County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

so we take a motion to entertain a motion so moved second got a motion second any further discussion all in favor 5-0 public comment time if anyone here in the audience would like to speak on the agenda feel free to do so seeing no movement we will close the public comment time and move on down to general business we don't have anything presentation on the board of general business so we're going down to their action on the general business as April has a couple of things for finance this evening

the first thing is that actual it's a budget amendment for a grant that the school system has received more lottery funding to repair glade creek elementary school roof so this is just going to be a pass-through we're going to receive the 380 260 and then there'll be a check written back out during our normal ap process to the school system okay we heard requests need a motion i'll make a motion to approve second motion second any further discussion all in favor 5-0 okay the next one i have is actually for the wayfinding signage for the tda budget the county budgeted $40,000 last year and the town budgeted $30,000 last year and that was transferred to the TDA budget on last year but none of that money was spent so it's basically sitting in their fund balance and we need to budget that in the signage wayfinding signage line for the TDA okay that's line item money that will stay there until it's spent correct and they didn't spend it last year is the reason the budget amendment is coming to the board this year okay i make a motion that we approve the budget for the county and town signage allocation got a motion bobby second any further discussion all in favor 5-0 thank you okay all right number three april that for you okay so the third one is one that was added today DSS has some late attorneys bills that have come in for the last fiscal year so we just need to do a lot item transfer for $11,000 from salaries to professional services to take care of those bills for the last fiscal year okay we were to ask Carol need a motion to approve so I move

Second. Got a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? I vote. Okay, Ms. Tiffany Bowyer, Human Resources Director.

Good evening. On May 4th, the board approved a service credit adjustment for law enforcement. This was a $1,300 increase to the starting salary per five years of service. today i'm here just requesting approval to expand this to all of law enforcement and the detention center and this would be contingent upon funding availability within the law enforcement budget and as the sheriff sees fit so that comes out of their budget yes as he sees fit okay all right we've heard the asker open floor for a motion motion to approve second got a motion a second any further discussion

all in favor 5-0 thank you thank you all right moving on down the county manager's comments yes mr chairman uh first i wanted to uh let you all know i think i sent this out as a as an email but um kelvin souther that runs our our kitchen they got a hundred percent rating which is really rare having done some work in in uh restaurants in in the past that's a That's a rare rating. Maybe Garrison can back me up on that. Is that pretty rare, Garrison, when that happens? Yeah, I'd say so. So we're proud of him and what he's done with that kitchen. And he's all done this. He's been down some staff, so he's had to kick in. And I think he has like three people, but he was down to two for a long time. And for a while, it was just him, right? And so you've still pulled that off with this. The other thing I wanted to say is I just want to clarify something I said at the last meeting that I wasn't entirely accurate in what I said. What I said is that we have $400,000 for the auditorium. What we have is there's been stated interest and we know it's $400,000 to do the work that we need to do and we're seeking it out through grants. the tda and the school system in the county have all said they'd be interested in in chipping in and try to make that happen but the money is not sitting there right now just want to make sure i clarify that with you all and with brian okay that's all i have mr chairman all righty thank you moving on down the county commissioner comments i guess garrison start on your side well it looks like we're uh trying to break a record so i won't slow us down um

next week i look for i mean our next meeting our mid-month meeting i look forward to bringing to the board a proposal from one of our respondents for the rfqs for the ball fields so i'm excited about that but that's all i got okay thank you bobby just a couple things i see david down there i

just still wondering about the in god we trust sign for 90 south main street to go up at the very top what how's that coming along well i'm going i will call them and get that quoted out i haven't done it yet so i will i will get it done though okay the next thing i think people that were in town over the weekend for the rodeo i think that was if if that wasn't the biggest crowd it was the second biggest crowd i think that we've had at the fairgrounds maybe the first apple pie uh festival might have been a little bit bigger but there was no place to park on 21 all the locks were full and there was uh i think a lot of people really enjoyed what went on and I'm glad to see the fairgrounds being used. I think over the last week we've had some problems at the health department. I've tried to find out information and that was not made available to me. I'm very concerned about the way the finances go. i was hoping we could have a closed session but we couldn't tonight to discuss it but that's something we need to look at not at the next meeting but i think before the next meeting i'm concerned about what we've pledged financially for the health department i don't know if that can be looked at in a different way

i'm telling love governor thank you bud group i'm glad to say we're getting some rain i hope everybody in mount airy didn't lose no house or nothing but if they do glade creek fire department got two hailing campers that's never been given to anybody you know might reach out and see they're just sitting out there rotting down brand new campers been there two years and we do i do glad i'm really glad we've got much needed rain

all i got okay thank you do you hear me yes um i can you can we all believe it's august i was just thinking about the the rodeo and different things but but yeah we're already we're trucking down the summer stretch here but just two three i wanted to uh we had some big time employee years miss boyer is one of them it's got it's like 18 years is that correct yeah i want to just shout out to them and then i think marshall hudson up dss is 21 years and luella lane who works for allegheny motion it's a really good employee which i see out a lot 21 years for that too so just want to say thank you guys for all you do for our county and and we appreciate your your time and your efforts and your sacrifices to do these but that's all i got

I think I had Mark Purdue that list. Mark is another one. Mark, he's a long-time employee. Thank you, Timmy. I don't have much to follow that. Just the rodeo was a huge success both nights. Like Bobby said, big crowds everywhere. And the Derby last weekend also, they had a couple of big nights. I don't know who's responsible really for Flyers on Main Street, but they are pretty. I don't know. Is that the – part of forward group maybe yeah i don't know who that consists of anyway it adds a lot of beauty to the town when you drive up through there i think it looks really pretty it does that's all i have anybody have anything else seeing none take a motion to adjourn make a motion to adjourn second all in favor 11 minutes bill i think we had one six minutes