County Commission - Regular Meeting

All right. Not that that makes any difference. We all just, we are who we are at all times, I'm sure. Remind me of, was that a Steve Martin movie? It was Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. Sort of like us. Sort of like that this morning. Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor. We had to have all the mayors here today that are here. And then I'm sure y'all represent the rest of the mayors that are not here. And some of them probably sent some notes and instructions, which is a good thing. It's a good thing. Glad to have our staff folks here that are here. I see Patrice here from emergency manag

You should have recorded it. We recorded it. Maybe I got it on my phone.

Anybody want to practice anything they want to say between now and the time John gets us plugged in? Katrina, I didn't see you. I'm glad to see you here today. Are you going to get here on Bateman time, which is like the last second? I know. Well, I didn't see you when I came through.

Y'all mix and mingle and everybody just get acquainted. We're all in this together.

And you did say Michelle's on her way over too.

He's not going to be able to get it fixed, so we need the council to speak. Yeah, there you go. Probably so. I'm going to go have breakfast.

There's no way they're going to go have breakfast. There's no video right now.

Don't bear with us. We're getting there. Any of y'all ever have any problem with your technology at your meetings or anything? Have you ever had to start over and redo one? We had to back up one time learning how to get all this done in today's modern world. Pretty simple when we were filming it on the cell phone.

Coffee right in there. I'm happy. I drank some energy drink this morning. I bet you do it anyways.

probably up there we're just not recording okay now we're ready all right

Okay, there's a copy of the agenda on the screen, so we're ready to go then. Before we get started with our meeting, if you'll bow with me, I'll ask God to watch over us as we go through this meeting today. Dear God, we just come before you again, dear Lord, humble and filled with joy, dear Lord, that you're our God and that you give us grace. God, we thank you for the positions you've put us in. We know their importance as you've listed it in your word, and we ask you to guide our steps today. do things that are only there to lift you up, then those are the things that'll be right, no matter

OK. OK. Mayor Marger came in. Glad to have you here, Matt. And I think our coroner came in. He always makes me nervous when he comes in. The older I get, the more nervous I get about his appearance at my meetings. I'm not sure. Thank you for being here, Mr. Coroner. I know you're very active. If he shows up, it's usually not good. Oh, I'm telling you. I'm a little worried about that. not a really long agenda today but we're going to be sure that we open up our agenda to some discussion about some issues that i'm sure that that the mayors and the mayor's association are interested in and some o

Properly moved and second. You had a chance to look those over. Are there any changes to those minutes at this time? Any additions, deletions? If not, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries to pass those minutes approval.

In our agenda, we have a report section where we make sure we leave a spot open for other people that are here with different issues and that we need to take up that we might not have handled during our work session. So within the report section, we've got all the commissioners and the county attorney County Administrator. And today we have several of the mayors here want to discuss some relationships between the county and the mayors and how we handle our funding with our citizens in the cities. The first item on that to speak for the mayors, I think I've got down Mayor Rusty Jessup. And if t

yes sir yeah any of you that want to make sure it's about the way this is affecting your budget or whatever what you want to say also let me ask staff uh do they have this yes sir okay well let's let's copy this and give it to them once we put it in here it's our public record anyway can we get some copies of this to hand out yes sir yeah sure what is that what we have here i told you about oh yeah this is it says see the numbers below and this has to do with uh operation fund dash dispatch And while we're making those copies, let me back up a little bit. And then, of course, if anybody wants

Wait a minute. Let's talk about $40. $40, yeah. So we really did start off way low because the county was committed. And we paid the majority of it back then. And we did adjust it some and got reasonable. It wasn't $50. All of the municipalities pitched in what they felt like they could afford. Some municipalities were in better fiscal sector. Now, We have never in the 31 years adjusted this properly. And we may not do it this time, but we are at least having a discussion. What does centralized dispatch cost us, and what's it worth? What's it worth to you? What's it worth to us? Centralized di

No. The cost of the program entirely is some more figures that Freddie has, and it's closer to $3.9 million, $3.8 million. whatever it is.

When you take into consideration heating and cooling the building, adding on, upgrading the desks, a lot of those kind of things, that may not be reflected in this. Furnishing the operation itself, furnishing the the facility uh which has got to be pretty expensive in itself uh 3 382 is how much needs to be divided or how much we that's what we've come up with here freddie's like i say the figures he and matt have been working on those in the The total figure, we'll let them share with y'all also. At some point, we'll get them. And then any differences in those, y'all call them and get them to

Call the mayor's phone. Any of y'all ever have that? Any of y'all ever get a phone call yourself and say, Chief, can you run down to Soil and Soil's house and check on Soil and Soil? They're gone. I know you do. But call volume, if we really use call volume, ought to give us a pretty good reason, I mean a pretty good figure, set of figures of what you're, investment in this should be the volume of what's the what's the ambulance calls here's something else the big thing that I remember is doing is call volume we've always said we'll dispatch and start out volunteer fire departments afraid of w

Well, we chose, we're the entity that collects the two-mill tax, and we distribute it. We know what another part of the loss is. We distribute it in another crazy method, equally. You all get an equal share, which y'all probably hadn't had a problem with that because you did share the million dollars the county gave you for other operations equally. Y'all good with that because you work together so well. Well, that's the way that this... this money from the two mil taxis has nothing to do with what your taxes are made in your city if we didn't i mean pale city moody springville the bigger muni

I think it moved around depending on the municipality because we kind of tried to take the way the contract says based on call volume. Is there a contract? Pardon? Yes. Your city's got it. Your city signed a contract for a centralized dispatch. I think.

Just because I'm not coming back, you didn't even call me and talk to me about this.

Here we have another mayor that wanted to speak. I like this. As y'all know, I like that. That gets us together on these things, just like when we really have been in the mix of subdivision regulations. We really didn't get a lot of input from the developers that were really interested in it until we said, okay, we're ready to pass them. And then the room filled up next time, which is what's going on here. But sometimes that's just the way it works. That's just the nature of the business. I think it would have been better for you to know that If our budget looked like it was going to be commit

No, he's talking about the same time. We had a meeting yesterday with an auditor I did, Kurt and Clay, Tina. And yes, we're looking at some way. We've offered $100,000. But we didn't just now say, we didn't just now say that. We don't know where it's at. We'll find it.

But I'm comparing like leaves. Equal to steel and diesel sale. That's not right. Steel, they sell way more diesel than lead. That's what the numbers we're looking at. So there's some discrepancies is what I'm saying.

And let me just point this out. That meeting that was held yesterday is not the first meeting we've had on this. We actually met with the people that we said go audit our fuel tax two years ago. So this was a meeting with the people we said go audit our fuel tax two years ago. And they were having difficulty auditing it for some reason. It's been going down for that long. So for this reason, does that mean we need to fire the people that's doing our audit now and hire somebody new? Because this audit's not satisfactory to us. That's what the meeting yesterday was about. So we need to see, do a

Yes, and that's a good point to make. That fee is probably a fourth of what we said it was going to be.

It's not generating anywhere near what we said it's going to generate. So that was a figure factored in to make us feel better about ourselves being able to pay the bill on the jail. It has not produced the money. There again, do we need to audit that figure too? I don't know. But the fees, what was that one? The fee on every case in court? Yeah. $2? It was minimal. It has not produced the money to factor in. The cost of the operation of the jail is what surprised all of us. You'd think you'd put in a new jail with new heating and cooling and new way of operating it with one jail. And we're op

That's the point where we are now. We used to basically do our own in-house budgeting as we got to it. The parts that we're sharing, we'll continue to to share more of it or take on more of it. But I think you need to know about what's the part we're doing. Let me touch on 9-1-1. And first of all, let me just point out that Aslyn does an excellent job with our 9-1-1. She's well known all over the state as a person that's very efficient and knows what 9-1-1 is. few years ago got a little more complicated the state passed a law and created the state 9-1-1 board and so the money that used to be c

30%. They're about 30%. I thought the cost coming in central was everybody in there said, 911, what's your emergency? No. One out of three is that. So we can't pay for central dispatch any more out of 911 than we are. Because we're not really paying for dispatch. We're paying for call takers. It's a totally different term. It has different legal responsibilities. That's why this board has to pay attention to it from a different standpoint. Call takers in most counties answer the phone. 911, what is your emergency, or whatever they're supposed to say. There's a rule even that says, what are the

How is that going to, will that offset? No, we'll have to hire four more dispatchers. And there's some discussion there, and I don't agree with that. There's even differences up here. We're going to cost us money. Let me point out, I've been in several meetings with the Blount County 911 who dispatches leads. Make sure everybody knows that. Blount County 9-1-1 Communications District dispatches leads. They dispatch leads. They figured out the number. Their dispatchers and how many it takes. Right now, they're dispatching leads with two, the equivalency of two dispatchers. Well, how can they do

Yeah, but the other counties, for instance, Jefferson County hadn't got a four-cent fuel tax that they can even ask them to share. Jefferson County doesn't have a one-cent sales tax. It goes all 100% into the county general fund. So they don't have resources to ask for out of Leeds that our other ten municipalities have. So Leeds is a little different.

They have occupational taxes that we don't all have, too.

We're jealous of their occupational tax. Any municipality in this town can have one if you want to go propose it and put it on your agenda to vote on tomorrow. Don't you all have the authority? There you go. That's a political question. They have one because somebody over there had the political courage to pass an occupational tax.

I'll share with you some of our conversations that we've had during the budgeting process related to the municipalities. There's still some people that still feel like you should get part of the $0.04 fuel tax. And by the way, you don't get any of it right now. Zero. This much right here. You get zero. And some of you hit me up over the years about pointing that out. You get zero. So we give you $1 million. And the mayor's association, I thought, was a great agreement. Because you did lift up the small communities by splitting that money equally. Everybody got $100,000. But you got that out of

We don't ask a favor. 21.6% of the total cost is what this breaks out to be. $823,000. Would you all, as the city's mayors, agree to take this number? And y'all go among yourselves and come back to us and tell us how you'd want us to pay. Take it off our back. Where y'all could disperse it among yourselves. Would y'all consider doing you an idea of how to disperse that that bill? Yeah, it's not 55. It could be 45 for raglan or whatever the number may be.

I think everybody understands that. You see what I mean? No, that'll take it off us making that decision.

about how we disperse it, if that's something you'd like to do.

I just have a question. In this process, did you determine what each minute's probably going to be?

As long as we're provided similar information that they're making that decision on, I think we can take on that task.

I think next year would be good if we could do that.

Yeah, Freddie, would you like to speak to that? I think Freddie's original figures to us when we started looking at the budget.

So we've increased our cost year after year after year.

Is the maintenance contract dead out or is that just straight from Motorola?

And why did we choose them? We went along with firing EMS. And working with the police agencies, what do y'all want? Your chief wants such and such brand. And your chief wants such and such brand. And your chief wants, even if it's this brand, he wants these features. And we didn't dictate the features or the brands. But within that, we had to accommodate whether those radios would operate on the system we chose.

For example, and I'll use this example, 19th Street here in Pell City is ours. We maintain that. But we maintain that. And I think we helped Mayor Jessup pay 9 tenths of a mile. last year. Depot Street. And I think we did a road at Providence for Yadavich Road. We took care of that. 68,000. No problem. But, you know, we're going to help. Absolutely.

Well, I would have never proposed it if I didn't feel like, in reality, it was possible at 100,000 per municipality times 10. Because it is possible. But I really believe it's definitely possible now at 50. If we could tell you that all of you, when you start your budget process next year in April and May, and you knew you were going to get 50. That'd be something. If you just know from year to year, this is what you're going to get. And our decision wouldn't affect you that year. It wouldn't affect you until the next year. Or my proposal was it wouldn't affect you for 10. We're going to tell

And I want to speak up for Mayor Lee. He did the right thing. We originally had this down in percentages. And Raglan was going to get a very small percent overall. He come forward and said the right thing to do is do it equally. And then he come back and said we need to take the road and pavement out of it and let it for safety, anything needed. They have general funds, but the money out of this $0.04 has to go, supposed to go, for pavement. And that's what we're going to do. We've already talked about it this year coming up for y'all.

Okay. Once again, I think it's been a good meeting overall. A little more understanding, a little more history. That's one thing that we miss as we transition into newer people. We just take it for granted sometimes that we all know how we got here. We don't. It changes all the time. uh so uh these meetings if nothing else get us caught up a little bit on the history how did we get here and uh you know the path was a little rocky but it's been pretty good overall it's been pretty good the history of the cooperation between the county and municipalities i think will only continue to get better

i want to say one thing before i leave the door so none of y'all will shoot me after i say this but you know it probably time to start looking for some more sources of revenue

And we are. And we are. As he jogged out the door. Oh, boy. I know that's a scary thing. How do we produce more revenue? First thing we have to do is make sure that people think we're taking the money that we're taking now and using it wisely. And we've always got a trust situation there. Are we using it wisely? We think we are. We wouldn't have made that decision. Sure we are. We've got no waste. There you go. Anything else? Okay. Glad y'all are here. Y'all are more than welcome to stay for the entire meeting. We've got reports coming from Clay. He's going to report on some paving that's goin

Yeah, I need more revenue, but I get mine personally from Southern Pipe.

All right. Then we will move on with our agenda then. And the next item on the agenda is Clay Phillips, the county engineer. And while Clay comes to the microphone to give us his report, let me point this out. We mentioned 19th Street and Pell City. Up until just a few years ago, 19th and Pell City wasn't even a question. Neither was Depot Street, and neither was the street in Moody that runs in front of City Hall. Those were county roads based... That determined some federal money that we got. There were some changes made in the Federal Highway Administration on how that federal money came do

Yeah, it came with strings attached, didn't it, Clay? Feds told us how to build that road. Now then, the feds don't tell us how to build that road. So we don't want to build less of a road. We want your right of ways to be just as wide. You're draining to meet the standards set by the certain standards that are out there. So that's kind of what Clay's dealing with. His company shifts gears too, but it is one of the largest pools of money that we spend in this county because the one of the main things we do is we design build and maintain public roads to the county and we could do that for muni

In the cities. And we want to continue to maintain them. They're in the cities.

They're in the cities. We don't want to run from that. Yeah. If you ever have a county commission that gets up here and says, that's not our road anymore. Well, that was because we said it would. We can keep saying it's ours if we want to. And so we're going to keep maintaining that to each street, Depot Street. Park Avenue and Steel Road, Park Avenue, Kelly Creek Road, Steel all the way to the stop sign on Highway 11, Springville, County Road 9, County Road 9. Where does it start, Clay? Starts at the railroad track. 11. Starts at Highway 11.

Goes through a big chunk of Springville, and then up the mountain, outside Springville. Well, Springville City. County line. Springville City 11 is down. Goes to the county line, don't it? No. Well, I think it's time for y'all to annex that mountain. Take that mountain.

Row Lane Road? We used to always do Row Lane Road when it was dirt. I remember thinking, what are we doing to Row Lane Road?

What street did we take in for Pell City and bring it up to standard and then give it to them? Trust Ferry? No, that was ours.

That was a federal aid road, Trust Ferry. Right there. But that's the one we did. By the refractory.

And we brought it up to standard again, and then we'd give it to the city of Pell City to take home, right? That's true. OK.

It was a weird route. It turned off of 78 on Trust Ferry Road. It came down to the stop sign. It turned right and went up Golf Course Road. It got to Mace Bend Road, turned to the left, and went down to Cedar Lane, turned to the right, and went over to Highway 34. That was the federal aid route, which was all ours. It's crazy. Part of this history is scary. I'm glad we don't have all that. Clay, you patched all the potholes.

Using a little bit of, we're gonna do that now.

You heard the recommendation, remove those items from the inventory. It's about three pickup trucks, and they're old. And one of them's a 2002. So we're taking some old vehicles out of the inventory out there and putting them on the gov deals to be sold. Entertain a motion? Motion. Second? Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Approved. We approve the recommendation of the county engineer. OK.

usually two at best that's yes that's that's where we're at i'll bring it up too i've had i've had other requests from a couple of citizens and i'm sure this is why i got also a request from officials in the city of leeds about a red light coming out of the subdivision down there that's been on our plate for years and years and years It's on a state highway. And now the city street. It just keeps getting to be a larger and larger subdivision. And the people can't get out in the mornings. What's the time, Oliver? Oliver's crossing the red light on US 411.

It takes, like I say, it takes a little bit. We're probably... They've both been on the plate for years and years and years.

DAVID BURRAGE. Does any city in the county that y'all know of have their own roundabout? Is there a county roundabout?

Let me ask the question again. Does the county have a roundabout? No. No. Does any city own a roundabout? No. Those roundabouts were built by Federal Highway Safety Funds. and there's just a certain amount of money every year allocated to those our state's been pretty aggressive at getting that money and yeah we've got some roundabouts in some places that look more like eggs than they do circles but but if you see a roundabout it wasn't because the county built a roundabout they're and they're pretty expensive they do they do decrease fatal accidents and serious accidents because the speed of

I just want to go into D.C.'s real important. I know. I got my hat. Y'all got yours. The mayor, there you go. The mayor and the mayor of Pro Tem went to D.C. last year. That's why those trips are so important.

Go and get with the right people. Take the right people. Discuss it with staff that's the right people to handle that. You may be discussing a highway project and they'll be over there just smiling and having a big time. in a meeting and it's a person that actually handles uh uh health care that's gonna change that didn't help you get to washington dc you want to meet with the person if you're out there about a road meet with the person that's responsible for roads okay so okay all right number three finish up there that's we've got to finish up number two we got stephen in my eyes all right a

DAVID BURRAGE- Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. DAVID BURRAGE- All opposed, no. Motion carries. Thank you.

Second. DAVID BURRAGE- Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. DAVID BURRAGE- All opposed, no. Motion carries. OK.

We have a motion and a second. Any more discussion on that? In the way of discussion, I want to thank you for, if you'll notice, the last three items here, they're all different. They're all different things, a pipeliner project, a crack seal project, a preservative project. All those come through clay. Clay looks at these roads and can help make a determination of what will help that road. And many times it's, When you help that road, we're still tied to federal government if we ask for a match. If we hadn't done certain things on those roads, then we're not going to get the match. And I want

Motion to second. Any more discussion? Opposed, aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries on item six.

The county attorney will look at it before we release any checks to be sure that we're compliant. Have a motion? Motion. Second? Second. Probably move to second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries.

DAVID BURRAGE. Motion to have a second. Robert, you're moved to second. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries.

Do I have a motion to donate those? Motion to second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? In web discussion, do we still have our old maps? i've been here so long i'm so old in 1986 if you brought up a motion in the county commission meeting to make a road at such and such a county road and it got a motion and it got a second and we debated it and we passed it well then the engineer goes back to the office and pulls out a little thin drawer and he pulls out the map that's got that on it and he draws that road in there if it's not already on there with a pencil And to make sure that we

I just knew where we came from. We're using them on two roads right now, right? OK. That's the only way we know where. Some of these roads are county roads. They literally were drawn in with a pencil and a C put across the line. Or a P for private.

If you want to go in there and you haven't looked at those, go in there and look through those a little bit. You sure we're out of it while we're not getting rid of them. Yeah, there you go. It's the only way we know. Those C's and P's are older than Clay. Can I motion a second on giving the old county highway construction plans to the archives? Does that have any more discussion? All in favor say aye. Opposed no. Motion carries. Thank you Clay. Any more questions for Clay? Moving on now to Tina Morgan our county administrator.

Did he find that out before or after he went out? After. He found out after the fact. Wipers didn't work.

Well, we tried. I have a motion from Commissioner Parker. And a second from Commissioner Stevens. Any other discussion? Do we have any other broke down vehicles we'd like to give to the car? Discussion all in favor say aye. All those no. Motion carries.

Any of the commissioners have any questions for the county administrator? If not, our county attorney, Kirk Walker. Thank you.

if we use it okay it's dated it's old it's old because it would have been the one that was installed when the it's one of those right on the side of the building there next to right out the window from dma out there i'm sure it's operational because it's it's there but do that with no downtime though yeah

It should be anything. The only risk you run is the day you're making that switch over if the power did go out. Right. In that window of time. No man's land. So. It'll take them that long to switch it over. No. It'll just be a matter of plugging in three phases.

The reason I brought that up is we might want to consider again having an alternate about including the switch. That's the way. You're only talking about $8,000 or $10,000. I think that's the way you're doing it anyway. Yes, sir. About that.

I agree with you. You can look inside those switches. They look pretty good. It'd be my guess. It'd be wiser, like you said, to go with a new switch and then hold them alive for the warranty. Right. Because they're not going to warranty that old switch.

For the switch. That's right. The gas line's going to be run and stubbed up with no meter set. Until that generator's in place. And at that point, they'll set a meter, and he'll hook it up, whoever gets the bid. He'll hook in the gas line.

All the water, he's going to put all the water systems on GIS.

Thank you, Kurt. Moving on now in the report section, starting off the report from the chairman, I won't be but just a minute or two, but I did want to clarify some things.

I know, but y'all could have talked all you wanted to. I just wanted to point out some things that I've checked on some of this from both a legal standpoint and just an operational standpoint. And these don't require an answer or anything right now. It's just something for you to think about as a commission. The commission as a whole, the chairman and the four commissioners in St. Clair County serve as the commission ruling body, for lack of a better term, of St. Clair County's funding and our funds and the way they're spent and that sort of thing. But I want you to think about who oversees th

District 2, I know I left something for Ricky Parker.

That's all. Okay. Moving on to District 4. I don't have anything. All right. Going into old business here, we've got considered requests from another Dollar General store, Mountaintop Loop. I think that's one we tabled for two weeks to get community input. We're ready to move. So entertain a motion to approve that request. Have a motion. Second. Probably move and second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Moving on now to new business. Consider adopting resolution 2026-31A for the FY27 municipal cooperative funding. The funding to each municipality is de

Leave it August. Leave it August. That'll give us.

That's probably about as early as we can notify and let us know what we got. That's part of our budget. OK. That motion made and seconded. We didn't totally get the vote out until we interjected that in there. So all in favor? Nay. We have one nay. And all in favor? Yes. Motion passes. And moving on now to item two, consider the FY27 municipal contract and fees for central dispatch and emergency management. Got those laid out there. Let's see if we've got a motion and second first before we discuss. Do I have a motion? So moved. Second? Second. Properly moved and second. Now, any discussion? T

Yes. No, we will go forward with this. But next year, like I requested, if they would come to the table and agree to tell us what part, how they'd want to divide that up, take it off us.

in the future not this time it might be that we would want to communicate with the mayor's association and have a meeting about may could do that address that directly so that's that's probably probably the way we can we can get more more feedback into that so am i correct the fees are going to be the same as what was provided in the work session 27 what we had on the thing okay okay

All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Opposed, kids. OK. Moving on now to item number three. Before we have folks disappear on us, we might want to ask some questions. We didn't want to ask Matt any questions, did we, before he leaves back there? I want to ask Matt something really difficult. Will he leave? OK. Got you. OK. And part of our meeting gets kind of boring. I want to thank our director of our, what would be your title? Not director anymore. You used to be county agent. CEO. As far as I'm concerned, she's still the county agent. She's the CEO. There you go. CEO. In this county.

Office is in Moody. All right, moving on to item number three. Consider a request from 911 Director Aslyn Campbell to surplus and dispose of the following items. All items are broken and of no value, including the black leather high-back chair that I questioned. Y'all see the list there? Entertain a motion to approve. Motion. Second. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carried. All right. Number four, consider ratifying Chairman Bateman's signature of the FY26 Certified Emergency Manager Salary Supplement subaward in the amount of $17,000. I have a motion. So moved. Second. Secon

Okay. That's what I was thinking. Is that the federal EMTG money? no this is this is given directly from the state of alabama that was tied to your certification yes i have to go through certifications every year to receive that okay gotcha have a motion and a second to have any other discussion all in favor say aye aye opposed no motion carries item five city request revenue commissioner ken crow to surplus and dispose of the following items a dual wireless radio and a samsung smart tv you have a motion to approve that second i'll be moved to second any discussion All in favor say aye. Aye. A

Get it down to Fort Strother. That's right. That's about as far as I believe it would make it. You'll have some great adventures in it, I'm sure. There you go. OK. I also want to recognize our probate judge, Andrew Weathington, who snuck in the back door back there. Appreciate you being here. And if we don't do this right, would you tell us after the meeting?

After we turn the television off. OK. Next item number eight, consider recommendation from property manager Roddy Wolf to renew the SecureTech Systems Inc. maintenance contract for two years in the amount of $4,881. This system manages the panic buttons for Asheville and Pell City. Have a motion? So moved. Second. Property moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. DAVID BURRAGE. All opposed, press that panic button. DAVID BURRAGE. Let's do it. DAVID BURRAGE. If you don't like it, there you go. Item 9, consider increasing the mileage rate from $0.72.5 to $0.76 per mile for

Good part of it. Okay. A liability there and all that kind of stuff. That's our decision. And that's also, I've had an employee say, don't we have a policy to let us drive our own vehicle to a conference? Well, not exactly. Don't we leave that up to those department heads? Yes, sir. But there again, I told that employee, if you don't have family going with you and all that, you don't need us. You don't need to be in a county vehicle. All right. On now to county number 10. Consider a contract with Spire for the installation of gas line and meter to the coroner's building in the amount of $493.

Moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. And I want to thank the commissioners. Maybe one more here.

That 15,000, they did come down off 29,000. They did. That's correct. Yeah. And we sort of questioned them. And they said, well, we'll see if we can adjust.

I want to thank the commissioners for working on this. But Commissioner Mize, specifically you, you're really good about getting in there on those items. working through the, we're not the only one with bureaucracy, are we? The guy in corporate bureaucracy can be pretty hard to deal with too. Item 12. Informational item to be recorded in the minutes. Good Game Company Inc. provided a justification letter and a quote in the amount of $3,500 for removing a firewall as part of the Revenue Commissioner Ken Crow's office remodel. It had a firewall in it and to do the changes that we needed to make

All right. Good to go. Item 13, consider travel request. You have a copy of the travel request in your file. I want to remind some of you that tomorrow is the 9-1-1 training class. Isn't it tomorrow, Thursday?

the 9-1-1 board signed up for that needs to go down there through that process and they're going to share information about some of the changes and rules regulations we've got a new state director don't executive director so they'll be there i'm sure item 14 consider board appointments i think we have some board appointments Do what? Travel. Oh, yeah. All in favor? Motion and a second on the travel. I have a motion and a second? Second. Properly moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no on the travel request. Now, board appointments.

Okay, you've shown the recommendation to replace Mayor Joe Lee with the mayor of Moody now, Nick Rutledge, on the Health Care Authority. Do you have a motion? Motion. Second. Proper move and second. Well, it came with a motion there. You've got all the motions and seconds you can deal with. There you go. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no.

Okay. Any other appointment activity? Not right now. Okay. Moving on now to payment of the regular bills. You've got a copy of the bills in your files. They're different every month according to the activity of the county. This particular one shows on the name sheet. $1,251,493.54 and then the Second run on it also covered $3,963.69. Sometime we have a run that has to come right after this to try to get to the end of today's meeting. Interested in motion to pay the bills. Motion. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Al