County Commission - Regular Meeting

I'll let you here by 1230 or so. I would think so.

You should be able to. Gary. Yeah, Gary should be here any minute. Yeah, he'll be here in a few minutes.

Thanks, sir. Thank you. You're welcome.

I'll use what you gave earlier. Okay, we're live now.

Okay, we'll get started before we do. We've got the county attorney. Let's do that then. Before we get started, if you bow with me, I'll ask God to direct us this morning. Dear God, we come before you again just to humble, dear Lord, and thankful that you're our God and that you protect us and that we live under your grace. God, we first of all ask you to be with some families this week that's gone through the passing of some of their their special friends and family all together. It's just been so much of that this week, dear Lord. Be with those families and be with us that have lost friends and loved ones, dear Lord, this week. And comfort us as we go through that process, knowing, dear Lord, that the life of those that have gone on are with you. And just give us comfort in that fact. God, we thank you also for your protection of our individual families and our physical and financial health, dear Lord. We just lay any problems of those, dear Lord, at your feet. And understanding, dear God, that you've already told us that all the problems that we've got, dear Lord, are during this life and on this world. And the final goal, dear Lord, is those problems will all be gone at some point in the future if we're believers. God, we thank you also for giving us wisdom, dear Lord, and the guidance of your word in the performance of this job, dear Lord. We know that you mentioned the importance of being a public official in the Bible, dear Lord. We just thank you for that guidance that you put in there. Even thinking about elected officials, dear Lord, you put in your word, dear God, that we... that we are covered under your word and under your guidance. And God, we lay all these things at the feet of Jesus, the ultimate healer, and everything that might be wrong in our universe. Ask these things in his name. Amen. We ask our Commissioner Rick Parker to lead us in the pledge. one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Oh, those are for later on. All right. There again, we get started there. Gary, thank you so much. You going to stay with us?

I got to bring in one little more side, and then I'm going to bring the drinks in.

OK. You need any help?

No, sir. I got it.

OK. Come out there and hold her down. All right, moving on now into the regular meeting of the St. Clair County Commission. This meeting was changed from last Tuesday officially to today, and this will be the second required meeting of the month in the Pell City jurisdiction, which is where we are this morning. With that, I call this meeting to order officially. First item on this agenda is to approve the agenda and entertain a motion. Motion. Second? Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Next item. Approve the minutes of the regular meeting of August the 11th. I have a motion to approve those minutes. Motion. Second? Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion on those at this time? Not all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no motion carries. Moving on now to our report section. Clay Phillips, our county engineer, and he handed out his report. I think a while ago when you laid out what's going on in the county on your crews and projects, you can do those again if you want to, but they've already been put on live this morning. So just a few minutes ago.

Move on to number two.

Move on to number two if you wish to. DAVID BURRAGE- Yeah.

DAVID BURRAGE- Item number two, like the commission consider the recommendations for road worker one positions. Four positions, Shane Arnold, Dylan J. Wall, Colby Butts, Michael Stevens.

So be it. DAVID BURRAGE- Now, would most of us second? Second.

DAVID BURRAGE- Properly move to second. Any discussion? I do not think the Michael Stevens is related to me, but just to avoid any appearance of impropriety, I'm going to abstain from voting on that measure.

DAVID BURRAGE- You're not sure, but it could be a district vote. You never know. So I'm going to abstain. DAVID BURRAGE- I understand. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. DAVID BURRAGE- All opposed, no. Any abstentions? OK. Item 3. Senator requests St. Clair County to abandon the right-of-way at the end of Hearst Road in the Odenville area. Do I have a motion? So be it. I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. I'll move to second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed? No. Motion carries. Item 4. Consider approving an easement, Alabama Power Company, that will allow Alabama Power Company to provide power to the new SWAT building on the road department campus. Do I have a motion? Motion. Motion and a second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. Motion carries. I just took over for you.

There we go. You know, you done.

That's the way you move right on through this. OK. Now, anything, anything the engineer want to add?

I thought you already did.

While we're on the road, any of the commissioners have any questions to publicly and officially in a business meeting ask Clay? No. All right. Thank you, Clay. Moving on now to Tina Morgan. I won't do her that way. Her report's a lot longer.

Chairman, I do not have anything to report unless you want me to update you from what I did at the work session. It was just updates.

I think we were live in the work session and that was all listed. Any official business we take from the work session will be listed in this agenda, right?

Correct.

Okay. Any of the commissioners have any questions for the county administrator? No, I don't. Well, Kirk gave us his report during the work session, and he's going to check up on the Amendment 909 or whatever it was and a few other items also listed in the work session. And you may want to note in your minutes what he said he would check on since he's not actually here.

Okay, and his other items is on the agenda under my business. Mm-hmm.

All right, moving on down, reports. Stan Bacon, chairman. I've said as much as my reports I can think of, so I don't have anything. Moving on now to District 1, Commissioner Brown.

I'm good. I said what I needed to in the work session.

There you go. Commissioner Parker.

Yeah, I'm good, too. Commissioner Joel Stephens. Good. Commissioner Bob Mize. The only thing I would like to remind everybody, Saturday is the sheriff's basketball tournament for the boys.

Very good. I think they have about 80 boats and two people. That's right. That's 160 people. That's always a pretty good-sized bass tournament, yeah.

They'll be at Lakeside.

Yep. All right, moving on now into old business. We have no old business listed under new business. Consider approval of the FY27 Alabama Department of Youth Services Agency grant that goes to the St. Clair County Day Program. The amount of the grant is $343,431. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion. Second. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item two. To the approval of a three-year memorandum of understanding between St. Clair County Commission and ALEA, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, for a Pell City location pending the county attorney's review. Moving one more step forward to ALEA moving into the old New Zegers building to have a motion to approve. Motion. Second? Second. Prompt to move to second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item three. Consider adopting Resolution 2026-40 to increase the disbursement of the lodging tax from 6% to 10%. Resolution 2026-40 replaces and repeals Resolution 2025-51 in totality and any and all other resolutions or ordinances in conflict herewith effective December 1, 2026. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Item four, consider transferring the following equipment from the county commission office to the information technology office. And that would be six HP Elite tablets from the commission office. And you've got some inventory numbers down there under that. I have a motion. Motion. Second. Second. Probably move to second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Item five, consider request from asset manager Ashley Hay. Purchase signage from SmartSign, St. Clair County Ag and Multi-Event Center in the amount of $140.24 with the county credit card. Have a motion. Motion. Second? Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carried. Okay, item six. Consider request property manager Rodney Wolfe transfer a gun safe inventory number 1942 to the coroner's office. Have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Property movement second. Any discussion? This gun safe has already been in the coroner's office. This just officially transfers it over to the coroner. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, no. Motion carries. Item seven. Consider request Rodney Wolfe, property manager, to transfer HP ProBook 455 laptop inventory number 10256 to the IT division. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second? Second. Property moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries to transfer that. Next item, consider request property manager Rodney Wolfe to surplus and dispose of the following. You've got inventory numbers, office furniture, vacuum, gas compressor, HP printer, some old radios, old truck bed covers, some old items we're trying to get rid of. Have a motion to do that. Motion.

Second.

Property movement second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 9, consider request for Revenue Commissioner Ken Crowe to issue a formal cancellation letter to American Financial Credit Services. This request indicates the desire to terminate the county's existing agreement with AFCS for delinquent tax collection. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second? Second. Property movement second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 10. Consider request Revenue Chief Clerk Tony Ridge to pay GoDaddy in the amount of $75.96 with a county credit card for a two-year domain renewal for their website, Broadband St. Clair. Do I have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Item 11. City requests EMA Director Patrice Kuzieski to accept the FY2025-26 EMPG Cooperative Agreement. It's a grant that we get every year. Period of performance for this covers FY26. There are two amounts listed. And the added amount is included in 25ES-1. And there's one of five reset supplemental EMPG payments that will be made over a five-year period. starting in 2026 and ending in 2030. I have a motion to approve the request. So moved. Second? Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? Do we have an amount of what those are? Did she give us any kind of an amount of what those NPG differences are?

The total was like 66, I think. One was, I'll try to find it.

Like 66,000?

I think the total was around 66, 67.

I'm going to put plus or minus 66,000. That'll give us an idea of what that is actually, what the NPG money is actually worth to our program. Okay, all in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 12, consider request Sheriff Murray to renew Randy Hurst's employment contract for one year. And you see the term there. Do I have a motion? Motion second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 13, consider request Sheriff Murray to let a bid for the remodel of the sheriff's office former bank building in Asheville. This is to allow the sheriff to let bid for the remodel of the Sheriff's Office. Those bids would be let, and when they come in, they'd be remanded to the County Commission, and the County Commission then can peruse those in a work session and make some decisions. I have a motion. Motion. Second? Second. Probably move to second. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All in favor say no. Motion carries. Item 14. City requested Sheriff Murray to let bid for a building to store the community engagement vehicle in Pell City. Same situation will apply there that we're authorizing Sheriff to let bids. I have a motion. Motion. Second. Properly moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Item 15. City requested District Attorney Lyle Harmon to surplus and dispose of the following. You'll see the inventory number is 4886, 5009 Credenza, motion to approve motion second Second, any discussion? In the way of discussion, I just want to point out officially in the meeting that most of the items that are in the inventory of the district attorney are on the state inventory, not the county's. Some items are furnished by the county through the benevolence of the St. Clair County government. So I just wanted to point that out. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Item 16 consider travel request get the travel requests all those before you have most approved Second probably moving the second in discussion all in favor say aye all opposed no motion carries item 17 Consider board appointments have board appointments as discussed in the work session.

I think we had a couple come up there Have motion to reappoint Teresa Sanders

Probably moved and seconded. Any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carries. Also, I'd like to entertain a motion from one of the members to appoint Ashley Thompson from the extension office to serve on the M4A board of directors. Motion. I have a motion and a second. Probably moved and seconded. Any discussion? Thank Ashley and Theresa for their willingness to serve in these positions. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed no. Motion carries. Consider payment of the regular bills. You got a copy of the bills in the files from our work session. There was a real thick package there. I didn't look at the total from there, but it was a lot of money. One and a half. Am I afraid of it? How much is it? One and a half million. One and a half million. We're getting down to the end of the year. Say it fast. That's not a lot. Yeah, I'm saying it real fast. And it looks like we have a motion to pay them no matter what.

Yeah.

Second? Second. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the end of the bills at this time? All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion carried. Item 19, entertain a motion to adjourn the regular meeting of the county commission. I have a motion and a second. Proper move to second the end of the discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed, no. Motion to adjourn. Stands. We stand adjourned. Thank the commissioners for their work.

Yes, sir.

We're going to have a few hours to do this. Lunchtime. Lunchtime. We're going from here to here.

I got you some nutty butter.

Woo! Parker's got dessert.

Got nutty butter here.