Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

DNA was like

big brother. How are you? Good.

Good. How are you? I just need Woohoo! Woo! Heat. Heat.

Okay, there he is. Kissing babies. Some kids. Aren't they cute? Okay. All right. Well, um I'd like to call to order the April 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Montgomery County uh board of commissioners. Note the presence of my two colleagues. Um I'm going to have our sheriff lead us in the pledge. 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.

All right. So, good morning. Um, first I want to take a moment to welcome uh 40 new employees that we have working for the county today. So, I want them to come in and say hello to everyone.

Bring it back here. Do they have any music? Is there any Oh, there's music. There's music. Here they come. Here we go.

Okay, we're ready. Come on in. in the throne. I didn't know We're going to hiding now. I'm shining like no waited so long to break these walls down to wake up. How's everybody doing?

Yay. Yay. Are you making some money today? No. No. Thanks for coming. We're going to take these. All right, Max and Miley, can you come up really quickly?

Take a look.

All right, go. Yeah, I think WE SO, if you haven't uh guessed, uh today is a take your child to work day. So, I have my son Max and my bonus daughter Miley here. Um, and we've got a whole bunch of kids from our co-workers across the county. So, thanks thanks Tony and the HR team for putting together such a thoughtful program for the kids to enjoy. Uh, this is a day that always creates memorable moments for our staff and their children. And it's a a part of a larger uh strategy to familiarize our young people uh with their local government and the importance of civic participation. So, uh, we'll be building on that with two upcoming programs that I'm excited, uh, to share. Uh, on May 2nd, the county will be hosting our first youth summit in Montgomery County. Uh, it will be held at Montgomery County Community College. I'd like to thank our county team for really thinking through putting this program together. Uh, this is a chance uh, for any MONCO high school student to come out and have their voice heard in a welcoming and inclusive space. Our goal is to encourage students to become more engaged in their local community and to help them find their bo voice especially at a time when the world might feel a little overwhelming. Uh register registration is still open uh until April 28th and we encourage all interested students to sign up at montgomery countypa.gov youth summit. Um, next, we're also excited to unveil our new MONCO Junior Commissioner program for the 2026 207 school year. This will be an exciting

new opportunity for rising juniors and seniors at any public or private high school in Montgomery County. We'll select three students to shadow the commissioners during the upcoming school year. students will get a front row view. So guys, we got to behave uh to county operations, our what our county commissioners do. And they'll participate in structured learning experiences with various departments, site visits with all three commissioners, and county meetings just like this one. The program will run from September of this coming of of this year until April 2027. And at the end, students will present a capstone project addressing a realworld government issue. The application deadline for this program will be Sunday, May 10th. So for further details, visit MCCO montgomery countypa.gov/junior commissioner. Um, next I want to uh quickly share that yesterday we hosted MCO's first ever sustainability marketplace. We had over 30 vendors, advocacy organizations, and food trucks participate right outside our courthouse. And when I spoke, it was pouring down rain. I'm hoping that after I left, the sun came out and it dried up a little bit. I think that it did. Um, everyone was able to see the many ways large and small that they can contribute to a a more sustainable Macco, whether learning about composting, vegetable gardening, recycling, textiles, and plastics, or just exploring options for clean energy. There was so much good information and um so proud of our chief sustainability officer, Davey, for making the program uh so remarkable. so grateful to her and look forward to us doing this uh every year. And then yes, she's hiding. There she is.

Dave, don't hide. Stand stand up. Okay, there we go. All right. Um last but not least, uh April's also recognized as National Language Access Month. It serves as a reminder of the importance of providing services in multiple language languages so residents can access health care, education, and government services without barriers. I'm pleased to say that our request for proposals to strengthen language access service is here at the county is now live. Vendors have until May 22nd to apply via our Bonfire website. And I'd like uh this RFP was led by Nelly, our director of immigrant affairs. So, I want to thank you for your leadership, Nelly. The county has long provided interpretation and translation across departments like public safety, health, and aging. This new RFP aligns our services with best practices and improves the services we already provide such as um simultaneous interpretation, better support for virtual meetings, updated accessibility options, and it will increase our language capacity of our 911 center for residents native languages. So, thank you again. Uh I'll turn it over to my colleague uh for his comments. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh good morning everyone. Thank you for being here and uh it's a great day. It's only one, let's see, almost less than a month away from our primary election. Anybody vote already? Anybody get their mail and ballot? Thank you for practicing your civic duty. I know our sheriff did because he's one of the most frequent uh or long-standing voters in the county. In every single election, we gave you an award, right? Yes.

Nice. 50 consecutive elections. And so he's keeping up his record in case you're wondering if two a year. Um, so we're less than a month out and in Monco this year we now have 620,000 registered voters uh who will be voting and in this ballot you're going to see the primary choices for governor, lieuten lieutenant governor, congress, state senator or state representative. And we also uh the parties have state committee choices and there's these two municipalities with referenda. So, mail and ballots have already been mailed. The first batch has been mailed. You can still request one, but we've sent out 70,000 mail and ballots. And I just want to encourage everyone to use the dropboxes. We now have 18 dropboxes. It's double what we had before. They're available 247. They're secure. They're monitored uh by camera uh uh you know, 247. and they are open until Tuesday, election day, May 19th at 8:00 p.m. So those boxes will be closed promptly at 8:00 p.m. But uh it's a great way to return your mail and ballot because it's directly to the county uh in case there's any mishap with USPS, you can be confident that we received your ballot and the sheriff's. Thank you again to the sheriff's picking those up on a daily basis. Uh finally, I'll also note our satellite offices are also open in various locations. So here are some of the hours that we have. You can see Lansdale, Laura Marion, Norristown, right here at OM, uh Plottstown, Bill Grove. Uh we have a number of satellite offices open on the weekends. You can go there to get your mail and ballot. You

can submit it in person, essentially our version of early voting. uh and you can deal with any uh registration issues or changing your address or anything like that. Um the registration deadline, however, is May 4th. So, if you need to change anything or if you're new to the county, please make sure to handle uh that by May 4th and you can request a mail in until May 12th. So there is a window from May 4th uh sorry prior to May 4th from today to May 4th where if you wanted to register your new voter and request your mail and ad submit it on the spot you can do that from now until May 4th and then everyone who's already registered can get your mail in until May 12th. Um okay another point on the elections. This is the first time ever at the precincts for those of you who vote in person will be having electronic poll books and it's it's a secure system for checking in with people who are voting in person. For any of you who've been poll workers, uh you might know people are very excited about this. I've already gotten lots of great feedback. It'll make the line shorter because you're not sifting through a big book trying to find somebody by their last name. You just type in their name in an iPad and it'll immediately tell you where they're registered, whether they're at the correct polling place. And if you're not at the correct polling place, there's a small printer. It'll immediately give you a slip with the address of where you need to go. So, just makes the whole process on election day seamless. And for anyone who's curious, if there's any issues, they do still have the paper and poll books handy at every precinct, which we'll make sure remains the case um for now. So that's an exciting roll out and you know I'm grateful that we were able to get that done. Um one comment you know I always pay attention to what's happening around the Commonwealth in terms of what different

counties are doing how they're innovating. Alagany uh and Monco often are working on some of the same policies. Alageney County recently passed a special ballot question uh enacting uh the possibility of term limits, which uh is not something I think any elected official maybe wants me to bring up, but I want to talk about it. Sean's been voting 50 times because he's been on the ballot that many times, but um but I think it's important. It's it's one of these issues that if you ask the public, they're vastly supportive of. And what they did in Alageney County is not just putting a limit uh on uh they picked three terms 12 years. They didn't just say anyone who's been there 12 years out. What they said is starting from now, we're starting a new 12-year period. And I assume this will pass because it's immensely popular. But uh that that's an example of a local government that's taking a step of reform that I think is uh worth looking at. We may not have had the legal authority to do that. Uh but if we had home rule, we potentially would. Is that the answer?

Yeah, Alagany is acting under home rule. Home rule county. Okay. So, this is an example of something where home rule would be helpful. Home rule takes its own constitutional uh referendum, I guess. Yeah. Just to go through the charters,

but there are many other issues that we could handle, but something we're looking at. Uh finally, for my comments, uh we have a few way to go winners. Is anyone here today? Raise your hand if you're here. Way to go. Okay, we got our way to go winners here. Um, as you know, this is our way of acknowledging uh a number of folks who are doing excellent work throughout the county. They're nominated by their colleagues and they get a little uh little uh you know note of gratitude in our salary board uh approvals today. So, uh, I'll start with Chelsea Maynard, who is working in our clerk of courts office. Is Chelsea here? Thank you, Chelsea, for your colleague. Chelsea's a star receptionist. She handles every car with call with deep appreciation and care for uh, our residents and their needs. Thank you, Chelsea, for your work. And surprise, Colin on our comms team.

So Colin is taking our photos as we speak and did not know this because he doesn't check the salary board list. So see that he's getting a little bonus. But uh one of Colin's many roles is coordinating coordinating the way to go winners program. Uh he has been nominated twice and previously refused and tonight we decided to spring it on him and we had to go behind his back to put his name up here. So thank you. Thank you Colin for all of your work. Next up is Craig Tiny who is Greg has gone above and beyond uh to check uh not only on our residents but on his co-workers mental health after they go through difficult calls uh on a daily basis. It's one of the hardest jobs in the county. Thank you, Greg, for all the work that you do. Uh, next is Ashley Vinhar, uh, who works in, uh, retirement. Ashley, pension accounts. She's got can do attitude and strong work ethic. That's an asset to the retirement team. Uh Ashley's been instrumental in getting many of you can appreciate our new online retirement platform up and running. So thank you Ashley. Uh next uh I think she's not here is Victoria here. I don't think Victoria's here but I'll just tell you a little bit about Victoria Urban. She is an assessor in our office of aging services in HHS. Victoria's colleagues say she's an amazing asset, a team player and a great sense of her humor. Are you okay? Um,

maybe Tori can check in on you. Just more recently, Tori used her gut instincts to make two separate calls.

Calling you old check seniors in that was a joke. Give Miss, you know, but uh Corey Tori does a great job uh checking in on our seniors. So, give her a round of applause if she's watching this. And then finally, uh, second last one. Marissa Warren, who works in adult probation. Merca, are you here? Maybe not watching online, too. Uh, Marissa is always going above and beyond. Her colleagues say she's amazing to work with, creating pleasant working environment with positive vibes, and always being there for her co-workers. So, round of applause for Marissa. Okay, we'll bring everyone up for a photo. Congratulations.

I guess you guys will be in the middle. One, two, three. Um, one last thing.

So, one, are you gonna say you already said something? Um, one thing that uh we just wanted to recognize is that yesterday was administrative professionals day and we wanted to thank all of our EAS. I'll start with mine. Rohan Lambor is doing an awesome job and and it also happens to be his birthday this weekend. So, let's do you have all for your birthday, Roan? It's Saturday. Yeah. Do you have your birthday? It's It's a seven day a week job. Yeah. Get him off for his birthday. Okay.

He's declared off. He said it publicly. It's in the record. Nice. And always grateful for for Rehea who uh I walked in this morning and she was stressing out because the printer wasn't working and I was like, "Are you crying about the printer not working?" But it's a this is a high stress job just getting us where we need to get to. So grateful uh to all of you.

And of course we have Kim, my VA, and uh she does a phenomenal job and makes sure I get where I need to go. Uh keeps me on track and and all three of our um are are just incredible. I mean, we have a great team, great staff. Um and they make us definitely make us look good because without them I think we would be a hot mess guaranteed. So thank for every because they've worked the three of them work very well together as well which is extremely important. Yeah. So you know thank you. I have to say Kim takes good pictures that make us all look skinny. Well she has a special lens.

She has she has that special lens. She has that special lens on her camera at which we keep telling Brian he has the wrong lens and Yeah, I know. I think it's right over there. Yeah. All right. You're up. I'm up. Yep. All right. Um, do we get an update about the election coming up? I don't think so. Yeah. Well, he's busting on me. So, still check.

Right. All right. So yesterday, uh, Commissioner Wid and myself went to Harrisburg, um, our lower Marian, uh, team, um, supervisor, what Laurian commissioners, uh, and and McGomery County were recognized by the, uh, government excellence award from the governor's office. Uh, and it was in recognition at Armore House 2 uh, that was being is being built on Laura Marian. And this award that was given to McGomery County and Lauren Marian are our our uh and and to our nonprofit uh partners to work on building Armore House 2. Um, and for those that not familiar with it is it's a senior living facility for affordable housing. And I the groundbreaking was back in September and I Commissioner Mcker, you were at the groundbreaking. Um, and uh, so the county contributed $5 million to the project uh, which came through from our uh, our federal pandemic pandemic relief funds. Um, so it was it was really awesome for us to be there and be with Laura Marion. And when we showed up, we're also quite surprised um because the gentleman on on the the other picture with Commissioner Winer, myself is Tom Wel and he is a uh Roers for uh super uh burough they're council at least townships. You got to remember if they're supervisor council commissioners or all different he's burough council in Roersport and he was nominated by the Pennsylvania township uh min uh township supervisors pets. Um so and that's by his colleagues from all around Pennsylvania. Um so it was great to be there and and receiving recognition and and uh it's you know it's always good to see McGomery County being honored for all the amazing work that we're doing here. So, um, and then from there, we uh

also, um, I mentioned this last meeting, but, uh, we have McGomery County Trail Challenge starts April 24th through May 2nd. Uh, it's a great way to explore the county's amazing trail system. Uh, we have over 65 miles of trails um, and that are part of the challenge this year. And so there's also additive to the trail challenge for M McGomery County historic sites. Um so again it's a great way to get out see McGomery County use the trails. Um and last year we had a great turnout and we're looking for an even bigger turnout this year or participation. And I know that we're still looking at the possibilities of incorporating the Leyon award. So we'll see where how that goes.

I get it. I got that. You got that one.

Um and then also um my Commissioner Winer and Commissioner McKesia, we we talked about this uh uh and it would be a great way for us to uh in May we're going to have motorcycle safety awareness month. Um, and it's it's good time to do it because in and for those that are avid riders with uh it's always a very uh dangerous time as well if you're riding motorcycles because what happens over the winter, people don't see motorcycles on the road and then the springtime comes and then uh you everybody starts riding again and for the it's the craziest thing that when people see motorcycles it hasn't registered that their vehicle that's coming and they just pull right out. And that's the most most accidents occur because of that. Um, and so it's a great way for us to recognize uh safety awareness and um and really promote that the motorcycles will be back on the road from, you know, through now till the winter again. Um, and we're actually going to be planning some type of event later in May as well. So, we're really excited about that. Um and then oh I I attended uh the environ uh over at Norristown Farm Park. Um that's put on by McGomery County Conservation District. Um there was over 50 students from four or five different school districts throughout McGomery County that participated in it. Uh it was a great job uh put on by the volunteers and people with associate with the conservation district. It's a great way for the kids to they go from different stations and they actually learn about uh different aspects of the environment. Uh and they actually each station have a test and they work as a team. Uh they have the kids broken into teams and they take tests at each at

each station and then they accumulate the scores and all that. Um but it I was over there and just seeing the kids participating and learning. Um it was a great day. It was a little chilly. I mean, um, but it was still an amazing day and would love to see this continue to grow and see additional school districts, uh, join in on it because it's just a great way to learn about about the environment. Um, and then, uh, this past Saturday, uh, Commissioner Mccasia, myself, and Commissioner Winer attended, uh, the 37th annual, uh, International Spring Festival at North Penn High School. Um, as for those that may not know about it or do know about it, it's a great way to celebrate all the many different cultures uh throughout McGomery County. There's traditional music, foods, there's a parade. Um, so we want to, you know, congrats to the International Foundation for another amazing uh year. Um my understanding is that they had over 6,000 people uh uh go on Saturday and go through all the different uh um uh spots, all the vendors and all that. So it's really a fun day. Uh and it's North Penn, they do a great job over there because if you if you know North Penn High School is very large. It's like one big maze. So but they have it spread out and multiple gyms, the cafeteria and the hallway. So and there's a lot to see. Uh so again, we're it was it was an honor for us to uh to participate in that that impact. That's all I got.

Great. All right. Next up, our district attorney, Kevin Steel, will be here to talk about drug takeback day. Good morning.

Good morning. Thank you for an opportunity here for uh awareness um which uh we um we have to talk about a a topic that um is uh important. Uh we try to make it a little fun in some ways and have a theme each year um or each uh two times a year. Um, and one of our uh parallegals who's very creative um Jill Neil from from our office um comes through with uh with a new takeback poster and um and should have some things going on with it. So uh we could get that slide next that would be great. All right. So, this is uh our our theme, the the metrics um

uh for Takeback Day, and it's coming up.

Yeah. Beautiful, she said. So, we're good. Um so, uh coming up on Saturday, 10 to 2. Uh, and we would really appreciate uh people getting out there to to take their unwanted, unneeded uh medication and get it destroyed uh in a uh environmentally uh sound way um to make our home safer. And you know, this is important because we find that, you know, some of these medications that are in people's medicine cabinets often lead to um dire consequences uh when they get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them and um kids and other folks that go down a track. So, um if you could go to the next one. Uh we're um going to be at 38 police departments. And when I say at the police departments, they're always at the police departments, but there'll be police officers standing outside, so you can just pull by. Um give them the medications. Um keep going, try to make it as easy as they can. Um, and this time out we actually have four uh departments going to grocery stores um where they're going to be um staffing tables um at those uh where Giant Food Stores in Upper Morland and Stow as well as Wegman's in Upper Prav uh and Montgomery Township. So, uh, the department's there, uh, doing that. There there's a list of all of these departments, uh, on the homepage of our our website, so everybody can, uh, find it easily. And we, uh, and I have posters for for 12 lucky winners to take with them today. You know, one of the things, if you want these um, sometime, come by our office. We have them uh, all

over the walls. and it's been pretty creative over the over the years. If you go to the next one. Uh so, you know, what we do is take uh tablets, inhalers, vaping products, creams, ointments, nasal sprays, pet medicines. Um and uh you know, this is a picture. You know, it's it's it's usually pretty fun and I'm not going to tell anybody where it is, but we use um a facility and all the police departments line up and at after taking all the medications are just bringing them in. Uh and then we're able to to immediately, you know, take all of these and destroy them. So, um, so if anybody's worried about them sticking around or doing those those kind of things, um, we can, uh, drop off, uh, let's go back. So, to to the point where a lot of these are in pill bottles with your name and and and those kind of things in, you can take them out, you can put them in a bag. Um, or you can black out a name. But no, nobody's going through these. It's simply they're going into these boxes and then we're taking them right to there to get get destroyed um in it. All right. So, if you go to the next one on what's not accepted, we don't take liquid medicines um needles or other other sharps on that and hopefully um that's just a matter of safety for um for us. All right. If you go to the next one if you could. So, just give you a little background on this. Um, we started in in 2010, uh, last October, um, 6,532 pounds. Uh, April of last year, 6,853

pounds. Uh, and I I emphasize those numbers and the weights because what it shows is that there's a lot of unnecessary prescriptions that are going on and they are in people's medicine cabinets. Um, so let's get rid of them and and do this. uh over 144,000 pounds um since we've been doing this uh since since 2010 and and safely um destroying that. Uh they're collected, they're taken to be destroyed by a federally licensed uh place to handle medical waste. Um and that's uh that's how we do it. Um and so encourage people to uh um to do it this way. Um, and part of that is to make it environmentally sound. Uh, people that are thinking about putting these in the toilet or going down that way, um, that's not a safe way to to to to do it and and ends up in the water system and everything else. So, um, so please, uh, do it this way. Uh, next one, please. All right. Um, so this is the this is the tough part to to to talk about um the why and and why we're doing this and why it is so important. um these numbers are um the deaths of individuals in our communities and um I can't go too many places where uh it it isn't affect people that I speak to somebody knows somebody that has been affected by this and um and if you look at uh some of the numbers over over time you know we we're we're hitting this at a lot of different angles. Um, and you

know, one way to make sure, you know, that that people are safe is by not um not uh doing or or not not allowing, you know, these readily available problems to be in your medicine cabinets. So, you know, if you look at h how this has gone, you you can see that fentanyl um is, you know, a big uh a big problem and continues to be a big problem in our uh in our communities. Um and you know, with this um if if you could go to the the next one. Um, so this is this is um a really difficult uh number to to look at because they went up last year. Um, and you know, I want to emphasize that and I had them do an extra slide on this because you know this is something that we cannot take our foot off the pedal on, right? We we went down substantially for for a period of time. Um in you know 2002 or or 22 we got to a point of um under 200 for the first time in a long time under 200 people dying in our our our community. So you know those those numbers and overdoses fell even more um in uh in in 2024. Um but we're back up and and there's two still pending from the coroner's office um in this. So I I I I emphasize that because we we really need everybody's partnership on this um to try and save lives and and this is all about the preservation of life um in our community. I know um you all have been very focused on this with you know the

the work that's being being done and developed on you know places to to hand off people that are that are going through this and our police agencies are working really hard in this but um but this is why we have to we have to keep going and working hard. If you could go to the next one. Um so uh this Saturday um the complete list again is on our our website uh you just have to click on the actual poster in on our website um to find the locations. U but it also shouldn't stop you if if if you got plans on Saturday and can't make it um like me. I'll be in the courthouse doing a trial competition um all day on Saturday. So we won't be able to to to do that. But every one of these police departments has a box in their police department. So this is an awareness. The DEA is doing it today on Saturday, too. Like so, you know, get out there, but it it doesn't have to be Saturday. you can go Sunday or Monday and walk into a police department that are open 24/7 um and take them in and they'll go into one of our our our boxes um there and we will get them destroyed um in an environmentally sound way. Um so that's what I have. Um if anybody has any questions, I'm happy to happy to answer.

Just a comment. So, I'm just thinking about my medicine cabinet and all of the drugs that I could toss away that we're no longer using. So, I will be committed to uh doing that on Saturday. So, I'll go home tonight and open my medicine cabinet because we have small children that could get into that. So, um appreciate your leadership. I was like waiting with baited breath to see what the design would would look like. So, I think this is my

uh third third year. So they get better and better. So um and I think maybe Megan we can put some of those posters in the elevators uh in one Montgomery so that county employees are aware of it. And did we already send out an email to county employees? Good. Awesome. Great. Yeah. just and and again I I really appreciate you giving us the time just to get this awareness out because we trying every angle we can to do this to to to really make people aware and you know unfortunately with with um the number of deaths you know this is something that we all got to partner on and keep keep going in the right direction. So, could I actually Sorry, go ahead.

Um, could I could you go back to the overdose number slide? This one I just couldn't fully get it. So, 14% is the number that is involving fentanyl or you said I think that I I saw that too. I think that's wrong. Um, I think it's because it's still over half of the half percentage. I think that's um the round number that it went up

maybe. Oh, that's the increased number. Okay. because because fentanyl is still like the main driver that we're seeing, but the other um real rises that we're seeing is methamphetamine overdoses, um cocaine and crack overdoses um and mixtures of those. Um, and that's really uh been um been been scary because you know with with fentanyl, heroin, the opioids, nlloxxone is a life-saving measure that is in all the police vehicles and and and readily available that doesn't work on meth um or cocaine overdoses. So um so that's that's problematic with um with what we're uh with what we're seeing here. So, um, that's that's some of the some of the trends that that we have right now. So,

so, uh, the the amount of pounds that collected is just it's unbelievable. And that's what's been that's not accounting for what hasn't been turned. That's probably still sitting in medicine cabinets, you know, throughout the county. It's just crazy. Um, the So, they don't What's the recommendation? And I know you're not taking liquids and you're not taking sharps. So what what if people have those? What what's what do we tell them to do with those? Yeah. Like what do they what do we tell them to do with liquids? Who's here from the health department? Can you help me out with this? I don't um Okay.

Yeah. I'm not Yeah. I don't I'm not sure on on Yeah. It's um Yeah. I just we have to be a little careful with that because we're, you know, taking the boxes and Right. Yeah. interested know what we would tell people if asked what do we do with liquids? Yeah. Quick quick question. Do you have a sense up for the overdose um deaths, what's the age like what's the largest eight there? There's there's no demographic that is not being hit by this. Yeah. But so there's no proportion that's high like higher. It's it's really and it

all over the place. every community, every um race, you know, every demographic is is is getting hit by this. And um you know it's it's uh you know and so many people have gone down this track that uh that it it wasn't expected like a sports injury um or

you know getting getting cut off on on pills that you've been having and then and then going to other drugs. And you know, it's it's it's really there's so many stories out there of people that have been affected by it and and um um and everyone's tragedy uh for the person that died, for the families that are going through it and and you know, it's um there's a lot of tragedy that has been brought on by some of these pharmaceutical companies and other places that went down. Yeah.

Well, I'm sure we could talk about this all day. I think all of us are equally um passionate about um being part of the solution and how do we help people understand how do we do prevention, right? But also like for those that are in active addiction, you know, how do does a comprehensive county system kind of help people find their find their way? Um so thank you for being here. Um and uh we encourage everybody to participate on on Saturday. Thank you. I appreciate the partnership so much because you know none of us can do this alone alone and and so it's been great. So thank you. Absolutely. Thank you. I'll leave the posters on the on the desk there. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Next up, our sheriff. Thanks for We broke the record from last we we didn't break the record from last week. Meeting was only 34 minutes last week. I wasn't here. Why don't the uh deputy sample and Fairchild come up with me and chief deputy Barry?

Uh so I want to thank the commissioners. I know you've already had a long agenda uh for indulging us and helping us honor uh two heroes here today. And it's really a credit to you and our office and the whole Montgomery County family uh because uh training, professionalism, and standards is a hallmark of any professional organization. Sheriff's Office has been accredited and reacredited four times. We were the first sheriff's office in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to do so. I've been uh lucky and blessed to be sheriff now for close to 11 years. And I've always had the support of the commissioners regardless of party. uh whoever has been sitting in these chairs and I really thank Commissioner Della uh Chair Winder uh Commissioner McKisa for their continued support in this administration these last couple years of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office. And because of that support and the money you give through the budget process and the standards that we try to uphold, uh we have some of the best trained deputies in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. uh and it's honor to work with them every day. Uh and an example of that is uh going to be about an action that happened uh close to a year ago uh that deputies sample and Fairchild did to help save a life. Help save a life uh during transport uh from our correctional facility out to here. uh and um about the training that they employed uh and who they are, who they are as individuals. Uh because people may see us in this uniform. Uh they may have conceptions uh about everybody that's in this uniform, but I can tell you every one of us are individuals. Uh we're involved in the community. We are involved in our county. We're involved in civic organizations. Uh but because

of our professionalism and training, I'm going to talk about an incident uh that happened that became a non-inccident thanks to deputy uh sample and deputy fair child. Um so deputy uh Zachary Fairchild and brought a sample uh showed professionalism on August 1st, 2025. While in route to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, Deputy Fairchild quickly recognized that a detainee was attempting to harm himself and it was pretty far along. He immediately alerted Deputy Sample, who pulled over without delay, allowing Deputy Fairchild to exit to safely exit the vehicle and intervene. Drawing from their extensive training, uh the deputies took decisive action to secure the subject and ensure his safety by breaking his grip and taking life-saving measures to prevent a more serious outcome. They transported the individual to Phoenixville Hospital and ultimately completed the transport safely after medical clearance. Throughout the incident, the deputies maintained a calm, focused approach reflective of their experience and training. And I uh I love uh Deputy Fairchild, but I have a soft spot for Deputy Sample because he's a fellow soldier like me and spends uh when he's not working or raising his young family. Uh he is serving our country in the Pennsylvania National Guard, constantly on deployments, constantly in AT. So, he's a hero in many sense as it were. I would also be remiss if I did not note that both deputies were quick to credit their supervisor, she's not here today, uh, Corporal Brandy Shutler, who identified the detainee as a self harm risk prior to the transport and provided critical guidance that allowed the deputies to monitor him closely from the outset. So, our intelligence helped out there. Deputies Fairchild and Samples action reflect the highest standards of professionalism, situational awareness, and responsibility for the safety and well-being of those in custody. They are

credit to themselves, the county, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. So, I have uh two certificates right here. Uh first, we have a certificate uh for Deputy Sample. Thank you very much, Deputy Sample. I don't know if you want to say it. Not really sure. Okay, there we go. And then I will also uh have a certificate uh for deputy fair trials. Thank you. And did you want to say anything? Not at all. Okay. All right. Let the sheriff do the talking. So I want to thank everybody here and thank the commissioners for being part of this ceremony. Thank you very much.

Uh Deputy uh Sample and Deputy Fairchild. think uh you represent what's great about Montgomery County and uh it's these moments that uh your your work on that day continue to make us us proud. So I want to thank the sheriff for you know bringing this incident um and just recognizing you in this this forum. Um I know that your job often can be a thankless job but uh I know that all of us see the work that you do every day. So uh thank you for for your work and for keeping our county safe. Thank you. Come on up. We're gonna You want to sit in my chair and do a 45minut speech? Well, all right. Come on. Come on up.

Congratulations.

Thank you, sir. Get you in the middle. Put these guys in the middle next to them. All right. Congrats. Yeah. Thank you.

All right. Um, thank you for being here. Next up, we have uh public comment. This is uh three limited to three minutes. It's uh comment on today's uh pending votes and it must be germanine to to county business. Do we have any public comment? Yes. First up is David Morgan. Okay, Mr. Morgan.

Morning commissioners. This is David Morgan from Amler. Good morning. And uh I'm going to comment about the agenda uh exhibit B which is starting on a page one

and we have uh two expenditures almost a million dollars and over a million for the trails. And so trails are of course important but in light of the fact that uh we have budget deficits and last year around the springtime we had a large one. And I just wondering if if this fits into affordability for our taxpayers with uh uh having the tax increases over the last six years that we can really try to look at these numbers in in light of all the spending that's going on. Um there is 80% federal matching which is nice but maybe we should consider how high we want to go with our part. Also, uh the info and technology solutions uh is close to $400,000 for dark fiber service. And that's further along here underneath the uh information technology budget. And then we have that to consider as um explaining maybe to the public what they are, but so has dark fiber service. I'm not sure what that is. And so I'd like to just urge caution here. We have uh some upgraded positions also on the desk there for a salary board. So uh can we afford all these at the level they are and how are we doing? Uh do we have a CFO's report at this point of the county's financial standing? Um then however I do uh commend that we have more help for the public safety part of budget page six. We have a list of the ambulance associations ambulance agencies. So there's about 12 of them all getting extra help and uh there's just irony for rescues uh as we heard about just in the presentation why rescues are so important. So uh that I think is really good that you're considering that.

Thank you Mr. Morgan. Next up, Camina Taylor.

Good morning.

Good morning. Just wanted to say for the last six years I have been contracting with the Delaware Children and Youth Department on opioids and THC. And I just want to say that, you know, after watching um the DA's presentation, I just want to level set just go ahead and tell you what's going on in Canada. Um, edibles, THC edibles are regulated at 10 milligrams and that's the limit. Um, in the United States that's unregulated and the average edible a teenager is getting is 600 mg of THC. And when I looked at the disposable vapes, one vape has 800 mg of THC and the opioids are highly um potent as well. So, what I thought was really interesting when he said that there's no age group or there's no race, he didn't just singular he did not deny that it's young people. And I think that, you know, I'm willing to share um some of my presentations with you guys about the dangers of what's happening to kids. I'm actually now going into elementary schools

um talking to kids about vaping, um edibles, and THC. So, I just wanted to point that out that that's to me a very important thing. And then the tip of a pencil is the amount of fentanyl that someone can overdose on. Just a tip. And what happens is when they when um they distribute opioids and give it out, the non-prescription ones, um that little bit amount can be in a pill, but depending on how you eat it, how you consume it, you may get that amount or not. So, when you collect all that stuff, that's stuff that people are willing to do. Just think about all the things that are not out there and the kids that are using. So, a tip of a pencil is the lethal uh amount of fentanyl overdose, 10 milligrams regulated in Canada versus 600 to 800 in the United States. And these are babies. And then I'm also going to share a a video. I don't know if you saw it, but a 9-year-old um in Philadelphia two weeks ago went into the bathroom, vaped, and did an edible. He ended up having 2,000 milligrams of f of of hyp potency THC in his body and he was practically cannotic and he needed when he went to the emergency room they had to handcuff him to the to the bed because he was so erratic. So I just want to share that it's a really big problem and there's a normalization culture and kids are getting it much younger. So I hope Neil that you'll enjoy my presentation when I send it because I want to make sure you guys know it. Okay.

Okay. Thank you. Yeah. send that along. All right. Uh, up next is Denise Pottinger.

Good morning. My name is Denise Pottinger and I'm here to speak on the Meals on Wheels. I see that on the agenda there's going to be a RFP for it and I just wanted to bring to the attention of the citizens how important Meals on Wheels are and maybe explain a little bit about what it is. Um the Meals on Wheels program is a nutrition and health support program that includes regular delivery to seniors in their homes. Um it's about them being independent and staying in place. There's a component of it of of um where the volunteers get into a home and someone lives by themselves and they're able to interact. The human piece of it is what I'm afraid is going to go away. Um we have different different um it it reduces isolation. So, say for example, there's a service that drops off meals and there's one where we actually have volunteers that go into the home. Those volunteers are able to observe and be the eyes of the senior services and if for example someone falls and they're in their home and they have no interaction with someone that volunteer can go in and see and pass that information on to senior services or to their care managers. Um there's also um the piece that I'm I'm very strongly in support of a lot of the meals on wheels that's done through senior services and by the way I used to work for senior service so I understand the program I was in that program for um 20 years in that office rather um you have to apply for it. My

reason for being here today is because there are times that happen, things that happen to you that are not planned. I'm a very independent person. I drive. I do everything. I had a stroke last year. I have children who are extra. There's no other way to describe that. So, they ordered meals, they moved into my house, they helped me. But let us use an example of someone whose children live in another state. they are above what the minimum um salary is to apply or income income not salary we're all retired to apply for meals on wheels however they don't have access to it because as someone who has xyz income they can't call senior services and say I need I need some help I need someone to drop meals off for me or I need someone to check in on me because they're the the parameters ers of service and care are outside of what that person is. So, um, having a program where you order a bunch of meals and it gets dropped off and then expecting a 85year-old or someone who broke their leg to go outside and pick up that box of meal and bring it inside. It's that that doesn't make sense to me.

So, we're at we're at time, but certainly uh thank you for your service to the county. Thank you. I I know uh Miss Denise, you know my mother. You knew my mother really well. Um and uh thank you for advocating uh for for meals on wheels. We are just going out to RFP. Uh we we will select multiple vendors, right, to give uh seniors choice and um we can connect you with someone on our county team if you have other suggestions um that that you weren't able to share in the three minutes. I know it goes goes quick. So, thanks for allowing me. Thank you. Nice to see you. Thank you. I I just, you know, thank you for advocating for meals on wheels. I know this has been a topic for

uh for a little while now uh and concerns and I know um different groups have reached out directly with myself. I don't know if I you know I believe my you know counterparts as well u colleagues I mean um but um and I know that ours we had a staff meet with each of the groups associated with meals on wheels in McGomery County as well so I think everything's moving in in a good path um and I don't anticipate um many changes occurring in the future I think that services will still be available for for our our elderly to decide, you know, what's best for them.

Yes. Thank you so much.

And I do one of the things I do want to mention though, um because my my mother and father were both in this situation. Both of them like got sick at the same time. Um they couldn't they were not didn't have had mobility issues, right? Luckily they had myself myself and my brother but had they not you know their income was such that right they were qualify for anything they didn't don't qualify for for anything. So I want to you know that's just something that we've got to just solve for uh as a as a country like if people find themselves like disabled and maybe spending all of their money towards health care at least very little money to to to support other other things. And these are people that have like like yourself like served um the public. My dad was a you know Korean war veteran. So thank you for raising that piece of piece of it. Something that we should really be thinking about.

Yeah. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Anyone else? That is all from Um next up, approval of the minutes. I'd like to make a motion to approve the April 9th, 2026 uh minutes of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners meeting. Is there a second? Second. Second by Commissioner McKisa. Any board comment hearing? None. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Um, next up, commissioner's appointment and reappointment to the Montgomery County Open Space Board. I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution number one as described in resolution G-1. Is there a second? Second.

Second by Commissioner McKisa. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Next up, commissioner's appointment to the Montgomery County Citizens Advisory Committee of the Office of Children and Youth. I'd like to make a motion to approve resolution number two as described in resolution G-2. Is there a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Deello. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor? I. I. Motion carries. Next up, personnel. Morning, commissioners.

Morning. You should have in front of you the final copy of the personnel list. It is a three-page document dated April 22nd, 2026 with a time stamp of 11:35 a.m. All positions have been reviewed and accounted for for your consideration. Great. I'd like to make a motion to approve the April 23rd, 2026 personnel presentation as given by Mr. Tony Brew, our chief human resource officer. Is there a second? Second.

Second by Commissioner Dello. Any board comment hearing? None. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Thank you. Um, next up, advertisements of bids and RFPs Montgomery County um, exhibit A. I'd like to make a motion to approve the advertisement of bids and RFPs for Montgomery County on attached exhibit A. Is there a second? Second. Second by Commissioner McKe. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Next up, awards of contract Montgomery County Exhibit B. I'd like to make a motion to approve the contracts, awards, amendments, and renewals for Montgomery County on attached exhibit B. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Commissioner Deello. Any board comment?

Hearing none. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Next up, awards of contract Southeast PA Regional Task Force Exhibit C. I'd like to make a motion to approve the contracts, awards, amendments, and renewals for Southeast PA Regional Task Force on attached exhibit C. Is there a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Davo. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Last but not least, advertisement of bids, RFPs, Southeast PA regional task force exhibit D. I'd like to make a motion to approve the advertisements advertisement of bids and RFPs for Southeast PA regional task force on attached exhibit Z D. Is there a second? Second.

Second by Commissioner Dello. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Yes. Next up, general public comment. First up is Ariana Rumley. Hello. Come on up.

Good morning. Good morning. So, I'm a little nervous. This is my first time presenting. Um,

right. Good morning. My name is Ariana Rumley, founder of Air Cares Childcare Center. Pennsylvania loses over 6 billion annually doing due to child care shortages impacting families, businesses, and the broader economy. More than half of working parents report missing work or being late due to child care issues. And over 150,000 families need non-traditional hour child care that is not currently available. This is especially relevant in Montgomery County. We have no licensed 24-hour child care centers and many jobs particularly particularly in healthcare logistics and essential services require non-traditional hours. This is not just a child care issue. It's a workforce and economic issue. Are Carares is a 24-hour workforce aligned child care model supporting low to moderate income parents who work non-traditional hours including nights and weekends and holidays and is grounded in Christian values with particip with participation always optional and never forced tuition is income based typically around 10% of household income for families not covered by the ELRC with a cap of $800 per month. The model is funded through multiple channels including sponsorships, employer partnerships, and ELRC subsidies. Our pilot will launch in Pottstown with plans to expand into Nortown. We have developed and validated this model with guidance from multiple organizations including WBENC and we are active members of four local Montgomery County chambers. We would appreciate any guidance, introductions or support, including alignment with economic development efforts, letters of supports, or connections to relevant funding channels. At Air Cares, our mission is to ensure child safety, strengthen family financial stability, and support the workforce while boosting economic growth. Also, I would like to take time to mention that we have spoken with the office of Senator Penny Huick

and Meline Dean. um Congresswoman Maline Dean and they've both expressed interest and the need for the model in our communities. So, thank you. You did a great job. So, let's um let's connect you with Tiffany for um uh Tiffany Thomas who leads our early childhood work. Um and Meera also with our commerce department. Um uh look child as a mom to a you saw my little five-year-old walking walking around. You know, Neil has uh Avi who's very busy and will he be three? July.

Oh, in July. He'll be three in July. We certainly understand, right? Um with with hectic schedules depending on, you know, when you need to get to work. So, thank you for sharing the the model and our team will learn a little bit more. Okay. Thank you. Next up, up next is David Morgan.

Mr. Morgan. David Morgan with Amler and a couple meetings ago I remember right uh there were people concerned about data centers and so I've been uh thinking about this issue some more and you have um the water impact I'm especially considering because um just last night's news I heard about South Florida South Carolina in Florida, wildfires, and we know the wildfires that happen in Southern California. And so, uh, our water is something we can easily take for granted. Water is so vital to everything. And a lot of the water systems have reduced staffing and expertise, uh, because of budget concerns. And a lot of them can can take an awful lot of water. Like I was reading the average data center is 300,000 gallons per day or 100 1,000 households and large ones would be 5 million per day of gallons of water and 50,000 households. So we have emergencies which would be needed to be addressed and we've had if you uh perhaps have opportunity to have research on this with fire departments. How's it been when we've had a really long stretch with no rain and we're concerned about brush fires, everything's getting dry and right now we've been blessed with some nice rain with Easter weekend. This past weekend we had good rain and everything's fresh and spring-l like but we know how it can change. So uh the water flow uh for the dam project perhaps the hydro project if we have consumption at these levels by data centers

then uh where will that stand too? Um we have um ways of dealing with this and with uh all the u real intelligence you might say artificial intelligence resources to devote to how can we use less water in these systems. How can we have recycled water? Uh they call it closed loop and using air instead of water to cool these uh systems. Uh that would I think be really worth uh finding really good research to deal with this problem. And um it's a growing problem because maybe in a few years it'll be three or four times much quadrupling the need for water. But if we have drought and you have quadruple need for water, then we've got to really think in planning with the planning commission and how do we plan ahead for this? And uh my thought was well you have uh dereks out in the ocean have oil being um accessed for energy. Why not consider having these stations in the Delaware Bay or the Lake Erie or someplace where there's abundant water where we don't have to have a farmers distress because they can't have a farm treat planters don't have anything to water their trees. Uh children don't have enough water to have a good quality water system. the drug uh program. We don't want to have uh water uh contaminated by drugs for various purposes to take back is a great idea. So we want to really work on the purity of our water and the mount amount of it

for our children and children to be born. Thank you. Thanks Mr. Morgan. Uh finally we have Jim Thomas just as next person's coming up. Um all great all really good points. Unfortunately, as a board of commissioners, we have no authority or say on any of that. You have a seminar on that which was postponed.

Uh it's Yes, there's it will be coming up. Yes. But um but there's a lot of information about closed loop systems. There's there's a ton of stuff out there. Um and it's all the water usage is all highly regulated. So um but unfortunately and we have no say over where these data centers are going to be placed either. I mean, I think it's a great idea that put them out in the ocean, but whatever. But we we have no we have no we don't have we don't have any say or authority over dictating where anything is built in McGomery County. I'm rather working with the state article about the state regulating water investigation.

Right. The state has authority to regulate D EPA. There's all kind of things that are in place. Um that has all heavy involvement. Uh, I'm just want to make sure that again, you raised a lot of really good points. I'm just saying that we as a board don't have authority over it, unfortunately.

Yeah. And and Mr. Morgan, we did hold just like a data center 101 event last week. Uh, Davey, our planning commission, just understanding that we don't have the authority right here. you know, uh we do believe at times we do have a responsibility to at least uh educate uh people on what we know and what we don't don't know. So, we did do that uh last last week. I don't know if there's a recording or anything. Dave, is there a recording? So, maybe we can get to that record. So, we're going to we're going to move move on. We can talk after. Go ahead. I'm sorry about that. Hi, Jim Thomas from uh Gwenned. Good morning.

And uh yeah, that topic is very important because they're going to compete for us. the data centers are going to compete for the humans for water and electricity, raising our prices, raising our uh decreasing the quality of our water and increasing the cost. Uh this is a critical thing for our health and safety. And so uh I echo his comments and looking forward to figuring out how we can make a difference in the state's appropriations or uh the state's um allocations of these centers possibly keeping them out of uh Pennsylvania. So thank you for your efforts. I wanted to touch upon a couple of uh topics. Um uh Kevin Steele was here talking about fentinel. Um fentinel was invented by Jansen Pharmaceuticals JS Pharmaceuticals and the production of fentinel was moved to China in 1985 by Jansen. So uh our pharmaceutical companies moved it there and uh with a supercomputer and with that supercomputer they um invented things like carfentinel and u and other stronger um fentinels for our intelligence agencies. Um this may be a problem that our intelligence agencies and we created. We may want to look into that. The antidote is presumably nlloxxone or narcan. Um that's a short acting. It lasts for only 20 minutes and you often have to have stack of them especially for our first responders if they come in contact with it. There's a medication called nalrexone uh nalrexone. Nalrexone is a long acting version of anti-fentinyl medication. lowd dose nrexone may be given to our should be considered to be given to our first responders and to our uh um and more police to make sure that if they come in contact with this they have something on board already so that they don't they don't come in contact with it and lowd

dose nrexone may have some health benefits as well anti-cancer anti-tumor activity um another topic about um medications there was a um there was a scare a couple of years ago in 2021 where they found some small pox vials labeled small pox in the merc plant around here. Um they found out they believe it was vaccinia virus. Um last meeting I discussed a medication called nitoxinide or alineia that seems to stop small pox, uh monkey pox, Ebola. And I'd like you and I sent you guys an email about um some vaccine issues and this is possible antidote or possible alternative to vaccines. I'd like to uh um have further discussion with you about that and um further discussion about vaccine mandates. We want our children to be safe. We want everybody to be safe from these possible threats. I challenge each one of you to give us a list of what's inside each vaccine and vaccine attributes. So, if you could do that for me, I'd appreciate it.

Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else? That is it for public comment. Okay. All right. Any closing commissioner comments? No, you did a great job today trying to beat Commissioner's record. I was looking I was looking at the watch. We weren't going to make it. did at a point tried to speed it up. Speed it up. Yeah. Good. Anything? Nope. All right. We're all good. Uh, next board of commissioners meeting is May 7th at 10 a.m. in the the boardroom. Um, so I'd like to make a motion to adjourn the April 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. Is there a second? Second. Uh, seconded by Commissioner Deello. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor?

I. I. Motion carries. Next up, salary board. I'd like to invite invite our controller up. Any public comment for salary board. Okay. Invite uh Tony Brew up.

Good morning, members of the salary board. You should have in front of you a copy of the salary board list. There's a four-page document dated April 22nd, 2026 with a time stamp of 11:35 a.m. All positions have been reviewed and are accounted for for your consideration. Great. I'd like to make a motion to approve the April 23rd, 2026 salary board presentation as given by Mr. Tony Brew, chief human resource officer. Is there a second? Second by Commissioner Mccasia. Any board comment here. Yeah, look at look at you. You're like feeling the second

um any board comment hearing? None. All in favor? I motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Like to make a motion to adjourn the April 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Montgomery County Salary Board. Is there a second? Second. Uh seconded by Commissioner Dello. Any board comment? Hearing none. All in favor? I. Motion carries. Meeting is adjourned. I think we have a election board meeting right now. So,

okay. Thank you, controller Hart. Unless you want to be on the election board, you're you're you're free to go. So, we'll switch All right. So, we will call to order the Montgomery County Election Board. Seeing all three members present. And is there any public comment? Any public comment for the election board in the room? Okay, that

great. Uh, no public comments. Moving on to approval of the minutes. Is there a motion to approve the April 9th, 2026 minutes of the election board? Is there a motion? Oh, I'll make a motion. Moved by Commissioner Winder. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Commissioner Devel. All in favor? I. Minutes are approved. Moving on to some polling location changes. We'll hear from our director of elections.

Good morning, election board. Here today to request authorization for the relocation of seven polling locations for the 2026 primary election taking place on May 18th, 2026. Notice has been posted at these locations that the polls are being moved as required by law and the locations have all been notified of the move. We've notified representatives from the county Republican and Democratic committees regarding these moves. In addition to being uh to notice being posted, uh every voter in these precincts will be mailed a new voter ID card indicating the location change and identifying their new polling location. Those are scheduled to go out in the mail tomorrow pending today's vote. I'm happy to answer any questions you have and request the board approve these locations as provided.

Just quick recap why why we're moving. Sure. Uh most of the uh moves are due to construction uh occurring at the polling location. Uh one location that houses two polls uh the church on the mall is closing at the end this month. So it will be fully unavailable uh for the rest of the year.

Uh we did our best to try and find new locations that can uh serve as the poll for both the primary and the general. However, that wasn't possible in all uh cases. So, we will be looking to come back to the board very quickly after the primary to identify a new location and get those voter ID cards out and notice out to all those voters to make sure that they're well aware in advance of the November election. Great. And the ones that you're going to propose on the 23rd, those are for the general. Uh, no, these are for the upcoming primary. So, those will also be changed before the primary. Yes. the uh on this uh the location spreadsheet that was provided. Those are all to be changed for uh this primary.

Got it. And how quickly will you be notifying the voters? Tomorrow. Tomorrow? Yes. For all of them? Yes. Got it. But not the ones that we're going to vote on on the 23rd. No, the Yes. We're going to notify them for those two. That's today. Okay. Today. The ones that Oh, today's the 23rd. We're fine. Sorry. You say I'm getting my I know. I know.

Got it. Um, perfect. Perfect. Getting it all done right now on the 23rd. Um, any questions? Any other questions? Yeah. I just didn't know why it was uh Okay. Oh, you you have on the agenda the previous ones just for Yes, I got it. Great. Okay. Move to approve the relocation of the seven polling locations listed on the attached document titled polling locations for 423 26 election board meeting. So move moved by Commissioner Wer. Is there a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Zabello. All board comment. All in favor? I

I the motion is approved and the changes are authorized. Great. Any closing election board comments? Okay. Cool. All right. Is there a motion to adjourn the April 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Montgomery County Election Board? So move by Commissioner Po. I'll second that. Second by Commissioner Winder. Any board comment? All in favor? I I meeting is do we do retirement report now or no? to we could just go right into

Yeah. Hey, hey, hey. Hallelujah.