Fiscal Court Committees - Regular Meeting

Thank you for joining us today.

Is this like church?

Everybody ought to move closer. We may have some other folks joining us maybe in a minute or two, but for now, I know that Kenny Saltzman will not be here. He's out of town. And we hear from Sarah Jo, and Stephanie is here with us. Sarah Jo had a prior commitment, so... With that, we are going to start this meeting.

And actually, Becca is... She has to leave so you get second string. Okay.

All right.

All right. That's okay. I don't see you as second string. I mean, that's who I am. So, thank you, Sarah. You've got the floor. The only thing... We have is the holiday policy, which we brought up last meeting. The changes to incorporate revision requested by Mark for his people. We made some grammatical changes to kind of clean up the way the policy was written. So it wasn't quite so verbose. Make it easier to administer and easier to understand.

What are these? Are they highlighted here? I don't see anything highlighted.

You have the original policy. What I just handed you is the proposed policy with all of the changes. She gave out last time the original policy and the preliminary changes from last month. The reason this is coming back is because there were some differences between what went last month and this month. The big thing really is the clarification of this is how EMS will be paid and this is how everyone who is not EMS will be paid. So the predominant changes are these policies apply to um i i don't have the exact verbiage but yes they're the only ones that work 24-hour shifts The rest of them, 911, Animal Community Control, the detention center, they have staff on 24 hours, but they don't work 24-hour shifts. So it's administered slightly differently.

So it's the wording then, because I'm looking here, it says accept EMS, excluding EMS.

i mean are those the things well we had to rewrite the whole policy to begin with and the instructions i was giving on her out the door was everyone got a copy of that last time and she went over that um what the proposed changes were i think jenny had some input as well yes go to jimmy i think with jenny's input and then the new room yes and it and has made

I have it right here. Yeah.

It's structured differently to allow the flow to say, this is how we pay people. Here's how we pay everyone. Substance-wise, it didn't really change anything other than splitting out the way EMS has requested their changes. But it's not going to be verbatim. as it was in the original. Yes. And that's our goal is to start bringing some policies as we make changes and changing them to be more user friendly and easier to understand for the average employee. You should not have to have an attorney read your policy to be able to know whether or not you get holiday pay.

So you've just simply Simplified.

Yes. We didn't change the substance or the intent of any of the policies with the exception of the EMS. That was a change. But otherwise, we just clarified things such as a 24-hour service and how they need to 24-hour not including or not excluding EMS. Detention center number one. safety sensitive issue, if you will, how they need to observe the holiday.

So in last month's meeting, the change has no financial impact on the budget. That still stands correct. And then after Jenny Oldham reviews it, which she has now, and made some revisions with legal funds, it will move forward to fiscal court. So you want that on the next fiscal court? Yes, we'd like to take it through the next fiscal court. you want to have any questions over here chris do you have any any questions that you would um okay all right sounds lovely did you have anything else nope that was it all right thank you all right aaron um i'm proposing oh

This is a change of terms.

Artie Wolf purchased our cybersecurity vendor called Silance. And so the product's the same, everything's the same, but this is the change of terms is the final part of the file process. This went to Jenny. I've not gotten any response that there was anything that she was asking for change or with the article prior to this meeting. So it just needs to judge the signatures so we can finalize our renewal process for next year.

What changes in this agreement then versus the current?

A lot of it is the name change. The other one, and there's some questions there on the front sheet. I have some questions. The other one is the type of data that's sent. They do retrieve emails, phone numbers, IP addresses, user data tags, device IDs, metadata, things of that nature, just so they can improve. The other thing that's different is their terms can change from subscription year to subscription year. This might be a once-a-year thing. This might be a once-every-two-year thing. A lot of scripture-based products. This is also called a fast-paced product.

Software as a service.

It's a one-year?

Yes, ma'am. It's a one-year term.

Our product is set for a one-year. It was in last year's budget. We're just waiting on this design. So it's a process that

cost same cost it was a budgeted item this is not for 2026 this time next year 2027 this was budgeted in 2026 25 so this takes effect

As soon as we get it signed. As soon as we sign it. Okay. Our current subscription has us out to June 30th.

It's probably in here, but who has the current subscription now? She said that Arctic is the wolf.

Arctic wolf is purchased. Purchased.

Purchased.

But the The product was called Silence.

Yeah. Okay.

C-Y-L-A-N-C-E. C-Y-L-A-N-C-E.

Yes, ma'am. Okay. Okay.

So we'll put that on this report agenda upcoming for next Tuesday.

Any other questions for us? Anything else?

This is, I don't, if you want to see me later, I can elaborate. I'm not, I don't require it.

You would like to do that. I'll listen to what you have to say, but yeah, probably will not. Yeah. So that is June 23rd agenda. All right. You're welcome. Is that all you have?

Yes, ma'am.

And Mike, do you have anything for us?

We're going to vaccinate the articles to make sure it's safe to be able to handle it. Judge Tall? I have nothing.

Okay.

Laurel's not here. I can't hear from her. I'm not sure. She's probably busy. But I did want to call out this newspaper article that is in the paper. It's printed June the 6th. Library Kickoff stresses importance of reading. I'm sure you probably all saw that. It's a great article, and it gives accolades to our public library. And it had a very successful kickoff there where they inspired young children about reading and learning out of the library. So I wanted to give her just kudos for all she does, in particular this event that was held. Sounds like it was very well attended and a nice article in there. Okay.

Yes. So this past week we had a three and a half, four hour training meeting Six Sigma, Plan, Do, Check, Act, Problem Solving.

So it was good training.

It kind of went in line with some of the expectations of the departments to have projects. So it was basically an overview. Four hours obviously doesn't cover all those materials substantially. It provides some definitions. So, you know, improved knowledge, I guess, of those terms and techniques. So, in addition to that, I just want to add just a heads up that one of the things that the trainees, participants can do to get certified as a Six Sigma, Lean Six Sigma certification. And there's an initial one that they can get for free, which is advice from this company, Six Sigma Online. And it's the first level of certification is a whiteboard. move up from there. So I was encouraging them to go through. I didn't cover everything that they needed to know. Even this white belt certification, they had to do some study and some things to get that. But I can say that as of right now, nine of them got the certification. This is what the certification looks like. Ron Walker.

Wow.

Fast. He's one of those nine. Anyway, I'm proud of him for doing it. Probably at the next meeting, try to do something to acknowledge their Can we get a copy of the presentation? Sure.

Congratulations.

Did you notice they spelled your name wrong? No. It says Brain Walker. You know, he's the one who said it. Yeah, they didn't misspell it.

He misspelled it. Type it.

But on that note,

Do you know Brian is one of the most commonly misspelled names out there? Because people automatically, they spell brain instead of Brian. But your name is not misspelled.

Mine is spelled properly. It's good. Yeah.

Awesome. That's great. That's great.

Okay. Just wanted to acknowledge that. Okay.

Great.

Thank you.

So the next step, now that he has accomplished the white belt, The next step is...

I'm not necessarily pushing for another certification. It would start to cost money. But Yellow Belt would be the next step. Just add some more knowledge for them to understand better. That's the ones that want to learn more.

All right. Sarah Jo is not here, but we have Stephanie Gall with us. Stephanie?

Hello. I guess I'm also second straight. We can do this. I just wanted to bring some information, and Mark's going to be like, oh, I know all of this. But that's good. I've got somebody in here to help me. I brought something, just a little card on heat-related illnesses, because as we transition into July and August, you know, Humidity is going to go up. The temperatures are going to go up. And I just wanted to pass these around. And you all can give them to family members. You can put them up at home. I have to give this to my husband and my dad every year. They don't listen. But I'm trying to watch out for this because we have had, and I'm sure Mark can attest to this, a lot of people that experience the heat stroke and heat exhaustion experience. One of our workers, her son, last year was at work and he passed out. And it turns out he did have a heat stroke. And this just goes through what to look for and what to do. But I think the main thing is, you know, not overdoing it. Because I think sometimes we all get started on a job. And I know I'm guilty of that, too, if I'm working out in my yard and I want to finish it. I just keep going and going. But the big thing is taking the breaks, having the water. and um going back in frequently but um you know i think about charles road department um some of those guys making sure they take water with them or gatorade whatever um and just even sheriff's office too so and this guy's but i just wanted to pass this out and just give you this information we also have if anybody wants them these are cooling cloths and you just get them wet and you can put them around your neck. So I brought those if anybody wants any of these.

And that is all I have. You know, just a note on heat-related illnesses and heat stroke. That will affect any age. You know, you think about that, and you think it might be, you know, A certain age, older folks, you know, that kind of thing. Not true. Not true. Any age, you can get out there and overextend yourself. Temperatures and heat and have stroke.

Even doing, you know, like a lot of people are working indoors with their house or whatever, and it's still hot outside, and they're not thinking, oh, I need to make sure it's ventilated if they're doing remodeling or whatever. And I'm sure you all... be quite a bit in the summer.

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We've already started to see some.

Well, thank you for that. Thank you. I know we count on our... We've got to give your prevention message. ...to bring something good to the table. I appreciate that. All right. Does anyone have anything they'd like to bring up that would be related to the Resources Committee? We're about to adjourn. Any last... All right, with that, I would like to thank you all for attending. The meeting is adjourned, and have a good evening. Thank you.