Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

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All right, this meeting is called to order. All right, meeting called to order. All right, please bow your head for a moment of silence. Amen. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

with liberty and justice for all.

All right, wonderful.

All right.

All right, before I say anything, I want to first I apologize to the community from the bottom of my heart. I don't want to blame anybody but me because I'm the chairman of the Board of County Commission on what was showed throughout this area. But if you look at the whole meeting, we had a great meeting, a super meeting. It was complimented. Everybody was saying great things. And I pretty much said we had one of the best boards in the country. And I still believe that today. But I want to apologize to the constituents of Gaston County based on that. And I also want to apologize to the board as well. for that as well. From the bottom of my heart, that's coming from Mr. Chairman. I was head football coach. When we lost the game, I ain't blaming the players, I blame myself. So I still roll today, because I still see great things in Gadsden County. I just want to apologize to the citizens of Gadsden County and throughout. All right.

Now, do we have any amendments? Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have one amendment to the agenda, which will be 11J. That'll be an add.

11J. Also, Mr. Chairman? 11J. But also, we have Commissioner Green online. Commissioner Green?

Yes, sir. Ms. Archie may won't be there on this meeting. Originally, this was not a scheduled meeting, and I'm out, and I'm actually going back into a training that I have to be in in Fort Walton. So I'll probably be in and out of the call, but I want to make sure that we know that she won't be there, and I also wanted to give accountability to the citizens that I served that this was not a scheduled original meeting, and I had already scheduled this conference. I'm sorry, this conference was already scheduled, and I'm a part of the Board of Examiners, so I have to be in a session as we speak right now so yes um but i will go back and look at the recording and i think that's all that i have but thank you have safe travels man thank you sir all right thank you um 11 j someone you pull anyone else

Move approval.

All right, well, motion is second. It's already in there.

He already said he wants to add it. It's not approval.

It's an add. It's an add, okay. It's an add, Mr. Chairman. Okay, an add. I need a second. Second. Okay, well, motion is second. All in favor sign. Aye. Anyone oppose? All right, 5-0 vote. All righty. Move the agenda now.

Move approval.

A motion. Second. A motion and a second. All in favor sign. Aye. Opposed? All right, 5-0 vote. And we're moving. We had 6A, but now we're moving down to 7. Item for consent. Mr. Chair? Yes.

Can you pull item C and move it out of abundance of caution to 11K? 7C? Yes, sir. It appears to be a pass-through funding item that the state is going to reimburse. I did review and approve it, but I think that we should approve it under general business as compared to the consent agenda.

What's that number?

7C.

You've got to move it to where, though?

To become 11K. 11K.

That's what I didn't hear. Sorry.

Well, we need a motion.

Move approval. Move approval. Yeah.

Second. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second to move 7C to 11K. All in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? All right, 5-0 vote. Next. You also have a motion to approve the rest of the agenda. Yeah, to approve the rest of the agenda. Second. All right, motion and second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone oppose? All right, wonderful. 5-0 vote. Item pulled for discussion. All right, well, nine of nine citizens requesting to be heard on a non-agenda item's three-minute limit. The Gadsden County Board of County Commissioners welcomes and encourages public participation at all meetings of the board. Citizens are free to speak for up to three minutes on non-agenda items. public comments and participations are also encouraged for items on the agenda. Additionally, if you are unable to attend a meeting in person, comments from the public can also be submitted via email to citizens to be heard at gastoncountyfl.gov. Again, citizens. to be heard at gastoncountyfl.gov until noon on the date of the meeting comments submitted after the deadline but prior to the meeting will be added to the official records but the county cannot guarantee that commissioners and staff have adequate time to review comments prior to the meeting. Citizens are further encouraged to participate on the county website at www.gastoncountyfl.gov. Again, www.gastoncountyfl.gov. All righty, so do we have any comments? No comments, all right. Next, we'll go directly into public hearing.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Our first item is a public hearing. It's agenda item 10A. This agenda item seeks approval of the resolution with authorization of myself and the finance officer to execute a budget amendment for 26020-2026-094 and 2026-095 for fiscal year 25-26. This is your ACHA payment that you approved, wherein we're going to put in the 624 to get the, hopefully to get the $1 million. I think you remember that item on the Medicaid and reimbursements. So it's an opportunity for, we're asking permission to go ahead and move that money, that payee.

All right, before we speak to commissioners, do we have any comments from the public? Anyone that wishes to speak, regardless if you sign in or not, you can speak on this issue here. Anyone from the public on 10-A? All right, commissioners, and we'll have move approval. Second. Second. A motion to approve and second. All in favor sign. All right. Anyone opposed? All right, 5-0 vote. Next, we go with 11A. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

11A is the agenda item. Seek an approval to accept the Community Emergency Response Team CERT grant for $5,000. Move approval.

Second. We have a motion, approved by Commissioner Simpkins, seconded by Commissioner Woods. All in favor sign. Aye. Everyone opposed? All right, 5-0 vote. 11B. 11B.

11B, I'll defer to the attorney to handle 11D, the property damage release.

And with the commission, item 11B is a property damage release form releasing liability of future claims from the city of Quincy for damage caused by a fuel spill. The insurance has determined that the amount required to remedy the spill will be paid as a result of you signing this release. So once you sign this, they will issue a check for that amount that will remedy those damages. The amount in the check will be $20,728.98.

Okay, we have a motion. Commissioner Simpkins, do we have a second?

I'll second it, but it didn't state who's the check going to.

Commissioner, hold a second with a question.

I just want the attorney to go through and say it.

You might, Commissioner.

Oh, I'm sorry. I just wanted him to say, so for the public, who's the check going to? Going from us to who or whatever?

It's coming to the county. It's coming from the floor FMIT.

Okay, there you go.

Thank you.

All right, I'm in. Can we look at updating those pumps to where they have the automatic turn off so that doesn't happen again?

That'd be the entire.

It shouldn't happen. I mean, so it's like, I mean, unfortunately it happens. Yeah. So when they pull off, they have the newer safety.

Right.

Thank you. That was it. Okay.

All right, we have a motion and a second. All in favor sign.

Aye.

Anyone opposed? All right, 5-0 vote.

11C. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 11C is an agreement for the state aid grant agreement for library services. State aid is essential for part of the library budget. The state aid grant award is fiscal year 26-27. It's estimated to be $337,879. Move approval.

Second.

Second.

We got a motion approved by Commissioner Holt, seconded by Commissioner Green. All in favor sign. Aye. Opposed?

I have a 5-0 vote. 11D. 11D. This agenda item is presented to the board for approval of the FDLE Law Enforcement Salary Assistance Program grant for the Gadsden County Sheriff's Office in the amount of $783,826. Move approved. Second.

All right, so we have a motion approved by Commissioner Simpkins, second by Commissioner Holt. All in favor sign.

Aye.

Anyone opposed?

5-0 vote. 11E. 11E. This agenda item is presented to the board for approval of the purchase of iWorks software. iWorks software for Gadsden County Community Development and Planning and Zoning Operations. The software is designed to provide a centralized software platform for permitting code enforcement, planning, and zoning.

Move approval. Move approval. Because they need it.

Second. It's already in that budget, too, right? But second. Yes, second.

I will have a motion approved by Commissioner Hope, seconded by Commissioner Green. All in favor sign. Anyone opposed? All right, 5-0 vote. 11-11.

This agenda item is presented to the board for the selection of a value adjustment board homestead property representative. The board would need to appoint a new member due to Chrissy Shorter-Arnolds not being available to serve.

Did we... A question, I'm sorry.

Yeah, Commissioner Green.

Sure. Did we say that we were going to post these vacancies on our website? Was this one of them?

Yes. Yeah, just sake of time, I know a person, a realtor, I saw the other day, she's from, she has a restaurant or something like that.

We should just put it on there for everybody. When are they going to meet? So that way anybody that want to get on any of these boards, they can apply.

Yeah, my understanding is that first week is going to be in September. And so I think that we're up against the line at this point.

Maybe you're gonna meet next week, right? What about Monday?

We're meeting on Tuesday.

Do we meet next Tuesday? We'll meet next Tuesday. See if we can find two or three people who want to throw their hat in the ring.

We'll meet next Tuesday, so we'll figure it out. Yeah. Yes, sir. Can we? Put it on the website. Motion to table. Motion to table. We have a motion to table by Commissioner Green, second by Commissioner Simpkins, all in favor sign? Aye. All right. So we'll table that item next Monday.

Put it on the website, right?

Yes. Okay.

And then we can also ask around, I guess. Different people can ask. Making sure we're putting the qualifications and the requirements somewhere listed.

Okay. All right, so next we have 11G.

This agenda item seeks board approval for FDOT Supplemental Agreement 002, additional drainage work and associated with the Fairbanks Ferry Resurfacing Project. Yeah, move approval right quick. And I second that myself.

And free money.

I second that. Oh, that's right. All in favor sign.

Aye.

And we can get from somewhere else.

Fireable vote. I'm sorry. Approved by Commissioner Holt and seconded by yours truly, Eric Henson.

Oh, we finally work together, huh? I don't know what I'm talking about. Must be that election. No, we got the same color.

Okay, we got the same color.

Okay, that's it.

All right, so it's fireable vote. I love it. Y'all something else, man. All right. It's interesting. The next is 11H.

11H. Approval of the CEI change order. This is for the Sand Corp. South Adams Sidewalk Project. Move approval.

Second.

We got a motion to approve it by Commissioner Green. Second by Commissioner Simpkins. All in favor sign.

Aye.

All right. Anyone opposed? Yes, sir. All right, 5-0 vote. Hold up.

We didn't vote. Who opposed? I ain't opposed. Wait. I said hold. I said hold, hold, hold. It wasn't me. Wait a minute. Question.

Well, we already voted. Did I miss it? You can answer it, but we won't hold it. You said on us.

On South Adams.

South Adams going down right here.

It's just a change order.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

You said it was official.

So I think for the record, the item was approved, but I do want to make it clear for the board that I think that there is a fiscal impact on this item. And so the board is clear that most of these are pass-throughs from the state, but this is that project that we're administering on site. Because of the gas line. So we're going to have to pay an impact for this change order.

How much impact?

$23,000. $23,000. Is it more?

Yes.

It's $62,927.84.

I want to make that clear for the record.

The item shows approved. Okay. Okay. You know, even if it's approved, how it works as well, a commissioner can.

Ask questions.

He can't rescind his vote. He or she can rescind his vote before this meeting is over with. So he can't do that now. All right. So, okay, we're moving quickly. So let's go with, it's been approved already, Commissioner Green, so you and everybody jump through the phone.

All right.

Don't jump, don't jump, don't hurt yourself.

11-I. 11-I. All right. This agenda item seeks board approval. Move approval. But you can read it. Move approval.

Second. Now, go ahead and finish.

Let me read it, please, sir. This agenda item seeks board approval for the negotiated pre-construction contract with Ajax for the RFQ-26 that's sent for the public safety complex.

All right, moved by Commissioner Green, seconded by Commissioner Hope. All in favor sign.

Question by... Just a quick comment, not to break it, but I want to thank the attorney and the administrator and all the staff, Roosevelt, all you guys, Ms. Rose, for working hard on this thing. We got one left that I think y'all have knocked out that we... I just want to say thank you.

Absolutely.

Mr. Chair, if I can know. Yes, sir. I want to be clear to the... What we intend to do is, because this amount was over the administrator's threshold, when this board approves this amount to be issued, the administrator pursuant to this agreement is going to issue an activation letter authorized by him through this board, authorizing the county to incur that expense. We won't be billed for it until the services are complete, but it's going to be authorized in the county to incur that expense. I make that note because it's not my intent to draft a separate contractual agreement. I won't do that until we negotiate a GMP. At that point, I will present to you a contractual agreement that contains that. But for purposes of today, the board is approving this, and the county administrator is going to sign an activation letter pursuant to this board's approval of this agenda item in this amount. Thank you. So it's in the minutes.

All right. Y'all heard that, right? Yes. All right. Let's go with it. Take a deep breath. We're going to go with it. All right. It's a fireable vote, right?

Yeah.

Fireable. Fireable vote. Great job.

So now we go with 11J. 11J. This agenda item seeks board approval to issue a notice of intent to award the notice of award and approval to negotiate a contract with a top scoring proposal proposal in response to the RFP 26-10, the Hurricane Special Needs Shelter Retrofitting and Renovations Project. Now, I'm going to defer to the attorney on this one because he'll be doing the negotiation. But let me just, I don't think I'll stop there. Right, Mr. Attorney? Thank you.

And so, Mr. Chair, we're asking you to approve this because in communication with, and Mr. Shonda Whaley's in the building also, this was a time-sensitive issue that we had to move on before August 31st, which is why we're asking you to approve it. Right now, based on the preliminary numbers that we received, this will result in a major cost share to the county. I am not asking, I want to be clear for the minutes, and nor is it the intent of the board approving this agenda item for the board to agree to cover the shortfall in the retrofitting cost. That's not what this board is doing. This board is giving me the ability to negotiate with that selected vendor to see whether or not we could come up to an agreement. The board will still have the final authority to approve whatever preliminary agreement that I enter into, or not I, the team, the negotiation team pursuant to your procurement policy enters into. It shows a $235,000, $235,750 shortfall, but that is not at all what this board is approving, that they're going to actually cover that shortfall. I just want to make that clear for the record.

Can that come out of the hospital funds that are there?

So we're evaluating that. I think that we intend to meet with the clerk to address that, to identify whether or not the indigent fund that exists can be used for that purpose. And that's something we hope to have resolved prior to this coming back before the board.

I want to say something right quick, even though the major intent of that fund was to open the hospital, and it says that on the ballot, but it did say other health care needs. So if you look at the shelter and you included some of the health care items that you would have included in a shelter anyway, special needs, you're going to have to have oxygen, you may have a nurse's station, stuff like that. So then that could be considered other health care needs.

It may work. and then maybe do it as an A and B, you know, kind of this, and then we go back for funds to get the rest. I don't want us to hold on it. I'd rather us build out whatever $698,000 does instead of us saying, let's wait to get the two, because it's hurricane season, and before you know it, there'll be another hurricane season.

Yeah, we're going to evaluate that. I think that Roosevelt is speaking with DeShonda specifically about seeing whether or not we can address the scope of work, see that whether or not we can get approved scope of work that reduces the cost but also satisfies the grant requirements. There are specific requirements we need for a special needs shelter, but that's going to be a part of what we do at the negotiation table is figure out how to come up with a number that allows this board to get this done without touching your general fund. Time frame. We're going to be negotiating on it ideally this week. So, I mean, I think that subject to the procurement office setting an appointment, because they handle that, I'm going to make my schedule available to have a meeting this week.

A couple meetings from now we'll be able to.

Hopefully we can walk this on to your next meeting, ideally. Thank you. Yes.

When you put in that special needs, Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry. If you say special needs shelter and they're just minor requirements that would be able to be put in as health care needs anyway.

Oh, I agree. I mean, at 5,000 feet, I don't disagree.

Negotiate that part in, and then you go out to the half cent, you may come out.

I think that's right. You know, the elephant in the room is that it's illegal.

Yep, I think we're gonna we're gonna look at that and I and it for sure make sure it's legal first That's that's a health care need part.

I'm not talking about the health care. I'm talking to contract yourself.

Oh, okay.

Make sure that Correctly that's the elephant in the room right there. Well, so didn't everything else Wanna make sure that's that's okay. Won't come back hit us.

All right on that deal something to think about Let me ask something very quick would they not have had to been bidded out correctly if there was someone that answered a bid and

So I think what the issue, I guess, we did have an issue, I didn't intend to raise it, but we did have an issue where this is the third time this has been put out to bid. So we put this special needs shelter out to bid three times. I think the first time we received several bids that were all significantly over what we had. And so we spoke to the state and the parties decided to put it out to bid again. We put it out to bid a second time. This time we received a smaller number of bids than the first time. But again, all those bids were over what the state had for us. So then we put it out to bid another time. And I think this last time we did it as an ITB, which of course forces us to go with the lower bid. And this last time we received only one bid. And so had we received one bid on the first instance, then of course we would have put it out to bid again. But we received one bid on the third instance. And so our immediate step, which your procurement policy allows, was to reach out to the state and inform the state that we have received one bid. And given after we informed the state of the parameters, the fact that this went out to bid three times, this was our third time putting this out to bid, our procurement policy does allow us to proceed with that bid, especially because it's ITB. At this point, not only can we proceed to that bid, but the county could actually go out and recruit bidders to bid on it because we put it out to bid three times. Just that for your background, this is the third bid, which is why we're proceeding in this way. And we immediately notified the state because under this grant, the state has to approve our processes. So we gave the state immediate notice of it and have been working with them at every stage regarding this procurement.

And, Mr. Chairman, hopefully we can pick it up and keep it moving. But I would like to know what were some concerns about the other bidders. I mean, I know they're saying that the prices were what we were willing to pay or able to pay. But then they may have some information that kind of help us out on how we may need to rewrite it, our process. Maybe is the scope of work too large? because we'd reduce the size of the scope of work, excuse me, square footage, and then come back and write another grant and go for another part like that. That's what I'm saying, in increments. But anyway, hello.

All right. Everybody fine? All right. Do we have a motion on the floor for that, Aubrey? Move approval. All right. A motion to approve. Okay. Motion to approve by Commissioner Holt, second by Commissioner Green. All in favor sign.

Aye.

Anyone opposed? All right. Five will vote. All right. Levin K. Ms. Turner? Aye.

Item 11K is initially a 7C. This agenda item seeks board approval of FDOT state funded grant supplemental agreement 003 resolution small county outreach program SCOP for the word work repair work associated with Cane Creek Road over Cane Creek Bridge repair. And so I believe that this is additional funds that you guys have received and these additional funds are gonna be covered by the state and so there is no fiscal impact to the county.

This motion is approved by Commissioner Simpkins and seconded by Commissioner Holt.

All in favor sign? Aye. Anyone oppose? All right.

Five will vote.

Next, we're going with the Clerk of Court.

No update from the clerk of the court, county attorney. As quick as possible, in your folder on the right, on the left-hand side, you have a waiver of liability agreement. At the last commission meeting, you guys asked for a language related to tent use by high schools or the high school. And so there's a waiver that is what we intend to provide to the high school. I sent an email copy. Also, it's a physical copy of your folders. And so we will provide that to them at the conclusion of this meeting, probably tomorrow morning. But I provided a copy for the review, item one, item two, We've set a shade meeting regarding penal litigation. We've set that for next Tuesday at 5 o'clock. You guys should have received notice of that today. 445, I apologize. You have a meeting at 5 o'clock. We've set it for that quick because it should take us less than five minutes. We should have 10 minutes to spare on how simple of an issue it is. Item three, you will have a updated facility use agreement on your agenda for next meeting, so I've been tasked with that. We will make sure that's on your agenda for next meeting. You have the updated facility use agreement, which at that point should finalize that issue for all county-owned buildings, the ones that exist and the ones that are gonna come online. I think those are all the pending issues. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Good job. All right, next. Appreciate it. Anyone have any questions for the attorney?

All right, great. Next, interim county minister. Yes, sir. I have like one minute before I have to go back in. Yes, sir, go ahead. Do you mind if I ask two things that I just need to ask for a say?

Sure, sure.

If you don't mind, these will be my comments. First, let me say thank you all for having a... Great meeting on tonight so far. And I did miss, my phone was, I was in the traveling mode at the time, so I wasn't able to keep a signal for the budget part of the meeting. But did we schedule another budget meeting for Friday? I'm not sure or not. Is that, did we? Yes. Okay, and what time is that?

9 o'clock a.m. 9 a.m. On Friday.

Okay. So that's fine. I'll have to Zoom anyways because I won't be back until Saturday. So I'll get on Zoom for that. And the last thing is I thought that we asked about the federal lobbyists being on the agenda for this meeting. I'm not sure if we needed to vote for that or not. but I can't remember if we already have voted to have the federal lobbyists on the agenda. So can I get an update on that process and what's the holdup while we're not moving forward with finding the federal lobbyists?

To make a long story short, Commissioner, who will be on the next agenda?

Okay, that's fine. You don't have to go into any more explanation. I appreciate it.

Can I say something before you leave, Commissioner Green?

Yes, sir. Absolutely.

Yeah, I'd like to make a motion that... Sometime in October, we have an event for Commissioner Holt at her time and when she would like to have it.

You can't throw rocks at me.

Listen, 24 years. It's been a great meeting. And so at her pleasure as the board, I would like to make that in a motion.

Second. Thank you. All right, so we have a motion. Do we have a second to do some grant for Commissioner Holt? And Commissioner Green seconded it. All in favor sign. All right. Anyone opposed? All right. I will vote. Commissioner, you voted for it.

I told you you can't throw rocks at me in public now.

All right. Y'all have a good evening. Thank you, Commissioner. Appreciate you, Commissioner Green. All right, next. Next is the Interim County Administrator.

I don't want to be anything. I'm good.

All right. All right. Next, 5A, the Sheriff of Guest County Board of County Commissioner, Commissioner Sean Woods.

One building left, and then we're moving on to the EMS, right? My building, they're laying the foundation as I came today. And so we're moving, we're doing good things. Just if we can keep these meetings like this less than an hour, think how great that'd be. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Woods. Next, 15B, I'm sorry, 15C, Commissioner Alonzo Simpkins, District 2. Thank you, but I don't...

Tonight thank you Commissioner

15 D Commissioner Brenda a hope district for thank you.

I don't really have that much I had two calls one was about the same the same things I was asking for before but I did tell them they said they want to try to get these on the agenda before I live here that was with their road and Accepting it into the county. By the way, I found out that we had done swell swells Roosevelt will have to explain it to you. But out near where Bud Jones' place is in St. John, we did that community. We approved that to make the ditches larger and it's able to contain the water. That's why when you said that, I hadn't thought about that when you were saying they need holding ponds. No, they don't because we've done this before. The ditches are larger, and they put the grass in it, and it contains the water. So you do it all the way down the road on different sides. It'll contain it. The other thing that they went on here was Stevens School. Mr. Horn also asked again for a paving list, striping list, and scraping. Scraping. The other thing that they wanted on there was, what's the name of that road, Curtis? They're going to pass the farms. Poston, excuse me. The family that came here before, Mr. Chairman.

Yes, sir.

But they wanted to discuss their road. Mr. Administrator, did you talk with them?

I'm trying to figure out which road.

Poston.

Poston, okay.

They still want their road to be taken care of. Now, I did talk with Mr. Young, and there's some work that may be able to be done on it, but it's an unusual situation. The road Bill McGill lived on in Midway had some of the similar concerns before we were able to pave it. But anyway, those are the things that's with Berry Road. They want to know when can it be accepted into the county. The commissioner, they finally stopped fussing at me about the other roads, and we were fussing in here, and so that got to be a mess. But... But they want their role put into the same situation that we did over there in your district. So I told them I would bring that forth. It had nothing to do with yours, but I'm just saying that's what the argument was for. Woodbury Road, Stevens School, that group still wants that to be brought forth to the commission to see what the situation is. They want to see documentation. So Ms. Ford and the rest of them, they're over there in that group. Strategic plan. That really goes back to the road list, because that's what they want to know. Really, they don't care what else we do. They want to know when their roads are going to get done, so they want to see those other lists of striping, paving, and scraping. And that's it. Get those on the agenda.

Thank you, Commissioner Hope. All right. First of all, I want to thank the board again, man, for doing an outstanding job tonight as well. And I want to... highlight a few things here um i want to thank the staff for in the board for who all attended at havana library to expansion of the library oh yeah Yeah, expansion of the library. I think that was great. The community was very engaged and involved in that. So we're going to be adding more to the library for other uses. Also, resurfacing. I want to thank the board for approving resurfaces of Fairbanks Ferry Road. I think that's going to be needed there as well. Striping. What do we have? I think the board need to really talk about that after this budget workshop about how we're going to deal with striping. I know we said we got other ways, but we really got to figure out ways how we can deal with the striping on the roads because a lot of striping is being removed. Ironbridge Road. Can we have somebody come, staff or somebody come talk about Ironbridge Road and tell us what the status of that, the widening or the sidewalks or whatever they got going on with Ironbridge Road?

Come on up, Mr. Young. Who's going to talk about that?

You have to go and sit down and meet with them.

Which one?

Meet with them.

Okay.

Which one you want? Are they trying to figure out which one they want to come up with?

Yeah, well they sitting here thinking we're less than an hour and don't nobody want to bring it. Okay, can we have somebody just talk?

Can we have somebody just give us a brief overview? Just come up and give us a brief overview of Iron Bridge, if you would. Thank you. Oh, y'all fighting to come up here now.

They should have let Ms. Perkins come.

If you're referring to the Sun Trail?

Yeah, Sun Trail. Yes, that's the talk of the town.

We just received the 90% design on that one. So it's that 90% design.

Okay, can you explain to the citizens what's about to happen? Because that's going to start from there to Chattahoochee, I know. Can you all come out here? Because the community is really talking about that. That's the big thing in Gadsden County.

I told y'all send her up first.

Good evening. So the Florida Sun Trail is in the design phase. So there's several phases before it actually gets constructed. So at this point, we actually got 100% plans to yesterday. They've been submitted to DOT. DOT has two weeks to comment on the plans, get it back to the engineer, And then from that point, we'll know for sure if it's finished or final. The design had to be completed by September 30th. So we're on track for the completion of the design. The funding for the construction, we don't know when that's going to be.

Can you tell everybody what is the purpose of this project here?

The Sun Trail? Yeah. The purpose of it is to be able to give our citizens the opportunity to be outside, to be able to walk, ride bicycles, run. It's a trail that started many, many, many years ago I believe it was Key West. And so it's coming all the way up Florida. So as you stated, the intent is for it to go from one end of Florida all the way to the other. And crypto plays an instrumental part. And we want to be represented in that board as well, because they drive some of the funding as to DOT as well. So futuristically, I was told it could be years before it's actually designed, but it could be soon. It just depends on the fiscal.

It's a bike trail, right?

Yes.

Yeah, just want to make sure the people know they're listening to it. On Iron Bridge Road, they hit 12, they come back up to Chattahoochee, right? Right. All right. So, again, thank you so much. Again, I want to thank the board, man, for your time and energy. I think the board did a wonderful job tonight. Meeting adjourned.