Remarks by Matt Salka
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Great, thank you. Let's all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.
We move on to today's agenda. There are two main sections on our agenda. One is the consent agenda, and then the decision agenda. The consent agenda is designed to approve projects in a single motion that, while important, do not require board or staff discussion. Do either commissioners wish to remove anything from today's agenda? If not, I would entertain a motion.
Okay, neither do I. Then I would entertain a motion to approve today's agenda.
Okay, there's a motion to approve today's agenda. All those in favor?
Aye. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. Next here is any identification of potential perceived conflicts of interest. Do the Commissioners have any?
Neither do I. Thank you. All right. Next is approval of minutes. We have seven sets of minutes. I would like to have two motions here, one through six. All three county commissioners were in attendance. And the last one, number seven, Commissioner Philbrick was excused. I don't recall which one it was, but I do remember it was an item that you were at. And you weren't one to disclose that, if you will. All right. With that, I would entertain a motion to approve today's minutes one through six.
Great. There's a motion through one through six of all three county commissioners in attendance. All those in favor?
Aye. Motion passes. Next is a motion for item number seven for the minutes, and that's June 23, 2026. Commissioner Philbrick was out. I would entertain a motion. Commissioner Porter-Norton.
Thank you. There's a motion. All those in favor?
Thank you. Is that correct, right? I'm not giving you your motion or your vote. Okay. All right. We'll go on to the next item here, and that is open this up to public comment portion of the meeting. And I will hand this over to Sarah.
First, I will start in the room. Is there anyone in the room that would like to speak during public comments? All right. I saw your hands first, sir, and then we'll follow up with you, sir. Either way. Okay. All right. No, no, no, sir. Please, you're already close to the die.
And if you like... We typically do not comment during public comment, but if you would want to provide your contact information for Jeff, our interim manager, that's something that if you would like, we can have him follow up with you. Oh, yeah, that would be great. OK. Thank you. If you wanted to get some paper, if you can put that information on, Jeff, we'll have Jeff reach out to you. Sir, you're next, and then I will call online.
I'd be happy to follow up with you on this.
No, no, no. What I would like to do is have a more constructive conversations together if you would like. I'd be more than happy to sit down with you on these items. And then we can actually have a back and forth, a good healthy back and forth together on these items. And instead of giving you these three, you know, you having these three minutes, we need more than just three minutes to have these conversations. I'd be glad we do that. If you could give your information to Jeff, if there's any items that you, of topics that you, which I wrote down on those items, but there's anything…
All right. Sarah, let's bring in the next one online. And if anyone else would like to talk during public comment, just I'll be bouncing back and forth.
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All right. Anyone else in the room or anyone online?
All right. Thank you. Seeing nothing else, then I'm going to go ahead and close public comment portion of this meeting. We'll go on to our next stage here, and that is proclamations. We have two items here. First up is proclamation for November adoption month. Please come forward.
First, we'll have to go through the procedures here. Commissioners, do you have any questions?
With that then, I will go ahead and open up the public comment portion of this proclamation and hand it over to Sarah.
Thank you. Anyone in the room on this item? All right, seeing none, I'll go ahead and close the public comment portion of this. And commissioners, any comments? Or if not, then I will go on to the next step for a motion.
Thank you all very much. We need always are looking for more families here in La Plata County So if it's anyone's interested to please reach out and go through that process I It's not about me. It's about these children and these families. I've raised a child from two years old He's now 22, and it was probably the most difficult job I've ever had I say that in a positive tone. So I have a lot of respect for these families that are coming up, stepping up to be able to assist with these children in need. And so I want to thank you very much and thank all the other families, especially our…
All right, commissioners, I would entertain a motion. And then when we have that motion, you can read that in the record.
Great. Thank you. I'll take that motion. There's a motion to approve the proclamation for November adoption month. All those in favor?