position um that's on the consent agenda. We can't afford to keep hiring people um that position. Don't we have people that we already have within the system that we can move
over to that position to fill that slot? I think that again we need to table that particular position. um and see where we can uh fill it from
within the $50,000 in fuel cost. When was the last time that someone actually looked at the contract that we have with our fueling
source and said, "Let's let's renegotiate this contract and see whether or not we can find another fueling source." You know, there's Florida Rock, there's um, you know,
there are other fueling sources out, there's Gate Petroleum, there are other fueling sources that may be cheaper than what we have. We've had this particular company for many, many years.
They're local, but they're not the cheapest. So, have we tried to find someone else? There are other people that come from the port that are cheaper than what we have. So, you know, just because there's
a backdoor handshake, that's not always saving us money. We need to find what's cheaper for the for the taxpayers of this county. And it's not always what's in county. And
just because you guys are sitting here today doesn't mean that you're always going to be sitting here. The purchasing agreement that you guys agreed upon where the $25,000 purchasing limit
that wasn't a good idea. I don't know who decided that, but you made the decision. And at $25,000, you can buy a small car with that. That's not a good idea. I don't know who
thought it was a good idea, but that was for today's uh county manager and today's county commissioners. That's going to be changed at some point. Thank you. Um,
the last one I have is Monica Kish, Monica Kish. Uh, 225. Um, County Road 225. Um, the raceway flock camera.
Why? Can anybody answer that for me? why it's there. Because you would think that if anything, if you wanted to make sure that people weren't doing the right thing, you would put it on 301. Why on 227,
right across from the raceway where all the 18-wheelers pull in? I don't think it's to catch them because it's not pointed that way. I just I don't understand why our privacy has to keep being stolen from us. And you know, I don't know if
anybody's aware of it, but Savannah just had a problem with the police and two private citizens taking the identifications of these flock cameras that they take and um using them for their own
reasons. You know, do you think that's not going to happen here? No. We're all human beings and we all make mistakes, but some of us are actually mean and look out for our own. You're just giving them another vessel
to use as far as I'm concerned to get our information. So, there's cameras everywhere. I mean, you can't go down the hall, any aisle in Walmart without being filmed. You just look up and you're right there on TV.
So, I don't understand why we need this as an added caution. Don't tell me Raceway doesn't have cameras. Matter of fact, I really dislike the place. I hate the 18-wheelers coming out on 227. The lights don't change on time.
You by the time If there's two of them, forget it. You're not going. You're staying there. You got to wait again for the next round. That's all I had to say. Thanks. Thank you. at this time. Uh
>> ma madam [clears throat] chair, if I may, uh before we move into the consent agenda, >> uh two things. First of all, I would like to pull item 3D and have it appear on the August 20th agenda. The second thing is item 3F. Just for
clarification, um this $50,000 is a transfer from reserves from public works. It would not it will not require a budget amendment or any other action on behalf of the board other than to approve the transfer from reserves into
the uh the line item in the public works budget. >> That's all I have, Madam Chair. >> Thank you. Um board, I would ask for the approval of the consent agenda with the exception of um 3D which would be transferred to the August uh 20th
agenda. I have a motion for approval. >> How about now? >> You mentioned 3D. >> Yeah. >> Right. >> That is um the transfer of the >> Right. >> And then uh county manager also talked
about 3F. He he was just clarifying that he's not asking to take it off of the agenda. >> Okay. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. Striking 3D from the consent agenda. >> Okay. Motion by Commissioner Dherty. Um
is there a second to the motion? >> Second by Commissioner Thompson. Any further question or discussion? >> Okay. Anders, as far as the um the fuel cost and it being pulled from from the
reserves, an amendment doesn't have to be made to the budget because it becomes coming from reserves. >> No, ma'am. It's from the public works reserves. >> Oh, okay. I thought Okay. All right. >> I understand.
>> Just wanted to clear that up. >> Okay. Any further questions or discussion? If not, all in favor by the sign say I. >> I. >> I. Any oppose is 4 Z. Okay. All right. Moving right along. Um
item four, excuse me, the capital improvement plan. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I would like to give you a brief summary of the capital improvement plan and then open it up for the board to have discussion or any
questions you might have. The preliminary Bradford County capital improvement plan for fiscal year 2026 27 through 203031 identifies approximately 28.89 million in planned capital improvements. The
plan includes 5.02 02 million in county funded projects and $23.87 million in grants and state federal appropriations. Major priorities include road resurfacing, reconstruction, sidewalks and infrastructure improvements along
with courthouse ADA and safety upgrades, facility improvements, parks and recreation projects and replacement of public works, solid waste, fleet and emergency services equipment. Significant projects include improvements to County Road 237, County
Road 21B, Southwest 163rd infrastructure, courthouse upgrades, and replacement of emergency response vehicles and equipment. The CIP is a preliminary planning document and remains subject to revisions, available funding, grant or appropriation awards,
and required budget actions. projects identified as seeking state appropriations or grants are included in the projected grant appropriation totals. Thank you, Madam Chair. >> Thank you, M. Carnegie. Um, for discussion purposes, I I note that there
were some items that were not included, but understand that they will come forward the August 20th um agenda. Okay. Any further question, discussion from the board? Okay. Thank you very much. Uh, moving
right along, our clerk's report on Mr. Thompson. >> I don't have anything to, uh, really report out of the norm. Uh, budget moved along pretty smoothly this year. And, uh, I'm turn over to Dana to give you your 26 27 budget.
>> Hang on one one second, Madam Chair. Uh, Cler Thompson, on the the courthouse renovations and repairs, I think you mentioned you were going to meet with the consultant. Have you had an opportunity to do that yet? >> I think it's tomorrow. >> Oh, is that okay?
>> This is final before it goes out for RFP. >> Okay. All right. >> Yeah, we we've got a one:00 meeting. It's either tomorrow or this afternoon. >> Okay. Great. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you. >> Okay, Miss Leah. >> Morning, commissioners.
Um the binder in front of you contains the tenative budget for fiscal year 27. It includes detailed line items both revenue and expenditures for it includes both revenue and expenditures for all board departments
along with transfers out to each constitutional office. We will be focusing on the tenative budget summary broken out by expenditure type. um this sheet that I passed out earlier. Just as a reminder, available fund
balances are funds that are expected to be left over at the end of a fiscal year. We use these fund balances to help balance the upcoming budget. These are included on the revenue side of the budget. The budget summary reflects the anticipated available fund balance at
September 30th for each fund based on actual spending through the end of May. These fund balances are estimates and can be affected by any large last minute purchases between now and the end of the current fiscal year. For example, if a large equipment purchase, let's say
$100,000 is made between now and the end of the fiscal year, it would reduce the available fund balance going into fiscal year 2627. Revenue includes 10 mills on property valuations received from the property appraisers's office. It includes estimated revenue from other state and
local sources based on current year revenue. It includes anticipated revenue from the fire assessment at $1.4 million. On the expenditure side, it includes AVMED's final renewal rates at a 1.3%
increase over the current year. It includes all county funded CIP items. It includes a 3% COLA. It includes current FRS rates, community organization contributions, and it also includes all budget requests received
from board departments and constitutional offices. The property appraisers budget request should decrease as they are adjusting it to reflect final AVMED rates at a 1.3% increase rather than the 9.5% increase we originally estimated.
The fire rescue budget requests could change since the new collective bargaining agreement has not been finalized yet. Okay. So on the left on the right hand side of the sheet the types of expenditures
we have total expenditures of 96,36,571. The expenditures are broken out by type on the right hand side. Regular expenditures 34,717,857. Grant expenditures 18,91,323. Transfers out 30,390,480. Reserve for contingency 12,26,911.
In the top right corner, you will see the board has a reserve of around 9.4 4 million. In fiscal year 24, the board established an emergency fund. The Government Finance Officers Association, that's the
GFOA, recommends general purpose government maintain an unrestricted fund balance in the general fund of at least two months of operating of regular operating revenue and expenditures, which for you equates to around $7.6 million.
This includes all regular operating expenditures plus transfers out to the constitutional offices. If you take the 9.4 million you have in reserves minus the two-month emergency fund of 7.6 million, that makes your new
general fund reserves around 1.78 million. For comparison purposes, last budget year after accounting for the $7 million emergency fund, there was around 4.3 million left in reserves. The decrease is due mainly to rising costs
and additional big ticket CIP items for the current year. This does not require board action today, but we'll be willing to take any questions you have for us. >> I don't have any particular questions at this time, but um just would like to
commend um you for your help and the clerk's office. um Miss Rachel and Mr. Thompson and yourself and everybody working together to pull our budget things together and making it clear for us to um understand
um and we are well within the recommended uh reserve category and the amount of funds that has been suggested for us to keep on reserve. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Any comments or questions from the board? Madam Chair, and just for
clarification purposes, you mentioned the uh big ticket items, but I know that the fairgrounds was one of those. Is that correct as far as pulling from that reserve, drawing that number down? >> That was that was this year. So, um
I'll have the CIP in front of me. Um the courthouse renovations, that was the 1.8 million um that we did not have budgeted for last year. >> Okay. So that kind of brought down the >> right. >> Okay. >> Thank you.
>> Any other questions or comment from the board at this time? >> All right. Thank you, Miss >> Thank you, Mr. Clerk. Um, at this time, we will Any report from the sheriff's department? I don't see anyone representing them today. our county
manager report. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. Uh, one thing I would like to do this morning is formally introduce to you our new CED, UFIFA CED, uh, Annie Valo. She's here with us this morning and I would like for Annie to come up and introduce
herself and, uh, tell her uh, tell you a little bit about herself. >> Good morning, commissioners. Annie Valau, county extension director, interim here in Bradford County. I'm happy to be here serving you in this interimm time since Dr. Sanders has moved up with the University of Florida
to our uh director of county logistics. So, she now oversees all 67 counties, which we're happy to have her in that capacity. Um, I have been a county extension agent in Klay County for the past 10 years. I have been an extension agent with the University of Florida for
almost 17 years now and served as the county extension director in uh Klay County. So, I'm happy to be here in the interim capacity. Um, the university is supporting my full pay for this position for the time that I'm here. I'm a 20% FTE, which means that I'm here about one
day per week. Um, standard day in the office is Thursdays, but I'm available at your disposal. Anything that you need, I'm happy to support the needs of Bradford County and our wonderful team here. >> We're so happy to have you. Can you spell your last name for me?
>> It's W L AU. Looks like wow, but it's wa. It's German. >> Wow. >> Just to add a complexity to it, but wow is fine as well. >> All right. >> Any questions? >> Any questions from the board? Welcome and thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Um, next, uh, our county attorney, um, Senator Attorney Bob Rley. >> Hey, good morning, chairman. I don't have anything to report. >> All right. Thank you. Um, comments from the commissioners.
Mod >> I don't have anything other than again finance department. Thank y'all. Thanks for putting this together. I know when we go over it uh there's a lot of questions that we work out in our discussions in our agenda meetings. So again, thank y'all for everything that
you do. Appreciate it. >> Right, Commissioner Thompson. >> Okay, Commissioner Andrews. >> Just the same. I mean, we'll be seeing you guys and a lot to look over at the moment. But thank you for the work that
you put in every year. Thank you, Dana, for helping out other departments and um just being flexible and working for the good of him. So, we appreciate it. And that's all I have. >> Okay. Thank you. And I'd like to re
reiterate the same. um my um thanks to the clerk's department and all of the departments and submitting the information um that is requested and your your willingness to sit down with each of us and answer those questions um that we had and we had plenty for you
but thank you for your graciousness. Uh, also just wanted to rem remind the board and our community, uh, the Florida Association of Counties has put out a request, if you have pictures of sunsets, any any pictures of the sunset,
there will be a calendar contest and we have until August the 21st to submit those, I would love to have something from Bradford County. We have some beautiful sunsets in our in our community. So, if you have that, if you could submit it um to our county or on
on our behalf, um we'd appreciate it and you get credit for your picture or submission. And I also wanted to um bring uh to the attention um the PACE program, they operate out of uh Klay
County and also Elatchua County is coming to Bradford County. They're going to be taking referrals from the um Rapid County schools and they will be providing services to our youth girls um I think between the ages of 11 to 17 and
they will have an uh office uh space over at the concerned citizens building at the RJ complex. It's a much needed service in our community and I'm grateful for that. Um, okay. And
just um encouraging everyone um exercise your right to vote and get informed um and do your thing and we appreciate everyone. Um any other we miss anything? if I can just make one more comment and
it's about the agenda items and um the consent agenda >> and um I think that just having to pull one of the items to to take another look at and um I know myself I'd have to
blame myself for not being maybe not scrutinized the um consent agenda enough because I think that some of the items that um probably need to talked about in open forum or so that the um that the
people in the county and other people know how we come to a decision. And so I just would I know I will do my due diligence to um take a a really good look at the consent agenda and make sure that if we need to discuss and get it
pulled and so that we can have further discussions. But with the um with the one that we did pull um I'd really like to know um how we will go through that process and get that where it's cleared up. Thank you.
>> Okay. Thank you. And our next meeting will be in August the 20th. Um thank you all. If nothing more, this meeting is adjourned. We got one right there.