Remarks by Stan Batemon
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He may be a trainee when he gets to the legislature.
It ain't worth all that just for that little bit. When you're using your handhelds in the jail and you call they don't work, they're not just inside the jail communications, are they? Are they also the ones that call centrals if they need something, same handheld?
But they can't get to the control room to let... So those radios are not transparent. for instance if you have an emergency the reason i bring that up is that may be problematic then it may not be being allowable to use 9-1-1 funds if you're not communicating outside that facility it's probably going to be a jail maintenance deal thing instead of taking it out now and we can make it go to central well that's what i'm saying if you can if it's going to
I'll be in favor of saying we take it out of the funds because I don't think it should come out tonight. Either way, I just want it fixed. Yes, sir. We do, too. Anything else for Matt? Two minutes.
It can yield his time to the coroner. Anything you want to talk about? Anything you want to talk to us about? We're going to get Matt to yield his time to you. We're going to get Matt to yield his time to you. I can yield it to you, Chairman. And I'll yield it to you. I'll yield Matt's time to Jeff. You good right now? Yeah. Okay. Budget stuff? Yeah. This is something new. Nothing that, nothing you ought to know. Okay. All right. Moving on our list here then, Tina Morgan, County Administrator.
You've got a list of things in here for us to look at that you've prepared for us.
Any questions for the administrator? She also attached a pending list. Those are items that we just sort of carry over for us to keep on our plate and look over to see if we want to bring those up. If you ever do, just give those to Tina and she'll put them in her report and bring them up to discuss at the next gathering. And no further questions for County Administrator. Moving on now to the County Attorney, Kirk Walker, County Attorney.
And if we do that, I'd like for us to look, I don't know whether the semantics will help from a legal standpoint or not, but we're talking about P-Card procurement card. Yes, sir. I just got a couple of letters in the last year, last two years, about federal procurement processes. And the word there from your semantics is procurement. The state of Alabama, do you know this lady? The state of Alabama actually has an official and uh so when these people are asking questions it probably would be a help for those questions to be answered by somebody we designate as a cpo and i think right now the…
Thank you. There's one other... when we go when we tried to give money to a particular uh program or we kind of bogged down for this when we first started the fair till we learned what what can we can we not spend county money on uh the easiest answer is no you can't you can't use it for that when we found out later on well sometimes you can uh I had a request this week for us. We've got some folks that are retiring that have been in the county courthouse for many years, for instance, in different positions. And to give them a retirement party, I don't know where I'm going with this now, to…
909 or 509. I'll send it to you. It's real broad if you did it that way. I'm not advocating that. I'm just advocating on the smaller level. Otherwise, we'll pay for them ourselves or we'll depend on businesses or we'll be short money to do that. I don't know where y'all had any requests for something. They're coming up now on some retirements.
But we didn't have to, and we might have had a bigger gift for Dan if we'd have been allowed to pay for certain parts of it. We paid for Dan's gift, for instance. We paid all out of our pocket. Yep. And I don't mind continuing it, but some other people that are also being asked to contribute would like for the organization that these folks worked for for 30 years to share in the expense and the organization. legally we can if we adopt that portion of amendment 909 or whatever and like i said the way i read the amendment 909 is you can specifically say what you're approving to spend it on…
I've been to all of them. We had one last week. Yeah. And the commission chambers. Commission chambers, and you have Jerry leaving. So there's a way, and I'd like to see us being able to address that. I think we owe that to them, from the standpoint especially of sending people off. Yeah, if we'd like to give you a party after all. There you go.
So instead of renting the place, could you just send me the cash? Yeah.
But it's so simple. I'm saying it's been done by some counties already. And the question is, can we do that? The answer is yes. answer is not no unless we make up all the reasons why we can't because the answer is yes we can if we choose to and there are some things in there that i think would would be safe i know we don't want to open the door completely but we could set a limit on a plaque for instance but it wouldn't be a part of the came up because we gave out these little certificates and uh and and i had to say cory and tina and susie's really stepped up the game on the uh a 79 cent…
As the door hits me in the rear on the way out the door, I want to make sure. Yes, you can. All right. I just left you that one little bird in there to take care of.
Oh, okay. I mean, I don't know who gave that price. It's Motorola. It's from Motorola. Matt, talk to them. Matt.
Right. Okay. That'll give us something to look into between now and Tuesday. We might have some answers by the time we get here. Moving on now to our regular agenda items here to address. Be sure we're ready or not ready to put those on the agenda for Tuesday. Item number one, discuss ratifying Chairman Bateman's signature of a letter of support request from the city of Argo for the development of zip code and post offices. And they asked me for a letter, and they needed it now for a little package they were sending in. We've done these before, but I did sign it. Y'all need to ratify my…
I'm not sure everybody understands countywide how many there are. If you live south of Bell City, down past Rapid Branch, you're in Vinson. Yeah, I have a Vinson address. It's an entire Vinson route. So it's level to tell the postal people to change it. But that letter is signed and it gets sent in and if you will, put a copy of that in the file so they can read it. So y'all know what it says. Item two, discuss renewing the proto-track agreement for ankle monitoring services effective October 1st, 2026. The service is under a safety and security clause of the bid law. So it can be done…
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Those are newly answered ones that we don't necessarily have right now. And the ones that we approved last year are already maxed out. Is that where we are? And we're just approving the same thing as last year's. But we are adding some.
Stilleries. Is that like we've got the still in the basement making craft beer? A still would be, you know...
I think if the states added them and we end up with something like that, I think it's like Gatlinburg. When you go in and you get a hamburger at some of those places, they got literally a big steel set up in the window that they run off their own craft brew. Exactly. It's best to go ahead. So if y'all are ready to put those on there after the list, we'll put ours as equal to the allowance by the state.
Pendon County Attorney Review. I need to review more stuff. All right. That'll be on there. uh item 11 discuss travel request you've got a copy of the travel request in your files uh put those on there for approval we'll have time to look at them discuss board appointments we discussed those at the last meeting you did some board appointments so how many do you want to put on there for this week That is the entire agenda for the work session. Excellent. And I'd like to apologize for letting us out 30 minutes early. But it's thunder out there, so we're going to do that. Anything else that…
All right. Not that that makes any difference. We all just, we are who we are at all times, I'm sure. Remind me of, was that a Steve Martin movie? It was Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. Sort of like us. Sort of like that this morning. Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor. We had to have all the mayors here today that are here. And then I'm sure y'all represent the rest of the mayors that are not here. And some of them probably sent some notes and instructions, which is a good thing. It's a good thing. Glad to have our staff folks here that are here. I see Patrice here from emergency…
You should have recorded it. We recorded it. Maybe I got it on my phone.