Remarks by Bob Ellis
208 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 9
- Play at 6:22:01
“I'm not really sure. We're just talking about like we wouldn't offer one of these this year? For 2027. For 2027.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“I mean, we have a, we just, you said you're gonna have this information, response back from Anthem on Friday. Right. Regarding that, it's fully insured stuff, narrowing the network options on the other, May take some time, high degree of certainty around them, being able to project out what you might save and all that sort of stuff may be difficult. But we could definitely go down the path of doing this RFP on this other thing, get that out there, right? We have a special called meeting on what date?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:23:09
“I mean, is there anything that would prevent us from adding this on to that, to solely address this at that meeting?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:23:59
“So you're going to have the information by the 18th or the 25th? For Anthem.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:24:11
“No, no, no, no, no. For the discount piece. Are you talking about the 18th or the 25th? I guess there's a question for.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“The 25th. And our meeting is scheduled for the 30th. Okay. I don't know. I just opened it up for discussion. I mean, I'm. you know, we could approve something with a contingency in it and ask for a comeback and revisit it or, you know, we just hold it till we got that information. What does that do to our schedule and all that sort of stuff?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:41:23
“I've said my piece. I mean, I just couldn't proceed, give us some direction about which way we want to go. Certainly, I mean, I guess there's no harm in approving all these other things that there is no disagreement on.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:41:48
“That was me. Commissioner Ellis. But that didn't seem to be the will of the other folks.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:51:40
“So procedurally we need to do 580 and those two, right?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:51:51
“We're still not to the action items yet.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:53:44
“So we need to bifurcate 0582 to only include just the non-anthem plans, correct?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 6:53:52
“This is for the administration piece. Yes. For division.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“Mr. Chair. Yes, you have the floor, Commissioner. Yeah, I'd just like to request consideration as we move to the commissioner's action items that we move up and have heard first, 260606, which is an item related to, that I'm also have been working with a couple of members from our youth commission. and they've been waiting patiently up here and wanted to allow them to be part of this. And then before we went on to get into these other discussion items, which may take a little bit longer.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“be real brief in sort of introducing this. Kratom, those who are familiar with it, it's a natural leaf, but it's been modified synthetically and it's being sold in a lot of high potency, you know, substances that are being promoted as supplements and other types of things, many times in gas stores, vape shops, et cetera, with a lot of time for folks to have no idea what's in it. It's become sort of a gateway for folks who previously were Addicted to opioids and now we're addicted to this stuff. There have been a lot of unfortunate things that have happened from a medical standpoint in terms…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you both. We really appreciate it and bringing this forward. And I hope we could have unanimous passage on this. And with this urgent resolution, we would present this and share this with the House Committee that's meeting on the subject right now.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“shucking a lot of corn and shelling a lot of peas and watching mom and grandma can a lot of beans and stuff i'm all in support of uh of gardening i just my only my only question commissioner and was just more just the practicality of the time frame and we obviously have a lot of stuff going on right now in terms of budget formation all that sort of stuff and just in section six it talks about a within a 60 days and directly the county manager do certain things just sort of just more just the practicality of being able to drive, bring a lot of that stuff forward. So that was really my only…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I'd like to make some introductory comments. I realize we're not going to vote up, but when we get to mine, you can go ahead and take care of this other thing. I'll just make some comments on it. All right. Which other one?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 7:24:05
“No, no. I mean, part of this is about getting the conversation started. That's why these are on the agenda. So I know it's 512, but I think we can briefly get the conversation started. So if you want to, you can take this other one, 603, and then I'm happy to comment on my stuff.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 7:25:17
“Yeah. You want me to just make some comments on 605?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 7:25:25
“I'll just speak to this broadly and specifically to the item that I brought forward. Look, we've had a lot of conversations around ethics and so forth, and some of this stuff has come up. Ultimately, we need an ethics code that establishes public trust, has got clear standards of conduct and provisions regarding conflict of interest, nepotism, et cetera, recusal, all those things. But it also needs to be something that the people that have to follow it understand it, it's clear to them, so they have the confidence to act. you know, in their capacity and not being subjected to attempts of…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
- Play at 7:37:17
“That was on there as a placeholder. I think we discussed that already. Okay. Thank you.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 16, 2026
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“Chair. Yes, sir. I would like to join in and say amen to what the Vice Chair indicated as well. Okay. We don't need that up here.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
- Play at 57:58
“Yeah, I had just a couple questions. Can you educate me on the eligibility criteria? Why just unindicted cases versus unindicted and indicted cases?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seemed like that would be a bigger universe of people.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026