Remarks by Matthew P. McKenzie
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But the driveway part, because she was grandfathered in, why don't we just, okay, I don't know the census, but to leave, let her keep that.
Yeah, and so if we do, and I'm just saying, if it does pass, what are we opening ourself up for the future for the new commission and the new RV places?
Well, I just want to say this to the commission. I really appreciate it because she's really worked hard. I know she spent a lot of money, but at the same time, you've got to do your homework too. And I'm not saying anything to belittle her because I really have a lot of respect for her, but she should have, you know, got up with the county before she started moving in mobile home, little manufactured homes And I hope the citizens are listening in the future. If it's zoned, you better get with the county first before you do anything else.
Mr. Chairman, we need a second. Yeah, all right.
I'll make a motion that we approve case number Z26-36.
I just want to say thank you, staff, like we always do. Thank you all for putting this together. This is my last meeting here in Fairhope, and it's been enjoyable. I'm really going to miss you guys, but I'm not going to miss these planning and zoning cases.
No, no. I'm going to be nice. You know that. But, no, I just want to say that. I've got to know some friends and got to work with some great people in this county, and it's been an honor. Thank you. I'm not going to go too far from politics, but I'm going to be watching, see what happens. But I just want to do a shout out to Tom. He's not here, but, and Frank and Mark and everybody, Lee, I mean, Brian, all the staff that had anything to do with the hurricane situation. Y'all were top notch. You prepared, you were ready, and I love it. So I'm leaving it in good hands, I should say. But thank…
Mr. Chairman, do you mind if I say one more thing? Go ahead. I've got to brag about my daughter. Got accepted to auburn so I'm my youngest so I I know I know Roger and Frank and everybody else he's Engineers but I'm just proud of her so you'd be wearing Orange well I don't know about that but I I I will I will but anyway thank you I just want to I got a shout out to my daughter I'm very proud of her so anyway thank you okay I want to go ahead and thank the staff for
I just want to say thank you. Thank you for doing that. I mean, cause we want to continue to have the Christmas light show. Yeah. It helps.
Mine's not really a request. Mine's a comment. There's some things after the hurricane that hit that I want staff to see if they can help me with this. I don't see Deidre. Yeah she's off maybe Roger you can help me with this it's admin leave I had a lot of county employees reach out to me and I think it's been fixed but they said that they wasn't something that the policy was changed back in April or something that they weren't going to get the admin leave because I can't remember the reason but they said there was an issue but but then I heard that the The staff has fixed the issue and the…
It was mostly the people from highway that was calling me anyway. So I think if I asked Judge of Probate, his issue, it didn't have any. So it was mainly the highway guys. Yeah. You know, their emergency, their essential employees, they have to go in different times.
Okay. Well, good. I just feel like at this time and age where... You know, we have hurricanes down here. We know about admin leave. They shouldn't be an issue. That should be clear because we don't want these county employees worried about, you know, if they're going to get paid or not or if they're going to get leave or whatever. I just feel like this is 2026. They shouldn't be an issue.
Well, tell Deidre thank you. Absolutely. Because we don't want that, especially right now. But thank you.
Please join me in a pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance.
Y'all want to say anything? No, I think you said it. You nailed it, Commissioner. Thank you all so much for donating this money to the county.
I just want to say thank you for 25 years, your dedication to the county and what you've done. So just thank you. Continue doing, if you want to come back and work part-time, I always say that. A lot of people don't, but some people do. But I just want to say congratulations. Enjoy retirement.
I have one thing, Brad. Since I wasn't here on the commission back then, can I just recuse myself for this? Sure. Okay.
Before you answer that, I'm going to add something because I want you to remember this when you answer her question. I'm sorry, I'm with you on this. I want you to answer... What is 500 cubic yards? What would it look like? Because is this something that we've done in the past or is this something just they don't have a C&D? What is it? I mean, I know I'm asking you a lot of questions, but I've already got citizens asking me this and they're concerned. Why are we taking somebody else's C&D?
Yeah and I'm not against trying to help our partners and all that but I just feel like that we might be taking and you've already you said it's not going to take a lot of space but in you know ballwood county the way we're growing and everything I and I just can't believe Escambia county over there don't have something I mean when you go across I-10 you get into the line you could see that big old mound that used to be you know I mean I don't know I I got
That's what I'm saying. They used it and filled it up.
Well, and I get that, and I don't really care about the money-wise. I care about taking up space for the future of Baldwin County.
Can I ask you, Mr. Chairman, you mind if I ask him a question? So what's going to happen after it disapproves and with the existing road and dirt and everything there, the county going to take all of that up or they're just going to leave it? No, sir.
Well, I guess my question is too, is my concern is, and really not a concern, but if you're going to vacate it and give it back to the owners and all that, they got this right away going apart, you know, this utilities going across. Why didn't we make them move them utilities? Could we ever do that?
Can you go back to the slide where the violation, the code violation, And it looked like, I can't remember, it went quick. Yeah, May 12th of 2026?
Yes, sir. I guess, and I want to be transparent with the other two county commissioners. I did meet with the owner and me, myself, and Jay at the time that was... The director and I'm gonna be honest with her I don't remember what was all said in that meeting because because I we had to take Jay Jay's the expert on it's not me when it comes to stuff like this and I can't remember everything she said but I guess my question to you is has she taken care of any of this violation on hold because of this process.