County Commission - Regular Meeting

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Like to call to order the county commission work session for May 4th. Uh if y'all bow with me. God, our heavenly father, thank you for once again allow us to come together on this beautiful day to work with each other to promote the well-being of all the citizens of our community. Father, guide us as we continue to work together in spirit of cooperation as we seek solutions to the issues that face the people we represent. Remind us as we deliberate that our power to make decisions come from you first and then secondly the people we represent. Father, finally be with all of our citizens that we move forward together to work to give you the type of community that would fulfill your purpose through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Everyone stand for the flag.

I aliance 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. The clerk call Mr. Skins here. Mr. Ledger here. Mr. Mane here. Mr. Batty here. Mr. Dawson here. Miss Spicer. Mr. Buckner here. Mr. Brit here. Mr. Kennedy here. Mr. Williams here. Mr. Grod on the Miss Gra here.

First order of business is approval of the minutes of the April 6, 2026 work session. Open floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Williams. Second by Commissioner Gray. Any questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor vote by stating I.

Opposed. Thank you. Next item is appointments. Uh the first is the E911 board. Names that offer reappoint is Mr. Steve Sher, Tiffany Dawson Lane, Chuck Boyd, and Tony Adams. I'd like to move these forward to the next meeting to have them reappointed. Open the floor for motion. Motion by Commissioner Buckner. Second by Commissioner Petty. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor vote by stating I opposed. Thank you. Item number two under appointments, library board of trustees. These are all reappointments. I'd like to move these names forward to the regular session. Andrea Boian, Lynette Edmonson, and Tammy Kilgore. Open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Spicer, second by Commissioner Britt. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor with stating I. Opposed. Thank you. Item number three, committee reports. Any committees to report? Hearing none. Next, new business. First quarter reports. All school funds. Board of Education Representative, Mrs. Valerie Underheld. Good afternoon. These are our third quarter reports ending March 31st. Um, first you'll see our 141 general purpose school fund. Our revenues are at 84% and expenditures at 65%. Next, you'll see our 142, our federal projects fund. Uh these are grants that we receive. Um our revenues are showing 56% and expenditures 57% at the end of the third quarter. Next you'll see our 143 um school nutrition fund. Our revenues are showing 64% and expenditures showing 71%. And lastly, you'll see the 177 fund that has the designated 15 million that you all granted us a few years ago from our fund balance. Any questions, Miss Underh Hill? Your vote tonight will be to move this

on to the regular session agenda. Any question or discussion? Open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Gray, second by Commissioner Mane. Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor of vote with stating I. Opposed. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Underh Hill. Item number two, quarter reports all funds except schools. Mr. Don Hall. You want to do this?

Uh, basically this the uh quarterly reports for all of our funds except 122 drug control fund here. Uh, basically does anybody have any questions specifically here they want to ask about a certain fund to start with? Well, all of these funds here uh revenues are acceptable levels also and all of our expenditures are for the total fund itself. They're acceptable levels also. Um you want me to go through each fund and give you the percentage of each revenue and expenditures like Miss Valerie did. If y'all would like that or if you just want to look at it and reach out to Mr. Hall or be prepared to ask questions in two weeks. Uh,

you have each one I sent you Thursday, I think, or maybe Friday. I don't because I recall looking at these. Nothing's out of bounds.

There are certain departments that are really, really close, but everybody is within. Uh, the sheriff's department and jail may be the ones you may want to look at and ask questions about. Uh, the jail side, I think, is probably the biggest worry right now with the maintenance and repair services in the jail. They really having some problems up there right now with that. But uh other thing that the the overall expenditures in the general fund total the expenditures are the sat satisfactory area but the fund the jail department itself is having real problems with maintenance and repair services. They're having some real major breakdowns up there and it's costing quite a bit of money. So that you might want to look at that that department itself. All the other funds are in good shape right now.

Any question for Mr. Hall? Motion by Commissioner S. Have a second. Second by Commissioner Ledger. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor with stating I. Opposed. Thank you. Item number three, bud budget amendment. All funds except schools. Mr. Hall.

This here again, it's not I don't think I included the debt service. No, it did not. Just looking through here. This is all the other funds again except for drug control. The only thing I really did on the amendments here was go through and try to make sure I uh checked all the payroll items and the benefits for each department. Make sure they're kind of in line because we kind of use that for the budget that you was presented tonight with those. So, kind of made sure all those payroll lines were in line with what we presented tonight with the budget plus the benefits. So, that's all that's what you'll have there uh in front of you if you printed it off at your computer, your personal computers tonight. So that's basically all I did there. So that you can look at that and you can give me a call also or come stop by the office anytime you'd like to. But that's what I need to get approved tonight. There

any questions for Mr. Hall? Motion as Commissioner Mine second by Commissioner Batty to move this forward. Any other questions or discussion hearing? None. All in favor vote by saying I opposed. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Hall. Item number four, dedication of Hunter Trail. Uh Mr. uh Curtis Hayes cannot be here tonight. He has a sick child. Uh so myself and Mr. Hodes will answer any questions you have. Hunter Trail is a road that was built in the late 90s we think and it was never dedicated to the uh county. Uh what it's now been through planning and zoning where they've agreed uh highway department Mr. Hodes has reviewed it. He agrees that it now should become a county road. It meets all the standards of a county road. Is there anything else you can add to that? All right. All right. Any questions for me that you

What the It's in Carl's district. Okay. Thank you. Have a second. Second by Commissioner Buckner. Any question or discussion? Yes. I've been talking to Jackie. So, I've got one in my district as well uh in district 10 out in McGomery in McGomery Bell point. the last phase never was deeded and I we've been talking about this for months and is it a way that we could send that to the planning commission just so that we're fair and we're doing what we're doing across the county you know I think we can send that to them and let them review it and make the same recommendations on this road and if it qualifies it'll be back to us uh planning zoning well they can't get on can they get on this agenda they've got one next

no they won't be able to get on this next we'll get it on uh June's agenda And if they after they review it, it'll be back to us either in July or August. No, but we can have them do that study and we'll add that. Thank you. Any other uh question discussion? We have a proper motion to second. We do have proper motion to second. Thank you. Um there's no other questions to all in favor move this on the regular agenda. Vote by stating I oppose. Thank you. Item number five, district attorney office funding $1250 court cost. Uh Mr. Reagan is going to take that.

This is a request that comes from District Attorney Ray Crouch. There's a statute that was passed last year that allows for an additional $12.50 to be put on the court costs on misdemeanor and felony cases other than non-moving violations. And the funds are used to provide additional funding to the district attorney general's office. According to General Crouch, there is a similar fee that's already being collected that benefits the public defenders office. And so he's trying to balance that out. But also, u he waited until this year to bring that before this body because there was a a bill before the legislature this year that would do away with some other court costs. Specifically, they were uh costs that related to theft, fraud, worthless checks, and misuse of debit and credit card charges or u right charges. And so that bill did pass. So that will go away as something that the clerks currently collect. And if you pass this, this would substitute for it. They're not an exact mirror overlay of the same types of charges, but uh there is some overlap. And so we're just asking uh and General Crouch is asking that that be moved along to the regular session. Any questions for Mr. Reagan? Hearing none, open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Spicer, second by Commissioner Petty. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor of vote by stating I. opposed. Thank you. Item number six is landfill expert panel. As you recall during the landfill lawsuit settlement uh that was uh that was uh settlement was in 2012. The the uh

expert panel managed these funds up until the until 2022 10ear situation. uh during that time they use the uh the the funds to add people to city water or public water supplies. They are nearing the end of that work. They still have money available in there that they want to hold back in reserve, but they have around in that that $5 million settlement fund about $1.7 million. what they've looked into and what they've asked us to do from a standpoint of accepting it is uh that they want us to purchase uh and take possession of the property next to the landfill. It's 60 acres which has been referred to as the Queen property. What that will allow us to do is is have a buffer on the that's basically on the west northwest side of the uh of the landfill uh where some of the contaminated area is. That way it'll become under county's uh control where it could we can monitor it as our own property without that. So there the the good news is that requires no county funds uh that we have a budget or operating on now. It comes from the landfill lawsuit settlement that we had to do back in 2012. So what they're asking us to do is to uh because they can't nobody can buy property and make us take it. They have to get your approval to accept the deed on that property when it's purchased. And so, uh, what I'm asking to do is that to move it to get that approved to move on to regular session. Open the floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner Batty, second by Commissioner Ledger. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor stating I

opposed. Thank you. Next item is uh is there any other items commissioner like to add because we had got yours commissioner Williams will be the seventh item which we got that is would someone else ask me to add something? I don't guess they did. Do we have any other business that needs to be brought before? Okay. Do we have any announcements? Wow, y'all off easy tonight. Um, I know that there is an election tomorrow for some of you. And if you're from the 80s, you'll remember the movie Thunderdome with Mel Gibson and Tina Turner. And you may remember, I can't do the British accent, but uh, with all due respect, Miss Gray, two men enter, one man leaves, two men enter, one man leaves. Well, two persons enter, one person leaves on this. So, thank you all for putting yourselves out on that. I know we have some mayor candidates sitting up here, some county commission candidates. Uh we wish you all the best of luck. Uh uh but more importantly, thank you for what you do for somebody that's gone through 10 different campaigns on their own. It's tough. I know what you're going through and you enjoy it to a point, but you want it over with. So part of it will be over with tomorrow, but best of luck to y'all on that. Um the other good thing to remember, I also just noticed it's also a kind of like a full moon and the unicorn. Win or lose tomorrow, it's not only Cinco de Mayo, but it's also Taco Tuesday. So after the after the polls close, it's a double win. A margarita to taco will takes care of a lot of problems. So

Okay. And your birthday, it's a triple. Who knew? And thank you for pointing out because I was about to miss that. We had to sing next month. So yeah, happy birthday to you tomorrow.

Thank you. You're right. Oh yeah, thanks for bringing it up. So we have a big gap after that for Mr. Petty and his Fourth of July, near Fourth of July celebration. Well, happy birthday to all of y'all. If there's no more announcements, I've got two announcements uh left. The first announce will be there will be a budget and budget advisory committee meeting on May 18th, 2026 at 6:30 p.m. Not 6:00, but 6:30, two weeks a night here to go over the budgets. The other announcement be the next work session meeting will be on June 1st 2026 at 7 p.m. in the Beaverdale Booty Reed Jr. County Commission Chamber of the Dix County Administration building for court scare chart Tennessee. I have a motion second journ. Thank you.