Remarks by Bob Ellis
208 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 9
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“What would be the cadence of that playing out? when would that likely start?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“I had one more question on this before we get off this topic. You mentioned the bail project being, having difficulty interceding in this because of some of their other issues.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“If we had other partners, we need to try to seek other partners into this in addition to the bail project.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Going back to the consolidated trial calendar, you mentioned that the judge, that senior judge who had been working with this wanted to take a step back. So that coincide with, so you've gone to, you've cut the number in half through the end of the year. Is that the way for me to read this?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay. Was that done more for funding or because the judge wasn't available? Funding. It was driven by funding.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, all right, so the priority right now is really just identifying the resources to get back to kind of what we have currently, what we previously had. And then any future things on that really is gonna require a lot more thought to it. Imagine there could be some space issues too, potentially.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, what do you, do you have an estimate of what that would be through the end of the year?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“So I guess roughly, I'm just thinking through kind of like the analysis we went through with state court and we had a judge and all that sort of stuff and just doing the math. So the magnitude of this probably all in is annualized as less than probably about What, 700 to 750,000, something in that neighborhood? Certainly under a million, probably. Okay. Not between half to a million. Yes. Okay.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, well, maybe I don't try to put anybody on the spot with just directly on numbers or who and all that sort of stuff, but I'd like our staff to go back and I know we've got a couple of other things that we've had sort of on here that we've continued to discuss. We're gonna have at least, I think we're gonna have at least a million bucks worth of funding, which we could identify to apply towards these types of initiatives, whether it's, I'm talking about throughout for the rest of this year, it gets a little bit different in terms of an annualized figure, but I'd like to see you all come…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine that we're not gonna be able to identify at least a million bucks on that, but stranger things have happened, so we'll hopefully have better information on our tax digest and all that sort of stuff to be able to make that a reality.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Commissioner Ellis? One more thing, too. In Judge McBurney, if we acted upon this, and this, you know, in essence becomes moved from being a grant-funded program to, you know, a direct county general funding program, in order to sort of assess do we want to continue it and all that sort of stuff, because I do think there were some pivot points that could come in there, like, hey, we get an additional judge, that's going to mean... we've got to consider more overall funding for that and all that sort of stuff, and how does that work? Or maybe some trade-offs, right, where we want to roll that…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, because I think this is a good thing. But the way it's, it should generally be something that's probably at some point in time temporary if we have. We ought to be self-sustaining. Right. Got it. Thank you.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Yeah, just so I understand, the emergency procurement was for to do the assessment and so forth, right? And then we learned in the assessment that maybe things weren't quite as bad as what because we're not elevator experts, right? That's why we had to engage these people. Elevators are pretty complex. If you look at elevator repair projects, replacement, whatever, in significant buildings, they tend to take a while, right? Very few people that do it. We weren't experts. So we hired the expert. They give us the assessment. The assessment actually turned out to be better than what we thought.…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, all right, all right. And so, you know, so we'll just, all right. So it's here before us to approve and then kind of get paced through, you know, just like any other project would, right? Yes, sir.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Update in terms of what our net new hiring position is for detention officers to date.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“All right, Commissioner Ellis. Just real quick. Sure. Yeah, I mean, just not really any questions, but just put the goal up there. The goal's 200, not monthly goal, it's our yearly goal. Put it up there, 200, track our progress. We're at 29%. Put that up there, that's our target. That's what we should be measuring ourselves up against. The time to fill is interesting, but it's also somewhat of a misnomer since we didn't do really jack squat up until the last couple of months. Right? I mean, let's just call a spade a spade. And then, like, we did, it looks like this process actually could work…”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“All right, so that's the validating piece that it can work if we follow it through and we do the work. But right now, we didn't do anything in these months, so we're at 29%, at a target of 200%. Right?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“All right, put it up there. 200 is the target.”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“Okay, that sort of answers my question, and it doesn't really answer my question. Has it been handed over to the tax commissioner or not, and sort of when, do we have a line of sight in terms of when, and I realize there's two parties in this, but when we could receive a digest?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“And that information has been provided to him as of when?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026
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“That information was provided to them yesterday?”
Board of Commissioners · Sep 2, 2026