[Music] This should all be covered under property taxes and it isn't being done that way. And that's all I got to say. Thanks for letting me share. >> Thank you. Next, I have uh Cindy Felch. My name is Cindy Willis. I live at 7649
Southwest County Road 18. And you lied to us, Danny. You flat out lied to us. And I don't appreciate that. And I will do absolutely everything in my power to make sure that you don't ever get elected as dog collector. Mr.
>> All right. Is there any other public comments on the millage rate? >> Okay. Seeing none, any um comments from the board. Okay.
I'll now read the title of the resolution adopting the final mill rate of 10.0 mills into the record. A resolution of the Bradford County Board of County Commissioners adopting the final levying of advalorum taxes for Bradford County for fiscal year commencing on October 1st, 2025 and
ending on September 30th, 2026 and providing an effective date. Okay. >> Do I have a motion to adopt the resolution as presented? >> Make a motion to approve the resolution. >> Motion by Commissioner Daldry. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Spooner. Any
other comments? All in favor by sign of I. >> I. I motion carries 50. >> Okay. >> And now I have the presentation of the final budget for fiscal year 2526. The total operating final budget including interf fund transfers and bond
reserves for fiscal year 2025 to 2026 is $89,541,34. >> All right. At this time, do I have any public comments on the final budget for fiscal year 2025 2026? And when you come forward, you just
please state your name and address and then you have uh 3 minutes. Hello, my name is Bo Hasten. I'm a Stark resident. I live at 12917 Southeast 21st Avenue, Stark, Florida. Um, I noticed
last week in the paper, the headline on one of the article was, "Does the county follow their own rules?" And what I want to say about this budget going through it, there is a lot that I don't understand, but some of it is self-explanatory, like on page five of 72, hospital um
employee hospital co-pays. I did go and question this and spoke to Miss Amanda and she said, "Well, they're expensive." That doesn't give you the right. I mean, is there a law or statute that requires the taxpayers after we already pay your
insurance, your life insurance, your retirement? Is there a law or statute that requires us to pay hospital co-pays? Um, are all county are all county employees qualified for these hospital co-pays? Um, are there any employees that do not
qualify for this benefit, such as a $100,000 salary or above? I mean, couldn't they pay for their own? Have any of you board of county commissioners used this taxf funded payer hospital co-pays? How much are the employee hospital
co-pays? Could I could you tell me that at least what we're paying for hospital co-pays? Cuz we paid it last year 50,000 and now it's again this year 50,000. Anybody? You don't know what the hospital co-ay is that the taxpayers are paying for
everybody? >> No, ma'am. You already talked to Amanda about it. All she said was their expense of that doesn't give me a number. Okay. Were all of the employee hospital co-pays fund of 50,000 last year used?
Anybody? Okay. Does this include employee family members on employee insurance plan? Nothing. Do any of you commissioners feel that this is an abuse of taxpayer dollars to
pay hospital co-pays when we supply your insurance, health insurance, retirement, gas, uh travel, predium, devices, memberships, continued schooling?
No answer from anybody. Okay. Where do I go to find out this information? There has to be a website. It should be public record that there is that I can go to find out how much we're paying this because this is an abuse of taxpayer dollars.
And I will let you know, I'm not going to get quiet. I'm going to get louder and louder and louder. And then I'm going to crawl on the rooftops and I'm going to scream this and everybody's going to know what's going on because
people don't know what's going on. Thank you. >> Any other pro public comments on the um on the final budget? >> Okay. My name is Pete Willish and uh address is 7649 Southwest County Road 18
Hampton, Florida. And uh my problem with with the budget is that we don't have the uh knowledge to go through this line item by line item, but we are doing everything we can to try and interest the governor of the state of Florida in this and Doge to come down here and look
through this because it just is unbelievable. here when uh I was showing some of the raises that people have received on the county commissioners and uh other officials in this in the county of uh Bradford. It's you know I'm
retired getting 2% a year which is taken right back by Medicare and so on and so forth and I'm seeing raises $25,000 a year. It's ridiculous. Um, so anyway, we're trying to get uh people interested to come down here and do the kind of
accounting that we can't. Uh, another thing is that uh we're certainly going to be more active in the next elections. I voted for you and I voted for other officials and uh I'm totally unhappy with the way this entire process has been handled. Thank you very much. >> Thank you.
>> All right, last call. Any other public comments on the budget? All righty. Seeing none. Oh, I'm sorry, Dana. Did any commissioners have any comments? >> Okay, I'm sorry. Go ahead.
I'll now read the title of the resolution adopting the final budget uh for fiscal year 2526 into the record. A resolution of Bradford County Board of County Commissioners adopting the final budget for Bradford County for fiscal year commencing on October 1st, 2025 and
ending on September 30th, 2026 providing an effective date. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to adopt the resolution as presented? I have a motion to adopt the resolution as presented. >> Motion by Commissioner Spooner. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Andrews. Any
other questions? All in favor by sign of I. >> I. >> I. Motion carries. 50. >> Thank you, board. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Dan. >> All righty. If there's nothing else come before the board, uh, this meeting is adjourned.