Remarks by James E. (Jeb) Ball
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Thank you, Selena. Any questions for Selena?
Public hearing open on this case. Is there anybody signed up to speak? Okay. Okay, who are you? Okay, so, yeah, come on up. We'll let the, is this like a for and against type? We'd strongly support it. Strongly support it, okay.
All right, so anybody, let's go this route. Has anybody signed up to speak against this rezoning? Everybody else is for it? Does the rest of the four people want to speak on it, or I mean, we get the gist of it. I mean, this is definitely a piece of property that just needs the tail end of it matching the front end of it.
It's got the highest scorecard of all our cases today. So if y'all feel comfortable not talking to us, David, just let us know. All right, y'all good? All right. Well, you already talked. I'm sorry. All right. Public hearing's closed.
Got a motion and a second to approve the request. All in favor hereby say aye. Aye.
All right. I would say we've made good time. I told Commissioner McKenzie I want to get out by at least 12, 12.05. I'm Close to it. Anything else? For the greater good, we've got to go through our charts. We've got press. Any press? No. What else I got to say? I hope those are short. Commissioner, comments. You go first, Matt.
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And it don't show you nothing. I can't see it because of the glare.
You know what they say about having clocks in buildings? Everybody's always checking the time. That's why you don't put them in churches and stuff.
Well, that was a request. I didn't know if you had a comment. That was my request. Okay.
Yeah, I mean, I'm going to make it short. Everybody's already said all their thanks, and I've done go unrecognized, and I have shared my blessings and thanks with this staff today and how gracious I am to be able to be a part of this organization and have a – employees like we have you know it's tough it's tough to do this job that we do up here and I appreciate the employees that hardly ever get recognized which is the four of us that sit up here so thank you Matt billy joe and Skip for all that you do because it's our jobs are not easy and I think the public does not realize that but that's…
Good morning and welcome to our work session today, September 15th work session. I'm going to get a commissioner Underwood to lead us in the invocation followed by commissioner McKenzie with the pledge of allegiance. If you don't mind, please stand.
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All right. You just if you don't mind, I'd like to have a Beth go ahead since the budget is underneath the section to go ahead and kind of give the recap of the budget before we get it.
I don't have any questions. Y'all want to make a comment while you're here?
Thank you so very much. Are you going to go before me or are you the chairman on this? Nope. That's okay. Go ahead.
Thank you Beth. Thank you Roger And all the department heads and and the collaboration to get this to where it needed to be I mean You know, when we have our budget deliberations, I think really it should be two meetings, one meeting to discuss what's happening and one meeting to finalize it because we challenged y'all to come to us with a balanced budget. There's no reason for us to have to cut things. There's no reason for us to have to nitpick and choose. You bring a balanced budget to commission. If we like it, we pass it. And that's what y'all did. And it was, I think just reflecting…
I thought they were going to start moving. That's what I was waiting on. I love it. I love it.
Thank you commissioner Gruber for your leadership on, on your last budget deliberation process. It went real smooth. I appreciate your leadership as well. So thank you.
Yeah. The reason we did that and Roger, thank you for pulling that up because I mean, this is consent agenda. That's a huge item just to pass with one motion without having a little background on what went on because there's so much that went on. We're going to pass that thing in one second. And there's so much that went on in that that it can't go unrecognized. All right, so we're down to our CIS item. I just always approve these because I trust Brian. something we need so are y'all good with that we have a couple of elective officials items one you know it's cut and dry it looks like and…
So, so when we pass this agenda item, do I, do we just, do we say the amount or how do you want to do that?
Alright, looks like our grants, we've got a lot. Man, I love seeing this. I mean, look at how our grants department is working. 18 items. This is just another way that we can show people and the public that we're always looking for money other than taxpayers' dollars to do things with. These CBDGR grants are, if you go in and look into these files you'll see how much they're helping our local municipalities that are in need of some of these things and and some of the some of the grants and stuff it just it just showed a breakdown of where all this money was going so I want to thank Brian and…
I said, Brian and his staff. I didn't, I forget all who works over there. I didn't, I didn't want to call out names. I didn't know. So we've got a large, large staff. If we, if we just, if my numbers are calculated correctly based on what Beth presents, 1,221 people. So between the commission and share. So, so I don't know every one of them. That's my fault. But yeah. Y'all good with these? Yes. All right. Highway items. I'm good with those.
No, we do not. Have all day. I'm the chairman. And I've never said that before, but we don't have all day.
Maybe again. All right. So let's go to our public comments. I'm going to need some help with hollering out who's here to speak since I have no more computer. Come on up, sir, to the podium. You can just state your name and what department you're with and what you're going to be talking about.