Board of County Commissioners - workshop

I'll just say I think 5% is about – about what I would expect.

This is a prime example. Your rate of return is safe streets, just like other things. All government is not in business to make money. They're in business to serve the people of that county and create a good environment for those people. So you're not looking at a rate of return on a budget for a government budget. I would assure if you're looking for safe streets, safe neighborhoods. That's your rate of return.

So the Richardson basketball is only twice, but it's $5,000 in total.

It's in the second column and the bottom column. Let's see. That's David's.

I just want to say y'all are doing a fantastic job, and I'm amazed at what all y'all can get done with that amount of money. Thank you very much. I mean, that's remarkable what you just listened to. Appreciate that.

Chairman, I'd just like to say, And they do this service for nothing, really. I mean, they don't make anything off of this. They're just doing this for the cats, mainly. Chantel Brown used to work in Fort White also. I'm sure you know Chantel. And my daughter and my wife work with her quite a bit. And I'm going to tell you, it's made a big difference in the population of feral cats in Fort White and in Southern County and other areas, too. So this is a good program, and it's definitely working, too. in cleveland county as far as getting a number of cats straight hats down so yes sir man do you

I didn't realize the cat problem was big. We got a group in Fort White that feeds about probably 15 to 20 cats a day on my property right here at my office in Fort White. But like I say, they haven't grown up. The population hasn't grown because they didn't trap them all. They spayed and neutered them. And when a new one comes in, the first thing you do is they trap it, you know, and they spay and neuter it. oh and that is one of the problems though when you when people see you're feeding cats in a certain area if they got a cat they want to get rid of they drop that cat off in that area so yo

That's good. That's good. Okay. My wife started taking in baby cats, bottle feeding them and stuff. For 40 years, we didn't have a cat. Now we got six bottle feeds and everything else. She can't get rid of it. She can't give it away. Now she's attached to it. I told her, you got to stop that.

Okay. We're obligated to fund that, right, Joe?

When you're taking care of your parents in their older years, sometimes the adult daycare just, I mean, you can't leave them alone. Some of them are their age. We experience that.

Debbie, do y'all take in, y'all take in strays from people that call in? Do y'all have availability for them?

I know at one time I had some that wanted to be picked up in my district, and we had no place to put them because of the mugs. I was thinking, but we do not do anything with cats, right? We don't have any service for cats.

so so we do allow people to come up and turn in dollars turn in dollars or have the board adopted that six months ago eight months ago and if you remember mr chair i'm sorry mr chair uh ms ford the uh that's when we put this kennels remember over at the uh so we do charge to take in streets what i'm saying you're saying we charge to take in streets That's why they drop them off at Walmart.

They don't have to pay anything if they just drop them off. Yeah, they just dump them. Yeah, they just dump them. Then you got to pick them up. Okay.

they're going to eat that up because that saves them and they also don't have to go to the vet because they've been spayed vaccinated home ready yeah right i got a i got a question for you debbie yeah so so my wife showed me this thing the other day on facebook or something where they got this group of people sitting like in a square and they turn a dog loose out there and the dog picks the owner Do y'all ever do any programs like that?

She showed me that. I've watched some of it.

Mr. Ford? I would just ask that the $6,100 for Fort White summer camp for any off-baptist church, it's $6,100, but if we could increase that up a little bit, that we could take in more kids, and that is the only summer program in Fort White right now, and it just started this year, but they do want to continue it for next summer also.

discussion so yes okay this is new they get started up and I didn't remind them to be here so they probably didn't know they understand how this works probably carrying on the program right now yeah