Remarks by Stan Batemon
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The point there is that we assume a lot of the expenses of those roads, planning and everything else, because they're kind of hours, even though part of it's in city limits on some of them. Point that out. Part of that money is spent inside of city limits on roads.
I'd like to point out those are in the county transportation plan under the Rebuild Alabama Act. And not too many years ago, all the roads you just mentioned would be out of our local funds. And these are funds now that are done through the Rebuild Alabama Act. Yes. It gives us an idea of what that's actually worth to us, which is quite a bit. Rebuild has been good to St. Clair County anyway.
Very good. Any questions? Other questions for Clay? Very good report there, Clay. We appreciate it. And we'll know what to have on the agenda for your portion of it next Tuesday.
Okay. Moving on to Roddy Wolf. That's an equally important and elaborately presented plan with no map. They don't have a map or anything. Mine's invisible.
Are you still talking to them about things?
See if it's okay if I use my gas stove and then pay later.
I'm not in favor of cutting them down. There's considerable people that still gather pecans out there. I do appreciate. I do know what's going to happen if they fall. I do appreciate staff checking to be sure if they see a dead limb, you know, trying to handle it before it falls. But sometimes it can cause the wind, et cetera. But I hate to cut it down. But if you do cut it down, I'd like some chunks out of it so I can turn some wooden bowls. I just want to lay a plane out there for some chunks out of it.
I would encourage all of you to get familiar with it. You can Google rotten pecan trees and get you an idea of what they look like. We'll go out. I'm going to look those up. That's right. That's right. Being a little bit facetious, but we hate to cut a tree. We just planted a tree over here, and we're going to put that in for replacement before that over there has a chance to grow. These pecan trees do have pretty good pecans. They're small. In the fall, I walk around out there, pick me up a few, bring them in.
Yeah. It just depends on which year it is. That's true. That's true. Okay. Any more questions about the concrete and the commissioners? Thank you. Moving along.
That's not too bad a maintenance thing, considering that hose has probably lasted several years now. Correct.
That's some of their punch list items that they had back.
Next step is, what is it? What do y'all want it to say? You know, we sort of went through this at the accident arena, what we want the sign to say. That does take on some specific legalities at some point. And I mean, it needs to say ALEA, or does it need, what does it need to say? ALEA, driver's license division, is kind of what I was thinking.
Yeah, but are they going to pay for it? Probably not. So we're going to have to decide. Maybe you can get that to cover up where the holes were that we took off the New Sieges sign.
We could put it all on one sign and hang a sign over whatever area it was.
you might check with them and see that's the alia official state logo if it just had that out there and then underneath that driver's license division what do y'all think about that In the very back corner they did.
Thank you all. Okay. And thank you. And moving on to Ashley Hay, our asset manager. Updates on the Reno Gantt Center.
I bet those shiny cars really shine in there under those lights.
That helps in some places and it doesn't help in others. Yeah.
Has any of the commissioners had a chance to talk to her about the calls? I think everybody got a call. They're worried about cannibalizing vendors that the same ones use. If you have events of the same kind out there, and we basically had one vendor that was doing a couple of two or three events, and they call around and get contributions for whatever that event may be and then we plug in another one that's actually now caught the same people it's going to affect the first one and that is a call we have some concern if you had that discussion with anybody yeah I mean I don't know I know…
And it might be that we look at the particular one that Calvary is, I think, a local vendor. It might be if it's a local vendor, give them first shot, and if we have somebody coming in with the same item, we already have somebody doing that. And I think the comparison that I use, we ran into this with Block Party years ago at You can't let, it's just common sense, you can't let five people sell ice cream or nobody makes any ice cream money. So you have to restrict it to two people selling ice cream. So we may have to have a plan there to take care of that. Because you're right, they all get…
We have something in the code that alludes to local vendors having some preference.
It would be tied into that. Well, if we choose to bid it. uh because that only because it used to be three percent i believe now it's five uh i'm not sure we have to be at this but it might be if it's a if it's a person running an event that is from this county and they will give us satisfaction it's up to us up to a point before we have to beat it then we we just keep using them we tell the others no if they're actually we feel like they're going to be drawing from the same well on their contributions uh And then we'll have to even think about our own things, our fair. But go through some of…
You had a truck show, didn't you? Yeah. Two within a month. Did you learn anything?
At least wash your truck or decorate it or something.
Anyway, you know the dynamics of running a facility like this and that has now been brought up. It was a local vendor that called me. Everybody's aware of him. Thank you, Ashley. Thank you. Very good. All righty. Next item, Captain Matt Morris, Operations Administrator. Let's take that trainee off of there. He's been around too long. Take that. Cory, what have you got against him to put that on there like that? Oh, gosh. Do you remember not making the first one? operation administrator uh wait a minute what's the thing where you go uh where you go and you're working at an industry to get your…