Remarks by Charles F. (Skip) Gruber
76 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
I got a motion made by Commissioner Underwood to approve case number Z2635 Gulf Coast Farm LLC property rezoning request.
Seconded by Commissioner McKenzie. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye. Ayes have it. Thank you very much. All right, next up is the case number Z2600026. I should say 36, I'm sorry. That's a typo. No, yeah, it's case number Z2636. Yes, sir.
Okay. Commissioner, do you all have any questions from Dana?
Okay. Is there anyone signed up to... Okay, hearing no one else, and public hearing is open. Does nobody want to speak or against this? Public hearing is closed. Commissioners?
I got a motion made by Commissioner McKenzie, seconded by Commissioner Underwood to approve case number Z26-36, the MAE property rezoning request. Any further discussion? If not, all in favor signify by saying aye.
The ayes have it. Okay. That brings us to the press questions. Any press questions? All right. Hearing none. Commission comments? Commissioner...
all they do to get this meeting underway so that we can conduct the business of the county. I know we had a long meeting today and we covered a lot of ground, though, and I'm glad the way everything turned out. So I just want to, again, thank everybody for what they do in this county. This is a big county. And I want to apologize also for missing the meetings with the storm. I was under the weather. I was not able to make the meetings, but in my heart, I was there with y'all. cheering you all on and just hoping that we'd make the very best of what we did. And then EMA did an excellent job…
Go ahead, Mr. Chairman. I just want to thank you for putting everything together on this. You know, it all started really last year's budget. when we put together last year's, it was the start of this year's budget. You know, there's a lot of things we geared into and we just carried it forward and made it better. So, well, thank you for that. And I know the employees are gonna be grateful. And, you know, we still got a decent budget. We still gonna be able to do things. So, I mean, you know, it's not like we had to, Forget everything we have, you know, we still got a lot of stuff that we're…
Sounds good. That program has been around for quite a while, and it makes it so much easier when we've got the state behind us helping on these projects. That's all right.
I don't know what Commissioner Gruber feels like Yeah, I think that the 32 is a good good project and It's, it's narrow. I mean, you know, it's, it really needs something. You got all that school traffic and plus you got all the other traffic that that's commuting up and down 32 and 181 there. So, you know, I think it would be a, I think it'd be a good project. So it's going to be a costly project, you know, because it's going, I don't know what y'all thinking a roundabout or something. I don't know what you, what the, what they would allow. Because it is a state road, so they're going to…
Okay. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we adopt the September 1st, 2026 regular meeting. Yes.
All right. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we pay the bills, and in this invoice, there's 648 invoices, and the distributed totaling of $18,075,797.35. Y'all have heard the motion? I'll second it.
Aye. Mr. Chairman, also make a motion that we ratify of interim payments as allowed by policy 8.1, which includes 69 invoices and a distribution totaling $3,572,494.53.
I need a vote or something to get started.
Yes, I do. Make a motion that we approve case number Z26-29 handling property rezoning request.
I want to thank the staff for getting us where we're at today. We had quite a bit of an agenda here. And also, I just want to thank the budget staff for adopting a $276,661,927 budget. which is a pretty good-sized budget. It's gonna be put to good use, and I wanna thank everybody who had anything to do with the budget. It was a different time this time, but it all goes back to, we started it last year when we were going over the budget, and we're just continuing it on.
Go ahead, Mr. Chairman. I just want to thank you for putting everything together on this. You know, it all started really last year's budget. when we put together last year's, it was the start of this year's budget. You know, there's a lot of things we geared into and we just carried it forward and made it better. So, well, thank you for that. And I know the employees are gonna be grateful. And, you know, we still got a decent budget. We still gonna be able to do things. So, I mean, you know, it's not like we had to, Forget everything we have, you know, we still got a lot of stuff that we're…
Sounds good. That program has been around for quite a while, and it makes it so much easier when we've got the state behind us helping on these projects. That's all right.
I don't know what Commissioner Gruber feels like Yeah, I think that the 32 is a good good project and It's, it's narrow. I mean, you know, it's, it really needs something. You got all that school traffic and plus you got all the other traffic that that's commuting up and down 32 and 181 there. So, you know, I think it would be a, I think it'd be a good project. So it's going to be a costly project, you know, because it's going, I don't know what y'all thinking a roundabout or something. I don't know what you, what the, what they would allow. Because it is a state road, so they're going to…
Okay. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we adopt the September 1st, 2026 regular meeting. Yes.
All right. Mr. Chairman, I'll make a motion that we pay the bills, and in this invoice, there's 648 invoices, and the distributed totaling of $18,075,797.35. Y'all have heard the motion? I'll second it.
Aye. Mr. Chairman, also make a motion that we ratify of interim payments as allowed by policy 8.1, which includes 69 invoices and a distribution totaling $3,572,494.53.
I need a vote or something to get started.
Yes, I do. Make a motion that we approve case number Z26-29 handling property rezoning request.