let's go into it with open minds and
open hearts
of America and to the Republic for which
it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible with liberty and justice for
all.
Holiday schedule.
I want to add that to the items
for consideration.
Yes.
So we'll make that motion.
Second.
So I submit a motion for a holiday
schedule for the year twenty-six
twenty-second.
All members say aye.
Aye.
Motion carried.
Anything else?
Okay.
Other comments?
Nothing?
Okay.
We have approval for the minutes of
November fourth, twenty twenty-five.
I'll make that motion.
I'll just make a motion.
I feel there needs to be a bunch
of corrections on it.
Truly, they take the lead.
A couple of things we got mentioned,
and I'll leave minutes for them.
Corrections, is that right?
Yep.
There's a bunch of stuff that got left
out.
Everything towards the end of the meeting.
So letters can be a court document.
So if you ever get sued or whatever
down the road,
the minutes can be used for that.
We don't truly state what happened to me.
Good luck to you.
Have you revised to include these things?
there's no requirement for public to keep
minutes for me but if they are have
they are able to probably section company
you're providing to the commissioners for
the new prior to your approval today so
i'd recommend that the commissioners if
they have any provisions or corrections
when you get those minutes that you
respond back to the auditor so she can
review those minutes are just a summary
they're not to be related
So if you don't already care,
then just be sure that you make those
available standing in the meeting hall
before you leave the chair.
Okay.
That being said, I'll second that motion.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
I will write it down again.
Claims and payroll.
Motion to approve claims and payroll.
Second.
I'm in motion for the second.
I'll put you on the spot here this
morning.
Sure.
Would you explain this to us?
Explain.
Sure.
So opioid funds were distributed as part
of a class action lawsuit against the drug
companies.
And the courts determined how much money
the drug companies had to pay in for
their overprescribing of opioids over the
years.
And so that money is coming in a
little at a time.
And so it's being sent to the states.
And then the states are distributing part
of that money to the counties.
And so the process was that it was
given to the commissioners.
The commissioners were supposed to decide
who got the opioid money.
Some of the money is restricted funds,
meaning it has to be used for programs
that are opioid-based.
Part of the money is used for unrestricted
funds,
where you can use it for premedication.
That's OK.
I have it right there.
but I didn't understand the restricted
funds.
Sure.
Restricted funds, they have to be,
it has to be a program that's actually
in some nations being used for people who
have opioid issues or like for instance,
we can use it for classes in the
jail,
for people who are being arrested for
opioid or drug charges, things like that.
Anything directly related to some kind of
substance abuse opioid would be considered
under the restrict, whereas unrestricted,
you can use for anything.
So today,
the board has had me and an application
came in from Project Lifesaver,
which is part of,
and it was asking for two thousand dollars
to be paid out of the unrestricted funds.
The program that they are operating is not
a new program they have operated in the
past.
It is geared towards children with
intellectual and developmental
disabilities and to the older population
with dementia and Alzheimer's that have a
tendency to water.
The project is asking for two thousand
dollars to be used to continue to purchase
bracelets and other items that they need
to continue to operate their project that
they have started.
So I have brought Joe with me,
if you have some questions for him about
the project,
because I honestly knew just a little
about it when this application came in,
and him and Amanda Yake have been very
well at explaining any questions we've had
as it went through the JRAC board's
process.
So I'm impressed with what you're using.
Right now we have seven on the program.
Throughout the past,
Two weeks, two to three weeks,
I have got an influx of phone calls,
people asking about it,
wanting to put their child on it,
an older adult on it,
and right now we only have two stairs.
I like to keep one staircase and one
break,
because from time to time they roll back,
they get worn off.
So my fear is if we get an
influx of new people that want to be
put on this program,
we're going to be behind
and have to order this stuff,
and they're gonna have to set the weight
until we get it.
So with some funding here,
if you're able to buy something,
have them set it and prepare it for
when somebody wants to be put on the
program,
all you gotta do is get yourself in
there and put it on.
So that's it.
About between four and five hundred
dollars.
And that's, they come in kits,
the starter kits.
So it comes with twelve bracelets,
it comes with the device,
with everything that you need to function
for a year.
So who monitors their bracelets?
I monitor the bracelets every sixty days.
I have to go change the batteries.
So every sixty days they get a new
band that holds the practical device in
place and they get a new battery.
So is that going to like seal your
letters and stuff like that?
That's all I'm going to do.
So what she said children with
developmental issues
um adults with alzheimer's dementia
anybody that's that could want to talk to
us um so he is sitting there and
it will cover the two thousand dollars
I'll second that.
All right.
Since we got you, though,
I've been asked a few questions about what
kind of programs do we have at the
jail right now that helps to find jobs
afterwards or recovery and all that.
It's been a couple people who've actually
asked me.
I don't know how to answer that.
I can tell you that we currently have
substance abuse classes going on in the
jail that are being funded through the
community corrections grant that I am
using to rent Washington County
Corrections.
Those classes are being funded through our
place.
I have a contract with them and they
have an instructor that goes in there
twice a week and has classes with inmates.
It's kind of a beginning step towards
their recovery.
before they get out and actually do
classes with my program.
It's a beginning step of that.
So it's not a repeat of what they'll
get when they're on probation.
It's just kind of a beginning start to
think about your recovery, becoming sober,
things like that.
And then if they're placed on probation in
order to do alcohol drug classes,
then that comes through with probation.
I think there's GED classes.
We also have a GED class,
and we also have thriving.
It's a rehabilitation program to help give
you a few tools upon your release.
I think they're helping some of the
inmates find residential placements to go
to,
thirty-day programs once they get out if
they need that support once they're
released from the jail.
sure the release program who who does the
finals tell you about that um usually it's
ordered by the court as to when the
inmate is released um so it depends on
when the inmate takes the plea agreement
some of them get sent to the eoc
um others are released on probation while
others are released with no kind of
supervision okay i appreciate you
We may ask you again next year.
That's all right.
Thank you.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
Good.
How are you?
I think I'm talking here.
He was willing to accept that position.
Yeah.
And he said he wasn't willing to accept
it.
Yeah,
I talked to Jay as well on Friday.
i'll make a motion to accept your
incursion raise the word i'll second it
all right
The holiday schedule for point twenty-six
has, I believe, there's thirteen days,
plus each employee gets their birthday off
as well in the month of their birthday.
The holiday schedule is January first,
which is New Year's Day, January ninth,
which is March twenty-eighth, April third,
which is Friday, May fifth, election,
May twenty-fifth, Memorial Day,
July third, Fourth of July,
September seventh, Labor Day.
November third, Election Day.
November eleventh, Veterans Day.
November twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh
is Thanksgiving.
December twenty-fourth, Christmas Eve.
And December twenty-fifth, Christmas.
I'll make a motion to accept that.
Second.
Motion to amend the motion.
I'll second.
All in favor say aye.
Aye.
Motion carried.
Now.
All in favor?
I'll second.
Now.
So, commissioners,
the meeting dates for the
twenty-twenty-sixth.
They have executive session at eight
o'clock and an open session at nine.
The dates for the meetings for next year
are January sixth and January
twenty-eighth,
February third and seventeen,
March third and seventeen,
April seventh and twenty-fifth,
May the fifth, May the nineteenth,
June the second and the sixteenth,
July the seventh and the twenty-first,
August the fourth and the eighteenth.
The budget period will be the twenty-fifth
through the twenty-seventh.
I have a little question.
We have always known that my business has
never been an issue.
I mean,
it's never caused an issue in my
knowledge.
Well, you're not in here.
Mm-hmm.
I'll look down the picture.
I'll look at them.
So you want to take this to me.
Do you accept it?
Yeah.
Yeah, we can do that.
We approve the holiday schedule.
i think the confusion came into play
because on the uh those are our election
days on tuesday the primary in general but
in the time past that came on the
municipal elections they weren't honored
and before a municipality election,
we had to get a court order to
shut my office down because we can't be
open for a business in and around the
election.
Yes, we will.
Good morning.
First,
I want to apologize for my abrupt leaving
there.
Last meeting here,
my dad had a little health issue.
I want to apologize formally to you all.
We've got a date on the VOT project.
The office on the inside there,
we've got wood trim, vinyl trim,
wood flooring, windows,
around the base.
Drive all over them like yesterday to
touch up for final phase.
Electric is complete in the conference
room coming out to the office area.
Get everything energized out there.
Plumbing contractor is supposed to be
there this week for the rest of the
week and he's going to work on not
only the office but the mechanics drive
and also the
wash bag so we jumping around yeah mixed
salt salt building uh it's completely
framed up it's got the uh salt deterrent
panel on the interior walls the electric
have been rubbed in up to the wall
basically it's a small panel and instead
of the lights and uh
On the mechanic's shop,
if you've been out there,
you've seen all the walls up,
the metal siding on the walls.
Again,
the plumber was going to be there today.
He started with his rough ends and
bringing the lines out throughout the
building.
The electrician set his panels yesterday
on the inside.
Overhead doors are installed.
There may be one that they had a
little framing that they needed done,
but it doesn't.
we got most of them up out of
the town we probably have nine i think
so we have built the firewalls on the
inside or the one we are still actively
building site concrete is about
ninety-nine percent ninety-nine because
right now hvac pad is needed for some
of those pads so basically it's uh
Pretty well completed.
As far as I know,
we're pretty close to having all that
completed.
We've been out there,
we've graded the site,
trying to get it all to brand,
get all the test basins.
Actually,
it's looking pretty sharp and getting
ready for the twenty-four hundred tons of
pavement.
The gas line coming down from Bex Mill
Road is about seventy percent in.
We still got a pool board that's in
the road to do the tie-in,
and we're up to a hundred feet north
of the site before it comes into the
site.
So that's kind of the site work.
Last week,
I was having a talk with Phil about
also, there was a question about the,
all the trucking we can do,
and that it is twenty-four bays instead of
thirty,
There is some additional funds there that
we can use for changes in scope,
such as the lawn, fiber optic.
I will give you a complete rundown of
that.
In fact,
they worked for the first day today.
So right about Thursday,
I'll give you the rundown.
We'll request it.
I'll give you the breakdown of where all
the funds are for all the little scope
changes that we've had.
Yes.
A little bit rockier than we expected on
that side of the road.
So yeah, about seven percent done.
We will still need Midwest Gas to be
a centimeter on the building and also do
their connections up there on the north
side of that snow road where their main
is.
So yeah, it's pretty close.
They've been right there with us,
helping us make sure that it's correct and
everything.
So basically what we've got is if gas
has
some of the buildings.
Oh, yes, yes, sir.
Then we'll get a couple days this week.
We'll be real close.
That's William, is that correct?
Yeah.
And we did,
we got to get him in the office.
in the shop area office.
And he's got two things to say there.
He did tell you something about the name
of a firewall for a mechanic.
He said that there was a two-meter
firewall for a mechanic that had to be
put in for hanging one of the doors.
Okay.
Yes.
That would look pretty odd.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
That was a rule that couldn't be hung
because he's a
Another brace or something different right
here.
Okay.
The other,
I probably agree with you on that.
Well, hang it there on the window.
Hopefully you don't see those stones for a
while.
Very good.
And again,
we're very sorry for your father.
Thanks.
Appreciate your work.
I did want to bring up the,
we have been working on the salary limits
for next year and within the payroll.
Normally it's twenty-six days in a year.
This year, the way the calendar falls,
there will be twenty-six,
there will be twenty-seven days.
So everyone's salary remains the same.
It just will be spread out over
twenty-seven and
There will be three,
three paychecks that will not have
deductions taken out.
There will be about three months there
that there's the extra pay.
Okay, thank you.
oh i was gonna let you know uh
we have submitted our point that should be
wrapped up
We have submitted our twenty twenty-sixth
Community Crossings application and
applied for the maximum one million.
Bridge sixty-one on Baylor Road has been
advertised.
The bid opening will be December
sixteenth,
so you might make a note of the
recent bid showing up at the office.
I'm at the Highway one fifty and Radcliffe
Road intersection.
I have a few issues to address there.
They're working on the design and the
utility relocation.
That'd be a couple months out,
so we're just kind of waiting out.
This will be a long drug out.
Most likely the twenty-seven project,
but we're still hoping for late
twenty-six.
I don't know how long.
They actually figured on to simplify it
will just add a line to the,
I guess,
would be the West and widen that road
towards the hardware.
So we've coming off one,
it'll just be completely widened towards
the store, basically a turn lane.
It'll be twenty four feet wide.
Now you're probably looking at seventeen
inch.
So it's an extendable lane there.
Yeah, basically.
Open up the turn and radiate.
Radiate's a good bit.
Now the trucks,
they don't have any problem going to the
west.
If they come up there,
it's a tight turn to go towards Palmyra
if there's no traffic and if there's
traffic coming in, you know,
they don't have a chance.
Had another truck get down and get hung
up there about two weeks ago.
Yeah, it's something we need to address.
They always send them to me when they're
doing it.
We got the ball rolling.
I think one of the things we have
no control over will be the utility
relocation that will be on their schedule.
That's what we're working on.
I believe so.
I think it is.
We've got our trucks ready for snow.
A little storm coming in today that kind
of backed off on the severity,
so I've got my fingers crossed they're
right.
everything else is just normal business so
they got things if you need anything let
me know i'm there give me a call
thank you rick appreciate it
Second.
All right.