Remarks by Bob Ellis
208 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 9
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“Okay, all right. So it's in abeyance until, you know, whatever their secondary review of their budget takes place.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. We've got a couple of these things anticipated launch August. Are these like, we're pretty darn sure they're gonna be happening in August?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“All right, so firm on the bond review. Yes, sir. Okay, all right, 8-3, you said, okay. And then this consolidated trial of motions calendar, that still needs a lot of work.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“But you have to hire for and all that sort of stuff, right?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Correct. So this has some lead time for it to really play out and happen and have any sort of impact. But bond review calendar, start in 8-3, that's a no. Text reminders, target. Consolidated trial, needs more work. On this, the stand up arrest, so forth, maybe you said that in here, like we're thinking we could have this sort of operational potentially by when?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, I see, by end of 2026. Yes. Okay. Yes. All right. All right. So this is creeping along as well. Do we call how many bookings we have into the jail roughly? I know it varies, but just a rough annual average of that? How many total bookings? Yeah.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“So upwards of 24,000. So, you know, impact on this, under 1,000, in terms of what, you know, potential impact on that, if it's fully launched. And then on the last prong, Is this just for, I guess, is this just for private lab testing or? It would be the full package.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“So that's what we mean, we're talking about expert testimony relative to the testing. Yes, sir.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. And as it stands right now, The GBI provides that service to all courts around the state. 100, yep, every judicial district. At no cost to them.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“All right, okay. So this would be other labs. How would those be identified, sourced, approved, validated, et cetera?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. Are those, are these labs more, Do other jurisdictions kind of use this stuff too? Are these like state contracts that are? That I don't know, sir.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. And then this population impact, up to 2,000 current drug cases eliminated. I guess I'm... I'm having trouble a little bit just sort of translating this into like what that ultimately looks like and means for impact within kind of our jail facilities.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. But would this suggest that when you say up to 2,000 current drug cases eliminated, this would mean that whether they're incarcerated or not, would this mean that there'd be 2,000 cases that would be- Disposed of. Disposed of annually that wouldn't be disposed of?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“And wasn't there some additional funding and so forth that was done for the sexual assault kits over the past two to three years?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“I'm talking about more like at a state level and some other grants that were provided for that?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, which is the same concept that we're talking about here, right? It's sexual assault slash rape falls in that. Okay, that grant is sort of specific to that kind of funding for that.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, but this one may not necessarily, I mean, this sounds like that's more specific to other, okay. Okay, all right, thank you.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, so they have the ability to do that. All right, I'll just say up front, where we're at right now is really an unacceptable point. I mean, this is highly disappointing. The two parties that are involved in this, I might cast some blame one way or the other, but you got one job and it didn't get done. And that's a failure that impacts all of us as well as all of our jurisdictions. I think communication is critical to these other parties. I've had some of this communication directly myself, so I do understand that it doesn't seem like there has been a high level of, much of any…”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, all right, just so we're clear on that. And then we're gonna be going through our normal process of millage rate setting but that will occur at some future point in time once we receive a digest. And at this point in time, we have no estimated timeline for receipt of that digest.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Again, similar to the conversation we were having relative to the sheriff's hiring, I don't wanna hear excuses. We had a plan which we adopted, a timeline which we had all agreed to, and it got missed. I've listened in to meetings, heard stuff and all that, And I hear a lot about how sausage is made and all that sort of stuff, but bottom line is, one job to do, there were enough tools there to get the work done, and it didn't get done. There's no blame on this for, you know, we can't blame a system. you know, just like we can't blame a building over at the jail, we can't blame this…”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, that would be useful to know. And we're using, these are different parties than we use in the primary? Different staffing firm?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, in the, this is a total not to exceed amount of 8.95 million. This is within the scope of what your budget allows right now, is that correct?”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026
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“Okay, and then it looks like there's sort of it's split 6.6 for the general and 2.4 for runoff, so would those be up to amounts too? Kind of like we were just planning.”
Board of Commissioners · Jul 15, 2026