Planning Commission - public_hearing

Thursday, September 17, 2026

The Homewood City Council met on September 17, 2026, to review various city funds, including narcotics, court, education, opioid, and inspection technology funds.

About this meeting

Government Body
Planning Commission
Meeting Type
Planning Commission
Location
Homewood, AL
Meeting Date
September 17, 2026

Transcript

220 sections

0:00 – 0:12Speaker 4

Auditing for the city of Homewood, September 17, 2026. City Councilor Simonson. City Councilor Simonson. Thank you all for joining us today.

0:12Speaker 3

We will continue and start this meeting and this meeting with the City Councilor. Thank you, Mayor.

0:29 – 0:48Speaker 2

Tonight we will talk about tribunal funds, narcotics funds and other funds. We will let Lieutenant Hampton speak first, I will introduce him in a second, then we will let Laura Groves speak.

0:48Speaker 1

These are other funds, tribunal funds and narcotics funds, as they are detailed in your book.

0:53 – 1:26Speaker 2

They are tabulated in this way and the funds included in other funds are subsidies, support education, opioid debt services, district, environmental emergency communications and inspection technology. Then the courts, we will talk about them in a second, and drug addicts. And in operation... We have no proposed review for tonight. I haven't heard anything since... We didn't do any road review since Tuesday night when I presented some of them that night.

1:26Speaker 1

So just to close the circle about what's coming next, September 21st, it's Monday.

1:31Speaker 2

We'll have a budget meeting that night at 4 p.m. So we'll have calendar day 24 if we need another one of these.

1:43 – 2:03Speaker 3

So, Keio, about your observation, I think REC, you know, we have some things that we have pointed out and we are waiting for the Board of Directors to come back to put it on the agenda, so I think you know, we will wait until next week to make discussions and things like that, if everything is fine for you.

2:03Speaker 2

And on the 21st we will talk about capital projects, capital project funds, tax funds on fuels and parks funds.

2:12Speaker 1

and then anything else you want to say.

2:15Speaker 2

So, if we need to meet again, we can.

2:20Speaker 3

To do all this, it would also be...

2:23 – 3:27Speaker 2

Yes, Mayor Armstead, we left... This is what we discussed on Tuesday night. So, this includes reviews and general expenses of the fund, I already said this before, I will say it again, that the plans in code are what you are really approving. When we get to the end, after the 24th, and we have, probably, after the 28th, we will review all this and assemble your book back, based on the information we heard and what you decided. All right. So, with that, I'm going to talk to Lieutenant Hampton. Eric Hampton has been with us for a long time in the police department. He's going to talk about the narcotic funds. We have two narcotic funds created. And, as we just said, there is no budget in receipts or expenses with this. It happens. He will explain how it happens.

3:28Speaker 1

But when there are apprehensions, we adjust it.

3:35Speaker 2

Eric Hampton.

4:04Speaker 1

We receive an order like this.

4:09 – 4:34Speaker 2

These orders arrive at the court and specify the final dispatch, basically, to determine exactly what amount of money or what profits are intended for the agency. With the money from the final order agency, this money is distributed, it is distributed, which means that the prosecutor's office receives a part of this money. The other account is operational.

4:35 – 5:16Speaker 1

And it's practically the same way to get it. And when this operational fund comes to us, we can use it for things like buying employees for the drug police department or drug operations. For operational expenses, such as equipment, things of that nature, training and any equipment basically necessary for the drug unit.

5:23 – 5:35Speaker 2

What I do, then, is with the check of these accounts. I pass a check. The balance of the borrowed fund remains the same. It has been the same since 2018. Since I arrived.

5:36 – 5:55Speaker 1

But the money is not operational. We can use it for expenses. We can use it to buy goods, expenses, goods, anything that is associated with it. These checks are passed.

5:58Speaker 2

With the boss's authorization, obviously.

5:59Speaker 1

If it's a vehicle, we'll do the check.

6:02 – 6:16Speaker 2

If it's equipment, we'll do the check. And I'll send it. We don't touch the arrested fund. We don't touch it and we don't move.

6:19 – 6:50Speaker 1

Another thing we really do is let the detectives use the expenses of up to US$ 500 to buy the money. This is for operations without fees, but in this case, in the case of these properties, it's not good. If you remain practically needy, God forbid, don't do it. In the past, I received the receipts by mail. This was a year ago.

6:50Speaker 2

Since the new transformation and transference, this has not come to an end.

6:55Speaker 1

We have some finances to take care of.

6:58 – 7:27Speaker 2

I can only ask our administrative assistant to call the city hall to get the balance of the budgets. In this way, I will know exactly that I should not sign a check without balance to cover it. Besides that, I don't have any real negotiation with this account or any other money movement without the authorisation of the boss.

7:27Speaker 1

The money from the pension is used in pensions that happen within the district police station.

7:33Speaker 2

Or are cases of other state and federal agencies. You have a nexus with Homewood.

7:38 – 8:08Speaker 1

Most of the time, the construction is based on federal agencies. and the individual who is arrested does not want to explain to the police that they were originally accused. With this information, they usually get out of Berkley and go to Jefferson House. And that's where the real vision, the bigger one, happens. With the pressure of the mirror.

8:14Speaker 2

So this is the connection.

8:16Speaker 1

You just need to have an original nexus of the Christmas Earth.

8:21Speaker 2

You have a deadline to keep the funds.

8:24 – 8:43Speaker 1

I would say that due to resources and things like that, you may not be able to divide them and have the promoter. So this is the quantity of how it works. You can take it. You can take it.

8:44Speaker 2

money because of it.

8:45Speaker 1

So, the deadline is not definitive.

8:49Speaker 2

It can be three months, it can be a year. And this money is in property and property until we have the order.

9:13Speaker 1

I don't know if you understand, but it's been moving for a while.

9:17Speaker 2

Do you understand?

9:22Speaker 1

The funds that you have are divided and come in, as I can explain, one that goes to the DA, but I'm talking about the department itself.

9:32Speaker 2

These funds accumulate and then there is only one specific account.

9:43Speaker 3

So that's not what I'm trying to say.

9:52 – 10:41Speaker 2

They should talk. Well, I said that about two months after I started working. I didn't understand anything that was happening at TI or in the courts, because this is a court system. So I asked her to try to explain to you

10:45Speaker 1

It has four funds.

10:49Speaker 2

The Tribunal-Municipal Fund is no longer a real fund. So, don't worry about the 27, it's not in your records.

11:00Speaker 1

So, Laura will show each one of them, starting with the correction fund bar free.

11:12 – 11:39Speaker 3

Right, so Laura Roberts, I'm the administrator of the Brunel. So the correctional fund, the prison bar, this fund is used strictly for the things we need inside the prison, like supplies, food for the prisoners, medical expenses for the prisoners, ambulance trips, things like that. These are reserved funds. And how do we get this money? It's through confiscations, judicial fines, taxes and things like that.

11:40Speaker 4

It goes to a large pot and at the end of the month it is divided and separated for each of the accounts.

11:46Speaker 3

So, as we receive the money, the receipt part, it is deposited in the prison account and it stays there. So we use it to pay for what we need.

11:54Speaker 4

It is very highly explanatory and it disrespects its fidelity.

12:00 – 12:49Speaker 3

It is only for the prison. They can't pay salaries because the salaries are part of the police department. We are two separate entities. So we can't pay salaries with this, but we pay all the food for the prisoners. And what are the medical expenses that arise? So this year we raised R$ 95,000 for prison courses, prison feeding courses, feeding prisoners and medical supplies for prisoners who are 45 years old. So when I got on board, the expenses of the prison were enormous, when it came to food and medical expenses, things like that. And that was one of the things that was attributed to me, to reduce these costs. And they decreased significantly. And, however, you know, the more prisoners we have, the price of inflation goes up.

12:49Speaker 4

Of course, the cost of food can go up. But Bertrand understood very well to ensure that we keep these costs low.

12:58Speaker 3

Changed suppliers and stopped asking for things we didn't need.

13:02Speaker 1

Yes, yes, we feed them.

13:03 – 13:18Speaker 3

We feed them with the effect of asking. Yes, they make good snacks. They even give some peanut butter cookies to them if they need it. But yes, unlike any rumors that circulate around, we still feed our prisoners. We just changed the suppliers for something that was more economically viable.

13:27Speaker 2

Well, so the next court fund is the Correction-Tribunal Fund.

13:35Speaker 3

So these are... Again, funds that we receive from losses, taxes, liabilities and things like that. These are reserve funds.

13:44Speaker 4

We use this fund to pay for supplements for the court. We would use this...

13:53Speaker 3

In the next budget, we will use some of these funds to help pay our salaries, to compensate the general fund.

13:58Speaker 1

I don't know if that was explained.

14:04Speaker 3

I was waiting for it to start coming out here. So, in the future, this fund will help pay salaries and things like that.

14:12Speaker 4

But now it pays for anything we need for the court, as it did last year.

14:16 – 14:47Speaker 3

You approved that the court had a car. So anything that is not necessary to come from the general fund, we usually withdraw from it, so we don't need to withdraw from the general fund. Again, these are reserved funds. We pay for special training books that we may need and that cannot leave the training and education fund. In fact, we will use this fund to buy a new digital printing machine, which is desperately needed. So this is the part that I asked for this year. And that's why we use this fund.

14:52Speaker 1

The transfer fund that you said, when we talk about transfer, I'm talking about the transfer of prisoners.

14:59Speaker 2

I mean, is that a cost or not? I mean, you were talking about...

15:09Speaker 1

So if we have a prisoner in prison who needs to go to the hospital, or to a medical consultation, or something like that,

15:22Speaker 2

This has nothing to do with the ambulance service that we already have.

15:27 – 15:38Speaker 3

They charge for the prison. Yes, they charge for the RBS. They send a bill, but the administrative assistant of the police department for you.

15:38Speaker 4

I usually don't say that, but I'm very sorry.

15:40Speaker 3

Anyway, then, Beck, from the police department.

15:43Speaker 1

I don't have the bill, but they ask me. They're really crazy. And if they do, do we have to pay for the ambulance trip?

15:51 – 16:12Speaker 3

If they don't, we don't have... The only reason she wouldn't pay for them is if they were prisoners who were arrested for a serious crime and transferred to the county of Jericho. But all the prisoners of the musical tribunal who are being charged with theft, if there is any medical cost for the transport of the ambulance, we pay for it.

16:12Speaker 2

A question about the transport of the ambulance.

16:16Speaker 1

Did you negotiate a rate with them?

16:19Speaker 3

This was done before my arrival.

16:21Speaker 1

I would like to talk about it.

16:24 – 17:02Speaker 2

Yes, for the prison specifically, now it is about to arrive with the others, but they give us preferential taxes, just as they do with the insurance company, because we have this contract. Yes, they don't give anything preferential to the insurance company. They are considered out of the network, so they try to charge. We pay what we pay, what Blue Cross allows. Instead of what the bill is. We don't charge this salary in the state. We can't. It's a lower prize bill than... The plan in relation to these things is that sometimes we receive money. That they don't want.

17:09Speaker 3

As this is the case, and they are not real immigrants, I will begin to have an annexation to their case.

17:20Speaker 1

A policeman is transferring. A policeman, yes.

17:28 – 17:42Speaker 3

Well, right, yes. If they are under custody, a police officer should be with them during the transport.

17:42Speaker 2

We don't pay for any treatment.

17:45Speaker 1

Our guys pay.

17:48 – 18:04Speaker 2

Right, so if our idiots show up with us and don't transport us, we don't pay. If a police officer takes them, we don't pay. The problem arises in the responsibility, which is how sick they are, or if we can rule out that they can be placed in the back of the police car.

18:05Speaker 1

This is always our choice. It's the cheapest option.

18:07Speaker 2

It's the best option for everyone. Sometimes it's hard on the face. Cardiac attacks and stuff like that.

18:16Speaker 3

You have to keep it. And it costs about US$700.

18:19Speaker 1

US$800 to take someone to the hospital.

18:21Speaker 3

So we always try to get the police to take us.

18:24Speaker 1

Come on, let's go to the police station.

18:38Speaker 2

We're talking about the Correction Fund. The 24th Special Fund of the Municipal Court.

18:47 – 19:14Speaker 3

These are also reserved funds. It's the Training and Education Fund. Of each traffic fine paid and of each compensation paid by state law, we receive the S$2. That's all we receive. That's all the court receives. The S$2. That sometimes increases. We save this kind of thing to guarantee that the fund remains in place. We receive the S2 Dóris per fine, which is actually paid and goes to the special fund of the Tribunal. It can only be used for training and education of magistrates.

19:15Speaker 1

So, if I hire a new person in relation to training of magistrates in a town, he pays for it. The new offer pays for it.

19:23Speaker 3

We want special books that we can buy and pay with this fund, we prefer to use this fund than any other. So, this is strictly for training and education of civil servants in the Tribunal.

19:43Speaker 2

The last one is the 208 Fund of Judicial Administration.

19:50 – 21:20Speaker 3

So this is another reserve fund that can only be used by the court. The state law says that it should be used at the discretion of the court's clerk and the judge. However, I still ask you for permission to use these funds because I think this is the best way to be transparent. Right? I don't have a checkbook. Everything I need to spend with this fund is already, well, it's already been raised, but even if it is still in view, a financial request that analyzes everything and keeps copies of everything. I think this is the best way to ensure that we are transparent with this fund. They receive the account, the bank statements and things like that. If I have any questions, the financial department is amazing at answering these questions. So they make sure that everything is in line with all the bills and so on. With this fund we pay for the furniture we need, any updates we need, any equipment we need. In addition, now, in this current budget in which we are, one of the judges is paid with the general fund and the other with the judicial administration fund. So it's this fund, not the other one. Right, right. So it's just this fund. So 50% of the staff's salary is coming out of this fund, not the other one.

21:21Speaker 1

And the reason why Laura and I decided to do this is because there is a balance of US$299, and the general fund needed this year to control the salary.

21:30Speaker 2

So we decided to take half of the salary. This is not a long-term solution for everyone.

21:44Speaker 1

But for now, this is the best case to go ahead with this budget.

21:47 – 22:02Speaker 3

So any other professional service, like our software, our CNC that we have, anything like that, everything is paid here too.

22:06Speaker 2

Therefore, we should have only 50% of the court staff's salary coming out of the general fund and all the rest coming out of the court funds.

22:12Speaker 3

Again, all of these are reserve funds.

22:19Speaker 4

We can only pay for certain things.

22:45Speaker 3

So if you had the chance to take a look at the study, our numbers are much larger than many other courts they compared us to.

22:51Speaker 4

This was last year, because I started working hard when I got here to clean up some things, because it was a mess.

22:57 – 23:19Speaker 3

And we're almost there. What do we have to do to kill her while she's here? Because we can't see her again for a long time. I'll be there.

23:34 – 23:52Speaker 2

I'll give you a ride. Yes, I'll give you a ride. That's what I was thinking. We were discussing before about the tickets, the cost, the price of the tickets now, and the parking fines, and then... She indicated, because I don't know how much the ticket costs. Does anyone know how much a parking fine costs? She knows.

23:52Speaker 1

She still has the ticket. $20. All right, just the ticket. That's why the price is so high, right?

24:00 – 24:23Speaker 3

Yes, so it's the S$20, and one of the things we need to do is get new and updated parking fines to reflect the new fine table, or to reflect a new fine table. You can charge more, because the law allows it, and as I said, Ms. Elaine, we did it, but nothing happened. We discussed this. But they followed this. This.

24:23Speaker 1

It was the previous council.

24:30Speaker 2

Because it was when they were talking about the fine of US$ 500, do you remember? No.

24:35Speaker 1

Yes. So, what would it be? I would say from 25 to 30.

24:40 – 24:51Speaker 4

I know it's not much, but you don't want to put people in US$ 50 to stay five minutes away from the three-hour parking limit. What is the parking limit of other municipalities?

25:00Speaker 2

We should have at least 25, right?

25:02Speaker 3

I would have been trained.

25:05Speaker 2

I would have been trained because you have to pay the fine.

25:09Speaker 1

Yes. And the penalty we need is only 100 and it needs to be 200. Two of the two parking violations that exist, I think, need to be more proactive.

25:26 – 25:44Speaker 3

because it's a big security problem and it's just, you know, a general human problem. But this is something you can discuss.

25:45Speaker 2

We have to do to do it.

25:47Speaker 3

...to put this on the agenda, on the agenda of prejudice to...

25:54Speaker 2

So we wait until August 12th.

25:57Speaker 2

It will be prevented. No problem. Just don't let us forget that. The parking fee costs only US$ 20.

26:02Speaker 3

That's what I mean, that's why I want it. Would anyone think it would be worth it?

26:06Speaker 2

US$ 20 for parking.

26:07Speaker 3

Dixie saved me a lot of time.

26:08Speaker 1

They want to park a lot for that. Option 230.

26:31Speaker 3

Well, that was very... I would like to skip it, because... I gave you a little more recipe for this one.

26:38Speaker 4

We're trying. Yes. Thank you. Thank you.

26:40Speaker 3

I was dying to find out, because I never knew what it was.

26:45Speaker 1

I thought you had done it.

26:54 – 27:06Speaker 2

Well, I thought that when we did this last year, not us, as you were doing, it was right at the top. I mean, it was as if they were still bursting. In fact, you don't even want to get home with this. I can't really remember that.

27:06Speaker 3

Well, that's why I asked.

27:08 – 27:19Speaker 2

I didn't know why. We should have something on the board when we did this. Yes, maybe, I don't know. Some people do, others don't, but it would be interesting.

27:23Speaker 1

Okay, so the next group of funds is what I call other funds.

27:28 – 27:39Speaker 2

This is just a word I invented. This includes funds that do not fit very well in another category. So, I would start with the subsidies.

27:40Speaker 1

The subsidies have only some receipts and interest and we have nothing projected in expenses.

27:48 – 28:57Speaker 2

But what will happen is that we will receive a subsidy from the Jefferson County for sidewalks, as we did last month. So I think Aspen and I still need to talk about it and find out how the process works, but this money should come through the Subsidies Fund and then be transferred to a general capital fund or wherever necessary. When you do, let's say, the Lakeshore, this is called a subsidy, This is a subsidy or not. In this case, if we don't spend this year, it will go to the next year, returning things, you know, we always stay in one year. So we have to do whatever is happening in E65. And Lakeshore will obviously last two years or something like that. And how do we deal with this bag? And Lakeshore was not a bag. This was just... This was not a bag. I thought you were talking about Virto. Yes, he's talking about Diamante. Honestly. The Riacho was... So the Riacho project was a bag.

28:59 – 29:32Speaker 2

And right, and we've already spent that. Or not. So that's how it works, it was a TAP bag. And what we do is pay the S in dollars to the contractor, so we asked Aldote to give us back the S of 80 dollars. I was curious about how this goes to the... So now this goes through the capital projects. So we had a defined capital project for this. What we did was... Show this as a part of the subsidy, as a sub... That's what I mean, that's what I'm saying. Just as we showed in the capital fund receipts.

29:34Speaker 1

And I think it probably should be like this, it goes into the fund of real subsidies and then it's transferred to... I wanted to know...

29:42 – 29:54Speaker 2

This is a reimbursement, the TAP subsidies are a reimbursement. So for next year we don't have any of that, we've already transferred it in my mind... We don't have any of that.

29:56 – 30:42Speaker 2

It's not a subsidy. Well, it was a... right. They said that we would grant the project S$2 million directly. We will pay up to S$2 million and the city will pay everything else. So we just signed a check for everything else. We are talking about 31, I presume. Returning to 31, I know this is not important, but we need to do this so that we can do something else. The extra money with the repopulation. How much did it cost? It was 400,000. I mean, we're getting a lot more. I mean, if this wasn't done, they would do it. Who would repopulate it? I see 31 being repopulated from Hoover to the end, you know what I mean?

30:42Speaker 1

But I rarely see this here in Homewood.

30:44Speaker 2

It's all that Aldote has authority over the US-31.

30:47Speaker 1

I don't need to pay anything for that.

30:52Speaker 2

We don't pay a single RKPMG.

30:56Speaker 1

We have to make them do this more often.

30:58Speaker 2

I'm begging you, I think.

30:59Speaker 1

I'm begging you.

31:02 – 31:22Speaker 2

All right. The Fund of the Council of Education, so this is all the value-added tax that comes to us. So we collect the value-added tax that goes automatically to schools. This year we estimate that the property tax is around 12.3 million. So these are the 4.3 million that are necessary to go to school for mitigation.

31:22 – 31:49Speaker 1

There are six. Yes, there are six. Which page does this start on? Page 10. So, where I'm looking when I say bottom 6, you're on 6 now.

31:49 – 33:18Speaker 2

Right, that's what I was saying. Yes, humildes page 1, man. And I don't know, I'm not sure, So, we'll have to go back and analyze Auditorium 25, which is about to be completed. They will present it to you in about 10 days. We need to understand how this should be quantified. Technically, this should be the interest of the school board, right? And not ours. But there are also some, as you will see on page 2, There are some fees that we have to pay for the Jefferson County to collect the money from the I.V. for us.

33:18Speaker 1

Oh, this is also a...

33:24Speaker 2

Yes, this is a... This is a lot of money.

33:28Speaker 1

Yes, my God.

33:29 – 33:59Speaker 2

A little. All right. Are we good? Opioid funds. So this was an agreement that the municipalities made with... How would you explain it?

34:00 – 34:19Speaker 1

Well, obviously, it's restricted. So every year we have a schedule that we are collecting from the big pharmaceutical companies. This is what we received in their checks. And this year we are proposing to receive 91 thousand. Is this the cost of education? Well, yes.

34:19 – 34:40Speaker 2

So you can do the treatment installation. Kiefer is really the one who needs to talk about this, because he was the litigant.

34:42Speaker 1

There is a list of things we can spend.

34:45 – 35:10Speaker 2

Equipment, anything that can be used, DEs, equipment, treatments. But there is a list of where we can spend this limited money. Narcan. Narcan, but we receive enough Narcan from other donations now that we are not doing this. But with cardiac monitors, there is a very limited list. So this came from the legal processes of opioids that occurred, and all manufacturers are still paying for it.

35:11Speaker 1

That's how it is. Convulsions... Not convulsions.

35:18Speaker 2

That's why I'm asking now. This is only from the manufacturers of opioids. From the manufacturers. So there was a...

35:26Speaker 3

It was like an agreement on nicotine.

35:28 – 35:50Speaker 2

It was like an antitrust dispute. So, we had never spent this money before, until this year, when we made a partnership with Safe and Healthy Homewood to get, I think this year, we gave them the S$23,000 so they could manage a school opioid prevention program. And next year, we are proposing to finance the whole year, which is the S$91,000.

35:56Speaker 1

The truth is that it is very difficult to find ways to spend this money.

36:02 – 36:37Speaker 2

No. Yes. So, are you okay with this?

36:41Speaker 1

Our payment of the debt service, our warrants, total about 10.5 million. The total of the government's general expense or the fund of the debt service is 11 million.

36:50 – 37:14Speaker 2

So, the way we finance this is by sending 8.5 million to the debt service, which total about 7.4 million. And so, to compensate for this gap, we have already talked a lot about this, to compensate for this gap between our payment of the debt service and the value of the tax, we transfer the money from the general fund to him.

37:14Speaker 1

When you say R$ 18.5 million, it turns into R$ 7.4 million.

37:18Speaker 2

R$ 8.5 million.

37:18Speaker 1

R$ 0.02 million.

37:28 – 38:11Speaker 2

is 0.75 for Homewood. So 31.2 goes to the city. Any questions about the city? I'm looking at the photos. An environmental deposit. J.O. knows everything about environmental deposits.

38:11 – 38:27Speaker 1

This is where the old building used to be. Before we built it, it was like this. And... So, it's like this.

38:31Speaker 2

Yes, that was my question. Do we have a schedule for that? They release.

39:03Speaker 1

We just need to keep a certain frequency.

39:18 – 40:12Speaker 2

Chief of the Emergency Communications District. This is the restricted money that we receive from the public on telephone fees, well, the State Council of 911 collects them in our name and sends them to us. The only thing for which we can use this money is to receive and dispatch the initial dispatch of an emergency call to 911. As we have a contract with the County of Shelby, most of this budget goes to his contract. Apart from that, you see a part of the salary there, which is from HANA, our GIS technique, it does all our mapping. The material that controls when you call Novision 11 in VRN knows where you are. I have two quick changes, I have already worked with ASPE in our contractual professional services.

40:14Speaker 1

Our contract with Novision 11 has an IPC clause and I learned that the IPC for this clause is 2.2. So I need to go to R$ 705,000.

40:24 – 41:48Speaker 2

If you reduce it to public services, I can reduce it from 50,000 to 10,000. And I received confirmation today that AT&T canceled all old charges from September 30th. So we won't have our traditional voucher charges. What was the first one? Contractual or professional services. Yes, it's 700, it needs 700. If you say 911, your phone will... Don't get too much into it, our SN, which is our emergency service network that controls anyone who says 911 within our jurisdiction. All these calls are routed to our telephone controller at the Sheldon County office. We have our own pod there, where our dispatchers will work for us. But they are the ones who operate our radios all the time. But yes, it goes through their headquarters and goes to our room. So the only thing that can enter the city is the non-emergency line that we still have. These are general questions. But if the SK-911 never touches any of our equipment, it goes directly to the state system, directly to our dispatch center.

41:50Speaker 1

So, the resident only wants to call.

41:55 – 42:41Speaker 2

Regarding the emergency services, I would strongly discourage this, because when you dial 911 with your phone, we don't only receive the call, we get your location and we can trace this phone again, to know exactly where you are. So, if you dial 911 and then pass, or if you were kidnapped and you call 190 and turn it off, we can trace the phone for a certain period of time, it stays at some point. With this call to 190, the operators are obliged, by federal law, to provide us with a certain amount of information. So, what I say to all our residents, if you think you need a policeman or a firefighter, just call 190 and you can tell the attendant, I don't think it's an emergency, and our protocols determined that. Now, if you only have general questions, it's 205-332-61. It's a non-emergency number.

42:41Speaker 4

Text message, right? You can send a text message to 112, it's active.

42:59 – 43:19Speaker 2

And the last fund is the Fund for Inspection Technologies. Why are you here to talk about this?

43:19 – 45:47Speaker 4

Yes. The inspection technology is a fund that was created, I don't know how many years ago, but it was created by an old construction worker to finance it. It is to be a dedicated source of technology, equipment and updates to support licenses and inspections. Just what our department does in general, plan revision, inspections, etc. About the... let's see, the way it works, the way it is calculated is based on building licenses and mechanical licenses. And it is charged a fee of 50 cents for each US$ 1,000 of evaluation. The cost of the project? If the basic license fee is based on what we call a minimum license fee, which has a US$100 license fee, then the fixed transfer of US$1 is US$50. To put this into perspective, since we put our Tyler system into operation 16 months ago, we transferred almost US$17. R$ 117,000 for the Folo 25. We don't use it anywhere near. So, the money that... We reserved the money that I indicated that I would like to have reserved to have access this year is really for a... A product called Decision Engine. It's a Tyler product. And what it does is be a kind of orientation tool for registration. So, when people access the civic access portal to apply for licenses and a house salary, a complaint that we hear a lot is that there are many different apps and the names of the apps can be confusing. And I understand. It can take a while. Well, this product allows you to simply type, like, hi, what are you doing? What are you looking for? And you simply type, like, hey, I'm trying to add a deck to my house. It's like Bugsy on his website.

45:48 – 46:15Speaker 3

It's like Bugsy. It's a decision. So he will guide you and ask you some questions. Well, you know, let's say you're going to build an annex in your house. So he will say, like, you're digging a foundation, right? So you will need a soil disturbance license and a residential construction license. He will take you to these applications. So, probably, it's not as advanced as Bugsy, but it's...

46:21Speaker 4

Well, that's a good question, because I know there have been conversations about looking at some...

46:26Speaker 2

I'm getting a lot, to be honest.

46:27Speaker 4

...different products. So, I don't know, I don't know where that's going to go.

46:33Speaker 1

So, I'm not really...

46:34Speaker 4

I don't have a good idea about it at the moment.

46:37 – 46:56Speaker 2

The only reason I'm getting there is because... I sent information to Kei, I called there, and Sam too, about small things added to the balcony, patio, or something like that. We are in the eighth week. Excuse me, I'm going back to the group.

46:56 – 47:13Speaker 1

I think you know which project I'm talking about. This is one of them, right? We have to do something better for these small jobs that take so long to be visited.

47:13 – 47:25Speaker 2

And they will appear four or five times and come back. And then they will wait until two of the engineering departments have their approval. Then they come back. Sorry, it changed. So they have to come back.

47:26Speaker 3

I'm being criticized.

47:28 – 47:44Speaker 4

And look, I don't have a bad problem. Because I answer my phone and do this. But... A four-by-eight-week fire if US dollars, 3,000 dollars, they've already spent on research and we can't get a license, we have a problem.

47:46Speaker 1

So, that's it? The US 3,000 dollars license, right?

47:49 – 48:06Speaker 2

I mean, the guy had to go through a project. It's linked. It's the cronogram. Well, the cronogram is related to the company he's using. Where are you going? I heard you say you have nothing to do with it.

48:06 – 48:47Speaker 4

Well, it's kind of inspection time. Is it about technology? I have nothing to do with it. To briefly answer your question, it is not necessary for our reviewers to analyze the documents and issue appearances Many times, however, the revisions of authorization can be dragged for weeks, because the documents that need to be provided sometimes take a while for people to have to go back and get them. Ormond has many gateways, and these gateways are in force for a reason, but they require that some very specific documentation be registered. And our work in the room is to ensure that they are properly documented or we can find ourselves in a legally precarious position.

48:50 – 49:02Speaker 2

I know she's a defender of one of these so-called competitors. I mean, competitors. I've heard that we could potentially analyze this, and that's the only reason I'm asking this.

49:02Speaker 4

Yes, there are some really good competitors for Tyler out there, and you know if... Necessity.

49:09Speaker 1

We have Tyler in the position now.

49:12Speaker 4

No, you don't have Tyler in the position.

49:13Speaker 3

We have Tyler in the position now.

49:16Speaker 2

He's been here for two months.

49:21Speaker 1

And yes, to make it clear, to answer your question, I think there are opportunities.

49:27 – 49:56Speaker 2

So, one of the software conversions from US$110,000 to Encode 10, I think we said that two nights ago, decades ago, we talked about updating to Encode 10, because it's our software, we pay for it. So, whether it's Encode 10 or another, we'll use part of this money, potentially for... If this 110, Well, there are different modules. There is the budget and finance module that would happen in finance.

49:57 – 50:08Speaker 1

So, there is potentially a commercial license module. Is it continuous? Or is it a single agreement?

50:08Speaker 4

So, there is an implementation cost that is usually greater than the sole.

50:16Speaker 1

But you pay the cost of implementation in the first year and then it's an annual subscription with a base.

50:21Speaker 2

There will be much more to come about this as we move forward.

50:27 – 51:07Speaker 4

So it is possible, depending on how this is done, that the US$10,000 or more that I am talking about for this decision mechanism will never be spent. Let's see how it goes. But that's where the US$10,000 comes from. So, the explanation of 30 seconds is that this Fund 25 is established by Portaria 2008-829 and reserves a part of certain construction fees to be used in this special fund, Fund 25, to finance updates, licensing, technology and things we need. Plan review, inspections, emission of alvaras,

51:26 – 51:42Speaker 2

Thank you, sir. So, that's it? That's it. We can answer questions. I can answer any question. Do you have anything in common with what we talked about tonight, or what is about to come, or what is happening in the past?

51:43Speaker 3

5 is the schedule. The capital is on Monday.

51:51Speaker 1

On September 21, we will talk about capital projects, tax funds, fuel funds, and funds for parks and parks.

52:00Speaker 2

And these will be the last three. So, on Thursday. So, on Thursday, as necessary.

52:06Speaker 1

Only those three, then.

52:07 – 52:23Speaker 2

These three groups. There are several funds in each one. Amy will be here, or many department heads will be here to talk about capital, but they will be here to talk about projects that are being proposed. Berkley will be here to talk about some tax funds, about fuels and parks.

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