County Commission - Regular Meeting

That way gets it out of here. But the call to order the County Commission regular session for June 1st. Sheriff, do you mind leading some prayer?

Father, we thank you for the rain today. Thank you. There was no. Too much harsh wind. We thank you for this county and the folks that live in it, and what a pleasure it is to serve them. Lord, go with all the elected appointed officials in this county that they conduct the business of the Dixon County taxpayer in a way that is best suiting for them and the county. In Christ's name we pray, amen.

Amen. Everyone stand for the flag.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,

for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Madam Clerk, did you call the wrong place?

Mr. Simpkins? Here. Mr. Ledger? Here. Mr. McIlwain? Here. Mr. Beatty? Here. Mr. Dawson? Here. Mr. Spicer? Here. Mr. Buckner? Here. Mr. Gritt? Here. Mr. Petty? Here. Mr. Williams? Here. Mr. Grove? Here. Mr. Gray? Here.

It's good to see y'all tonight. Commissioner Britt's a little under the weather. He regrets he can't be here tonight. First order of business is approval of the May 4th, 2026 work session minutes. Open floor for motion. Motion by Commissioner Gray, second by Commissioner Petty. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All in favor vote by stating aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Item number two is committee reports. Committee reports. Who's our ad committee reporter? Mike Petty is the Ag Committee reporting.

We had a good meeting a week ago, Thursday, and it never fails. The reports that come out of the thing that Allison gave out, I can't believe the stuff that those ladies get accomplished every month, every week. No surprises came out of it. I did ask the question, what was the difference between FFA and 4-H? I found that out. I didn't know that. So that was good information to have. No, it was a very good meeting. Very good. And now I'll send them to do just a bang-up job.

Fantastic, thank you. My report. Thank you for your report, Commissioner Petty. Is there any other committees to report? Hearing none, the next item is appointments. I need to move those down to the July work session, which will happen on June 22nd, so we'll move those down. I couldn't contact everybody I need to talk to before this evening. Under new business budget amendments, all school funds, Board of Education representative, Dr. Sutherland.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, County Commission. Valerie is on vacation, but I have my phone. She's in Vegas. She may need me. So I have that with me. Our one, she may need me. I'm going over the budget amendments. No, listen, I took really good notes. So if you would look at 141, we do have a few budget amendments. You're gonna see, and most of you know that we have a very nice summer learning camp for students K through eighth grade, and then summer school for nine through 12. We were allotted through state funds of $980,789.89. you will see throughout the budget that we have those expenditures in there. So that's money in, money out from the state. You're also going to see you're in budget amendments. This has no net impact on the budgeted fund balance. Valerie had mentioned last meeting that we have had some high utility expenditures, overages, We have two playgrounds that we have to go in and fix that is at Van Leer and the Discovery School. And so in speaking with Mr. Randy Simpson last year, we decided as a board that we would pay for those. They run about $60,000. So a large expenditure, but we... I have a lot of kids playing on those. And so we need to make sure that we upkeep those. Our elevator has broken at Charlotte Elementary School. And so you will see some budget amendments there. And the gutter repair from the winter ice, you will see that. But again, it has no bearing on the fund balance. So any conversations or questions about the 141 amendments for that budget? Okay, so we'll proceed to the 142. As you know, this is our title funding and IDEA. And IDEA is the Individual Disabilities Education Act for our special education students. So when you see that, that's that pot of money. This is money in, money out because we are now writing some grants, and we've been awarded a really big grant of two pre-K classrooms. And so that's going to be for our teachers, four-year-olds, five-year-olds that aren't going to school yet. It means their birthdays are late or they're just not ready. And also, we've invited all of our partners in the community, the banks, all of anybody that works with us. You get an opportunity to stick your child or grandchild in this program. So it is $250,000. That's money in, money out. Consolidated grant is $17,365. That's money in and money out. And then our CTE program, we were awarded a little over $5,900. And again, that's money in, money out for the 142 budget. Are there any questions with the 142 budget? Okay, for our 177 capital project, you will see, let me get to that. that we have been advised through our auditors, the TVA rebate needed to move from line 46530 to line 48990 per our auditor, and that was $130,000. Expenditures to include all prior year encumbrances had to be placed on this document per our auditors. Are there any questions? So that's changes there.

Any questions? A motion not is to move this on to our regular meeting on June 22nd. Open floor for a motion. Motion by Commissioner laser second by Commissioner Spicer. Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor vote with stating aye. Opposed, thank you. Thank you. Item number two, budget amendment, all funds to sub schools. Mr. Don Hall.

Several years ago, we started scheduling the second meeting of the month in June just for these purposes of amendments so we could get a better feel at the end of the year to make sure we didn't have any mistakes for audit. That's what it's basically about. For that, I sent you guys out the general fund amendments. I did do quite a bit of work on those. But that's the main purpose. We have about two and a half weeks before the next meeting. That will give us plenty of time to get serious on these final amendments. That way we don't make a mistake or something, give the auditor something to write us up about. So I have the general fund. I sent those to you. After Ms. Gray again caught me on something, I sent your e-mail and didn't attach anything. She said this morning, isn't there supposed to be something attached? And I was going like, crap, she done got me again. So, yeah, I sent it out then. But anyways, if you did look at them, if you have a question on what I sent out, you can ask me now. But we will be. There will be a whole lot more information coming to you in the next couple weeks for the final ones of the year. But it's basically, we started doing that so we could really make sure we did a thorough amendment to all budgets and all funds that we oversee. Of course, that'll apply to the schools also. But I need these just sent on to finish up the year.

these are ones just to clarify for people like me it's to clean the line items up it's not any additional funding that's just to balance the lines out to make uh county audit happy right exactly i speak county commissioner you're speaking it don't you it's another language is that in your future i had plenty of help over city of dixon but no i'm i'm fine thank you though for asking i think we need a motion to move this on a regular session motion by commissioner buckner second by commissioner spicer any questions or discussion hearing none all in favor vote by stating aye opposed thank you thank you mr hall Item number three is three-star fiscal confirmation letter. What this is, is each year we're required to do this under the three-star program. By doing this, Ms. Terry Malona handles this. We have to be three-star qualified for us to qualify for grants. So this is something we have to do annually on this. But we have to have your approval to qualify for three-star and move this on to have her sign us up for it. Motion by Commissioner McElwain, second by Commissioner Beatty. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor vote by stating aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Item number four, speed limit study, Old County House Road. That's from Commissioner Simpkins. Do you have a report on that one, Sheriff?

do mayor uh the surveys are in progress so i should have that one there's two others on there as well and so uh surveys are in progress 47 all the way around yes sir i know that falls in cotton's district on that other end but the call i got was from the lady on that end and then in the process of that i've had a few calls with my end too so I just want to make sure it will go like the old loop. Thank you. Well, thank you.

Sometimes we're able to do a stretch, but on something like that, we'll do two sections for the road.

All right. Thank you. Well, I'm going to have that, Commissioner Simpkins, your motion. Commissioner Dawson, can you second that since it's in your district? Thank you. Any questions or discussion? Just to move this on to a regular session. Hearing none, all in favor vote by stating aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Item number five, speed limit study on Sladenwood Road, Commissioner McElwain. Same. Yeah, same.

It's a, it, okay. I'll have something. Thank you. Thank you, Bob.

Thank you. That's a motion by Commissioner McElwain to have a second, second by Commissioner Ledger, just to move it on a regular session. All in favor vote by stating aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Item number six, speed limit study for White Road, Commissioner Spicer. Aye. people flying mostly trucks pulling trailers you know equipment trailers and stuff but one guy said he about got it right in front of his own house so i guess we'll just add it to the list this is um to so you have not had the study started on white road so your commotion your your uh request is to move this on a regular session have a study done if you have time to do it before then so that's a motion by commissioner spicer to have a second second by commissioner macklewain any question or discussion Hearing none, all in favor of a vote by stating aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you. Item number seven, I misspoke to Ms. Moore. This is not Spencer Mill Road dedication. This is Spencer Mill Road Memorial. Commissioner Spicer.

Yes, Denny Spencer was commissioner. We've been talking about doing this for years, and then the 10-year came up, and I guess it's been 12 years now. We never have gotten around to it. doing a dedicated memorial for it, but I don't know what to do because the city there on 96th and Spencer Mill has done one for Billy Lankford. So should we just move on out to like...

Hill Road or something or what would be the well Mayor Groves here and he might be able better explain it but I think where they did that for Mr. Lankford just on the portion of Spencer Mill that is in the city of Burns town of Burns so again I don't know what the offset is on there but probably not more than 50 to 100 feet it becomes county road again there's an annexation coming but

You know, Mr. Langford live right down on the right, so my suggestion would be to start about East Side Road, and that would give Billy and his family that part.

It'd probably get wiped out the first week, all the wrecks they have.

Somewhere in that area. By resolution, this was set up about not long... probably about 15 years ago. We have a memorial committee that goes over this and one of their stipulation was it has to be 10 years. Exceptions were made for either a armed forces or a officer that was killed in the line of duty. But there's a memorial committee. They look at this and then bring back their recommendations. So if your motion is for me to assemble the memorial committee to have them do this, it'll follow the resolution we passed 15 years ago. Yes. That's a motion by Commissioner Spicer since more committees second by Commissioner Grove any questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor vote by stating aye. Aye. Opposed, thank you. Other business, I'm gonna let Mr. Hodges come up and speak on this. As you know, we got a notice, I think a week ago today from TDOT that a road, a bridge that we had already weight limited to five tons, they deemed it necessary to be closed and closed as of midnight tonight.

Well, actually the 10th is when our deadline is, but we set it in our office at the 2nd. That way it gives plenty of time so we can be in compliance with everything that they're looking for us to do.

But I'll let Mr. Hodges go in all the details on it.

Yeah, and of course, as everybody knows, we've got to shut it down. The state sent down letter forcing us to. The Federal Highways Administration, the way I'm understanding, has changed their guidelines on how the state does their inspections, what the criteria part of it is, which the bridge from the last inspection to this one hadn't changed much. But however, the way they've got to look at it has. So that forced us to have to shut the bridge.

east east piney road over the uh east fork of the piney river right at baker road you're in between roads on it would be baker i guess that's on the south or west side southwest side and then merle road where it dead ends in the piney road uh there's a section there that comes down if you're going from merle road you make a right hand turn you drop down the hill and make a hard left and you cross over Piney River. That's the one that's been deemed unsafe. We've had this on our radar for quite some time. In fact, two years. Y'all heard about the leftover FEMA money that we had that was made available to us along at all the money that came from the August 2021 flood. Humphreys County had $34 million set aside for them. It was just released to them recently. It was to rebuild the school. We were given $3 million to work on any kind of project that's flood-related. But they one-moored us to death, frankly. And this started, seriously, they told me two years ago in September, of 24 we'd have the money and we've yet to have it and but the people the greater national regional council that's working on the grant has gone back to fema to let them know this really is a problem now so we're hoping that that money will be released soon we will we need to give them about 30 days on that if not we're going to come with another alternative which would either be taking money out of fund balance repair that bridge or borrowing money but we're not we don't think we're at that point now We need to play this all the way out with FEMA over the next 30 days. And then come July, we'll either tell you that it's in process of being done or we'll come up with another solution. Yes, sir.

Is the bridge repairable or is it going to be a total replace?

I've actually got it in the hands of concrete structures. I passed it to them Thursday evening and he went out. I spoke with him this morning. He went out and assessed it. He was going to speak with the engineer to see if they could come up with a plan to repair it, get it back open to none less than five tons to hold us over. That's going to fall on the amount of money it's going to cost to do it because don't want to go in and spend a good portion of money just to turn around and tear it down you know six months to a year down the road you know we just i can't see throwing good money out and just throwing it away now this this started the process for you know obtaining funding started back in 2022. you know it's it's been an ongoing thing since then i actually put the bridge and had it placed in a program with tdot At a conference, they spoke of a program. So immediately when I got back, we put it in. And it started before I even come into office. I got that started. It was accepted. I had it and four more bridges on it. They were accepted. And right after they got accepted, they explained to us that they didn't have the money to fund the program. You know, that's kind of the way it goes. I've met with our state legislatures. We've met with the officials at TDOT, different occasions, trying to obtain some extra funding for some bridges. And just to let our candidates know that it's running for state representatives, I'll be meeting with them again. I look forward to talking to all of them, try to get something in the state budget to help the counties out.

We may even name the bridge after them. We might not go to the Memorial Committee if they can get us that money. Just a little incentive out there.

That's right. I got a sign man can put somebody's name on it.

Any questions from Mr. Hodges? Was that bridge damaged in the flood or the flood that we had?

The flood we had in 21. It was a little, the main portion of the county that was damaged was a little bit southwest of that, but in the 22 inspection report is when it was flagged to drop to five ton, and that's when it was brought to our attention. All of our efforts and everything was a little bit southwest of that, getting everything restored, and that particular flood, we had roads completely washed out, and that was a pretty good flood that we had during that one.

Yes, Commissioner. Is there any way that we could possibly enforce that five-ton limit? When y'all put that up there, people ain't paying it no mind. They coming through there with... with truckloads of gravel and cement trucks and lumber.

By 9 o'clock in the morning, it'll be enforced.

Well, I understand that, but that's putting a hardship on the people out there. It is.

Because a few— Even at that, with the new guidelines sent down from Federal Highways, it would have— Two years ago when they inspected the bridge, if they were using these guidelines at the time, it would have got closed then. There's new guidelines. And it's not only here in Dixon County. It's happening all across the state. There's counties everywhere that's getting hit pretty hard with all this. And again, all the legislators, that's where it's going to come into play. They're going to hopefully help us out.

Thank you, Mr. Hodge. Any other business to be brought before? Yes.

I'm not going to let you get out of office without bringing this up because you've been trying to hold it off for a while, so tonight we're going to talk about it. I've been holding you back. You've been holding me back, Robert.

My wife tells me that, too. I've been holding her back 42 years.

And you don't have to help explain it because we just got on, you know, I gotta look at that. I look at things two different ways because I also get the municipality reports and mayor. I'll know what I'm talking about and I'm gonna try to explain it the best I can to you. Make you understand 911 charges a city or county, a municipality or whatever per call. So Just so just to say, I think it's up to like $3 and I don't know, it's over $3 per call. So if you pick up the phone and call 911 and your dog's out, they're going to charge that county or us per call. People don't understand that. We just had to put it in our budgets why me and Mayor Wise has been talking about it because the fees went up this year. if a deputy and i'm going to try to make it where everybody can understand it pretty simple if a county deputy and sheriff feeds to understand what i'm saying is sitting and he gets a call at white bluff cb store for domestic the 911 system charges the city of white bluff three dollars and something percent in that deputy there If that same deputy turns around and five minutes later gets a call to the CB store up here in Charlotte, they charge us, the county, $3.50. Everybody pays for Charlotte or Van Leer or Slayton. Burns, white blood. For having a police department. I don't think that's fair. I think it's discriminatory towards our cities. I believe if you have a tax base and you're going to act like a city, you would have had to pay the fair share as everybody else. So after me and Mayor Wise got to looking into it, the only way it can be fixed is by a resolution through the county. And so I don't believe that the county taxpayers should have to pay for city calls unless you're going to pay for all city calls, if that makes sense. Mayor, can you add to that to explain it a little better?

I agree with you. I'm going to get you the per call because I think it's actually a lot higher than that. But regardless, though, you are correct that the Sheriff's Department, when called outside a city, obviously the county taxpayer pays for it. Inside the city, if a city officer is called, the city pays for it, except in Burns where the city pays for it. even if the county officers called it late at night when there's no city officer on duty. But Charlotte, Van Leer, and Slayton, even though they're incorporated cities, they don't pay any expenses of the 911 system. It's spread across the rest of the county. I don't have it before me tonight, but the county, we pay over 50% because we not only pay for the Sheriff's Department, we pay for... the Ambulance Service, EMA, and we cover the cost of all the volunteer fire departments and pay for them too. The City of Dixon is the remaining largest share, and it breaks down, and again, I apologize for having in front of me, the rest of the 911 dispatch probably equals about 11 or 12% of the rest of the budget that's spread among the other users on that. But no, Charlotte, third largest city it does not pay anything for 9-1-1 calls or and again i know you probably won't go further than that and i'll let you ask me questions if you have any cannot fix the fix that select problem right no it it It's been done by custom where the Dixon County, for longer than I've been here, has always picked up the difference. And I'm going to imagine when the 911 system was formed in 1989, the additional calls from municipalities, was probably not large at all, but as the growth in the counties come on, all those numbers add up. I will get you the latest numbers, and I'll email those out to you, what they are, but basically how the budget's determined every year. We take the prior calendar year, we take the total number of calls that go through 911, and then divide those out proportionally to each entity, and like I said, we're getting over 50% of them on the budget. On that, we... And then come budget time, using the last calendar year figures, when we do the budget right now that you just did, there's some people interested in this right now that are texting me. I can't wait to read these. Somebody's watching up there. I'll read these in just a second. I was on a roll until all that happened. but we take the count and then on the fiscal year do we divide it out proportionally and that's what we agree to pay until each year on that so yes that you are correct if the chain's got to be made it's got to be made by this body let's see what the experts have to say yeah i just think i just think it ought to be across the board fair and not penalize the three missed fatalities that are participating This is, someone sent me the dollar amount on the calls and the percentages. If you, and again, I'll send all this to y'all. Dixon Police Department and Fire Department, according to this, equate to about 40% of the calls. The Sheriff's Office, Ambulance Service, and EMA, we equate to... Almost 50% of the calls. Well, if you include all the volunteer fire departments, which we pay for, we're over 50% of it. So Charlotte Fire Department and Van Leer Fire Department, they pay a small share because they are active. But Burns Fire Police, White Bluff Fire and Police, along with the City of Dixon, pay the full fare on this. Thank you, both of you, for sending this.

So what would you suggest to me right now? To make a motion to rectify the problem?

It's really up to y'all. I mean, and again, I know that Commissioner Simpkins has been in discussion with the city of Charlotte. And again, y'all get me in trouble. I'm just trying to get retired. I've got a whole pass of problems in Fairview waiting on me. You want to give me some more here? Uh-oh. The city of Charlotte has no, they have a water department, sewer, or they have a sewer department, which those people had to be paid by and through the sewer. So city employees, other than the lady that works in the office over there now, I don't think there's any full-time employees there. I stand to be corrected on that. If the city of Charlotte did not exist, and it was just part of the county, Somebody's giving him a call too about it. I hope they're not mad at me. If the city of Charlotte did not exist, there's about $300,000 in local taxes that they get through state shared taxes and other items that would come directly to Dixon County. So again, Dixon County is not only providing the service for 911, All the police calls, you know, police force, police calls are all answered by the Sheriff's Department. I think they pay you, the last budget number I saw was $10,000 a year for that. Y'all direct all the traffic at the schools. Town of Burns directs their traffic.

It cost me, I just hired one of my new budgets, but I had to budget about $85,000 for one officer.

So it comes down to the point. a lot of things and you know we've tried to get a little more formality about everything we've done we have a lot of hand-me-down stuff but this is still things out here that are hand-me-down items and ideas that have been out there for years and now they're just blossoming where the numbers really make a difference so again it's the will of this commission on how you want to go on this and you know and if i i've not studied to the point to make you a recommendation tonight but i'd be more than glad to meet you with any of y'all individually and get your input Bring something back in three weeks. We're on a three-week time frame now to get it done.

To my personal opinion, it's pretty simple. Let's just make it uniform. Everybody does the exact same thing per call. Just like I had to budget $33,000 for calls this year. Hey, let's make everybody do the same thing. Why are we taking care of one and not the other? Why is one city and taxpayers getting treated one way and another getting treated another way it's pretty simple if you charge a tax base and you get a sales tax base you should be responsible just like anybody else i mean it's a no-brainer to me it's not it's not a hard it's a hard thing it's not hard to me to understand that well if that's your motion uh we can accept that as a motion and we and again my staff we have enough time in a three-week one to probably get you all something together

in the next two weeks where we can forward to you where y'all can look at it ahead of time i don't want to just bring something in here on one night of this magnitude and have to make a decision but we can get something emailed to you probably at minimum two weeks from today uh probably quicker but at least two weeks from today let y'all look at it if that's what you would like and if that works with your motion that's what i'd like it's a motion by commissioner grove you heard that we'll open the floor for a second second by commissioner dawson questions and discussion commissioner simpkins

Sheriff, do you know an estimate of how many calls Charlotte calls for you to come to a call in the city limits of Charlotte? I'd like to know. I'd like to know that for our vote either way on this motion.

I will afford that to the mayor. so that he can have that information to look at and be part of his report.

Thank you. And again, looking quickly at these numbers, I apologize, can't add them up. I'm not that good at math, but I think all total of the total budget of 9-1-1, the combined portion Dixon County pays amounts to about a million dollars annually on that. And Yeah, and that's going to have about 50 cents about a $2 million annual budget. We're paying about me. No, it does add up and I will get you the per column back. So again, to your point, it is a cost every time you call, but it's a lot higher when you again, I could probably do it here, but I don't do math in front of people.

So it's not pretty sure about 33,000 something this year for our 911 dispatch for our police department. So it's going to be close. I imagine I would think.

Well, some of these people watching on television, if they want to shoot me the number here and have a calculator problem, I will accept it. But whoever wants to divide 2 million by 63,445, I can't do that with my shoes on.

Thirty one dollars call so it's what I just call chief hope wrong. He said it's thirty three. I said ain't no way it's that much a call.

Yeah, I guess I got to apologize to you. They probably give him a pay raise to this money.

You're going to say thirty three dollars a call. That's what I'm saying. And what I'm saying is, is that are if you live in Burns, you're not only paying for Burns is not one cause you're paying for Charlotte's down one cause because they're building the county. That's not that's not fair. They will have to pay their own way.

And again, I want to indicate to you, and that's where I hate doing math in front of people, that is, it's going to be around $31, $32 a call, but there is fixed costs in there because regardless, if you don't get any calls at all, we're still paying people an electric bill. So again, if you're being fair about it, there's going to be a fixed cost just having 911, but it is still a true cost to it at the end of the day when you divide out the budget. So you're right. Don't call unless it's necessary. Yes, Commissioner Beatty.

Just a quick question. All of this goes to pay for the people that work at 911? This is the budget that, is that all it goes for is to pay for the...

yes everything in there it goes that's all to the budget now they have other than us there's other revenue sources on your it's on i'm sorry are they county employees no they're not one one board is a board appointed by the county it has to be established by the county but whenever the decision was made back in 1989 the city of dixon is acting as a vendor It's their employees that are doing dispatch, but we're having to pay our portion of that. They also have another revenue source. Again, I don't ever look at my phone bill anymore. It's ridiculously high, but there's something we're paying on our cell phone, our landline, that they also get on there, too. I can get you better revenue numbers on that.

But the governor just stopped the bill. That's why 9-1-1 raised it on the cities and the counties this year, because the governor stopped it and kept it. Well, you couldn't put it on the cell phone bills anymore. That's why it went up. That's why me and Mayor Wise and a couple more got to looking at all the increases in fees.

And that's true. You said it's absolutely correct. So we had a motion to second. We never took a vote on that.

Restate that motion.

I think it ought to be fair across the board. One way or another, either county's going to pay for all the cities or the cities are going to pay for their own cause.

Why don't you amend that to let him bring it back to the work session? Bring all the numbers back so we can see them.

The numbers ain't going to change. They are what they are. You're either discriminating against the cities or you're not. You're either discriminating against us for having a police department or you're not going to discriminate against us for having a police department. It's pretty simple to me. If you're collecting taxes, just like he said, the city of Charlotte is taking $300,000 with a sales tax base from the county. They're not providing the police department, but the city of Burns and the city of Dixon taxpayers are still having to pay for their services. They're charging property taxes. but we're not being treated the same just because we got a police department. I don't have one 24-7 yet. It's closed. So if they send a sheriff out there, I'm still getting billed for it. If they send a police sheriff down here to the Mexican restaurant for a fight, we're getting billed for it.

But again, it shows a motion. I'll bring it back any way you want to, but I do need time to, I'll get you the numbers, and I think I can answer all your questions on that. So again, we do have a proper motion, a second, and again, who wants to restate?

Anybody can do better than me. I wanted to go in is, just treat everybody the same. Right now, I think it's discriminating against us.

That's your motion of proper second. We can do that. I'll bring you the numbers back, but I will give you the numbers two weeks ahead of time so we can individually discuss this. Obviously, we can't meet together as a group, but individually, you can discuss with me, and I'll be glad to walk you through all the numbers we put together. That gives us opportunity to work with the Sheriff's Department and 911 to make sure all the data is very correct before we make a decision.

We'll see.

Once again, he's earning his money over here. Thank you. The point is because of this delay we always have in meetings, the reason we have a three-week meeting, we've always tried to, one, in case we had a budget issue, that gave us three weeks to work it out. Well, we had no budget issue. The other reason is we've always moved the work session out of July up a week, where 4th of July week was sometimes tough getting a quorum here. So all that being said, we can move this to the regular session if you wish. And then if you're still not happy with the numbers, we can move it out into the work session into the July regular meeting that will be back on the third Wednesday. So by the next 45 days, we can have a resolution to this or you can resolve in three weeks. But we've got several windows to get through. But the motion is to move this on to regular meeting and put this together, give you some numbers on that, and I'm sure we'll clean it up where it sounds a lot better than that. And we have a proper second on that. It was Commissioner Dawson. We're all good on that. Any other question or discussion? I'm not closing out. If anybody's got anything they want to add, please do. Hearing none, all in favor of abstaining, aye. Opposed, thank you. Thank you, everyone. Any other business, any announcements?

farmer's market dedication Saturday morning and the mayor was talking about that coming in I think everything went well that finally the flood stopped I got in the car, and I don't know how, but my left foot was completely soaked and my right foot was dry. I don't know how I did that. But it was a crowd. It was a nice crowd, I think, and everything went smoothly.

It was a nice day. It was really cool. I think everybody had a good time. Even some of the people are usually not capable of it. So that was a good day out there. We went twice, so we had such a good time. We went back for more. So I really appreciate the Ag Committee doing that and getting that done. So it's utilizing our farmer's market exactly how it needs to be used. So now that... It's getting warm outside and the crops are coming in. I recommend everybody go by on Saturday mornings, check it out. You got some really cool, great stuff going on down there. So we appreciate all the work done on that. Promised land, is that this weekend? This Saturday. So Promised Land, that usually kicks off about 10 in the morning, sometimes 11, but usually 10. And that's always the official beginning of summer when I have a fish sandwich. So we dedicate the day to that. Any other events going on? Anything? Anybody got anything else? Cool. All right. The last now to be the July work session meeting will be on Monday, June 22nd. Immediately find the June commission meeting at 7 p.m. in the Buford L. Booty Reed Jr. County Commission Chamber of the Dix County Administration Building, Four Courts Fair, Charlotte, Tennessee. Have a most second adjournment. Thank you.