Remarks by James E. (Jeb) Ball
346 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 14
Thank you. As Commissioner Gruber always says, thanks to all the staff that's involved in putting the agenda together. It takes a lot to do this, and so I won't belabor the meeting any longer with comments. But I do appreciate all y'all's help, and hopefully this thing that we did is going to give some of our staff a break tonight. and figure out how to work towards another process of making those rezoning cases go smoothly. All right. Any other greater good from the dais up here?
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.
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
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.
Yes, sir. You just pass them on down the line there.
in about 10 minutes, so we got to go. Oh, no way. I'm so sorry. It's okay. No, no big deal. I'm, I'm, I'm a, I'm a gracious person right now because I understand it, but we, we are going to have to take a little break before our next meeting. So if you want to wrap it up and then as commissioner, I was going to, yeah, we can, we can help you out.
All right. We are going to break until 10 o'clock. Our work session is over. 10 o'clock commission meeting, Tuesday, September the 15th. Today we have with us Pastor Brent Shaw with First Baptist Church of Fairhope to deliver our invocation. And I will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance afterwards. Thank you.
Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, All right, commissioners, we got, before we get started today, a few cleanup matters that we need to take care of from the work session. If y'all will look, we have three addenda items that can be easily moved over to our consent agenda if you so wish.
All right. So we have moved our addenda GA1 through GA3 to our consent agenda. We will have a presentation by our highway department in a little while as well as what did we decide to do, Frank, with that senior staff report?
I concur. We've done a lot at Blakely to help them out. And this is a chance to help out all citizens of Baldwin county at this intersection that travel through there is definitely a safety. Issued and would be a great great a qualifier and and I think Asked to for this a trip fund to go to that project.
All right. Thank you, Frank, for that. And I will bring back up your item before we get into public hearing. So don't just stand, stay tuned. All right. So commissioners, we need to, and I missed all of this stuff. Did you have a county attorney report? That's always good no no executive sessions neither okay we didn't do commissioner requests but we allowed Matt to steal the spotlight with his presentation so but we'll we'll do commissioner comments later on all right sorry about that I've noticed that we didn't have any time to take a break before the meeting so anyway so commissioner…
Motion and a second to adopt the meeting minutes from September 1st. I'm just thinking about why I chose Skip. For eight years, Skip has always adopted the minutes, so we keep it going. So we got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right, we got our committee reports.
And a motion and a second to pay the bills. Any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor say aye.
second that motion motion in a second to ratify payments as described in policy 8.1 any further discussion all in favor say aye all right next up is our consent agenda please note whoever makes the motion that we've included The three addenda items, GA1 through GA3, as well as our revenue commissioner's salary will need to be stated for the record.