County Commission - Regular Meeting

There you go. You know, you've learned how to handle talking about six, folks. Learn how to handle that now. Okay. Want to thank everybody for coming out this morning and in a a rain, but it's a beautiful rain. We hope it just keeps on doing that for a couple of days because we definitely need it. And um I didn't even mind getting a little bit wet coming from the from the car, but I parked by this white jeep and it was parked close to the yellow line. I couldn't get out on the door on that side. You don't know anybody that owns a white jeep, do you commissioners? Couple of people I know. Oh, okay. I think it was he was in a in a marked parking space for a deputy or something. I was told I can park. Don't want to put him on the spot in front of everybody, but

I hate to do that. Yeah, that was some very creative parking, too. I would like to I was in a hurry. Slide in there sideways. Like somebody parking at the huddle house.

Okay, before I get too carried away here having fun, uh, once again, I thank everybody for being here today and we got quite a bit of business to take care of and, uh, we will get cranked up on the county's business, a regular county commission meeting day. We have commission meetings on the second Tuesday in Asheville, fourth Tuesdays in Pel City, and generally we'll have a work session on the Thursday prior to those meetings. And so we're moving right on into this fourth Tuesday meeting here. Before we call the leading door, though, if you'll bow with me for a word of prayer. Dear God, we come before you again, dear Lord, just thank you once again for being our God and and for giving us your grace, dear Lord. We know we don't deserve your grace, dear Lord. But we know it's always there for us that you died for our sins and and our responsibility now is to respond to your sacrifice, Lord, with the best life that we can possibly live. So God, we lift that up to you. We ask you for the wisdom to take your word, apply it to our lives, do the things that also. Dear Lord, we thank you for your protection over us. We got family and friends that have sicknesses of different kinds. Dear Lord, we know that you're the source of all healing. We ask you to apply your healing power, dear Lord, to those those issues, dear Lord, that that you know will bring glory, glory to your God. Now we ask you to go forward with us. Protect us as we go from this place. Protect this meeting. Leave God, direct our hands so we'll do all things you up. Amen. As Commissioner Ricky Parker to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Thanks again. We'll get started here. Uh we've uh got a couple of things on our agenda we'll get to here in a little bit, but we may may make just you know when we get a crowd we we like to postpone their business till right at the end of the meeting. So you have to stay and watch us for the rest of the meeting otherwise nobody watches us take any action. But uh I'll call this meeting to order and first item on our agenda is to approve the agenda. Have a motion. properly moved and second. Any discussion, additions, deletions to that agenda? Not all in favor say I. All oppose? No. Motion carries. Next item is to approve the minutes of the regular meeting of the April 14th uh meeting and the emergency meeting that we called on April the 17th. So

have a motion, have a second. Properly moved and second to approve those minutes. Any discussion on any of those minutes, additions, deletions, changes? Not. All in favor say I.

All oppose? No. Motion carries. Next item on our agenda is something that we we love doing and u we've got we've got such a an active uh group of employees that work for Slair County and and we just we just are are lifted up with the services that that our our people our our family our county family as I call it provide the citizens of this county. And u um I I love to see it when the morale is high and and They're they're jumping out there working hard and uh uh did Tina turn us off? Is that what that I didn't? Okay. I hope I didn't.

But we are we are we are happy to recognize those specific individuals and we have that today. The next item on our agenda is to present a commendation to telecommunicator Hannah Garrison. And uh Hannah's been communicator for us for a while now, which is also our dispatchers in this county. Uh telecommunicators are that generally the u uh the term you use for anybody that works in a dispatch center. Uh in a 911 center, a lot of times they're called call takers. Uh in this county, we're one of few counties where call takers and dispatchers all do the same thing. our our 911 contracts. Hey, Judge. Our 911 contract um uh contracts with the county sheriff's department to do all the call taking uh for 911. And that means that our telecommunicators have to know about the 911 uh rules. There's a lot of requirements to be a call taker or 911 just like there is any other telecommunicator. and our call takers and and dispatchers are all trained in crisis intervention and all kinds of different things that might come across their radio and they never know what's going to come in on that next call. So, this is one of those instance here. And if you'll if you'll uh allow me to, I'm going to uh read this uh uh commendation here is from Sheriff Billy Murray and County Commission. Said, "Today we would like to honor telecommunicator Hannah Garrison for the outstanding performance during the critical emergency call received on March the 30th, 2026 at approximately 0014 hours. Those have been in the That's 14 minutes after midnight. So you working the night shift.

All right. During this call, you were faced with a critical and high pressure situation involving a 39year-old female actively in labor. You rose to the occasion and provided calm, clear, and effective assistance that helped guide the caller through the successful delivery of a baby without complication. Your ability to remain composed and quickly and act decisively under pressure is a true reflection of your dedication to public service. The calm professionalism that you demonstrated not only ensured a positive outcome in a life-threatening situation but also brought great credit upon yourself and St. Clair County Sheriff's Office. Acts such as this exemplify the highest standards of our agency and highlight the vital role that our dispatchers play in emergency response. Your actions are commendable and greatly appreciated. Thank you for your service and commitment to the citizens of St. Clair County where this county commissioner county comes. Freddy, we're going to let you speak when we get up here and stand in front of folks. You use the microphone so everybody can hear you. Tine is the uh uh supervisor over our dispatch center, our our emergency operations center. First of all, let's present this to you officially. Congratulations.

Thank you. Okay. How many babies have you delivered? Is this Is this the first? That's my first that was fully fully out there. Move down right there where you're in at the middle. Y'all move down on that end where she can get in front of the speaker. There. There you go. right there. Okay. Did you check that? See if we look intelligent. That's going to be that's going to be tough. What? That's That's a tall order, is it? Okay.

Okay. Just just I'd like to say uh you know, when I first come or when Hannah first come here in 2017 to sit back and watch her develop over the years and to see what she is now, she's a trainer. Uh she's also a dispatcher of course and a shift supervisor at night shift. Don't have to worry about it, but she's in charge. The countyy's in good hands. She does a good job. sheriff couldn't be here today, but he will send his gratefulness to you and the job you do, and he will thank you later on. He just he's got everything figured out. He just can't figure out how to be at two places at one time, but he's working on it. So, again, thank you, man, for the job you do. You're a great dispatch. You're a great person. You make my job easy, and I love working with you. Thanks for being part of the team. You want over here beside her? Come right here. Right.

There you go. Here we go. But that

did Thank you guys. And if you uh if you get uh as good as you were with this one, we may just not even have to have a a department at the hospital to have to deliver babies. We'll just We're glad to do it. Anybody need to do just handle it that way, you know. Thank you. And who's this with you? That's your husband. Your husband taught her everything she knows. That's stand. That's That's Raymond Garrison's grandson. I knew that's who it was. Any of you, somebody, a lot of you in here know Raymond Garrison. That's That's Yeah,

me and Raymond Garrison go back. Raymond hired me. gave me my first job in 1980 at Old when he was up there. I ate I ate at their table many a day over there. When they lived up there, they he'd always make me come eat lunch or come eat supper or something. Had to make you, didn't he? Had to make We miss having Raymond around, too. Raymond. One of a kind. Yep. Raymond was one of a kind. He He was good to me over the years. me and him was the only ones up there at that time.

Freddy, I thank you and your staff also for the training facility that y'all got established there. Y'all y'all continue to shine in in that department and it's a very important department to the people of St.

Okay. Now, public hearing FY275311 transportation budget. And she doesn't have to come all the way front. She doesn't want to. Thank you. Right there. The uh the 5311 is the actual federal money that we get to operate our transportation uh department of the public transportation. Most of you have seen the the public transportation buses and vans that travel around the county. And uh this is this year's uh public hearing for the grant. We have to have a a public hearing every year to get this grant. And that's what this is about, right? And my boss gave me the thing to pay. So,

well, she didn't carry on and carry on carry on, does she?

Uh, well, it's only I want anyway. It says the Slair County Public Transportation together with the Slair County Commission is applying for the FY20275311 administrative operations and capital grant to the Alabama Department of Transportation. This annual grant will combine federal funding with local match funds to provide public transportation and open door contract service to all the residents of Slair County. The administration budget ratio is 8020 with 80% federal dollars and 20% county local match. The operation budget ratio is 5050 and the vehicle capital budget ratio is 8020. And then just this is just some of our description of how we run. Hours of operation are 6 to 6 Monday through Friday. Passengers are incur encouraged to schedule rides at least 24 hours in advance. Bears are based on mileage and paid with cash only. The current fair is $2 per five miles and $1 for each additional stop. All 21 21 vehicles are handicap accessible and equipped with wheelchair stations. Caregivers ride free and children under age five free. A copy of the detailed service description and project budgets are available upon request. St. Clair County Public Transportation does not discriminate against any individual based on age, race, gender, or national origin. And this concludes our public hearing.

Very good. Are there any public comments about the public hearing? I usually ask that more than one time. Are there any public comments? Not hearing any public comments. I would entertain that the public hearing portion of this be closed. Have a second. I'll be moved and second. All in favor say I. All motion carries public. Thank y'all for being here and thank y'all for what you do. That's another one of those programs. As the county has grown, so has y'all's uh organization. And I think there's a request in this budget coming up for a couple more drivers. Yes, sir.

And um we just we just keep growing that program because I think partially we have discovered so many more categories of people that that can use it. And uh so ever everywhere we discover that we can legitimately provide that service, that's what we try to do. So thank y'all so much for what you do. Thank y'all. You are welcome to stay. Have a donut. Well, nobody around in the office. Mr. Parker brought those donuts and he he said he didn't want any policemen to get into them and said I'll be gone. But other than that successfully brought the donuts in. And there's Dan, did you get yours? I was going to talk first.

There's one cut in half there for you just you want to. Okay. Moving on from the public hearing to the report section of our agenda. First thing on our agenda is Dan Doy, our county engineer. So Dan, you have the floor next.

Okay. U first thing just some updates. Uh stop talking work session. We have had some paving contractors in. Uh we we've got well actually several roads. Uh I don't think I mentioned this one in the uh work session, but we did have wire grass coming to Village Springs Road section of that that's uh starting to give away. And uh we had left out a section of County Road 9 some years back where we put the retaining wall in. So we had them go up there and repave that the curve there. Also turned out pretty good. U our other contractors that do the uh the scrub on the microsurface. They've come in and completed what we have ready for now. We got Caner Road 33, Pope Chapel, Logan Martin Dam, Wolf Creek Road South, and Tunnel Mountain Road. So, it's a little over 20 miles right there that got knocked out. Actually finished up yesterday.

Yeah, it does. Uh any comment on any of those roads while we're in that? I went over and looked Wolf Creek and the damn road. They look good and Thank goodness they moved it. Got the striping back right on the down road was off too. So I went over looked back and looked at it way. So they got them all back centered up. I think now they should be should be right at it now.

Uh while we're on that though, Tunnel Mountain Road, we've had a request over the years. You know where I'm going with this, don't you? Uh the little uh caution light. If you're approaching one side of that tunnel over there, light will go on on the other side or something to that effect. We had never been able to do that. I'm sure it's a little more complicated than just going over there and planting them. Are there solar operated ones or what what's what's your thoughts on that project?

The issue the solar ones would would be great. Uh they won't work there because of too much canopy of trees and stuff right there. So we we have got to get uh the company that does them mostly what they do is solar powered. Uh I think they can do an electric though but then we got to get val power also and get some drops for you know both sides basically to to make that work.

Is the power in there connected past across the railroad track or does it just go to the railroad track from either side? I know there's a big pumping station there uh right next to that accommodates the sewer treatment plant for the nursing home. There's power on both sides. I can't remember exactly where. It doesn't cross right there, I don't believe by the tunnel, but it crosses I think it's on up towards Cook Springs Water. So, we'd have to get some probably another pole or two set at least to to make that. I I know it wasn't as easy as just okay, we'll go out there and put a couple of flashing lights that somebody pulls up. The technology is there, but our infrastructure is not there to set the technology up. Is that fair?

That that's pretty fair statement there. We have the same issue on on them signs that we've got up with solar panels on for our stop signs and stuff. I know we got so we can't keep them running because they got too much shade that won't keep the battery

summertime some of those do a lot better than it does in the winter time but winter time it's you know you constantly have to put another battery in them and like I said these are at the tunnel they'd be great and uh but once people get used to it and it stops, you know, we don't have another battery going in right then or whatever. We would have, I'm afraid, more issues than what there is currently.

I think people don't don't see that side of it sometimes. It's great until it's till you're so used to it and that's what you depend on. I've noticed I read an article here a while back about how so many people now are having accidents backing their vehicles up because they depend 100%. Some people have been 100% on their backup cameras

and uh they're just distorted. They're just not as effective as turning around looking. But the older I get, the less I can turn my neck around to look all the way behind the car. So that's part of it, too. And but we run into that, too. Uh I know that there's a couple of p places where we could go in for instance and upgrade a bridge. But the minute we upgrade the bridge, we also have now subjected that road to not have a weight restricted width restricted traffic on it. It's all of a sudden you've got tractor trailer rigs and everything coming down a road that now is prepared for it. And the citizens are saying, "What happened? We don't want all those trucks." Well, you wanted a new bridge. You had a new It has to be built to accommodate that. So, there's a lot of factors in this other than yes, we'll get you a new bridge, we'll put you some lights out, and but we are looking into this and we'll keep keep looking at that till we figure where there's some way to make make that available that that we feel safe about.

Couldn't you bore it, Dan? I suppose you could. The uh you'd have to get a permit with the railroad to do that. U the power company might have better luck but dealing with trails in it took us several years to uh and be railroad rightway I guess out so far from that slope. So, u you know, I can check into it more and give you a little bit more of an update. Fire right there at that station were they? Yeah. I mean, it's on both sides. Uh definitely post office.

But like I said, there would have to be there'd have to be some changes on the electricity to make that work. I think we're fortunate there that is a relatively straight tunnel approach. people, you have to get kind of close to it, but you can generally ease out in there and it's uh I don't I don't remember it being a high accident area as far as tunnels are concerned. It's never shown up on our any of our crash reports as being like a hot spot. I mean, I'm sure there's been a few wrecks there,

but like I say, it uh currently most people are slowing down and easing their way through there if they got relying on just the light. U and then it went out or something. It might be a little worse, but uh like I said, we'll do a little checking and get talking about the work session. Okay. Just want to bring that one up. Anything else on what he's talked about his crews? Okay. You go ahead with your crew update before.

Okay. Uh of course, our crews base crews been doing some ditching work. A lot of cross drains are having to go around and reset trying to getting ready to pave pave over. So, they've been working on that. Uh paving crew been doing a lot of preparation for paving on that. They're still going around doing some roads. Not today, but uh been putting a lot of hot mix down. Uh so, uh we're hope to get started back here. Not tomorrow, Wednesday for sure, but we're sort of in the Chula Vista area. We've been doing 174 and Pale City area is what we've been working on, but u moving along pretty good. U I guess all actuality we're due to the dry weather we're further along what we are most years. So

okay uh number two we've got an agreement and a resolution with ALDOT and this is for uh ATRIP 2 project on US 231 from north of Eastville Road to just south of Johnson Drive. uh to construct additional turn lanes through there. Total agreement with the state is limited to uh ride $2 million is what they'll put in. Uh that's where we're going to have to come up with probably three to pale city is going to provide some funds for this. Also between us and them we're probably going to have to have around 700,000 to go with that yet. We'll get closer numbers as the uh as we develop the project the plans

to add for a little more direction information in that the turn lanes for Cusa Valley School. Yes. Yes. It's that area right in there. There's several intersections which tend to hurt the overall thing. The school is the biggest one but the other businesses belong through there and subdivisions also. Um, you know, it just sort of gets to be a mess there at certain times of the day. Appreciate the work y'all put in to qualify us for that eight truck money to $2 million granted in that application. That would be a very useful project right there. That traffic down there is just horrendous. Make it a little a little easier to navigate and I think from a safety point of view to be outstanding.

Oh yeah, it really should be. Motion to approve that agreement resolution. Motion second proply moved and second more discussion on on say I no motion carries.

The next one sort of goes along with this is agreement with GMC who helped us put the uh permit together. This would be for design and planning of this project. uh same location. Uh 268,000 is what they think will develop plans and get us through bidding the project out. Basically GMC is formerly known as Goodwood Mills and Kwood uh engineering firm. Uh so entertain a motion to approve the agreement with GMC for the design and planning of that project. So move

motion. Proper move second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All motion carries. Uh the next thing I had uh you know we had bid did some bids for the Wolf Creek cleanup project and we didn't get any timely bids uh for that at all. We went back to the contractors and Clay has been in contact with all of them that went to the pre-bid meeting and we'd asked for uh to have quotes to us by basically yesterday afternoon. Uh we only received one quote uh and it was uh way more than what we had uh planned for. Um but this one was from DRC emergency services. Uh it's for $2.2 million. U I I I can't recommend that. Uh we have the whole project was like 211,000 I believe.

U that's all of it. U sounds like this is an organization that does a lot of literally a very restrictive emergency cleanup um after an event. So, uh, this is more the biggest restriction that I saw in this one that might scare people scare people away is not being able to drive your excavator with a thumb off in the creek. Other than that, it really didn't seem to be big issue, but didn't scare a lot of people.

Well, the whole thing has to be done basically by the 28th of June. uh do some species and some bats and stuff that's out that way or could be out that way. Nobody's seen them. What about Walker? Clay, you want you talked with him?

I did. I talked to him and you know he they presented a a bid but it was late. Law doesn't provide for us to accept a has turned in late. So, um he's got other projects he's just moved on to. Basically, he didn't he didn't think he could do it. Y'all go back to your contractors that we used in Sh Creek Valley when we cleaned up the creek. I'm sure you did. Yes. Dude, this one that we had is the company that actually was the prime on that project and

they did that whole project for just, you know, that was I think it ended up being 10 miles long or something and we was right over a million dollars to do that whole 10 miles and this one was like 300 ft. I realize it's been a bit of time between the two projects, but

we'll put our best effort into it and uh uh worst case scenario is uh uh we'd have a flood that would flood the creek and push all the debris down and cause us problems at our bridge crossing for instance. But it's been one of the driest springs ever. So by the time that happens, the debris may be so rotted that it pushes through it. So but we'll if y'all will just continue to look at

the only other option we'd have which is going to put us behind. But we can go back and ask uh if they can change the agreement where we can do it for our own people. But there again We're going to have we got a lot going on. So, that's a relatively small damaged area and it's a good a good practice for us to realize what we'd have. We had another Shaw Creek bed impact stream for a long way. I mean, we could reach out to another contractor or two is the only thing I know to do at this point.

I wear out my deadline. I reach out to contractors to you. Hadn't been able to find anything. So, is it going to take an extended arm type excavator, that kind of thing? What kind of equipment? It would be helpful, but you know, you could do it with a, you know, fairly good size excavator, you know, chest waiters and chainsaws. That's what they do in Chel Creek. A lot of hand work, right? I mean, well, I wouldn't want to be waiting down there with all them snakes. Snakey down in there. We don't have any poisonous snakes in St.

Okay. Got them fenced off. Okay. Sign up. No snakes. No snakes left. There you go. Well, I guess y'all would just continue to work on it another few weeks anyway till we sort of wear out the time frame with that. Okay.

Okay. Uh the next thing we'll have is consider a quote to uh redo part of our old lab which guys out there call the sugar shack. We got a couple of quotes. The second quote is the one I would like to go with. It's basically pressure washing the roof, sealing the roof, painting the roof, and then uh cleaning the uh the exterior walls, and basically putting metal on the outside of that that would match as closely as possible to our office building. Basically, uh this uh quote for this was $11,750. Uh the only thing we didn't have was a couple of doors and Rody was thinks he can possibly a couple of doors. But uh uh if y'all are okay, I'd like to go ahead and proceed.

So have a motion, have a second. Second. As discussed in our work session, do we have a money? Would this require budget amendment? I I talked with Michelle. I think we can probably move some stuff around. It might cause a, you know, budget amendment later in the year, but you know, Clay will have it at that time. Have that be somebody else. Clay then, huh? Yeah. There you go. It's good thinking. That's the engineer thinking there. That's right. Okay. Motion to second. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Go ahead. Finish that one out. I need the one above. Go ahead with that one. Okay. Any other discussion? All in favor say I.

All those. No. Motion carries now. Then Miss Tina's got on the Wolf Creek cleanup. Do we need to approve rejecting that bid or do we need to do anything on that item? You know, it's just a quote. Yeah. So, just let it I mean, we say we're going to reject that quote if it's fits better or whatever. Yeah. Respectfully, we have the $2.2 million. I would just I'd move on and if you have to do that after the end of the project, just say we had to reject bids because they were too high and then we didn't get So we till we wear this out if that's okay. Okay.

Uh the next item uh one of our well former full-time employees Jean Woods had came back to us last year and was want some part-time interest in part-time work. So we did a contract and uh uh we worked out pretty good really. He's able to come in when we're sort of short and sort of backed up and everything. He's interested in doing another year if y'all would approve renewing his contract. Okay, we discussed it in work session. Then a motion to approve contract part-time work for Jean Wood. Motion second.

Probably moved and second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All no. Motion carries. Okay.

Uh the next item there I think should have a a sheet a sort of attachment thing. Uh we'd like to go ahead and u basically set things up for when I do retire. U this would be uh basically Clay going to the county engineer and moving him up to a paygrade 55. And then Blake Phillips be moving him up to assistant engineer. Move him to a paygrade 52. And then Richard Blake Galahar uh would be our primary project engineer and that would move him to a paygrade 38 which would all be effective as of basically June 1st. and Clay presented us a breakout the other day of the cost of how that would fit into the budget as it goes down. It's actually we're going to actually

save money save money by sending Dan to retirement. So we could probably bought you a couple cruises and still save some money. Remind me of this plan ends up saving us nearly 77,000. That's correct. Very good. Okay, have a motion. Do I have a second? Second.

Probably moved in a second to uh consider the positions upon retirement of current county engineer Dan Dy. And you got the proposal there. We'll make that this a copy in the files. Any other discussion on those? Thank y'all for your really hard work on that. And we know we've got, you know, and not not being flip about it at all. Dan's voting hard to replace uh just because he's been around so long and has that kind of experience. I mean, he has lots of experience. And I don't know when you first came over here years and years ago, you figured you'd be here as long as you have been. I kind of thought he'd say, "You know what? I probably going to go over there and get a little bit of experience and I'm going to go down one of these other counties and make a lot of more money." And uh lo and behold, he made more here than he meant to. And

uh I can remember a couple employees. Ray Ferguson, he's one of them. He said, you know, I came to the county, just follow work a few weeks and then, you know, go on do something else. And I think he had like 50 years. Kept on working. Kept on working. Uh, but tell us a lot of times, but we appreciate you being our county engineer. Well, I appreciated the position and it's been a a pleasure to serve all y'all. You get to you'll get to elaborate on what that meant here over the next few weeks. I'm sure it will. Now, what's your last day? Uh, as of June 1, I will be officially retired.

June one. Now, you gonna be gone part of that by taking up some of your leave or what you thinking? Uh, I mean, I've got preaching the medlin. I've got a few days to burn somewhere. Just play and Blake are supposed to tell me when I can take off. Okay. I would let it take off.

You got a motion and second either. Motion and second on that plan. All in favor say I. All those. No. Motion carries. Okay. Any more questions for Dan? Anybody want to hold him to the microphone for just a little bit longer? See if I wake up one day and say I'm take part of my leave just not drive over there. Okay. Now moving on to Tina, our county administrator. Tina Morgan. I think we have a copy of her report in there. It's it's with your staple paperwork behind the travel.

Good. You knew I lost it about half the time, so finally stapled it in. There we go. County Administrator's report, April 28th. Okay. First item is consider correcting the minutes of April the 14th and new business. It was item eight. Um it was a typo. The pay grade um was supposed to be 24 and it was 25 on the agenda. So that's just a correcting minutes. Okay. Entertain a motion to make that change. So move. Second. Probably moved and second. And that's part of the change that Freddy had recommended on the changes we got coming up there. Is it? No, that's the deputy position. Okay.

There you go. Oh, that's right. I remember that. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose. No. Motion carries. consider the request of ENA director Patrice Kusiasti to consult with Widow Bry regarding a potential um application for a grant, a brick grant to fund safe shelters, the grant 7525 match. Okay, you've heard a request from our EMA director Patrice Kuski about this grant. Do I have a motion? Motion. Probably moved and second. Any discussion? I think the last time, well, when we went to Washington DC, we found out money for those is not as exciting as it used to be.

It's not as much money on the federal level. It's harder to get. So, everything we can do to continue to get some funding for for safe shelters, then then we're going to try to do that. But, uh, it's not as for a while thereafter, especially after April 27th. And and and we don't want another event that causes us to get more funding. That's not what this is about. So, we're just going to keep working with what we've got and try to work with the municipalities and communities to put as many as we can. That's what this is about. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. All those? No. Motion carries.

Three. Consider the request of Pleasant Hill Fire Department to pay to parking lot. And I've talked with the county engineer about this briefly. Yeah, we have a we have the authority and we kind of have a I don't know if we even have a written policy, but we've kind of got an in-house policy that uh since it's legal for us to uh to do the paving at a volunteer fire department that we try to accommodate those when we're in the area of paving. And I drove out there. It looks like they got an area one end that sort of broken or something on the end.

We're going to go out there measured up and normally we do an agreement between the commission and the fire department. course, you know, zero contract. Uh, just so we got some kind of paperwork. This came in a little bit different than most. Normally, they come straight to you. This message was left on my voicemail, which I'm playing phone tag because they left on my voicemail. I think you sent them to me, chairman, because the message is chairman said to contact the county administrator. They called him. He just forwarded the message. That's about right. So Dan, do you want to wait before we have an agreement before we do anything or do we want to do you want to best us to go ahead and move forward on this today?

Um, I mean, we can have an agreement by the next meeting if that's okay. I mean, it's going to be a while before we get around to paving it. Go right there and do it next week. No, it's nothing like you can do it pending his recommendation. There you go. Yeah. Well, I tell you what let's do. Let's just uh uh entertain a motion to uh approve the request to pay Pleasant Hill Volunteer Fire Department parking lot at some point in the future. We'll get it done as soon as possible. Have a motion to that effect. So may second.

Probably moved to second. Now, any more discussion on that? And we do we we normally our policy is we try to pave them when we're in the area. We don't try to mobilize. I don't I don't know that the public understands sometimes that uh we'll just load up and run over and pave it. Well, it takes a lot to mobilize all the equipment it takes to do a asphalt project especially. I think part of their lot was concrete might be I mean we've we did a tar and gravel pavement on that parking lot several several years ago but u they they have done some things since that time. So we just like said we need to get some good measurements on it.

We've discovered a long time ago and Jeff I think was real active in that when when these voluntary fire departments bring their hoses in after their training and all they roll them out if they've got a real good it's not just to park vehicles on if they've got a real good area they can roll those hoses out there not accidentally running over them and puncturing them with a rock and all that kind of stuff. So they're clean clean and eat and eat and then several of these places are voting places. So it's it's been a good program. Okay. And chairman, um, we finish that. We got brown. All f motion carries. All righty.

And then consider applying for America 250 Alabama grant for $2500. The deadline the 30th of this month. That's the grant. That's the grant for the what you call that something centennial. Centennial. What is it? I'm not sure. Yes. Cesqua is the 50 part and then by Centennial 200.

So the $2,500 there are several different projects that are awarded chairman and Susie and I was talking about maybe decorating the Asheville courthouse. Um if the funds will allow that. We can't use it to have a party or anything like that necessarily with. No sir. Uh but we can we can use it as a cause party and so decorating these courouses in a in a celebratory manner for the celebration of our 250th year and we got the tree that's already planted the Liberty tree over at the Ash. So if we could decorate it and maybe decorate the courthouse, not the tree. Yeah, decorate the courthouse.

Roll it again. Somebody roll the tree. Got to get it up big enough. Okay. Uh you've heard a request from uh uh our county administrator and town a motion to approve us applying for that grant. So second properly moved and second. Any more discussion? All in favor say I. All motion carries. All right. That's all I have. Chairman. Any questions from the commission for the administrator? Okay. If not, we'll move on now into the uh report section from the county attorney.

All right. So, um we had our meeting last week, the special called work session for the subdivision regulations. I feel like we got a lot of um useful feedback from that and um look forward to spending some time getting that brought up to speed incorporating some of that and meeting with some folks um in the not too distant future that was live streamed and in the commission I've got a couple of calls and I told them we were definitely going to be working on I think we made a statement in that meeting it wasn't a wasn't a commission meetings work session so I don't think we voted to do it but We did we indicate we'd put uh the draft on our website? Yes, sir.

So, is it there? It's not there yet. Um Dan and Clay and county attorney are going to work through a few issues, but other than that, they're going to put the draft on the county website and we're going to put an email on the county website and a form for them to fill out their comments and concerns and then that will be submitted directly to that email. Very good. That way they will have it in writing of what they need to review and I think it would be pretty good and streamlined. I heard about Excuse me. Go ahead. What about side? We change that. We I haven't made any changes to the document yet, but um

it's still a draft. And so my understanding that the draft was going to be what y'all presented in the work session and then make the changes moving forward and it will be another draft on the c on the website. Revise that draft. That's correct. Yes. What I got out of that was some uh tweaks to some things that Dan had been working through on subdivision regulations since we had these this committee for several years now. And then some legal things came out that maybe you address. So, we'll put the draft out there pretty much as it is and then we'll make those changes as we discover probably more.

Yes. Uh the lot size is one of the best call I had was mainly about that's the thing people looking at the lot size and uh you know I think we're u we're getting closer to have a a united commission on uh not having uh uh closed in real close housing without some sort of discussion about it. Uh so uh but I but we did we did talk about some things that I I'm not sure. This is in a regular meeting, so got more people that watch this online and go back and look at it. The u the what abouts?

What about parts?

What about a trailer park that uh one person owns and and people, you know, just give cash. I mean, we they're not supposed to, but they do. What about tiny houses? Well, you going to have to have a lot big enough to put a set tank. with health partners there. Well, how many how many tiny houses can you put on one sept? We got that answer. You It's not not according to the tiny houses, according to how many bedrooms you put four bedrooms on one sept. So, two tiny houses could be on one tank, you know. So, those are the kind of things that citizens need to know before they chop off in there and have an investment in doing subdivisions of that nature. And then campgrounds, we have several campgrounds that people live there permanently and those All of those things would need to be addressed in there because next thing you know, numbering comes in there from the 911 requirements, too. So, we've got we've got some more discussion to do, but that's a lot closer than we were when we started off on what we're going to do here. I think's getting pretty close to getting some thoughts on that. Okay.

Yes, sir. So, um so I expect to put that up soon. I don't know if that's something that would require the commission to vote, but Um the other thing is uh as you all are aware the um at the jail we're having um a change in the medical service provider there um and um there is a contract that with uh 3C South um and I'm not sure um Miss Tina, do you know if the commission has already approved that or if it's to

go ahead? Okay. All right. All right. Not the software that you mentioned while So that's the tail end of this. So there's um the medical records belong they're the sheriff's they're the county's records the medical records that are generated in that process. Um and so the county will need to enter into a contract with the um electronic medical records software provider. Um it's called the company's name is CADMAS and I would ask that the commission consider approving that subject to um my review.

Recommendation of the county attorney on approving the software package for the medical care in the jail. Entertain a motion. Motion second. Second discussion what's what's the fee? So it's um it's a subscription that will be the cost will be borne by um 3C by the service pro you know the medical service provider um and I'm sorry that I don't know the dollar amount but if somebody else is paying it is right.

Yes sir. and and we're very aware that the county commission doesn't have anything to do with the operation of the jail as far as that goes, but we are required to pay for it. So, our interest became making sure we had in the contract that the who the medical provider was going to be that they would keep records based on the uh mental health uh designation of the prisoners so that we could qualify for opioid money to help pay for the for the entire package. and that was all in there. So, I was happy with that and the commission was. So, we're we're really close on that. And uh I don't know how many counties have even brought that up. But once they once this catches on going to be some people say, "Oh, we need to be looking at this also." I'm sure. For sure.

Yes, sir. All right. Well, that's all I've got.

Any other discussion? All say I. All motion carries. I keep Oh lordy. Okay, my report uh been a busy couple of weeks and uh having that uh special work session on subdivisions was very important and I I learned a lot out of it and uh we've got uh a lot of things going on in the county that's very important and one of the things that I wanted to mention in my report is to today uh three weeks from an election and we have one more meeting, one more regular meeting uh the county commission that'll be held in Asheville between now and the election. And I made the offer for anybody that was running for office to come in and speak. We've done that. I went to Moody last night. Several several people went to the Argo meeting and uh and we speak to the city councils and the same same situation here. Give give candidates three minutes or so to come in and uh tell the county commission some things about their their programs and policies. Not just people running for commission, people running for state representative, people running for US Senate, whatever they're running for, but there's one more opportunity for that, my point, and that'll be uh that'd be second Tuesday in May, and then not long after that then will be the election. So, there's one more opportunity for those candidates to come in and speak to the county commission and also the uh citizenry and and their their comments of course would be uh on file then with our records. So, that's my report. and move moving on to district one. Commissioner Brown,

I'm good. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner two, Ricky Parker. I you know, we just like chairman said, we got a lot going on for the buildings. We to put out that bed for some more buildings. So, I mean, I tell you, it's Oh, we got plenty of money. Got There you go. We got plenty of money. We going to pay for the building and we ain't borrowing no money. There you go. We're not borrowing any yet.

We may not have to borrow any money. We're going to see. And I did get a report. I Oh god. I should have had it with me. I got it on my phone, but I can't hardly read it. Uh did y'all get the report how much money is left in the little tree sale money and all? 77,000. It saves you. So there's there's about 70,000 plus or minus left in that fund. And we said we would put that towards some of these buildings. But well, you don't have to take that s something to add to Dan's 150 which because his still and it still won't cover all his what come because his had come in at 125 more than what we budgeted

but going to get close to taking care of Dan's building what we had budgeted for last year plus the 70 something thousand and and so Dan's building is I think we about got it behind us. We got it bid and ready to go. When are you going to start on? Hadn't got a date on that yet. They've got some middles to give. Good game was finishing up on the draw up the contract last week when I was talking to him. So should have everything like that ready for the next meeting.

And the next one as our target would be the uh storage building for all of the we call it the uh the react squad for the sheriff's department or whatever. It's got several things stored in it. Yeah, it's a but it's it's a big storage building. The sheriff has a lot of valuable equipment. We got it on here. Vote on this.

The sheriff has a lot of little little trailers for lack of a better that's what they are. They're trailers, but they're they're they're painted or they're wrapped with tell us what they're for, what's in them, SWAT team, those kind of things. And u uh those things are very valuable to the way the sheriff's operation is because if they need what's in that trailer, they don't have to go rumage around and drag it out and throw it in back of cars. They got one of the guys with the truck comes by and hooks up to the trailer, takes it to the scene and everything they need right there in that trailer depending on that event. So those are that's kind of some of the things that go in this new building on the sheriff storage out there at the uh Department of Transportation building. So, we'll move on to that then. So, we're getting there one at a time. Commissioner Stevens, you two.

I'm done. I'm done. Well, I I think that uh I was pleased at the turnout at our special meeting for the subdivision regulations. I think we're making some progress there. Um I think that was a very productive meeting. I know Dan and Clay and uh be working really hard on trying to resolve some of these some of these issues and I think that we just keep pressing forward with those and uh they will have some resolution to that issue soon. Secondly, we are very busy got a lot of projects working but but not to worry we can we can do more than one thing at a time. So I just look forward to getting some of these projects underway.

Okay. And Commissioner Bob guys couldn't be here. He is seldom out. He's sort of like Mr. All y'all are here a lot and seldom miss u but he did say he left me his proxy. So I didn't I get to vote his vote on some things here that's going to be coming up in a regular meeting and uh so I really appreciate him doing that. Y'all may have to call in and see. But uh we'll move on now into the rest of our agenda under old business. So we got consider a tabled item uh from April 14th meeting request from the sheriff to provide job description of telecommunicator shift supervisor pending review of the county attorney and the HR payroll division. So we tabled that and we got it straightened out and we're ready to bring it back up

that actually um needs to be amended to I've been working with Freddy the operations center administrator. It needs to be the request of Sheriff Murray to move one telecommunicator to a shift supervisor position and remove one of the telecommunicator positions pending Freddy and the HR department working together. This will leave five telecommunicators shift supervisors and 21 telecommunicators. So if it's done after everything's done it will be five telecommunicator shift supervisors and 21 telecommunicators. Okay. So we need to amend that

old business item number one to include that motion. Have a motion to to to take that item off the table and that the motion will be amended to include those items. Right. Second prop moved and second now. Now in discussion is that clear what you taken to do? And it really goes back you had kind of had this way back before and we're not adding any employees. We are changing the position. So this action we're taking Freddy will will solve the issue that you that that you have. Yes. Okay. Very good. Any other discussion? All in favor say I.

All oppose. No. Motion carries. All right. Item two under old business. Consider a tabled item from the 14th meeting request by Sheriff Murray to add and hire two telecommunicator positions to train for future changes. I think that just needs to be taken off right now again. Okay, this is the one where if we needed to have those for later on, we're not hardly at that spot yet. So, uh we will Did we table it for a time specific? We just table for the to the next meeting which is this meeting. So uh we'll take it off the table and a motion take it off the table.

Have a motion take it off the table and take it off the agenda for agenda. Probably moved and second. Any discussion that'll that'll open it up where if we do need that later on we'll bring it back up and put it on there. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose. No. Motion carries. Okay. Now on to new business. consider authorizing chairman Baitman to engage with the architect to add and design office or storage space under the pel city courthouse. We've had some discussion on uh using this space at the end, but we've also had some discussion how to address uh revenue commissioner storage and other other entities. So, u I won't won't need to engage one at this particular time. So, and we did you do or do not?

You do not. I don't need one at this time. We did we did go through though we went through Tina and and Corey went through all the minutes relating to authorizing individual commissioners to look at things and and that one was not approved for me to look at it was discussed but we never never moved to approve it. So um since we uh didn't move to approve we don't have to do anything it wasn't never was approved for me to go do it what I we discussed it we discussed it several times at work sessions so that's That's why we just moved it to the meeting today to authorize it if we needed to. Yes, sir. So, u let's just I tell you what, let's do it. I'd recommend we table it indefinitely.

I'll make a motion to do that. I have a motion to table indefinitely. Have a second. Second. Probably moved and second. All in favor say I. All post. No. Motion carries. Now, we bring it back up whenever you want to. That way, uh item two, consider ratifying chairman signature on the uh six remnant defendant opioid settlement agreement and you see those listed there.

Uh these are some new agreements that have come out for the opioid settlement. So entertain a motion to ratify my signature on second prop moved and second in discussion. All in favor say I. All motion carries. Item three, uh, consider request, uh, for letter of support from Slair County Day Program to apply for the Children's Trust Fund of Alabama grant application for the strategic community outreach programs for enlightenment, otherwise known as scope entertainment. I have a motion. Motion second. Properly moved and second. Any other discussion?

All say I posted, no. Motion carries. Item four. Uh, consider request public transportation director Janet Smith for proposed FY27 section 5311 grant application and all related documents. Uh, do I have a motion to approve that? Then we'll discuss some items on that. Motion. Motion. Second. Probably moved and second. Now in discussion, we have to approve her 5311 request early and that will do that. That does not that does not automatically include the uh personnel changes that she might have in that budget. It includes it, but it's it's proposed. It's proposed. Yes, sir.

Yeah. So So if we did come back, it's already in there that we could do it, but it's we don't have to hire anybody on those. We'll have to vote on that at budget time. Budget time. Okay. All right. Any discussion on that? All in favor say I. No. Motion carries. Item five, consider request revenue commissioner Ken Cro to surplus 2013 Ford Escape to sell on gov deals. That was a reappraisal vehicle. So the funds will go back into this reappraisal budget. I have a motion. Second proper move and second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. Oppose. No. Motion carries. Senator request revenue commissioner Ken Cro to surplus and dispose of HP laser jet printer inventory numbers listed there. Do I have a motion?

So second properly moved and second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose. No. Motion carries. Item seven. So the request from asset manager actually to pay the following with a county credit card. Uh, Amazon Prime Video for digital copies of movies for the community movie night schedule at the event center. You see the amount? $54.97 for those movies which is a bargain. I mean, that's that's I think that's going to be a good

Yeah, that's going to be great out there. I hope it catches on for the summer series. uh also uh to use that credit card to pay for a Facebook uh meta business with county credit card amount of $400. Is that a one-time thing? Okay. One time thing uh hosting events through social media. Have a motion to approve that request. Motion probably moved and second on both of those request from Ashley. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose? No. Motion carries. Item eight. Senator request Sheriff Billy Murray to adopt resolution 2026-25 to honor telecommunicator. We did that a little bit earlier honoring Hannah Garrison.

Item number nine s request from Sheriff Billy Murray to install I think we need to do that though. I entertain a motion to authorize the resolution to be signed by motion.

Second properly moved and second. All in favor say I. All motion carries. Item nine, consider request sheriff Billy to install carpet Asheville Sheriff's Office blends flooring in the amount of $19,000 as material installation, the labor, etc., etc. This will require budget amendment. That may be part of our 70 something,000 right there. We'll get Michelle and see. Do I have a motion to have a motion? Have a second. Second prop moved to second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose? No. Motion carries. Out of 10, consider awarding bid number 2026-36 SWAT building for the sheriff's department on the road department campus to Good Game Construction of a base bid of $529,128, which was the lowest responsible bid, actually the lowest bid pending review by the county attorney and subject to available funds. So, we still got to go through the funding process on this. We did receive three good bids. They were they were all factual bids and uh so we we were happy with that with that process and hopefully we can move on now with that project if we find the funds. So I have a motion have a motion

second properly moved and second. Any discussion? Favor say I oppose. No. Motion carries. Consider rescending the contract for the dietitionian jail that was approved on 422. Have a motion to resend that. Motion second. I'll be moved and second. All in favor say I. All those no motion carries. Item 12, consider rescending the summit food contract sheriff's department approved 414. I have a motion to resend that one. So made second.

Probably moved and second. Any discussion? All f say I post. No. Motion carries. Item 13. Consider request sheriff Billy Murray to let bid for food service vendor for the jail. That authorize. This will authorize the sheriff to let bids for the food service. Have a motion. Motion properly moved and second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All those no. Motion carries. And I'm going to go in between 13 and 14. Uh like I said, the staff went through the records and uh we authorized the sheriff. These were all these already been taken care of in the minutes as I understand. Yes, sir.

So, we the county commission did vote and authorize Sheriff Murray to engage with architecture to design two buildings. one to in to store the community engagement vehicle and other assets possibly in Pel City still looking for that I didn't nail it down the site and the other building designed uh with the dis disassembled hanger on the road department campus for storage of various equipment so he has been authorized to look for those for those somebody to draw those up and do what we need so we'll move on with that that one's done item two was to consider authorizing Commissioner Brown to search for location to construct potential jewel detention facility. That has been duly approved by the commission and he's in the process of doing that. Uh item three, consider authorizing Commissioner Stevens to engage an architect to design a juvenile detention facility. We voted to do that. So that that has been done also. Uh so Commissioner Stevens is in the process now of engaging our architect. Item four, consider authorizing property manager Rody Wolf to review and evaluate available square footage P City Courthouse. on the very end out here for potential construction. So, he's measured it. I've measured it and you know, everybody feel free to go measure it and make see what they've got out there as we look at the space that we can move and do some work there because we already own the property. It's already attached to this building. So, we'll look at that as we go. So, those have been duly approved. Uh then we also uh said consider hiring electrician to prepare bidsp specs for disconnect current generator that run central dispatch. So get somebody to disconnect one and determine the size and cost of a new generator. So disconnect the old one is a bid spec. Uh determine the size of a new generator and cost of a new generator needed and the cost to install the new generator. Right now the old generator out there as we know is an old diesel generator. It's

sitting beside a natural gas line. It's it's an old generator. there when we bought the building from the home company over 30 years ago. And uh not only is it very inefficient, it's really not a good backup generator that runs our building that houses our uh operations center, central dispatch, etc. So, uh we we hadn't hired one, but he's supposed to be looking still. Yes, sir. Rody is looking so Rody's actively looking to find somebody to do give us a price.

Yeah. And I think I think Commissioner Ma said he'd get involved in that also to help help come up with the inspection. Go ahead and set the meter. I think Rody contacted someone Friday. The reason that they hadn't set the meters, we hadn't decided M looked at too where to set the generator. the meter. Like if the generator goes inside that fenced in area where the tower is, then that that that meter would need to be close to that. If it's going to go back down on the other end of the building, the meter need to be there. So I'm not sure that it's nailed down where the meters go. Y'all walked around out there.

Yeah. So anyway, that's all part of that process and we'll uh if you bump into Rody, we'll get him a little more engaged in it and see what we've got to do. But that's already been discussed and approved in a meeting. Next item that was in that meeting or innovated determine the size of a new generator needed to run the cooler and cost to install the new generator at the coroner's office and that would require budget amendment. Have we got to take action or did we take action on that? That was that was March 24th. So we've already taken action.

I got so supposedly Rody's supposed to find us what size it's supposed to be and the cost to install it at the corner's office also. So that's been approved. just haven't got it done yet.

Item two, uh, under that on March 24th, consider request Sheriff Murray to let bid for the SWAT storage building. We authorize that to be done. It has been done. It has been bid and we build it. Yep. Item three at that meeting, uh, consider authorizing property manager Rody Wolf to review and evaluate available square footage. We did authorize him to review that square footage down there and tell us what it would be. U and uh but we didn't put anything in there about cost and design and all that. We know we know that'll have to have an architect build onto this building. So we had got to that spot yet, but we're not ready for that anyway. So wanted to wanted to insert those in our discussion. Item 14, consider travel requests. Got travel requests listed in the file. Take a motion to approve those.

So second properly moved and second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose? No. Motion carries. Item 15 consider board appointments. Didn't we have board appointments that discuss chairman? Yes, ma'am. Revenue commissioner Crow would like to appoint Paula Craft to a 45 temporary term for the board of equalization. Paula Craft. Yeah, she was temporary last year. Yeah, she's done that before. Heard a request from the revenue commissioner. Entertain a motion to make that appointment. Motion second.

Probably moved and second. She's a real estate agent on the area. Correct. Okay. Okay. Okay. Properly moved and second. Any discussion? All in favor to appoint polarcraft to that position. Let me say I. All oppose. No. Motion carries. Item 16. Consider a payment of the regular monthly bills. If you look at the bill list that we was handed this morning, we actually didn't spend hardly a million dollars. That's pretty good. We just spent that in a month. Look how much a week. How much money we would have? That's right. It's just a barely a week.

Just barely a week. Yeah. If it's a week, that's 52 million. We still got 20 million. I'm sorry. I'm not going to bore y'all with any more basement math here, Dad. That wouldn't even work for me. Did we pay the bills? So motion. Motion and second. All in favor say I. I. All oppose. No motion car. Next item to adjurnn. Any time motion. Have a motion to adjurnn. Have a second. Second. Propy move. Second. Any discussion? All in favor say I. All oppose. No. Motion to adjurnn has passed. And we stand adjourned. All right. Thank you everybody.