Remarks by James E. (Jeb) Ball
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All right, I'll go ahead and call this Tuesday, October 20th work session to order. I'm going to ask Commissioner Underwood, if she don't mind, lead us in the blessing, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Commissioner Gruber, please stand and let's bow our heads.
Thank you. All right, so right now what we are going to do is work on putting our consent agenda together, and I'm I want to welcome everybody here today to this beautiful morning and great work session that we're about to have. So, so on our consent agenda commissioners, we have our administrative items. I think on a couple of these, we can, we can go ahead and consent. There's on item CA three, there's another monetary donation. coming from the Fly High Goose Foundation. And I think they will be at their 10 o'clock meeting to talk about what they're going to be wanting to do around the same…
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Well, especially thank you for having lunch with me that one time. Yeah. And we're touching base about what Ray and Nir does for our community and how we're partners. And I had no idea that something like this would ever come out of that conversation. But when I, when I started talking about Christmas lights at bicentennial park, I could see you were interested in it back then. So almost two years ago, that's crazy how we're here today. And I appreciate your confidence and y'all's interest in helping Baldwin county commission out with this project, because it does take now a lot of outside…
or y'all take this as a consent item, okay? Yes. All right, we have our items in budget and purchasing. That is CE1 through CE14, or excuse me, CE15.
Damn good. All good. Now we got a item with the sheriff's office transfer seven vehicles to Baldwin County commission to be sold on gov deals. Okay. Commissioner group. I hadn't heard you today. All right. So we got EMA items. We've got a couple of things here. 2026, Baldwin County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, as well as a joint funding agreement with the U.S. Department of Interior, U.S. Geological Survey for engaging states. I'm good with those. Yeah, I'm good.
Good with these? Yeah. Okay. Highway item? Wow, two items, huh? Yes.
Yeah, I'm good with those. Good with those. All right, personnel.
All right. So this is the end of our consent agenda, which is meaning we're nearing the end of our work session time. But this is also the time for our public comments section. Now, if you are here for a 10 o'clock planning and zoning case, you're more than welcome to speak during public comments, but you will have a time to speak when your case is heard at 10 o'clock for the public hearing. So is there anybody, Roxanne, is there anybody signed up to speak for the public? Is there anybody out here that wishes to speak to the commission in public comments? All right. We ain't had that in a…
GA1 has to be, I think, voted on, right?
Commissioner Gruber, are you okay with that? Yep, I'm fine. Okay. So we will add FE1 to the consent.
And the rest we'll take care of when we open up our 10 o'clock meeting. Just remember, commissioners, hang up before we do a question. When we do this adoption, I mean, you see all the red on this when we kind of take action at 10 o'clock, so. Just make sure when whoever makes, Commissioner Gruber will make the motion, I'm sure, to adopt these meeting minutes, but you got a lot of stuff to read right there, so I'm just drawing your attention to it before we get to that point. Anybody else got a commissioner request?
We should be to the point. I understand what happened is you had all these guys working, everybody else at home. You get paid twice for that, and I get it.
I had two call me and thank me for letting them off. Other than that, that was a hundred.
Nope. I don't have one. So senior staff.
Absolutely. Well, thank you. Well, thank you all. Good work, good teamwork. Good. County attorney's report.
So, commission, y'all have heard our attorney's advice.
And I'll second that. We've got a motion and a second to go on to executive session.
Aye. And for the record, we will return at our regular meeting at 10 o'clock and not reconvene this work session. Open up our regular meeting of the October 20th Baldwin County Commission regular meeting. Today, joining us, As a minister of pastoral care, it's a church of his presence, Randy K. Worrell. If you would, please come up and deliver our invocation today and followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by... Who did it last? Commissioner Gruden? Yeah. Commissioner McKenzie will do it the next one.
Thank y'all, y'all can have a seat. All right, commissioners, first up on our agenda is item A, which is the adoption of minutes.
Hey, Commissioner Underwood, if you would, you said County Road 64.
Okay, y'all heard the motion. I'll second. We got a motion and a second to everything that you just heard. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All right, so now we need a motion on the October 6th, excuse me, October 7th emergency special meeting, meeting.
We got a motion and a second to adopt the minutes for October 7th, 2026, the emergency special meeting for the hurricane that I still can't pronounce. So all those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay.
We never said it, so we didn't get used to it. All right. Road and bridge division meeting adoption minutes for July 14th, 26.