Commission - Regular Meeting

Y'all ready? Order. We're going to call the June 2025 meeting to order and uh Commissioner Floyd is going to do the invocation for it. Yes, please stand. Y'all pray with me. Dear Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for this opportunity to come together and do our little bit of work in our little corner of your kingdom. Let all decisions here be made in accordance with your will. And it's in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Y'all lead uh let me lead you on a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We got a full house here tonight. Glad to see everybody. I uh I needed approval on the agenda. Mr. Chairman, uh I'd like to make a motion to approve the agenda with two changes. Remove county attorney item number two from the original original agenda. that issue was settled uh and at executive session for the purpose of of discussing uh litigation and real estate. All right. Second. All in favor? I. All oppose? None. Okay. I need a uh motion for approval of the meeting May 2025 meeting minutes. Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to approve the May 2025 meeting minutes as presented. Second. All in favor? I. Uh-huh. All oppose? No. Okay. Can we confirm that Commissioner Wallace is on the phone? Yes. Oh. Uh, yes, sir. I'm here. All right. Very good. Okay. All right. We need a approval of the consent agenda.

Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented. A second. All right. All in favor? I all oppose. Okay, that pass. All right. Community development items. Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion that we close our regular meeting and enter a public hearing. Second. All right. All in favor? I. All opposed. Okay. So this first item um is the second reading for a reasonzoning um from PD planned development to A5 agricultural for approximately 25.09 acres of property that is currently part of the Buckhead development and you can see the area highlighted there. Uh the property is located off of Murphy Court and is accessed via a driveway from that road. Um and is currently part of that Buckhead development but it has not been developed. is currently a vacant piece of property and you can see the driveway, that dirt driveway in that picture at the top there. Um, the maximum number of residential units have been reached within the Buckhead PD. So, the applicant is requesting the resoning in order to be able to use this property for residential and light agricultural use. It will also remove the property from the PD. And you can see the surrounding zoning there with that reddish color being the PD. And the other properties are zoned A5 adjacent. The applicant um did provide a concept plan you'll see here showing up to two residences as well as a barn with living space above. Um the applicant is proposing limiting the uses on this parcel to small farm animals, silva culture, residential and related accessory uses and public utilities. Uh staff is recommending further limiting this to exclude silva culture, major public utilities and accessory uses and structures um customary to conditional

uses. says that this would prohibit more intensive uses that may add additional traffic um or have other impacts on those adjacent residential properties. Engineering did also recommend that a portion of that currently dirt access be paved adjacent to Murphy Court and the property will be served by well and septic. Portions of the storm water drainage for the Buckhead PD are located on this parcel. So staff is also recommending an easement provided on these um to ensure that they will continue to be accessible and maintained. There is also a 30-foot perimeter buffer um around the Buckhead PD, part of which is located on this property. Uh the currently developed areas of the PD do have adequate open space um in most of the areas adjacent to this property that is owned by the HOA that can serve the purpose of the buffer. Um the applicant also indicated they will not be disturbing the vegetation adjacent to the PD development. Staff did recommend um requiring that a buffer be shown on a boundary plat for this property prior to a building permit just to ensure that that vegetation is maintained. Um at the May meeting PNZ did recommend approval. Apologize with um the following conditions. Uh the permitted uses shall be limited to the following. Farm animals small detached single family dwellings, accessory dwelling units, public utility services minor, accessory uses and structures not listed but customary to per permitted uses and home offices. Uh the driveway shall be paved for 50 ft in conformance with the engineering design manual. This must be completed prior to a CO being issued for a building permit on the parcel. Easement shall be provided across the PD storm water facilities. um per the engineering department's requirements and identified on a boundary plat to be reviewed by staff and recorded prior to issuance of a building permit and undisturbed buffers a minimum of 20 feet on the property adjacent to lots on Castle Oak and Murphy Court shall be shown on a boundary plat to be reviewed by staff

and recorded prior to issuance of a building permit. This is in addition to the 30-foot perimeter buffer that will be located on the PDZ zoned property and I can answer any questions you have. Any question? If you eliminate silver culture as a use and say some of it's damaged by hurricane, is there some recourse to salvage that? Yeah, silver culture is just if you're harvesting for profit those those trees, that timber. So, they could remove trees if needed. Okay. Yeah, that's all. Okay. Anyone here to speak in for or against? Just states your name, please. Good evening. Scott Allison with Coleman Company. Uh Sarah did a great job explaining what our request is. And um in in short, they're trying to put two houses on the lot with a barn with potential accessory dwelling above it. um potentially be used as well for you know that she's an artist as well, maybe some painting, things like that. Um all of the conditions that were recommended by staff and planning commission, we we have no objection. Not going to answer any questions that you have. None here. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay. Good evening, commissioners. Item two is a second reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map for a property on Tony Branch Road. Uh the applicant is requesting to reszone a

0.98 acre property from the B1 neighborhood uh zoning to the B2 general commercial district uh in order to develop a liquor store and potential restaurant. This is at the corner of Tony Branch and Highway 204. Uh at their meeting in May, planning and zoning did recommend denial of the reszoning request and staff recommended approval with the conditions. Uh the following uses shall not be permitted. animal boarding, adult use, vehicle washing, funeral homes, motel, uh shooting ranges, drive-throughs, uh fireworks, local transit systems, bowling billiards, as well as any traffic improvements the applicant would be responsible. Uh so this request is on the north end of the county, and this shows you a location map here where it's on that north uh east corner of 204 and Tony Branch, and this shows you that it's currently zoned B1 today by right. So the applicant is requesting to reszone to the B2 uh zone in order to develop a liquor store which is not permitted by right in the B1 zone. And this shows you the comprehensive plan or the character area map, future land use map. This uh it falls on the fringe. So just to the south is that rural residential character area. It lies in the emerging suburban. But it's important to note that this is not at a crossroads intersection. So we wouldn't traditionally see commercial developments at this area. But it's also important to keep in mind that it is already zoned B1 today by ripe. Um this shows you some existing pictures where the site today is just undeveloped. And this shows you sub plan at its highest yield. It could be potentially a 4700 square foot u liquor store and or restaurant. And he's showing that he can meet all the buffering requirements and stuff required by the UDO. The applicant did complete a TDA that was approved by the county engineering department that showed it would generate an estimated 259 trips per day and this did not warrant any traffic improvements at this point. Um, so staff did recommend approval uh limiting all the more intense uses in the B2 zoning district.

Uh, in your packet you'll find a table of what's allowed in the B1 and the B2. uh as well as if traffic improvements do become warranted during the civil construction process, the applicant should be responsible for all those costs associated. And again, planning and zoning did recommend denial. And I can answer any questions you may have. Question. So, it's not an issue of of footprint or size or anything like that, but the sole reason for going B1 to B2 is the use. It is the use. Now, he does get a little bit more flexibility when it comes to like lot coverage and setbacks are a little less restrictive in the B2, but generally I think the main issue was the use. Okay, thank you. Anyone here to speak for again? Good evening. My name is William Cunningham with Coleman Company. Um, as Brett stated before, we're looking to reszone to B2 in order to um implement a beer wine liquor store. Um, and besides the use of of zoning, um, as people stated to, the side setbacks as well as the impervious lot coverage um, could play semi- crucial roles in this lot development. Um, it's a little less than an acre. Um so that 4750 uh building footprint that we have is really as much as you can get when you combine parking um storm water drainage and um the site plan that we provided ultimately is what it should come out to. Um but through the permitting process you know we don't know if that extra 10 ft might come crucial you know to fit in that septic field to the side or you know we're just not sure. So that would you know be a great benefit to this um site. Um, you know, for traffic, that was a huge concern that was raised at the last, um, public uh, planning and zoning meeting. Um, and frankly, the B1 to B2, you know,

it's currently entitled for commercial use. Um, the TDA came out to a AM peak of 11 trips and a PM uh, peak of 31 trips. So, um, you know, I said by G do standards, they don't call for any road improvements um, or any necessary um, items like that. So, if you have any questions, I'd be happy to answer them. The access will be off 204 Tony Branch. Uh, it'd be 204 onto Tony Branch. It's 150 ft up off of Tony Branch would be the um access into the property. Okay. Nothing on 204. No, sir. No access off 204. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. All right. I saw a hand raised. Come on up. Just state your name. Hi. Uh, good evening. My name is Benjamin Hutchinson. I live at, uh, 1791 Tony Branch, which is the house directly adjacent on Tony Branch. That drive would be about 15 ft from my current driveway. Um, first I'd like to address the traffic. There will absolutely be traffic slowdowns there. As it is people turning off of Tony Branch or excuse me, off of 204 onto Tony Branch, they hit it like a racetrack. They turn off and they're doing 60 by the time they get past my front yard in a 45. So now you're going to tell me people are going to be pulling in, slowing down to turn in there while someone else is running up their rear. We're going to have a backup on to 204 for sure. Um on top of that, we don't need a liquor store. We have one. We have two down the road 8 minutes from me. One is Mike's. I can get there and back before it's dinner is over. The other one is down the road by 16. They just put it in what, five months ago. Um, we don't need extra people hanging out. Also, I believe five, six years ago, they came in here asking for variances on that lot because they couldn't fit what they wanted. They just came back said that, "Oh, B2 will

give us more space." But he literally just said, "We're not sure. We might need to come back for 10 ft extra variances." So now you're going to take a B2 and encroach on our properties on the edges even more with variances when they come back and ask for more. Doesn't seem fair to the homeowners in the area. Um we don't need the noise and the light pollution. We don't need the extra trash coming in there. You know, this is a neighborhood. There are no businesses within 3, four minutes of there. There's a church and there's homes. Then there is the little zip-in Dollar General area and then it's more rural. Again, it does not fit for our community. If you don't want it, we don't need it. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Anyone else? Could you state your name, please? My name is Bob Hastings. I live caddy corner to where this proposed um liquor store is going. And anybody knows the history of that area. any wreck that happens in that intersection ends up either in my yard or in my house. On the second note, um I went to this I went to the first meeting and did exactly what I did. Um when I found out this meeting was coming up, I tried to call my county commissioner 31 times. He won't answer his phone. So, here I am. Um we don't need a we don't need a bunch of people standing around begging for change like I do a mile down the road. We don't need that in our neighborhood. We don't need the traffic. We don't need the crime increase. We just We don't need it. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Anyone else? Cory, I live at the lot adjacent to the

lot they're wanting to do. Uh, I agree with everything Benjamin, Mr. Bob said there. Uh, liquor store, not a good fit fair area, crime, everything else pretty much that they covered. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you. [Music] All right. Anyone else? Mr. Uh, I live probably I live on 204, probably about 1500 ft from the intersection. Uh, I agree with everything they've said. I mean, it's a bit busy intersection. It's a offset intersection, so that makes it worse. The traffic is bad there. Uh, we have young kids in the neighborhood. I mean, we don't need that extra traffic, especially a liquor store or any any other kind of business really. Not not right there on that intersection. Thank you. Thank you. All right, I guess that's it for that. The next item is a conditional use permit for a home service business um to be located at 314 Riverbend. And you can see the location highlighted here. And then closer up um on there. And here you'll see an image sort of coming into the house and an overview. Uh the applicant's proposing a oneperson hair salon in an R15 zone property um to be operated out of an accessory building that they have not constructed yet. Um the approximate location on the right you'll see sort of right behind the house um is where they're thinking of doing it and they have spoken to that neighbor you can see there. Um the salon

is proposed to operate during school hours from Monday to Friday um which is approximately three to four hours a day with clients parking in their existing driveway. Um and as you can see the surrounding properties are zoned R15 as well in that neighborhood. Um planning and zoning did recommend approval of the conditional use as did staff. Um we have received several public comments against the use um which we have provided for you as well and I can answer any questions you may have. Any question? Okay. Thank you. Anybody in the audience? Uh for or against? If you'd come up and state your name. I know there's a lot of y'all here. If y'all would kind of, you know, if you all going to say the same thing, uh I'd appreciate if y'all just keep it to a minimum. Okay. I might not be the best spokesperson for that, but first I'm first, but I might not be right. Um, I live at 500 Riverbend. Um, I'm against an accessory building of any kind. Um, we have a a uh deal in our neighborhood basically that there are to be no accessory buildings, no businesses, a covenants that everyone has agreed to in the neighborhood. There's probably about 80 houses in the neighborhood. And um the covenant says basically that there's to be no accessory buildings. Clearly says there's to be no businesses within the neighborhood. And you know, it's just going to open up a can of worms for everybody dragging their businesses home as far as lawn care people, food truck folks, and before you know it, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be um an operating uh outdoor mall in my

opinion. And who needs who needs the, you know, the additional parking and people coming and going from the neighborhood? And you know, it's all clearly stated in the covenances that what is and what is not to be. And it's just outrageous that this has even gone this far in my opinion. So, I'll leave it at that. Thanks, sir. I'm sure that a lot of people have the same thing to say. Yes, sir. Thank you. Good evening, gentlemen. My name is John Blanc. I live at 237 Riverbend Road. Uh and I am in within 1,00 ft of the uh property in question. I'd like to start by first presenting uh the board with a petition. This petition is signed by 47 members of the Cove Homeowners Association. Sure. Those 47 signatures, gentlemen, represent of the 63 households in the cove, uh they represent 36 of them, over half of the households in the cove. Uh everyone those signatures, this is a petition against uh the establishing a uh beauty salon. Okay. And the reasons for this, there are several of them. Uh we have concerns concerns that have not been yet addressed. We don't know about any environmental impact that a salon might have even if it's very slight. Uh the cove has uh septic systems and God only knows um the problems I've had with septic, but we don't know what's going in the septic system. We don't know what's going into our ground. Excuse me. All of our water is on well and uh it

comes from the water table. So we don't know if any impact study has been done. It might be slight, it might be none, but we don't know. We also don't know how much electricity is going to be used. Where's the garbage going to be dumped? Does the uh garbage company know that they're picking up for a business now? They don't. Um the covenant has already been addressed. It's clearly stated in uh article 6, section six, no businesses in the code. As examples, it explicitly says beauty salons. We have already decided long ago that uh we don't want a beauty salon in this neighborhood. Times change. Maybe we do want one now. I don't know. But it hasn't been discussed. And what happened was um when I got notice from the county that they were going to have these meetings, I addressed it one to our president through a text message. I received no answer. 48 hours. I posted on a Facebook page received no answer until the night before when a member of the board who is not the president said that they made a decision to allow this with no discussion, no knowledge, and after I posted it, several of these people saw it for the first time. That's unacceptable. Right now, we're asking you not to approve this. We can state all the things we don't want in the neighborhood, but what we do want is good governance. We're not getting that. We have not had a chance to discuss this as neighbors. We have a rogue member on the board who sat on my porch last week and told me he looks at HOA rules like he looks at army doctrine suggestions. Now, I'm 25 years military and that's a

big joke in the army doctrine. That's a suggestion. It's really not. It's the way you train. It's the way you fight. When you have to deviate from doctrine, it's for a reason. He deviated from doctrine with no reason. On top of that, we have a president who abdicated his authority. This road map, we need to clean that up. Excuse me. Yes, sir. I've been in court. And sir, just to clarify, we are not here to legislate your HOA from from this day. I understand that and I appreciate your your passion and uh excuse me. Um and I ask you, we've done our legal research. Our board is open to liability. Okay? They don't know that, but I have it here. What I'm asking the board to do is not approve it. If uh if our neighbors want to come back later and ask the board to approve it after we've had a chance to clean up our our mess, that's fine. But let us fix this. Let us talk as neighbors. Understood. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next. My name's Donna Hul. I've lived in the Cove since 1988. It's been a safe neighborhood for us to raise our children who are all gone now. We have um six grandchildren that come and visit. Those roads have been safe. It's been a quiet neighborhood. That's why we built there. Um, and like he said, like John said, there the covenants protected that environment. We have a lot of um, wildlife there that we enjoy. And, uh, you know, right now my house is at 163 and we're kind of on the straightaway

that goes between um, River Oaks and the Cove. And that straightaway already is violated sometimes with cars just thinking that's, you know, the way to zip on by. uh over the speed limit, but um you know, I'd like it to remain a quiet neighborhood without having a lot of extra um vehicles coming in and out. And I I do know that the said business in question uh says they're not going to be open uh when school is not is not in session, but that also was brought forward at the zoning meeting that it would be open in the summer. I can't see people giving up their clients during um you know holidays and and uh summertime you know so I just you know don't want that increased traffic in the neighborhood. It's also in a flood zone uh the AE flood hazard zone. So, um I don't know what the specifics on the structure being built is, but you know, I don't know, uh what uh violations there might be there or if it'll be in line with that, but um and then the septic tank, the the chemicals gone into the river because it's right there on the river. Um I don't know. I thought about talking to the riverke keepers about that, but um I'm really concerned about the environmental impact on our our wildlife and our safety for our children and grandchildren in the neighborhood. We do have a lot of young families moving in now. So, they're out in their bikes, they're, you know, on their scooters, they're everywhere, you know, children playing. So, I would really like to maintain that safe neighborhood. Thank you, M. Thank you. All right. Anyone else? Good evening. I'm Lisa Wallace. I live

at 520 Riverbend. No relation to Dr. Gene Wallace. Um I am not in favor of this um business going forward and being allowed. Um ordinarily I am all for people um providing for their families with extra hobbies. Um, but when it comes to inviting more people and traffic into the neighborhood is where I draw the line. Um, there are lots of chairs in Richmond Hill that can be rented where she could cut hair and style if if that's what she wants to do. Um but in in generally speaking, I think um John's comments about our board um just show that we weren't given the chance as neighbors to discuss it amongst ourselves. And my concern is that once you open the door to allow one business as small as this one is, um we al we also have another um butician um cosmetologist in the neighborhood. um if she there's no reason that she could not therefore you know apply for a license as well. Um she may she is once you get this she is allowed to schedule as many as she can schedule and her time and cars can go in her driveway. She's permitted to have a two-ft square sign in her yard. Okay. So where does the board then draw the line if they're permitted to act that way? And then you're put in the position of well who do we grant these licenses to and who do we not? It puts you in a discriminatory function. Um so that's another reason um I don't want to see our quiet quiet peaceful neighborhood. It's lovely um to become a place where people have their home businesses um where clients are

coming and going. And um I know that we have had one in the past that was at the corner um of our riverbend and it was his clients only um came once a week to collect their paychecks. Okay. But there were probably 20 of them. And I had small children. And the number of grown men that I had to stop and ask not to run over my children and my neighbors children was ridiculous. I didn't enjoy it. And I'm certain this business would not have that kind of clientele. But like I said, it opens the door for other businesses to be allowed to operate. So that's why I post. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Jared Anderson. Um, where do I start? One, I'd like to see that petition. I never saw it. No one ever knocked on our door, told us anything about it until tonight. Um, two, I can kind of tell you that a lot of this probably would have been squashed had people come and talked to me. These people that are up here tonight, it's the first time I've seen them complain about this. I mean, it's on Facebook. My wife is trying to stay off Facebooks because of everything said, but it probably could have, you know, not taken your guys' time. Electricity garbage. I'm paying the electric bill. Um, you know, the garbage. If if you know anything about salons, this is a oneperson salon. She does not want to do it as a full-fledged salon. She's doing it as a hobby. Unfortunately, the Arkansas cosmetology board says you can't have a salon as a hobby. You have to have a business. It's the only reason

we're going through this and I'm trying to do it the right way. Trying to get the conditional use permit. We still have to get building permits. We would still have to have the environmental permits. We would still have to go through the cosmetology board and have them approve it. And so the concerns that they're bringing up, environmental garbage, electricity, I mean, I don't understand why anybody's worried about what electric bill I'm paying. um about my family. My wife and I moved here with our three kids, 16, nine, and seven. So, all these people talking about kids, I'm right there. I know this is by appointment only. This is no advertisement. We are not going to have a sign out front. We have made sure you're not going to see the building. Our neighbors have a structure that's a pool house. The intention of this building was going to be a pool house. We were going to put the salon underneath our um screened in porch. However, we had a uh elevation certificate completed and said we couldn't do it, so we had to shift. So, we will be the 10 ft above the water line. Again, this is all stuff that has to go through building code. Um, as far as the HOA, I'm going to let them argue that out. I went to the HOA, asked permission, they gave me permission. I don't I didn't vote in that. I am on the HOA board, but I did not vote. I just asked permission. Um, I don't know. I think this is kind of silly. I've never been in an HOA before. I've never been in a place I had the same kind of thing in Arkansas where we moved from had a salon on our property. One car a day is not traffic. I mean, we've got more lawnmowers coming our on our on the cove than one a day. So, I I don't know where the threat from one car parking in our driveway. My daughter's 16. Her friends are over my house. They won't. No one will be able to tell the difference between my daughter having friends over or my wife cutting someone's hair

and the school hours thing. It is it's 9 to3. She does not want to work when our kids are at home. She will not work in the evening. She will not work on the weekends when I'm home. In the summer, yeah, she probably will do something because like I said, you don't want to just, you know, let your client's hair get out of control, which is why we said school hours, not school days. Um, but we're not going to be doing it at five o'clock at night when everybody's kids are back home from school, stuff like that. So, I mean, I'm I'm happy to answer any questions. Again, I mean, this isn't our first time doing something like this as far as building a salon on our property. The other one was septic. We had no issues with the septic, of course. If the building um permits require us to get it checked out, I'm fine with it. All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions or uh I'm good. Okay. Thank you guys. Thank you. Good afternoon, gentlemen. How are you? I'm the currently elected vice president uh for the code. I'd like to start out by saying uh Mr. Blanc, sir, I don't appreciate you calling me a rogue. I walked my wife in here and shook your hand, but that's good because sir, that's precedence. That's exactly conversation. Yes, sir. That's exactly what's going on in our neighborhood right now. That behavior, that characteristic of certain individuals who are attacking people who move into our neighborhood. What's We had an Asian couple family move in, they were attacked. Mr. Anderson and his family moved in, they were attacked. Please, sir, we're going to keep it to this issue. Yes, sir. If you don't mind. Thank you, sir. Right in there. No businesses allowed, guys. I moved in there 25 years ago. Sir, says no businesses allowed, sir.

Sorry. Inside the cove there. It's a onem loop. There's 64 There's 64 lots inside our inside our neighborhood. Yesterday, I counted vehicles coming into our neighborhood in front of my home in the in the cove. I want to present y'all facts. Inside the cove in front of my home, my house is midway down one of the streets. Nine vehicles came into the neighborhood between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 300 p.m. One of which was the mailman and two of which are as a resident who came in and out, which leaves six outstanding vehicles. My math, that's one vehicle per hour. Excessive traffic inside the cove. The only time the traffic gets excessive is in the afternoons when they deliveries and stuff like that. So, I'd like to stick with the facts here. A lot of this stuff is hearsay. Also, uh, inside the covenants is vaguely written. It was written in the 80s. There's a lot left to be interpreted, which actually makes our neighborhood um really unique in a sense. It's not super strict. Uh, and if you walk around, just about every home is in violation of the covenants. It is my understanding and the board's understanding it is unlawful to selectively enforce portions of the board or portions of the covenants for some and not all. And you'll see anything from mechanic work in front of a home to pe the dogs walk without a leash, the whole nine yard. All of it. Fences are supposed to be 4 foot, but you'll see some that are six and eight. There's been exceptions. Trailers and parks, I'm sorry, trailers and boats parked next to homes. These things were decided by the board without resolution of the community that it was made by the board to let these things happen. That's no different than what we're doing today. What we've done is we did not let a beauty shop into our neighborhood. We let a single chair salon. We made a decision on that and based on the evidence and in the in the in the numbers that Mr. uh Mr. Jared and his family provided us, it takes approximately 3 to four hours to do

hair. That means there's two vehicles or two customers if you will a day. And so within six hours, you're looking at maybe two tops, three vehicles max. Also in that same setting when it comes to community, I understand Brian County is trying to build community here and really establish some stuff moving forward. I I can't help to think of the image of like Steel Magnolia where the where the ladies are just sitting down and discussing with each other. But unfortunately, we don't have that in our neighborhood. Obviously, there's a cut line right now. Unfortunately, with some of the newer folks coming in and their interpretation of certain things and folks, but however, the face of our board is Mr. Greg. a certain degree of man and we make sure that happened that we also restore respect for the folks that become that came before us in the neighborhood. We too moved into the neighborhood for the same sanctuary that they did and we are working and we will preserve that in our neighborhood by all means. No. So what the board did was we looked at the covenants and we've made our own interpretation just like they just like they did. That's good. No. All right. So, we appreciate your time if you close. Yes, sir. Also, your petition um the board was not was not given that petition. So, we could we did not validate those signatures. So, we don't know who signed that petition. We don't know if they went outside the neighborhood. We don't know if they it was forged. We were not provided we were not provided a copy of that petition. The petition is also erroneous because it negated facts that were parti particular to the one chair hair salon. They said beauty shop. While Beauty Shop does hair, nails, and skin and sells products, we are allowed and we authorize a onechair hair salon. All right. Thank you. The other thing Yes, sir. Is is that Yeah. If If you can close, we'd appreciate it. Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Thank you.

Um I'll be really quick. Um so I know you've um listened to a lot. What's your name again? My name is Amy Davis. Um and I live in the house directly across from the proposed hair salon. Um I spoke earlier on the phone with um Al that was just up here. Um he did not want to have a group meeting to discuss this as I suggested. He wanted to do a one-on-one phone call. Um that didn't go well. Um, Al has a different version of of what the facts are here. I don't really care about the drama in the neighborhood or what happened years ago. I'm only reacting to this as I'm a homeowner and my husband and I moved there like three years ago and we are invested in the community and we we chose this neighborhood because it was quiet. I never even dreamed like driving here. It's even ridiculous to me that we are considering a hair salon in my neighborhood. It's just it just seems like something that we shouldn't even discuss. I'm not, you know, the petition. I wasn't home. My husband did sign it. Um I wish I could had the opportunity to sign it. I'm sure they didn't take it to um the Jared's house because of course he wants it. So, um, I really am against this and I hope that you all will make the right decision. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. All right, moving on. Or somebody else here. Hold on. Good afternoon. My name is Miranda Pertuse and I live at 835 Sterling Road. I just want to say I'm really I'm for this salon. I I have two children in the neighborhood. My two children are probably two of the only children that have been outside in the neighborhood

and I feel that it's safe. Looking at the picture of their driveway, you're not going to see the cars. Um we have businesses in the neighborhood. We had a board member run as check second chance sports out of their garage that increase traffic. We have people who work on cars in our neighborhood. We have, I believe in the covenants it says that you can do general maintenance on your vehicles. We have people rebuilding engines in their driveway. Um, dogs walking without a leash. Um, there are a lot of things in our neighborhood that are not following the covenants to the tea that were written in the 80s. And I am for this. Thank you for Thank you. Thank you. My name is Robert Fay. I live in the Cove. I've been there for about 30 years. Uh I don't have an issue with the size of the business. My issue is that if you permit one business, then you must permit almost any other business. and that there's a good reason to sue the homeowners association to permit another business, a nail salon or doughnut shop or whatever you want to have in the neighborhood if there is already a precedent for a legal business in residential neighborhood. What's to stop it from having more? All right. Thank you. All right. Move. My name is Robin Vuso and I live at 50 Cove Way which is just down still on

Sterling but just keep going or Riverbend but just go straight down also on the river. Um, my concern also is the fact that this is a business. It doesn't matter what kind of business. It is a business and once you allow any business in there, you do set a precedent. So legally, I don't see how you could stop. And we are a covenant protected neighborhood. And for the 60 some odd families that moved into this protected neighborhood, whether or not people don't follow the covenants and allow their dogs not on a leash or whatever you want to say or they have a a fence that doesn't fit the guidelines or whatever. Once you allow this kind of business in the neighborhood, then you've opened up this doorway and there's no way to go back and you're going to have a lot of trouble. And to be a covenant protected neighborhood for those that should have come to all the neighbors and we should have had a vote on it and twothirds of the neighborhood should have voted to change the covenant and say yes we are for this and let's change the covenant and allow this type of business to come into our neighborhood. That wasn't the discussion. It wasn't put out to the people and if this was if you are concerned about your community that's what should have happened. We are a community and we are all together in this and we were left out. We were totally left out and now it's turned around. It's not a business within a house. Now it's a standalone business. Let's let's build it up along the river. And now you've got a hair salon, not a beauty salon, a hair salon or

whatever you want to call it. And where is that? Where is all that, you know, product dumping into the river? You know, you do you not have to worry about that? Where is all this soap and whatever she's using? I just think that this is a this is a whole can of worms. I don't think we should be opening. Thank you for comments. All right, moving on. Thank you, commissioners. Item number four is a second reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map for property at 2700 Bill Futch Road. The applicant is requesting to reszone a 1.59 acre portion of a larger property from the A5 agricultural to the RR 1.5 rule residential. Uh the applicant just plans to subdivide the existing home from the rest of the property. Uh planning and zoning did recommend approval of the reszoning as did staff. So this is on the north end of the county on Bill Fletcher Road very close to the bullet county line. You can see the location and overview maps here. And then you can see the current zoning map, how it's surrounded with that RR 1.5 and A5 uh zonings as well as the character area map putting it in that emerging suburban character area. But due to the lack of infrastructure, uh the zoning is supported by the comprehensive plan. And this just shows you some general site pictures of the existing house as well as the field that will remain that has the cows in the top right corner. And this shows you the proposed subdivision. Uh and with that, I can answer any questions you may have. No, I'm good. Any Okay, thank you. Anyone here to speak in favor or against? All right, moving on to number five.

So, this last item is a public hearing for an alcohol beverage license. The applicant is DNK of Georgia LLC. Uh, the owner and manager is Kimish Kumar Patel. Uh, he has purchased the existing 67 liquor store which is located on Highway 67 in North Bryan County heading towards Bullet County. Um, he has taken over this business and has applied for the required alcohol license in order to permit the package sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for off-site consumption. As staff has reviewed his application materials and has found everything to be in order, therefore, we are recommending approval. Anyone? Thank you. Good. Okay. Anyone here speak for or against? All right. Now, we're uh Mr. Mr. Chairman, I make a motion to close our public hearing and reenter our regular meeting. Second. All in favor? I. All oppose. Okay. Motion pass. Now we're down to the uh go back and vote. Yeah. We're going to vote on the uh first reading or the Coleman company. Representing Karen Murphy. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the reszoning of parcel 061-066-03 from PD plan development district to A5 agricultural zoning district with the following conditions. The permitted uses shall be limited to the following farm animals small detached single family dwelling accessory dwelling unit public utility services minor accessory uses and structures not listed but customary to permitted uses home office. Number two, the driveway shall be paid for 50 feet in conformance with the engineering design manual. This must be completed prior to a CO being issued for a building permit on the parcel. Number three, easement shall be provided across the PD storm water facilities per the engineering department's requirements and identified on a boundary plat to be reviewed by staff and recorded prior to

issuance of a building permit. Number four, undisturbed buffers of a minimum a minimum of 20 feet on the property adjacent to lots on Castle Oak and Murphy Court shall be shown on a boundary plat to be reviewed by staff and recorded prior to issuance of a building permit. This is in addition to the 30oot perimeter buffer located on the PD property. Second. All right. All in favor? I I forgot he Okay. All right. Motion carried. Commissioner Walls, if you could say that again. It came through kind of. Yeah, I think we got a pretty good time delay, but I am in favor of motion. Thank you. Okay. All right. Motion passed. Uh moving on. Scott Allison Company representing Zia Investments. I need a motion, a second. I mean a motion to approve, deny our uh table. I move to approve the requested resoning of parcel 0263-009-01 with the following conditions. The fallen uses shall not be permitted. Animal boarding, adult uses, vehicle washing facilities, funeral home, mortuaries, hotel, motel, shooting ranges, drive-thru restaurants, firework sales, local transit systems, bowling, billiards, and pool. If any traffic improvements become warranted during the civil construction plan process, applicant shall be responsible for all costs associated with any necessary improvements. Need a second. Okay. All in favor? I got I got one question for um Mr. Cunningham or Scott,

either one. Um somebody brought up lighting, light pollution. It is a very dark intersection. Yes, sir. Is there some way that lighting is measured where it doesn't interfere with the intersection or affect adjacent properties? How is lighting regulated in that? I can't speak to the exact specifics, but I know that it'll conform with the UN unified development ordinance to make sure that light pollution doesn't enter the street. Okay. And cause any more interference with traffic patterns or anything at night. Does that sound right, staff? So, all right. Thank you. All right, we got a motion to second. All in favor? I. All oppose? I All right. Motion carries. All right. Number three, Mr. Anderson, I need a uh motion to approve, deny our table. Oh, Mr. Chairman, uh I move to deny the conditional use permit of parcel 061 06012 for the operation of a oneperson salon. Second. Second. All in favor? I. Okay. Motion is denied. Moving on. Number four, Trey Huitt representing Sean Page for second reading of an ordinance to amend zoning map parcel 024012. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the reszoning of parcel 024012 from the A5 agricultural zoning district to the RR 1.5 rural residential zoning district. I'll second. Got a motion in a second. All in favor? I. All oppose. Okay. Motion carries. All right. Number five, DNK of Georgia,

new alcohol license for parcel number 07-017. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the application for an alcoholic beverage license to permit the package sale of beer, wine, and distilled spirits for off-site consumption for Cam Lehar Patel DNK of Georgia LLC doing business at 67 Liquor Store. A second. Got a motion in the second. All in favor? I. All oppose? All right. Motion carries. All right. You don't want to give everybody a two-minute recess if they want to unless they want to stay for the rest of the meeting. Yeah. If anybody that would like to leave is welcome to. Yeah. All right. Community development non-public hearing items. Thank you. The first non-public hearing item. This is a first reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map for property at 144 and Belfast River Road. The applicant is requesting to read zone 3.8 acre parcel from the A5 agricultural to the B2 general commercial zoning district. Uh this is just a first reading only. So no official action will be taken tonight. This will go to planning and zoning next week and we'll be back before the board of commissioners in July for a decision. And this is uh just across from here at the roundabout and this shows you an overview map and this shows you the proposed concept. And I can answer any questions you may have. Okay. No, no questions here. If y'all would go on out, please. [Music] All right. No question. All right. Thank you. And non-public hearing item number two. This is another first reading of an ordinance to amend the zoning map for a property on Wildwood Church Road. The applicant is requesting to reszone a 2.5 acre portion of a 10acre property from the RR2.5 to the A5 agricultural district. The applicant just plans to complete a lot line adjustment. And again, this is just

a first reading. will go to planning and zoning next week on June the 17th and we'll be back for you for a decision in July. And this shows you the overview and location maps here and I can answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Good evening. Um this is a resolution um in support of the safe streets for all grant application um which is being we are applying for in order to create an action plan um it's known as a vision zero action plan. And as a reminder um it's not a traffic study. It's a plan um that has a specific goal of reducing or eliminating fatalities and serious injuries for all road users. U and the total requested will be $300,000 which we came to um based on several meetings with consultants who have done similar plans. Um we do have a 20% local match required which is a total of 60,000. Uh we are applying with the cities of Penrook and Richmond Hill. Uh the match can be inind or monetary and will be split with the county contributing uh 56.5% Richmond Hill 35% and Penrook 8.5%. Um this resolution does also approve the county as the lead applicant to supplement the matching funds if either city chooses not to participate. Um, and staff is recommending approval of this resolution, authorizing the submitt of that grant application and committing uh the required matching funds. And I can answer any questions. So, the city has agreed. Pemrick has the signed resolution and Richmond Hill's in the process of getting theirs um approved by their council. When do we expect that? They they are hoping by the end of this month. It's not required for the application. Um, so at the latest they said beginning of July, but we're hoping by the end of the month. If if you don't have concurrence from Ben, will we just lower our ask? So, we did talk to a consultant about that and they said the price will be the same even without the city because of the

type of work that's required. It's pretty similar. Okay. Thank you. All right. And we do need a vote on that. As a reminder, Mr. Chairman, I move to approve a resolution authorizing the submittal of the SS4A grant application from committee required matching. Second. All right. All in favor? I. All oppose. All right. Motion carried. All right. Mr. Taylor. Item one on the agenda is the consideration of the emergency operations plan. Emergency operations plan is a comprehensive document that outlines how a community organization will respond to that and to recover from emergencies and disasters. The EOP or the emergency operations plans covers uh various types of incidents such as natural disasters, accidents, and public health emergencies. Uh this is a substantial update to the previous emergency operations plan and our uh Brian County Emergency uh management agency director Alli Padant has put this together along with her staff and they're asking that she review and considered this EOP or emergency operations plan for approval. All right, Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve and adopt the emergency operations plan as presented. Second. All in favor? All right. Motion carried. Item two is a consideration of a uh lease agreement with Caterpillar. Uh our previous lease on the motograater uh ended December and staff solicited quotes from new

motograater from local vendors that also hold source well contracts. Yansy Caterpillar returned the lowest quote for mentioned motorgrader with a five-year lease 700 7,500 hour lease with uh option to purchase at the end of that period. And uh our staff recommends executing that 5-year 7,500 hour lease agreement with Yansy Caterpillar for that motorbraider. Caterpillar. Mr. Chairman, I move to authorize staff to execute a 5year 7500 hour lease with CAT for 153,800 with an option in annual payments of 63,200. And that was Yansy. Yansy. Yes, sir. Second. Second. All right. All in favor? I. All right. Motion carries. Does it come with an operator? Second up is a consideration of equipment lease agreement with Yansy Caterpillar. This was two new excavators. Same uh situation. the previous excavators, the lease purchase ran out. We chose not to uh buy those, but buy new. And uh Yansy Caterpillar returned the lowest quote for those leases on two uh hydraulic excavators. Staff recommends executing that the two five-year, 5,000 hour leases with Yansy Caterpillar for those two excavators. Mr. Chairman, I move to authorize staff to execute two 5-year 5,000 hour leases with CAT for $94,900

purchase option uh and five annual payments of $47,457. Second. All right. All in favor raise your right hand. All oppose. Okay. Motion carried. Commissioner Wallace, can you voice your vote, please? Yes. In fact, I'm raising my hand also. You just can't. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And those will be paid. That's Tesla funds. It funds that public works capital budget. Item four is the consideration of a lease uh agreement for two pumper trucks. These are two pumper trucks we ordered two years ago. They are finished custommade. This is a lease purchase agreement with Magnolia Bank for $697,750 uh and for a period of 10 years. Staff's recommendation is authorize chairman, county attorney, or county administrator execute and process a resolution paperwork need to ex execute the lease purchase uh with Magnolia Bank for these two fire pumper trucks. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move to authorize the chairman, county attorney, andor county administrator to execute and process any documentation needed to execute the lease purchase with Magnolia Bank in the amount of 697,000 697 697,750. Second. All right. All in favor raise your right hand. Commissioner Wallace I. Okay. Motion carried. And that would be a splass purchase there. Item five is consideration of the award of technology installation to refurbish the mobile command center as we call the Blackhawk

vehicle. Uh Brian County received a grant totaling $160,555 from the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. Uh multiple staff participated on this grant. Uh this total grant be utilized to refurbish the technology in the mobile command vehicle. uh and also some other refurbishment. uh this uh staff conducted a RFP for this task and IP Access International LLC came back with the lowest bid and they also demonstrate an ability to perform for the contract and staff recommends the award of uh the contract of mounting of $136,266 to IP Access International for this refurbishing effort. All right. See the motion? That that's on site, right? They're coming here to do that work. A lot of it will be done here. Yes. So, will the black all be out of commission? No, we we anticipate the majority of it be done here and it be in commission for hurricane system season. Yes. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I move to authorize staff to award a contract in the amount of $136,266 to IP Access International LLC for the technology refurbishment of the Blackhawk mobile command vehicle. Second. All right, we got a second. All in favor? I I All right. No opposed. All right. Motion carried. Item six is an agreement with Georgia Power for the Highway 80 well in conjunction with construction of the Brian County water well number one located on uh US Route 80. It is necessary to enter into a distribution facility construction agreement with Georgia Power. Basically, they're

running li power to supply the well uh with power. So, in accordance with the terms of the agreement, Brian County shall reimburse Georgia Power for the cost of that installation estimated to be at $102,000. This is uh going to be paid from grant funds that received from Brian County for this particular water and wastewater project. All right. Then a motion. Mr. Chairman, I'll move to approve a resolution authorizing payment in the mail of 102,000 to Georgia Power and authorize staff to execute all documents necessary to complete the project. Second. All right, we got a second. All in favor? I all opposed. All right, motion carry. Commissioner Price, I didn't I saw one, but I didn't see the other three. In favor? In favor. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Sorry. Mr. Walls, I can't see his hand. Yeah. Can you vocalize? Yes, sir. I am in favor of the motion. Thank you. Raise my hand also. [Music] All right. Commissioners, item seven is the uh approval of a Georgia Department of Corrections work detail agreement. Um it's actually two agreements. Uh one is for public's works, which is two um work detail uh with a maximum of 10 offenders under the supervision of one full-time correctional officers for work four days a week with the Brian County Public Works Department. The work detail will be composed of two men's details out of Long County. The total cost of the

contract is not to exceed $18,500 for a period of July 1, 2025 to June 30th, 2026. Services will be build monthly for actual work days on the daily cost of $28255 per detail day used. Uh the second agreement is one for parks and recreation maintenance. uh similar. It's a women's detail out of the women's probation detention center. Um it is just one detail, 10 offenders under one uh full-time correctional officer. And the not to exceed cost of that contract is $54,249.80. Same period of work for July 1, 2025 to um June 30th, 2026. Services build monthly. same daily rate. Funding for all three work details was included in the 2025 budget. Staff recommends that the uh board authorize the county administrator to ex execute the work detail agreements with the Georgia Department of Corrections for two public works details and one recreation maintenance detail. Can I ask a question on that? As far as Brian County Sheriff's Department, do they not offer that that we could use? No. No. Uh, this is not a public comment period. You can ask questions during the public comments at the end, though. Yes, sir. All right. We need a motion. Mr. Chair, I move to authorize the county administrator to execute work detail agreements with the Georgia Department of Corrections for public works and parks and recreation maintenance details. Second. All right, got a

second. All in favor say I. I. All right. All opposed. Motion carries. Item number eight is a transportation improvement contribution agreement with uh JI Interstate West LLC. Uh Brian County and JI West Interstate Land LLC entered into a road improvement bond agreement on November 20th, 2023. The JI interstate agreed to post a performance bond for certain potential road improvements to Old Kyler Road. The bond agreement contemplated terminating the bond agreement and releasing the performance bond once certain transportation studies were completed and JI interstates proportionate share to mitigate the impacts to the county's regional transport transportation system was established. The transportation study has been completed and the county determined JI interstate's proportionate share is $400,000. Upon approval and execution of the transportation improvement contribution agreement, the bond agreement will terminate and the performance bond will be replaced by the cash contribution. Staff recommends the board approve the JI Interstate Westland LLC transportation improvement contribution agreement. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve the JI Interstate Westland LLC transportation improvement contribution agreement as presented. Second. All right. Motion in the second. All in favor? I. All right. Motion carries. Item number nine is the award awarding of a debris uh removal service contract on April 15th, 2025. Staff issued a request for qualifications for debris removal services for disaster recovery. Qualification packages were due on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025. And at that time, a total of six packages were received. The six qualification packages

received were scored and reviewed by a committee with the results on the screen. After a thorough review of the packages submitted, DRC Emergency Services LLC received the highest score and has been deemed the most qualified firm to assist Brian County with debris removal services for disaster recovery. Staff's recommendation is to proceed with the drafting and executing of a contract with DRC Emergency Services LLC for debris removal services for disaster recovery. Mr. Chairman, I move to authorize staff to proceed with drafting and executing a contract with DRC Emergency Services LLC for debris debris removal services for disaster recovery. Second. Well, we got a motion and a second. All in favor? I. All right, motion carries. Just a question before you leave, Catherine. Any of those people that did any of them local? Everything people study? No. No, they were not local. Okay. Thank you. Right. Item number 10 is uh debris monitoring disaster recovery and emergency planning services contract award. Um on April 15, 2025, staff issued a request for qualifications for debris monitoring services for disaster recovery. Qualification packages were due on Thursday, May 22nd, 2025. And at that time, a total of five packages were received. The five qualification packages received were scored by review committee and the results are on the screen. After a thorough review of packages submitted, Goodwin Mills Kwood received the highest score and has been deemed the most qualified firm to assist Bryan County with debris removal, debris monitoring services for disaster recovery. The

recommendation is staff proceed with drafting and executing a contract with Goodwin Mills Kwood for debris monitoring services for disaster recovery. Ben, these are the same folks that did this previously for us. Yeah. And you get reinfor No, you go right ahead, Mr. Commissioner Floyd. Mr. Chair, I move to authorize staff to proceed with drafting and executing a contract with Goodwin Mills Kwood for debris monitoring services for disaster recovery. Second. Second. All right, we got a motion in a couple seconds. Uh, all in favor? I I All right, motion carry. Item 11 is appointments to the Richmond Hill Bryan County Airport Authority. On May 1st, 2025, Governor Brian Kemp signed House Bill 763 into law, which establishes the Richmond Hill Brian County Airport Authority. Pursuant to House Bill 763, the Bryan County Board of Commissioners is to appoint the following three seats on the authority. Post one, which is to be held by the county administrator or his designate. Post three and post five. For post one, the term of the office shall begin immediately and continue as long as the member holds the position of county administ administrator. Appointees to post three and five would serve a four-year term until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. County manager Ben Taylor has agreed to serve on the board in post one. Staff recommends county appoint county administrator Ben Taylor to post one of the Richmond Hill Bryan County Airport Authority with his term continuing as long as he holds the position of county administrator. Also, two additional appointments shall be made by this board to the Richmond Hill Bryan County Airport Authority for post three and post five respectively with terms in

accordance with the local legislation. Mr. Chairman, I move to appoint County Administrator Ben Taylor of the Richmond Hill to Ben Taylor of Brian County to the Richmond Hill Brian County Airport Authority with his term continuing as long as he holds the position of county administrator. Also, I'd move to appoint fellow commissioner Gene Wallace to post three and Mr. Marvin Daniel of Richmond Hill to post five of the Richmond Hill Brian County Airport Authority to serve a four-year term until their successors are duly appointed and qualified. Second. All right, we got a motion in the second. All in favor? I suppose. Opposed? Okay, one opposed. Uh, well, Dr. Wallace, Commissioner Wallace, should I should I vote since I'm one of the people Oh, you can't vote. Okay, all right. Well, motion carries. Two to one. Well, you get to vote. Yeah, you get vote. I'll vote in favor. So, all right. Item 12 is a contract between the tax commissioner, the city of Pinbrook, the city of Richmond Hill, and the Brian County Brian County for tax collection. Each year, the tax commissioner has an opportunity to negotiate an agreement with the municipalities located within Brian County for the collection of municipal taxes and the preparation of tax digest. Pamela Gundar, the Bryan County Tax Commissioner, entered into a contract with the city of Pinbrook for those purposes. That contract is in the form of an intergovernmental agreement that requires the approval of the Bryan County Board of Commissioners. Staff recommends uh for this item to be approved. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve and authorize the chairman to execute the agreements for tax collection and tax digest preparation in the city of Pimrook and the city of Richmond Hill as

presented. Second. Now we got a motion to second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. Okay. Motion carries. All right. County attorney. Good evening, commissioners. Good evening. So, county attorney item number one is consideration of a resolution to accept donation of certain temporary easement rights for the Brisbane Road Rehab and Sidewalk Project. Um, the county in furtherance of the Brisbane Road Rehab and Sidewalk Ride ofway Project, the county solicited donations of the necessary tempor temporary easements from certain owners of property located on Brisbane Road. This item accepts the donation of all of the temporary driveway and construction easements needed for the project from the necessary owners on um the attached exhibit A to that resolution. This donation conveys to the county all of the required temporary and driveway and construction easements that the county needs for the Brisbane Road rehab and sidewalk project. And the recommendation is for this item to be approved. Happy to answer any questions if yall have any. All right. Any questions? Okay. Mr. Chairman, I move to approve a resolution accepting the donation of a temporary easement from several owners of real property on Brisbane Road for the Brisbane Road Rehab and Sidewalk Project. Second. All right, we got a second. Uh, all in favor say I. I. All oppose. All right, motion carries. All right, that was it for now. We got the uh public comment.

If you were still here for public comment, would raise your hand. Let me see how many because there's a ton of people here. Just three. Okay. All right. Come on up. State your name, please. Good evening, commissioners. I'm Professor M. Thomas Seaman. Good evening, Professor Seaman. And I want to thank you guys for all the time and effort you put into making our community a better place. Just want to talk to you about uh article came out this spring. Former Long County Commissioner was arrested and charged with one thing of one count of violation of oath of office. That caught my attention a little bit because as employees of Brian County and the recipient of public funds, we all take this oath of office when we're signed in to support the Constitution of the United States. And uh looking that up in the dictionary. To support means to uphold or advocate a cause or principle. So this oath that we take means we should support the whole Constitution of the United States, including the Ten amendments, which are foundational principles of our Constitution. Now most people I found are familiar with the first and second amendments but most people don't know the 10th amendment which is also very important. It expresses the principle of federalism. Uh it states the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states respectively or to the people. According to article one, section 8 of the constitution, there are only 19 enumerated powers listed for the federal government. That's the big one. James Madison, the architect of the constitution, wrote that the powers of the federal government are quote few and defined unquote. Why state powers are numerous and indefinite. They can do anything listed. Uh for more on this,

see the Federalist Papers number 45 and number 51. I bring this up because last year, Bryan County employees failed to support the 10th Amendment, thus breaking their oath of office. More specifically, Bryant County employees applied for a federal grant from HUD, HUD, an unconstitutional agency. And then this board voted to accept this money, thus failing to support the 10th Amendment. So that's why we're reminding this because seems like we work hard, but when it comes to money, sometimes people forget to look at the Constitution. So, a reminder to make matters even worse, our county employees either not knowing that our federal government was $36 trillion in debt or not caring about it added another $1 million to our national debt. And that is the very definition of fiscal responsibility. So, we don't want to do that again this year either. So, the reason I came tonight is just to remind us of our oath to support the Constitution this year. My suggestion is that we all review the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment. Perhaps our county lawyers can educate us from the federalist papers number 45 and number 51 on the principle of federalism and limited government that many in America seem to be ignorant of. So, thank you for listening. We need to be more diligent this year in upholding and supporting our great constitution and its fundamental principle of federalism. Thank you guys very much. Thank you, professor. Professor, can I ask you one question? Are you a professor of constitutional law? No, I'm professor of history. Oh, very good. Okay, thank you very much. Yeah, just a concerned citizen like No, understood. Very well said. Thank you very much. All right, next. I don't have a name. Young lady over here. Okay, come on. Ma'am, if you just state your name, please. Hi, my name is Mary Mesich Beasley and um I'm here to talk just a short moment

about the proposed airport and how you are selecting people. Um I have over 30 years of air traffic control experience. I've worked at Savannah airport since 1995, so I know their airspace and I know when you're building an airport, you look at the land and you look at the concrete that you're building. But the part that you all seem to forget is what's in the air. And that's where I come in to educate you. Um, I personally have emailed each one of you. I would love to spend time with you because this is not something that I could talk about in front of everybody because you're the ones that have to make the decision and I would like to educate you and I I will be available at any point. But I wanted to come and talk to you personally and say I'm available. I can educate you to make the right decision even though this is not a done decision. and um just educate you on basically what's in the air because everybody's looking at the ground, looking at the hangers. No, you got to look up. You got to look at the military operating areas. You got to look at the the the I would say the red flag areas of our airspace. And I have the experience and the knowledge that I would love to share with you and you guys can make a very good informed decision whether this is good or not for basically the taxpayer dollars. It's just it's it it counts for everybody and a lot of people aren't educated in this area and I will gladly share my expertise with all of you certainly and thank you so much and and let me just say um we would we would welcome any conversation you know to be had uh with anybody in the community that's interested. Um you know this body was asked to appoint an airport authority. Um that's going to be an 11 member board. Um, some of those people may have that level of experience, you know, with uh with aircraft and aircraft operations, but certainly any input from the public and any concerned citizen would be welcome to that group. Yes. And uh I look forward to, you know, uh enabling that

group to have a little more conversation back and forth with the public uh as the information regarding the airport becomes available to us all. So, yes, it it's it's just a different viewpoint that you guys haven't addressed yet, and I can help you in that. I'm also a pilot so I also have that viewpoint. So wonderful. Thank you very much. What's your what's your name again? Mary McCcon Beasley. So So the airport's not a guarantee anyway. Correct. I just want to be I I I've been trying to educate people in the community every time I talk to somebody about it. And I just want to you have to be I'm all about safety and I don't want you guys to you know be in the news. Basically, you need to be educated when you guys make the decision where you're going to put it and what all the factors are included. Oh, very good. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. You're welcome. All right, gentlemen. Thank you'all for what you do. Uh my name is Lance Warren. Um just a little concern about item number seven that was brought up, which is the inmate work detail. Uh it was stated that there would be one correctional officer for every 10 inmates, I believe is what it said. Um I'm been in law enforcement since 2003. Um this would bring a concern based on my training experience. Um a former full-time law enforcement now as a reserve deputy. uh potentially being a concern for just that one one officer having those 10 inmates with them uh and not knowing where backup may come from or anything like that. So I would just ask that that be considered. Yes, sir. I'll speak to Miss DS about that too. Um and appreciate you bringing that to our attention. I'm sure y'all thought about it, but thank you. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Does the sheriff commissioner, is there like a does the sheriff know where the work details going to be from day to day? Is that ever communicated as a backup question?

Transport from a state facility county's had this contract with several years. 20 years whenever the uh the service made available. It's not an uncommon service, right? Pinrook it was easy because the chief always knew where they were but you know bigger but we can take a look. All right. Any more commissioner comments? Yes, sir. I entertain a motion for executive session for real estate and litigation. Second. All right. All in favor? I made a motion. I think m Mr. Chairman, I'd like to make a motion uh to enter executive session for the purposes of discussing real estate and litigation. Second. I'll second. Second. All right. All right. Motion to second. All in favor say I. I. I. All right. Motion carried.