 2020. 01:38:47
Right. 01:38:51
And this is the same situation where it doesn't. 01:38:54
Doesn't go outside of the. 01:38:58
Guidelines for those salary levels. That is correct. 01:38:59
This one will start on July 19th as well. 01:39:04
Yes. 01:39:07
I move, we approve. 8A. 01:39:09
Second, All right, we have a motion and a second. You all need some more time. 01:39:11
Over numbers. 01:39:15
Looks like there's about a $2000 increase. 01:39:18
On many of. 01:39:22
Jobs. 01:39:23
2400. 01:39:26
Dollars. 01:39:27
What percentage is that? 01:39:30
It's right at 3 percent, 3%. So you're gonna say 3% raise and then another 3% just to finish up last year, yes. 01:39:32
It's just think exactly. 01:39:39
Exactly. 01:39:41
Did a copycat. We did a copycat with the analysis. 01:39:42
Just for the finish up this year. 01:39:45
And I apologize you didn't get it. I don't. I don't know what happened. 01:39:51
What's the sightings? 01:39:54
I think I'm looking at six fifty 656,000 versus 600 and 39640, so a $16,000. 01:39:55
Savings. 01:40:06
Is that right? 01:40:08
It should be a little bit more than like it's 27. 01:40:09
Yeah, it should be about 27. 01:40:11
OK, I did the math. 01:40:13
Yeah, it's 2727 thousand dollar savings. 01:40:15
Plus, like her longevity. 01:40:21
Right insurance and health insurance taxes. 01:40:23
Are you all prepared? 01:40:29
To vote Are you good? 01:40:30
I'm done. OK, we have a motion, a second for a day. 01:40:31
In favor say aye aye. 01:40:34
Any opposed? 01:40:36
Thank you. And can I give a shout out to the new guy, Donnie? We have these lights now in my office and we can all see and I'm 01:40:39
very appreciative. 01:40:42
Sheriff Bush. 01:40:49
How you doing? I'll be very quick and. 01:40:53
Had a long meeting so this is reference to body Cam. 01:40:56
I was elected 2 1/2 years ago. 01:41:00
Discussion we had back then. 01:41:02
Never really made it to the top. 01:41:04
Priority but since that time doing Police Department and Clark County Sheriff's Office had went to body camp so we're only the 01:41:05
only agency. 01:41:08
In this area that does not happen, so we looked at it again. 01:41:12
And Chris Lane, the floating across here is here and he can talk on a court case that was prevalent here just recently that came 01:41:15
about if he chooses. 01:41:19
A lot of the. 01:41:23
Positive is accountability for the officers, accountability for the community. 01:41:25
Better court cases. 01:41:29
Compare better with these cameras. 01:41:30
Cut down on litigation. 01:41:32
Better report writing. 01:41:34
And cuts down an officer, complaints and transparency to the community. In terms of the body cancer, I think everybody's aware. 01:41:35
If you just flip through the slide. 01:41:43
Keep going. 01:41:47
So it's not right there, so some of keep going. 01:41:53
Helps out with use of force. 01:41:57
Well, when we get used to the cameras. 01:41:58
There are some concerns from the public in terms of. 01:42:01
Invasion of privacy, but we will redact. 01:42:04
Videos and we have that capability. 01:42:07
Office resistance to it. You know once they get used to it, it'll be better prepared. 01:42:10
As we go through the process and I'll get to the meat of really what you all want. 01:42:14
Here anyways. 01:42:18
As I think Christian gets in the video but I'm not sure if you can play that video. Play the video and not. 01:42:20
This will give you an example of what. 01:42:28
Picture you'll be seeing. 01:42:31
Hey, hey, hey. 01:42:44
That's not me running, by the way. 01:42:50
So that gives you kind of an idea. Again, sometimes there's good and bad with the video. It doesn't get the whole big picture at 01:42:59
times. 01:43:02
Gives you a good indication of what's going on, what officers have to deal with during those interactions with the community. 01:43:05
My last my last day working New Albany I had two foot pursuits. 1 lasted 2 miles going over the canine bridge. I wish I had bought 01:43:10
again then, but I didn't of course. 01:43:14
So let's just get to the straight to the meat of what we're dealing with. 01:43:18
So there's different options with the cameras and we've not been set on what we want to do. 01:43:22
Part of the high end. So just so you know, as we prepared for our first round budgets, we did put the high end in our budget. So 01:43:28
obviously that can change. 01:43:31
We're going to meet with Sam Matt and we'll go over that, discuss that Sam has experience, so. 01:43:35
Looking to him for some guidance as well. 01:43:40
But the high end right now is 396,000. 01:43:42
A year. They do a five year contract. 01:43:44
And so all that's built in. 01:43:47
I had. 01:43:49
We've just recently met with IU Professor Dave Lassie at IUS. He has a team that's going to write grants and so we'll partner with 01:43:50
them. 01:43:53
Try to get a grant in. 01:43:57
To pay for some of the equipment as well. 01:43:59
Well, so that could even go down, down the road. 01:44:00
The low end is around 2:00 and 4:00. 01:44:03
1000 in with these cameras. 01:44:05
The basic cameras you can get, that's the low end. It's just cameras. 01:44:07
You know, if we add in, so that's basically 50. 01:44:10
For our agency. 01:44:13
Gives a couple extras that you have in car cameras we can add into this price tag that's 30 for the cars it's on patrol. 01:44:15
We can also add into the jail. 01:44:21
We added in our this presentation. 01:44:23
43. 01:44:26
But we're still not undecided about that. We already have cameras in the jail. Do we need to go in and have body cams? 01:44:27
Into the jail itself, we would dock them, they would have them personally. 01:44:32
But there are some correction officers that go out in the community. 01:44:35
So we would consider that as well, but that number can be reduced as well. And then you add in Tasers. 01:44:38
You can have our current Tasers do work with it, but. 01:44:43
Clark County, I know they didn't get paid for the first but now they're going to the new Tasers with the body Cam. 01:44:46
So we're looking at that option. 01:44:51
Well. 01:44:54
Yes, so that's the that's the nuts and bolts of the presentation. It's been a long evening. 01:44:55
And so I'm sure y'all aware of this, I'm not asking for a vote tonight. 01:45:00
I'm gonna leave it to you in terms of that. We have to put this in our budget if we do this down the road. 01:45:05
If we wait till next year, which is fine, prices could go up as well. 01:45:10
And again, I'm going to work with Matt and Sam in terms of. 01:45:15
Talking to them or anybody that wants ask questions or wants to meet with us to look at them to see. 01:45:18
You know, it's about a six month process once we get approval to move forward, if we want to test them and then we want to write 01:45:23
policy and then we want to have officers get trained on them so. 01:45:28
There's a lot to it. Not just get approval tomorrow, we have. 01:45:32
That's gonna be the case. 01:45:36
So I'll take any questions or. 01:45:37
Sheriff, what changed priority wise over the past? 01:45:40
Three years public perception. 01:45:43
Honestly, you know, we were public or. 01:45:45
Public perception. Yeah. Yeah. 01:45:48
Because at the very beginning I'm not far against them, but it's a lot of money. 01:45:50
And I don't think the Sheriff's Office. 01:45:54
A lot of compliance. 01:45:56
Either as well. They do a fabulous job, a great professional and what they do when they interact with community. 01:45:57
And so did we want to spend a lot of money up front? 01:46:02
Especially being a new sheriff. 01:46:05
We had a lot of priorities elsewhere and what we were doing, so we talked about it, had discussions, but initially it wasn't. 01:46:06
Main priority right away. 01:46:12
And then being the last agency in this area, that perception of that. 01:46:13
This little pressure on. 01:46:17
In terms of is this the right thing to do? Should we do? 01:46:18
And so I wanted to come to you all and give you a presentation because you have the first screen. 01:46:21
Our streams into putting our budget and how. 01:46:25
We move forward with that together. 01:46:27
From a prosecutor's office perspective. 01:46:29
Do body cams. 01:46:37
Have a history of. 01:46:38
Preventing crime? Do they allow you to have a higher conviction rating? 01:46:41
I don't think they prevent. 01:46:47
I just don't, I don't think I've been on the on the other side of the camera yet, so. 01:46:49
I'm sure. 01:46:53
But I think what they do is just. 01:46:55
They do help with trials. 01:46:58
You just had a drug trial. It should be an open, shut trial. 01:47:00
Church delivery for hours on hours now. 01:47:04
You haven't lost trial in years. 01:47:07
I don't say that one. 01:47:08
But it got tougher. 01:47:09
And when the body Cam. 01:47:11
Is that simple? 01:47:12
If someone gets pulled over and they make an accusation. 01:47:14
How do you know it wasn't planted right? 01:47:17
Now I always was against. 01:47:19
Up until about 3 years ago. 01:47:21
Is you should be able to trust an officer. 01:47:23
Tony's on the. 01:47:26
Bad officers, but they're gone. 01:47:30
We'll keep them around. 01:47:33
What Sam's been through a 2. 01:47:34
Just different now. 01:47:37
Each one of you pull out your camera. 01:47:39
Tape that you expect. 01:47:41
So. 01:47:43
That's just the World War and that said. 01:47:44
It's a lot of money. 01:47:46
And I'm not advocating for spending money, I'm just saying. 01:47:48
It's something that the public, I think. 01:47:51
Expense so. 01:47:54
That's just how it is. You saw right there that changes your whole view and report it would say. 01:47:57
Defendant Ram. 01:48:02
You watch that. You see the defendant ran against four lanes of the highway. 01:48:04
64. 01:48:07
How dangerous is that for those officers? How dangerous is for the defendant? 01:48:09
Then he's going to make accusations that he was making. 01:48:13
Be beaten. Let's say it's. 01:48:16
It's concluding you didn't make those, but if he did, that helps, right? 01:48:18
It shows everything. 01:48:21
Yeah, but the cost is absorbed. 01:48:23
I get that. So thank you. I appreciate your perspective, you guys. 01:48:25
Any further questions? 01:48:31
Anything else for the share? 01:48:34
The only thing I would ask is. 01:48:36
What's the next step for you all? 01:48:37
Terms of giving a presentation, we're going to meet with Sam and Matt in a couple weeks to go over our budget. 01:48:39
You know, we can continue to discuss it amongst ourselves. I can come back here by. 01:48:45
Next month. 01:48:48
And to figure out, you know. 01:48:49
Next steps. 01:48:51
Improve the budget. 01:48:52
Level 10. So I have several questions in terms of how we're going to get a peak at budgets. 01:48:53
Tomorrow. 01:48:59
And we've got a lot to look at, you see. 01:49:00
Where that bottom line is. 01:49:05
And what the options are. 01:49:07
So we. 01:49:10
You know, we may ask you to come back, it may be something we just take up at budget time. 01:49:12
See if it if it connect. 01:49:19
To communicate with Sam and Matt and yourself as president. 01:49:22
And then we'll decide, is it in your budget numbers for? 01:49:24
Have the high end again, there's different discussions still to have. 01:49:29
With that, do we need Tasers right away? Can we do them later? Do we need in car cameras? 01:49:33
Play with just the basic cameras. 01:49:37
Not do anything at all. 01:49:40
So there's a range from. 01:49:41
214,214. 01:49:42
In that price tag as well as AI helps offers right reports. 01:49:44
That's something we can do with that. But you know, we've been talking with you all, me and Clark County. 01:49:49
And got a lot of report from them, what was working what, what didn't work, what they should have. I think they both. 01:49:54
I think Clark County has AI, I'm not sure. 01:49:59
So the officers don't have Tasers now or these are specific Tasers to work with the cameras? OK, thank you. 01:50:02
So officers do adaptation. 01:50:07
Gotcha. And it's. 01:50:09
If an officer. 01:50:12
If you got the Tasers that were integrated, if an officer pulls A Taser it will activate the camera. That is correct. 01:50:13
OK. Anything else for the sheriff? 01:50:21
Thank you very much. Thank you. 01:50:23
Miss Topping, you are up again. 01:50:27
This is a part of the evening where I cover for other departments. This is when you normally see me. 01:50:32
So we have. 01:50:39
Request for transfer for the Health Department. 01:50:40
We're just decreasing contract employees and increasing miscellaneous supplies and office equipment. 01:50:43
As advertised. 01:50:50
Thank you. Have a motion to 2nd for 10/8 any other? 01:50:51
Questions or discussion? 01:50:54
All in favor say aye. 01:50:57
Aye, any opposed? 01:50:58
Motion to approve 10B as advertised. 01:51:01
2nd we have a motion and 2nd for 10B. 01:51:05
Any discussion? 01:51:08
All in favor say aye aye. 01:51:11
Motion to approve 10 C Second. Motion a second for 10C. 01:51:13
Any discussion? 01:51:19
All in favor say aye aye. Any opposed? 01:51:21
That cares. 01:51:24
This is me. 01:51:28
Sorry, I was. 01:51:29
So excited that everybody didn't need me to explain things that I just kind of. 01:51:31
Letting things go. 01:51:35
So this is just a request for an additional appropriation. 01:51:36
I'll be honest and tell you I don't remember if I sent the e-mail to you guys that I was supposed to send, and if I did it was 01:51:39
probably about a month ago. 01:51:43
So this is just a refresher. 01:51:46
This is additional appropriations for some costs that were approved by the Opioid Oversight Committee and then again approved at 01:51:48
the commissioners meeting. 01:51:53
Primarily what this covers is training. 01:51:58
It's for game training. 01:52:01
Up in Chicago, the opioid. 01:52:03
Committee approved. A7. 01:52:06
Individuals, and not necessarily all county individuals, I was actually very excited about that. 01:52:08
So this is a joint effort between multiple law enforcement agencies where we're sending seven individuals up to Chicago for gang 01:52:13
training. 01:52:17
Are he's gone, but our prosecutor and our chief deputy prime. 01:52:22
Chief deputy prosecutor and then one other individual, I believe, from the prosecutor's office. 01:52:25
An individual from NAPD, a probation officer, and then we are also covering a corrections officer to go. I don't know if you're 01:52:30
aware of this and I might misquote the information. 01:52:35
But our prosecutor's office did their first ever. 01:52:41
In the history of Floyd County gang charge this year. 01:52:44
First ever. I will tell you as someone who worked in the Sheriff's Department's Corrections Division. 01:52:47
We've had gang issues for a while, so I found it very exciting that that was finally being utilized. 01:52:52
So this covers all of the training costs. 01:52:59
To send those 7 individuals. 01:53:02
And then it's also a. 01:53:03
Some additional funds for. 01:53:06
Equipment that is being purchased and if I failed to send that e-mail, which I will look and see, I will resend it. Motion to 01:53:09
approve 10D as advertised. 01:53:14
Second, have a motion. 01:53:20
Yeah, Didn't we discuss this at our last session? I was thinking that we already screwed this, but I thought maybe I understand 01:53:24
this. 01:53:27
I don't think so. Maybe. I think we discussed it, but we didn't have it up for. 01:53:31
I wasn't approving. It wasn't advertised. Yeah. 01:53:36
Yeah, yeah, we did have a short discussion on it. 01:53:40
Any other discussion? 01:53:44
I guess it'll get double approved if we approve it again. Does that mean you get double money? Yeah, we won't. We won't put it in 01:53:45
there if we don't need it. 01:53:49
Anything else on this? 01:53:54
Item All in favor of 10 D say aye aye. 01:53:56
Opposed that carries. 01:53:59
Item number 11 A is for tonight's transfer. 01:54:02
Ordinance 2025-10. 01:54:06
I make a motion to approve 11A. 01:54:10
Second motion, a second for. 01:54:13
The transfers, any discussion on what we've done this evening? 01:54:16
All in favor say aye. 01:54:20
11B is a joint resolution 2025 dash O3. 01:54:25
Floyd County and Floyd County Library District to. 01:54:29
Transfer ownership of the. 01:54:31
Galena library property. 01:54:34
I believe they sent out the. 01:54:38
I'll make a motion to approve 11B. 01:54:44
2nd. 01:54:46
Like this, This also includes. 01:54:48
Termination of. 01:54:50
The interlocal agreement. 01:54:52
By Floyd County and. 01:54:55
Library district and then transfers ownership of the property. 01:54:57
Commissioners have already. 01:55:03
Have approved this and now it's. 01:55:04
Far turn. 01:55:06
To approve it. 01:55:08
We get a motion in a second. 01:55:10
Any discussion on that? 01:55:11
Seeing none, all in favor say aye. 01:55:15
Any opposed? 01:55:18
That carries. 01:55:19
All right, we are at the end of our agenda. If there's anybody from. 01:55:22
That's how it was read in. Is that? Is that how your motion? 01:55:28
I can redo my motion if you'd like. Let's do it just for the record. 01:55:32
All right, So my motion is approve 11B and C. 01:55:35
It's on Spring. 01:55:41
Oh yeah. 01:55:45
OK. We have we have a motion. Is there a second, second. 01:55:46
We have a motion second for 11 PNC for the termination. 01:55:49
Of the interlocal and the resolution transfer. 01:55:52
Any questions? 01:55:56
All in favor say aye. 01:55:58
Aye, any of those. 01:56:00
That carries. 01:56:02
All right, we're at the end of our agenda if there is anybody from the public. 01:56:03
Would like to speak. 01:56:06
Please come forward, state your name. 01:56:09
How much is real? Briefly. 01:56:12
Jim Harbison. 01:56:14
3820 Edwardsville Galena Rd. 01:56:16
I'm just trying to clean it guest clean up a couple misunderstandings. 01:56:19
And I might be wrong, I might have got. 01:56:23
Got misunderstood, Mr. Sarkisian, and I might. 01:56:25
Misunderstood, Mr. Sharp, but I think both those gentlemen were under the impression. 01:56:28
That Mister Massengill or somebody from his. 01:56:34
Department. 01:56:39
Had typed up a handout to see him and said something about. 01:56:40
To Mr. Mass and GAIL, your handout. 01:56:43
And somebody from his department had. 01:56:46
Handed those things out. 01:56:49
And that wasn't the case. Ellen Worse and Kelly tightened up. 01:56:51
The handout and. 01:56:56
There were. 01:56:58
To volunteers. 01:56:59
Every hour. 01:57:01
That were there and someone. Mr. Matt. I just want you guys to know that OK, no problem. Yeah, I was just told it was my staff. 01:57:03
Mr. Short, I might have misunderstood, you know. No, that was my OK, Was my cinema all right. But that wasn't the way to. 01:57:11
Yeah. OK. Thank you. 01:57:17
Hi, my name is Melissa Frye Conti and I live in Georgetown. 01:57:22
Other end of Edwards. 01:57:26
And I just. 01:57:29
Want to note that. 01:57:31
What I heard and saw here tonight was that. 01:57:32
You all recognize that the people don't want to give up recycling. You even agree that recycling has value. You recognize there's 01:57:35
public health. 01:57:39
Impacts. What you do, the land you do to the people, there's no question. 01:57:43
It would impact our air and water quality. 01:57:47
And yet. 01:57:51
Because you see it as the beginning of a timeline and your friends on the Commission. 01:57:52
Say they want to do this. 01:57:57
You still vote in favor of it. 01:57:58
Despite what the people have to say. 01:58:00
And with the facts about its potential impacts. 01:58:02
And the people who live here now and in the future. 01:58:05
Are you still vote in favor of it? 01:58:08
And I just think that's really. 01:58:10
Anti democracy. 01:58:12
And I think you have no integrity. 01:58:14
Thank you. 01:58:18
Ellen Worse and Kelly again. 01:58:27
I would like to commend Dale Mann tonight, who has been coming before the Commissioners and the Council for over a year now, 01:58:29
talking about body cams. 01:58:35
And so he did that. He introduced the subject. The sheriff has been talking about body cams for several meetings. 01:58:41
He's now going to put the information together and meet on the budget. 01:58:50
This is how change is done in government. 01:58:56
Not the. 01:59:00
Quick, secretive things that have been going on. 01:59:01
With recycling. 01:59:05
And with the youth shelter. 01:59:07
This is the right way to do it and what has happened with these solid waste is the wrong way in government. Thank you. 01:59:09
Tracy Faucet. 01:59:21
Resident Floyd County. 01:59:23
Specifically addressing you all, who kind of? 01:59:24
Chastise people you know, You should come to our meetings, get more involved. 01:59:28
A room full of people showed up and were involved and you didn't. 01:59:31
Listen. 01:59:35
You voted against us. 01:59:37
So you wonder why people don't come and get involved? 01:59:38
I think tonight shoulder. 01:59:41
Dale Manor George I don't know why don't tell very many council meet. 01:59:52
You know, I've been for the taxpayer. 01:59:58
Every time. 02:00:01
But what Steve Wish brought up about body cameras I've been pushing for. 02:00:03
More, a lot more than a year. 02:00:07
Matter of fact, I really started pushing. 02:00:10
Citizens of our county got shot by the county deputy sheriff's. 02:00:12
In your own home. 02:00:16
And all the explanation we had. 02:00:17
Here site that's right. 02:00:19
That I know. 02:00:21
And there's ways to pay for it? I asked. 02:00:23
I asked for it when we had all the AARP money. 02:00:25
Of course, nobody wanted to do it then. 02:00:28
It would have paid for that. 02:00:30
207,000 a year. 02:00:32
But there's ways in that. 02:00:35
Mr. Bush, he said something. 02:00:36
That I've been saying. 02:00:38
The prosecutor said something It saved them money. 02:00:40
It saves the judges, so you might be looking some money from their budgets to help pay for these cameras. 02:00:42
I know I'll probably get locked up. 02:00:48
It's there. 02:00:52
And y'all look at the budget if you're going to save money, and we'll save money. 02:00:53
How can you pray I'm not getting drunk out when you're somebody? 02:00:58
You know you won't be going trial. 02:01:01
And you won't be cutting deals across here. It won't be cutting deals and it will save money. 02:01:02
You might be a little way to pay for it, but I have been pushing this for years. 02:01:07
Thank you. 02:01:11
I'm going to finish everything out here. 02:01:22
I'm Dana Frazier. I'm in college crossing. 02:01:24
I just wanted to bring up. 02:01:27
Actually, you mentioned that Gerber in your neighborhood you saw very few recycle bins sitting out. 02:01:29
What? You're making assumptions. 02:01:34
Looking at over 1000 signatures that were gathering. 02:01:35
The reason you might not have seen so many recycle bins sitting out is because. 02:01:39
Private companies like Sweet Lane. I remember when I moved here, I called around. 02:01:44
Peggy, who takes her cycle because I didn't know it was different than. 02:01:48
You know what I mean? That was a quick lesson. 02:01:52
But they only took cardboard and aluminum. 02:01:54
Which is what makes them money. 02:01:57
So, umm. 02:01:59
You can. What's that? 02:02:00
Yeah, right, right. So I was like, well, I'm not gonna use them. 02:02:04
So our neighbors right next door do use them and very often they have like a little side thing on their truck and that's where 02:02:07
they place their recycle. 02:02:11
So I watched the guy. He'll go and grab their stuff. 02:02:15
He'll come to the side, he'll just get rolled. 02:02:19
Like he'll go and throw it in the back of the truck. 02:02:22
What are the odds, do you think, that they go? 02:02:24
Back to the dump at the end of the day and sort through the truck. 02:02:27
And pull that recycle out. 02:02:30
That's what's going to happen with the private company. 02:02:31
So I've I've seen with my own eyes. 02:02:34
Thanks. 02:02:38
Excuse me, my name is Gina Crone. I'm from Floyd's Knobs. 02:02:45
Is it too late to ask why we couldn't? 02:02:49
Look into Miss Conkel suggestion. 02:02:52
Of trying to use other funds. 02:02:55
Can that not be answered? I mean if there's money available. 02:03:00
And in three days we have over 1000. 02:03:05
Signatures and A room. 02:03:09
Full of people and y'all have gotten more calls, more emails. 02:03:11
Why can't we look at her suggestion? Why is it just no? 02:03:15
Are you able to go ahead and answer that? 02:03:22
I can answer it. 02:03:24
This falls under the purview of the Commissioners. 02:03:27
And we could give them. 02:03:29
Money all day long. 02:03:30
They can choose to defund this department. 02:03:32
And for? 02:03:34
And they they have their, they have their own budget. 02:03:38
You'll have to ask the attorney statutorily. We had to vote on this. 02:03:44
That's that's the only. 02:03:48
Statute. 02:03:50
But if you if you vote in a positive manner that you. 02:03:52
You are not for dissolution. 02:03:56
Obviously then. 02:03:59
It will go back to them and maybe they will say it's over or we'll use whatever money however. 02:04:01
But I mean, tonight it's over. So if you could extend it and we had more time. 02:04:09
Why make it so final tonight? 02:04:16
Story A couple years ago we we did something similar to this. 02:04:19
Where we decided. 02:04:23
Not to fund a certain. 02:04:25
Department. 02:04:27
And uh. 02:04:28
We were. 02:04:31
We were chastised. 02:04:32
That can't believe you all would do something like that. 02:04:34
And uh. 02:04:37
When it comes under their purview. 02:04:40
We cannot compel. 02:04:41
Them. 02:04:43
Executive side. 02:04:43
To provide a service. 02:04:45
And. 02:04:47
If we fund it, we can't compel them to use those monies. 02:04:49
For that purpose, we cannot do that. 02:04:53
So for fear of chastisement, you're just not going to do anything? I mean, we all have to be courageous. 02:04:56
For what we truly believe in. 02:05:02
And you all obviously believe in recycling. 02:05:05
Have an entire room full of people who were here petitions. 02:05:07
So we have to be brave, we have to say. 02:05:12
Go for this. 02:05:16
I don't understand just saying it's over, it's over. 02:05:17
It's not, it's not over. 02:05:21
Well, I know, but privatization? 02:05:24
You presented nothing how that might work. 02:05:27
Again, that's not. 02:05:30
In our purviews. 02:05:32
That is not that is not for us to decide. 02:05:33
That is not for. 02:05:36
The council to decide. 02:05:38
How that goes forward? 02:05:40
Thank you. 02:05:43
So I. 02:05:48
Andrew Raker, still from Floyd's Knobs, haven't moved in the past two hours. 02:05:50
My comment for the four of you who did vote to move forward. 02:05:55
I understand there are some legal niceties that I. 02:05:59
Don't understand because you have to be a parliamentarian to understand them and I have other hobbies. 02:06:03
So I understand where you were coming from, Luther Vaux. 02:06:09
But uh. 02:06:12
Considering that you did speak up with recycling and that you do have better connections with the county commissioners than I do. 02:06:12
You have relationships through Floyd County politics. 02:06:19
I would encourage you. 02:06:23
Over the next 180 days, at least 180 days. 02:06:25
Until this final process. 02:06:29
To share with our Commissioners. 02:06:31
You know the frustration, the support. 02:06:33
All the feelings that you've seen tonight, I know we're going to have a big turn out at that final meeting. 02:06:36
But I hope we get constructive plans from the Commissioners before we get to that, and I would encourage you to use your role as 02:06:43
public servants to help them understand our feelings. Thank you. 02:06:48
Anyone else wish to speak? 02:06:59
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. 02:07:08
My name is John. 02:07:10
I wouldn't want our identities that lives in Floyd County, has Lanesville address, Franklin Township and all that other good 02:07:11
stuff. But anyway. 02:07:15
I came to work. 02:07:21
Football County solid waste because of Dave Mexican. 02:07:22
We work together. 02:07:26
Truck Plant. 02:07:27
I was responsible for. 02:07:31
$1.4 million in sales, 5 manufacturing plants and 2000 employees. Jobs and their livelihoods. 02:07:32
Closely because I work for another company. 02:07:42
When we when we got together, we had. 02:07:46
Decision to make. 02:07:48
And that was what is the best for at that point the company. 02:07:49
My point what I'm saying is. 02:07:53
We didn't have taxes. 02:07:56
Pay your money. 02:07:57
We had. 02:07:59
X amount of money. 02:08:00
That was only. 02:08:01
That's it, and our thing was to save as much money as we possibly. 02:08:02
I will tell you for about Dave Massengill. 02:08:09
Takes there the recycling center as if it's his own checkbook and. 02:08:11
Writes those out so when he says 1415 employees. 02:08:17
Me working there being a part of it. 02:08:21
I'm telling you. 02:08:23
We work hard. 02:08:24
We get our stuff done and then we go home. 02:08:26
When I retired two years ago. 02:08:29
The day after I retired, my resting heart rate dropped 10 beats a minute. 02:08:32
That's the kind of pressures and that's the kind of stuff I was under. 02:08:37
On a daily basis. 02:08:40
I don't have to. 02:08:42
But I will tell you. 02:08:45
The community is the reason that I do. 02:08:46
And from a standpoint like what? 02:08:49
Our other fine. 02:08:52
Servicemen and women that work in our county. 02:08:56
I know for a fact. 02:09:00
That when you come to any other facility, Greenville or whatever. 02:09:02
You're greeted with hello. 02:09:06
How are you today? What's going on? 02:09:08
And you're told before you leave. I hope you have a great day. 02:09:10
I know for a fact. 02:09:13
There are a lot of people. 02:09:15
Don't hear that except when they come up. 02:09:16
We're just reaching out the way we would. 02:09:20
Want to be treated ourselves? 02:09:23
And I think that's the coolest thing again. 02:09:25
The only reason I do it. 02:09:28
I don't have to. 02:09:30
I worked almost 45 years in the automotive industry. 02:09:31
And like I said, I don't want an increased target. 02:09:34
So. 02:09:38
At that point. 02:09:39
For the community and the expert. 02:09:40
And to let the commissioners that aren't in charge of this part. 02:09:42
What I ask anyone of you? 02:09:46
Join us on. 02:09:49
Join us any day, maybe. 02:09:52
Saturday at annex there on on Grant Line Rd. 02:09:54
Be one of the extras that helps. 02:09:59
Because we also have. 02:10:01
People that are. 02:10:03
3/3. 02:10:04
Paying their debt to society on Saturdays to come in. 02:10:07
They actually leave. 02:10:13
What the better feeling of themselves? 02:10:14
Just by how we treated people. 02:10:16
And so that's what I have. 02:10:18
Come join us. 02:10:20
I would love for you guys to come. 02:10:22
And be a part and see. 02:10:24
We want to talk about talking to constituents. 02:10:25
All right, wherever else that one day you go see you. 02:10:28
So thank you for your time. 02:10:34
I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. 02:10:44
So moved. 02:10:46
2nd. 02:10:49