##VIDEO ID:ZImiDzdrn08## I I two thing make for number of reasons number one building me like me too as well folks U I thought about something years ago biggest thing in Gul County when they first born was the north end it was fishing dead lakes that was where everybody came you didn't you didn't come from Georgia go to be it sandur hot s nobody want to go there now flip FP everybody wants to go to the beachs but we still have a lot that do go and stuff like that it is part of our tourism about well not just a whole lot but have an office there I I would think that would be one of the offices I mean that's that's something that then we could access people on that end and start getting more people involved in tourism on that end with dead LS uh in that area because there's a lot there City we that's I mean that's like almost no brainer than me that they would be one branch offices up there because that's something especially a museum that is where it started my second on my list iset control I think there's I think there some things dogs Society does a good job ad out but they have a dog is really not one that you want around someone ad and they hav keep at the same she on process C rules follow on t and but our we need discuss B we got money in the budget now they get that cost every disc don't last um the third thing on my list is trying to get fire protection for our imp this was all money that distri basically andri um count has away from stud they have done that money be spent [Music] last night for a while so that is a problem it's a huge C of the amount of money you get on there fire station a fire station a fire station a call a call a call and you have to have the same I don't think it's fair for you to go in with a less pumper truck or less bumper gear on your guys or women you have to make it the same fire service same as EMS you know you got to have the same you got to have the same tools and the way it's set up you know it is what it is it's the the higher tax brackets down here they get plenty money you know we've got to find a way to equiz that you're exactly right um there's a lot of things that need to go I don't know y want to get in the fire now y want to jump on into it okay uh so some of the things is disclos fire and we also have made some strides down there that I think needs to be a priority throughout the there's no reason we can't get ISO ratings for all of our facilities in the future I think we need to have every one of our stations and iting because that's money in our taxpayers that's that's money for them that's saving on their insurance and we do spend a lot of money on it we've got good people it's just we need to set that is going forward with uh Mr Harry the ones that don't have the ISO we need to start now sitting down with that Chief where what's the Gap what what does it take we get there you need three more nozzles on the truck did you needed that so we have a the board you bring it to the board this is what this this is what high treatment needs to be an ISO certified fire I think that's where we need to get we met about that it's it's we can do it not something as this clay says it's low Hing FR fol let's care this uh there are some little tweaks that we talked about last night that we can do as a district I mean as a as a county that can make it better uh so I would love to hear your feedback y'all may have on that is that being a priority for for our fire coordinator to make sure that home Creek make sure that we Tapo make sure that over Street these ones that don't have the ISO ratings we get them on board take you know wull county is going through growth more so than we are you everybody in tell W County so what they did is is they went to a partial we're not there but they went to a partial paid volunteer well guess what every one of their fire stations and all W call count is a five or less you know how much that Sav across their dist or their County a bunch of money we're not going to be the pay but we can make sure that we got our on all of our people if we come together on I think it need to priority going forward that we sit there and it may be that we bring one of our Chiefs in and have them go with you uh to just been through ISO recently sit down that Chief and then let us know what the gaps are that's that's something I saw from last night heard it that's one of the things also looking at the future we know that we're I'm 62 years old I'm not going to be able to get up down ladders very much long a lot of some the young Bo Fire Department um we've got to get our young people in it we talk about it so how do we do that I talked about a fire academy there is a way now after Mr ham been there showed me yesterday White City they are old fire station uh y'all we saw that last night that can become a fire training facility for this County we put a little money into it and it'll be stateoftheart tell right behind where that is there's plenty of land to put us a tower for our Second Story elevations and stuff we refurbish that the classrooms in there then we hire a person through grants come out of our County dos probably one of our local guys is certified to be a trainer to go into our high schools they can have run a class in weall they can run a class in St Jo they get a certification they're doing in Tass take a group over Tass and look at what they're doing they got their first cohort coming on people coming out you get five or six from wew each year five or six from for St Joe they come out they may not stay here because when they come out of high school they got a certification they may go make 60 Grand next door but in B County but they may not maybe they stay here they move back that can help us because they may work over there 24 on 48 off and they'll they'll be on call for us so that facility because first thing was hey let's partner with u g Coast St Frank put let put that something out there and do EMS as well I know Jody wants to jump in on this too cuz we got to get EMS there too but that's a training facility folks we building we got land it's c located for us we need to put that as something on our priority now he's got to go way up there by the airport that's a long way to drive if we get this place down here we can Matt Chim in here buddy uh we can we've got some people that want to be trainers already they're close we do yeah so we have facility for simply located we start doing these classes our services that we have our ISO B are going to go up basically off the B for those because then we're going to get all these guys trained in it's going to be part of that whole incentive plan it will be good going forward station that's Insurance that's sayy you're years talking about that and so if we can bring these others to start with next year or two down to eight and sevens think was it seven is a break on that you start get insurance breaks I got if they don't have police so the criteria that would change that is I used an example last night and I'm not picking on South mik is a if he has a structure fire they have enough people going so may be another year and a while but U it's been light on a lot of things and I want to say back to talking about buying equipment fire departments something I wish we definitely look at is District 5 we had the most money no doubt about I'm going a littleit you know went got a lad truck City all about half less half he on new truck got a new truck did weend on just we have money in three and five don't mean we got to go get that's got $100,000 wor accessories on that needs to change the other departments that might notate they still should have they still should have the same equipment that these other fire and my point is as a board we need to look at saying hey you might you don't have to have all the B whist this you know I'm sometimes we can go buy a truck that a bigger fire department is is is is taken out of their inventory because and might I have hard any and that's what Mike did to that he spent a third I mean less than a third and I think as a board we need to take a look at that take some of that money and we have to some of these other number we I to job whatever problem I don't know about that Mich bu that because when you first start with that it needs to fit and I'll tell you hor story I tell you I came out of the one didn't fit me and you put a mask on you go L with M that guy's pushing something on your face I probably get kicked out of class because I'm fighting to get out of there you want that stuff to fit these guys going through because it needs to be specific for them and I don't know how you doble should that's a good point on that how do we do that why were why were these Z set up that why why did we set that up years ago first two count first fire department two CI 1953 time what we have done so it does there is benefit what that time St all lot ofing or moving up north I think it'sa flipflop on that because down numbers I mean South a little bit they're luy they're all retirees most of them so you know how long how long are they going to be there that next going good too so it could very easily flip 5 years for 3 or four years to other so uh you're got be the taking place everybody I that way down the road we start kids in there high scho know push and lay out and they get we talked about when you get your uh fire one maybe think about your incentive being because usually a lot of times when they start hitting that halfway point that start dropping out maybe we want to incentivize a little earlier along the way hey you complete chapters 1 through 3 and you do your first thing we'll give you a little sing there you want do your stifles along the way versus like if you're in Corrections that's what they do do that inen them all the way through because is I think you make and we were brainstorming other day and some of the things that community community appreciates us doing this they do I mean they come out I mean they all do first ones to do it you know what do you get when you become you get a little we talk about restaurants giving people 25% discount if you're if you're a certified firefighter they do it in a lot the bigger counties if you're a law enforcement you go in there you get why you see in water they get 50% off so maybe that's something that we get hey you're you're in good stand you're member of we fire the Stone Creek Fire Department here's my C give me 25 you know don't you you just something like that we as a as a community reach out to these people you know make think about that helping with that with you know you know our businesses would you think they probably look at something like that they they all support us so maybe that's something that's that's a per being the fire what what you get I think ioke she last [Music] to that's basically 11 it was botom volume these trees and trees takely hurting people and ins is ini the problem is Weis there is there so can you have your fker sitting there ready showing what he's talking about and so we go to meet maybe while we're over there we can go meet they're all in the legislative mode right now they're looking their money so we hit them up at that time we can use our lobbyist to set up meetings while we're over there saying hey 9:00 we're going to leave with Department agriculture talking about this is there a way we can do that this legisl en is a lot of water envir of M years that's the only other solution know don't r we we that's all we talk about Courthouse one of one of the things that I would like to see is as far as knowes andl out I believe the count need at least two more that everybody that they can have District what they got to do so work crew is definitely B thing for me my Parks I got a lot of parks that it's just the boards L I don't know if gr fix that but you know we go through you go through a park and you got a board that's got a hold I call or somebody that fix it what are we doing in the is St position is everything got kind res ask question it's just a lot of cameras go put brand new tool in the next weekend bust so those are some things speak to that how many times she put a light bulb or new fixures in and they bust it out the weekend so we have to do that we have do to go forward to look at the ways to protect our investments do let's say they do come up that million appropriation it's going to be a standalone thing we just say B La enfor r unless it just seems like a lot of the B we have our you take a take White City that Park is places that Park is this epicenter of that Community you got churches you got Parks you got fire stations you got a store that's what makes the small town Vance what it is that's the scope of this legislative session small town Vance let's see everything we can to make our Parks which is a big part of the commun the kids go there on the afternoon let's let's get maximize that dollar to redo our parts down there me it means new doors on all our parts I that's something that every one of them needs get PL I can't go and shut the door I'm a female I can't going shut the door well that's that's a problem you know feel comfortable those those are type things I hear too and I go to the rest that's part of what I do but those are the things that that we need to look long term bad and all that but one of these little bathrooms and stuff need some work attention and it do we focus on one or two this year get one or two next year make Noti changes is that you're you want to go I I got notc everybody understand general public would be Aston flon we got two Le there's nothing to have water so that all comes out off the top and then what you're left with is the Focus one what about one on theth one on the south the most you'll know what most pressing is with you pretty much on that one on the North one on the south this year how not you theost while we're talking I get last City smart have I mean why not any it depends you're asking what you because the thing have it's can I ask a simplistic question please mark can you research lighting for us kind us the latest greatest cheapest lighting for these Parks I mean you get the magazines right shipping them in have you heard of anything that we can do to light up some of these pars restroom areas that is maybe not so expensive and may be secure where they won't be just Tak off yeah inside the bathrooms and outside the bathrooms whatever if we can find something that's Sometimes they come up with better LEDs that click on click off you know what I'm talking about that kind of thing that that we can if we going forward with our par Renovations that we use the latest greatest it's not more expensive but C saves US money like you been on the well if it's an LED going to away skyl the time we've been here for a while to go what the money there C9 most Bo I know I got do but then you look at change I not retire he would always expain the bond the municipal Bond de does not necessarily make sense with anything else it's a tax free Bond and last time I was on we I very M you get theit price gas what youl we have toti Ci's def want to go down that road we can h fire roads and what else with the SCH they their we need make Ro which is almost betweeny we could in yearsing so that's help us with all big things so now we just I I think we're just seeing results and I think under us a while we got talker us we information know we've been dealing with for years years [Music] I'm waiting to have a Mee change for we and we're going passation my Sugg to you the 28 27 not have bridge is never going happen brid never we it will change I do know this m icru that's redu erosion 30 40% by the redirects have work ES don't don't wor we got we got surve going almost they almost some you know come up with abely have proposal we got idea how to do it have to go back to or concept you got to take the land out of the cost you can't build a house that's just the way it is we we now partnered with some folks got Jess Corporation help some helping down payments and now even introduced to some people that are actually running one land in Jacksonville and doing a Prett good job this do so we don't I don't know if I can have have that all for you in the next the reg County Commission but certainly by the February meeting we should put something and we're talking about those the ones by the this needs to be generalized and be used over and over again around the county and and I believe we can come up with land in certain parts of the count to do what use that program and make it work so um still a challenge and go show we work on we've been working on this for 68 months fin figured out how to do it got got the build at the table got mortgage people at the table giving us advice and so we're getting there then we'll bring something to and see what you think about any also ESP CL was not he I app massive problem massive l there notation the en that's not time signed contract with the home owner and said we provide times Contra own River it's hor out there talk about it too but they hold they they're not going back to these people they're going to you that's right that's the problem they got they're not keeping these houses but here they're sell them a new person comes in buy them it doesn't come up on inspection and they come back and say why didn't you do your job so it needs to they're trying to hold our the best that they create out there again I'm not talking about cities Contra private group to do I'm talking contra these things because there were certain types especially in South Florida you have to wait a we two weeks that's CH money to do qu we talked bring in more than 10 I need a fact check this we talk about the1 million threshold on TDC or your your taxes that come in if you reach that 10 million you then get more flexibility in spending that we need we talked about we're only five and since we're physically constrained County we do a good job of Tourism so the promotion side is worked we got here they're here so how do we keep them here maybe we have more flexibility in the spending of it freezes up where they don't say you got to spend what's yeah that's so that is still there I thought that's something kind of important that gives us a lot more flexibility that 5 million that comes in if because because we're physically con we need to Able access to can have I like rad OB awesome Lord thank you for bringing us all together today here safely we do the work of the county Lord and we always remember that we follow your direction the Lord bless us the food that we're about to receive your body and bl of your service in Jesus name we pray amen