Remarks by Rocky Ford
105 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
- Play at 15:32
“So moved. Second. I just have one question on there. Go ahead. On the permission to enter private property repair driveway, what repairs are we doing on that driveway?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 16:00
“Washout on the county property or private property?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 20:32
“I understand. Okay. I know other state agencies like Water Management and stuff like that. If you do work without a permit, they assess a fine of basically double the permit price sometimes. I think there should be something in that paperwork to address that.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 23:15
“I'll make a motion that we remove the tree. I went down and looked at the tree. The tree is in bad shape, and we're going to be spending a bunch of money on this bank restoration. Unfortunately, the tree needs to go.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 25:55
“We had limited information on our backup material. I mean, basically, I had no idea what we were reporting. So I did talk to the county manager, Gloucester County, yesterday. And I talked to the engineering public works director, Gloucester County. They are way behind on fixing potholes. They're facing people trying to sue them in lawsuits because of the potholes. I don't know how they got this far behind or what led up to this being such an emergency. But I started the phone call with David Krause. I said, you know, I see we're supposed to have some kind of agreement with them, but where's…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 29:35
“that's what I fix to tell you when I talked to public works director yesterday he would love to have somebody over there this weekend but he also said there's so many potholes that we're having to do he said they done 1,800 potholes last week enough to drop in the bucket of what they had to do so he said he said one day not patching potholes over the next two weeks if we had to build at the next meeting Wouldn't affect him that much. So it's why he just told me yesterday. So he would love. Well, I won't pay. He kind of want his county attorney to try to get it out faster, but he was kind of…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 31:12
“Well, that's up to the board. I'll just say it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 32:31
“public works director dr county also told me yesterday that they reached out to about six other municipalities and have not received any response from any of the other at all in one of most city of gamesville well if you i mean i understand kevin worked for this county all the time in and out i understand he knows how the situation goes he just wants to make sure we know that he knew it”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 35:24
“And that's exactly what I brought up to the public works director there. Why not call Anderson-Columbia and get a crew and pay Anderson-Columbia or somebody to come over there and pay?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 35:36
“I mean, that would be the logical way, I would think, to do it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 35:52
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 37:10
“Well, he also told me that they passed a one cent sales tax over in Lottaway County. to fix the roads and it's bringing in about 12 million dollars a year to fix the roads so they've got money they sound like they don't have manpower but there again if you've got the money to do it i don't know how you wouldn't contract it out somebody to come fix these potholes you know just the way this is being done i don't understand it one thing i don't have a problem helping them if they need help but if they have money And I know there's contractors out there that will tax these potholes. Why are we,…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 38:28
“Well, I mean, we just voted on those four contractors that weren't doing these roads right here in Plumlee County. I mean, four or five. There's contractors up here saying that I would rather see private contractors over there doing it than us wearing our county equipment out and stuff over there in Luxembourg County. I mean, even if it funds us everything, you still got wear and tear on vehicles, equipment, everything else, you know. And wear and tear on people.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 41:05
“right right i agree i agree i was looking at as you know our employees”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 53:14
“They will pay the $300 fee for a dog. I gotcha.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 53:26
“Chairman, because i don't i'm not i'm through voting on stuff that i don't have time to look at and read i mean for some reason we've made a habit of bringing this stuff to the meeting and handing it out at meetings and then staff asking us to vote on stuff that we've had two minutes to look at three minutes look at i'm not comfortable doing that and i'm all about helping the city We don't want to do this for two weeks and put this on their next agenda to approve this contract. I'm all for that. But other than that, I would have to vote.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 55:54
“And, again, I'm not trying to blame anybody. I know what we're trying to do here. But, again...”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:12:48
“they were building those houses out on Baskin-Norris in a Lodge-Way County. They would probably be looking at, I haven't been over there in a little while, but somewhere around $7,000 more for the permit for each house. It would impact the cost of the permit and review. And then some counties, now they're doing, Lodge-Way County does an environmental impact, so you have to pay for it. It is cheaper to build in Columbia County, which compared to even Gilchrist County. I mean, we're a couple thousand dollars cheaper in Gilchrist County. Again, some of that is impact fee. A lot of that's impact…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:20:31
“Chairman, I'll make a motion. We approve Resolution No. 2026R-54. Okay, got a motion?”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:25:45
“Commissioner, I brought it to the county manager's attention that the drug-free workplace policy was not being followed. I think this is an attempt to bring the drug-free workplace policy into a line with the way they were doing it, according to the way they thought it should be done. in retrospect of what it said on the paper. Now, I think they way overcomplicated this. I mean, that's my opinion. Accidents should be accidents, no matter how it's done. I mean, there shouldn't be restrictions on how bad the accident is or who's affected by the accident or who had the accident. And that, if you…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:27:50
“And the tipping point I was given was $1,000 worth of damage to the vehicle. Well, $1,000 worth of damage, their $1,000 worth of damage only applied to parts to replace on the vehicle, not repairs or labor, what was being done on the vehicle. so many repairs and labor was being done in-house, that was not accountable for the cost of repairing the vehicle. So I'm just saying, I think this is an attempt to redo the drug-free workplace policy to fit their definition of how they want it to be done. And I don't believe there was anything wrong with the way it was written already. And it was... a…”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:31:06
“Well, and one of the issues was all accidents had to be reported to their immediate supervisor. That was not being followed. So, you know, there was issues and this wasn't being followed. I questioned it. This is an attempt to fix it.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:31:39
“I think, reading this, David, I think you're going to have employees saying, I don't, I don't, this don't apply to me because I didn't do this, do this, do this, do this. You know, I think the more plainer you can keep the language, the more it's going to benefit the county in trying to enforce the policy. I mean, like I say, I'm not a lawyer, but I think you would need a lawyer to interpret whether or not this man has to do a drug test or not.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:33:49
“I mean, that's – But also, if you look at one part of it, it says all employees who perform safety-sensitive functions. So part of it exists employees that are not doing safety-sensitive functions.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026
- Play at 1:35:49
“So why do we have to complicate it up so much? Why can't we just simplify it to say what it says? I mean, you've got five or six pages here. I know a lot of it is definitions, but, you know, I think for the average employee, the simpler you can make it read, the better they're going to understand it. And I can tell you, this is not written very simple to understand. The way we had it before, it was one paragraph for accidents. Now you've got five pages for accidents.”
Board of County Commissioners · Oct 1, 2026