You're not ready. Call the January 13, 2026 city council meeting at order. We remind everybody to silence your cell phones. This art's going to lead us in an opening prayer. Father, by the pledge of allegiance.
>> Dear father, thank you for prayer for the gift. Lord, I want to pray that you will help us with everything. Lord, I want to pray for all the people that don't know you, Lord, that today can be the day of salvation. I want to pray that you will help all the people making the decisions in this time, Lord, that
you will give them the opportunity. And I want to pray that you will help us as a city and as a family. Lord, in your name I pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it
stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you, ma'am. Always answered. >> Council br >> here. Council member Hampton. Council member
>> here. Vice Mayor Landry >> here. Mayor Hitcher >> here. >> Approval of items on the consent agenda. Approval to read title only resolution 2025-35. Resolution 2026-01
and ordinance number 1058. Motion second. Council Binds. >> Yes. Council >> Hans. Council Walt. >> Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. >> Yes. >> Mayor Ker. >> Yes.
Do we have anybody who wants to speak on anything that is not on the agenda? Hearing seeing no one. We'll move on. We have one. >> Yes, you have one bid. >> Yes. >> Currently, I'm opening the seal bids for
the equipment shelter for the general services department. I will only be reading out the vendor and the amount of the bid. There will be no discussion at this time about any bids that is being opened. These bids will be given back to the purchasing agent and to the department which the sealed bid is for. The city reserves the right to reject
any and all bids. The cert city reserves the right to select the bidder, wave any informalities or to accept the bid deemed to be in the best interest of the city. Any errors and bid submissions are the responsibility of the bidder. The first one's from Southland
Contracting Incorporated. He he gave the price for the shelter is 43,200 and then he also gave a price for any site work that might need to be done if if we decide to do site work the base
part $11,660. Next one's Rudy Blanco. We gave two different prices. We'll just have to look at them to see what the difference is. One of them's for $40,162.19 and one's for $42,9220. He was going to give us a price to have
um wood um >> rafters and one for the >> metal rafters. >> You can get them Rudy Blanco. And this one is from Michael Win.
His price for the building is 34,600. And then he also gave price per load for field dirt and lime rock if that's something we decide. But for the building 34,600. So we'll bring these back next council
meeting after we go over them and so forth. >> That's it. >> Good. Thank you. >> Okay. Agenda item 6A casting company to address the council and council will take any action be necessary.
I would come to the podium, but then my children would tell me that I don't know how to project. So, first of all, thank you guys so much for having us. My name is Tanya Benziger, and I'm the artistic managing director of Cass and Company Drama Group Incorporated. We are a
community youth live performance drama group that started in Perry about 2019. 2020 kind of shut us down obviously with any live performance. We picked back up in 2021 and just doing live performances and then immediately started with
classes and educational classes. We found that need when our drama started getting pulled from public school. So, we got together and we put together our 501c3 organization and we've watched it grow over the last five years. Our purpose here today is to just mainly let
them see our local government, introduce them to you guys, introduce ourselves to you, and introduce you all to them. So, I'm going to not talk the whole time and let them um tell you more about us. If you guys will stand up and just make the two lines as best you can that we
practice right here up front so we can see you, then we can hear you. Can you fit? That's fine. So we have a mission statement and it's to provide theatrical productions that are wholesome and entertaining to local
and surrounding communities. We want to showcase our artists not limited to our communities but also the surrounding ones. We plan to provide opportunities for these artists to uh learn and hone their skills in all facets of theatrical production. We have established outreach
programs, partnered with 4 and began to attract and educate these aspiring young artists. So, we secured and managed the resources needed to produce our own events so that corporation, our corporation sustains long-term continuity of production and hopefully a
legacy here in Perry and Taylor County. So, Marley, tell us a little bit about us. >> So, why exactly do the arts matter to our children? Drama activities improve reading reading and comprehension with both also both verbal and nonverbal
communication skills. Drama also helps to improve school attendance and reduces high school dropout rates. Students involved in drama performance scored an average of 65.5 points higher on the verbal component and 35.5 points higher on the
math component of our SATs. And why do the arts matter to our community? The arts attracts visitors, residents, businesses, and investments. As young actors, it's fun not only to learn and perform, but to do something great for our community. We're super proud to also
make an open contribution for Taylor County. From December 2024 to December 2025, we had 555 local and 88 non-local ticket buyers come to our shows, making our economic contribution in 2025 annual
tourism spending $21,852. And we're just getting started. >> Say that one more time. What was our economic contribution to the 2025 annual tourism spending of Taylor County? What was that amount? $21,852. >> Very nice. Thanks for having
>> We are just getting started and we're also growing in our drama classes that have both a spring and fall term. We've seen a 211% increase in just the last two years. >> We began classes in the fall of 2023
with only nine students. >> As of last year 2025, we have a total of 28 students. and already have new students for this year. And we have a summer camp. We partnered
with 4 to creating a black club, the air camp with vital production and performance. In 2022, we had 13 students in our summer camp. And this past summer 2025, we had 25 young actors come participate
and perform. And that's a 92 increase in students. >> Yeah. >> So, like they said, we've had a lot of growth. 211% in our classes. Uh 92, what
was it? 92% >> 92% and our summer camp performances that are four weeks long that we partner with 4 to do a production at the end. So before we go I just want to give a few testimonials. We have Gracie. Will you start us off? This is Gracie Turner. She started with us when
she was how old Gracie 15 years old. She ace out of our classes and now works and holds a position on one of our volunteer committees and works our productions. Grace go ahead. Being a part of casting company has helped me grow both on stage and behind the scenes. I started as a
performer then discovered my passion for being a part of this backstage crew. I am now the prop master for casting book. It taught me teamwork, responsibility, and confidence and has shown me that every role in theater matters.
>> Uh we have one a couple more that have aged out. Miss Jenny Bashette, will you wave your hand in back there? Miss Jenny does our stage management and she also is now part of our fundraising committee as our secretary. So when they get 18 and they stay around here to give back
to their community, we hold on to them. Um, as far as our students right now, um, Alex, will you come forward? Alex is in our one of our students in our 6th through 12th grade class. She's new to Taylor County and a total asset to our group. Alex, will you tell us about
yourself? I had recently moved here and had very little friends when I joined casting company. They helped me become part of the community and are the reason that I look forward to waking up on Monday. Though it's very hard to like that.
Thank you. And one of our aspiring young artists from our third to fifth grade class are probably close to the youngest artist, although we do have new students this year, so I won't confirm that with facts. But Miss Jessa Pritchen, will you come forward? Go ahead.
>> Has helped me tremendously. >> Has helped me tremendously by pushing me out of my comfort zone and boosting my confidence. After performing in my first casting company show, I knew I found my true passion. I really, really hope that other kids get the same opportunity I've
had with casting company. >> Very nice. So, thank you guys. We wanted to keep it brief, but I wanted to show them what our local government does. So, as that we grow in this community, they'll know who you guys are and what you do up here. And I really wanted you to see
them. This this is only 15 or 12 of our 29 students that we have um for the fall and spring term of 2025 26. We have a summer production coming up. But these kids are why we myself, Jessica Turner is back there. Um, and all of our
helpers do this. I'm born and raised in Taylor County. If it weren't for Ron Rodri, if it weren't for Olivia Gail Parker, live performance and dance. If it weren't for those people that gave me accessibility and availability to the arts here in our rural county, I would have never fallen in love with it. I
would have never come back here. I went and got a degree in it and came back here and now get to teach all these young kids and get to watch them grow and thrive. We are we do have programs where we help them look for colleges in performing arts. We have kids that have gone on they are at performing arts colleges in Tennessee. We have one at
Santa Fe and performing arts. And so we are trying to cultivate that love as they go on and move forward and leave Taylor County. And hopefully they'll bring that love back to us. So just to wrap up our day, thank you. Thank you ladies and gentlemen for giving us the time to introduce ourselves and we hope you'll be seeing a lot of us.
>> Thank you. >> We look like a gay that took over your room. So we're going to go ahead and let them go that day. >> Oh, would you guys mind if we got a picture with the city council? Guys, why don't you go stand
right here in front of the podium? >> They have a little leaf behind that kind of what we talked about today. >> Um, yes. If you would just stand where you are and I'll put the kids in front of you. >> Thank you.
>> All right. So, just turn around and face me over here. together. >> The top person's in the back. >> Let's make it work. >> Okay, on three. One, two, three. One more. One, two, three.
Scott, you want to follow that? I want to hear the same like teenager voice. >> Good evening, >> John. That is actually the worst spot on >> right now. That was very touching. And
how many of you are grandparents? >> Did that just melt your heart? >> Yes, that that is great. It's good to know we've got that kind of effort in our community. I I'll try to be uh brief, but I do have three things that I want to talk to you about tonight. Uh
for the record, Scott Mixon, Duke Energy Government and Community Relations Manager for North Florida, and Taylor County is my home. And I'm always proud to say that. Thank you for uh allowing me some time tonight. Uh again, I I did want to talk about three things. I want
to give you an update. Uh late last year I sent out a lot of information about rate decreases and that how rate we'll see a rate decrease in our customers bills uh probably by March. Well, I have some update to that and actually it's
some good news. Uh based on our current estimates, uh Duke Energy expects to recover the full amount of all three storms ahead of schedule, moving that rate decrease not to March but to the end of this month, January. So, that's I
know that's not a huge amount of money, but for those who are struggling to pay their power bills, $33 off that bill at the end of this month is huge. >> Now, that will be followed in March by an additional $11 decrease, which is uh
a seasonal decrease that we do each year at Duke Energy. So, a total of $44 off our customers bills uh beginning uh this month. So, good news there. More good news. Uh we are kicking off or have
kicked off uh our America 250 grant initiative. Now this is uh an initiative uh in honor of America's upcoming 250th anniversary. Uh non all nonprofits are encouraged to apply. It'll it'll be an
amount something between 20 and $5,000. uh not the the largest grant that we've ever placed out, but uh whoever you are connected with in terms of nonprofit in in our communities, if they have uh any projects related to empowering veterans,
uh enhancing green spaces or uh something very important and that is telling the nation story, history and it we need more history uh in our in our schools and in our communities about how we came to be who we are today. And it's
a very compelling story and we need we need to share it with our with our kids. Well, if there is an opportunity and a nonprofit is heading that up, we want to add some money to it. We want to help out. So, that's the second thing that I wanted wanted you to know tonight. Now,
the third thing and the main reason I'm here tonight is to share some more good news. And that is uh late last year uh and quite often as I've been uh working for Duke Energy, we have grant funds come available. We had a series of
grants that you know addressed storm prep, community impact uh uh environmental stewardship. We also had uh an unplanned grant release which was uh associated with infrastructure
funding and we had several rounds of that and throughout our North Florida territory we funded uh infrastructure projects for local communities that uh were that were very impactful for those communities. And by the way, congratulations on your award from
Governor DSantis. That was uh a good meeting in Steam Hatch. This will not equate to that. >> But as we all know, every little bit helps. >> Yes, sir. >> Last year, John Hart jumped right on it
and him and Don Perez at the chamber applied for an infrastructure grant. And I'm pleased to announce today that the city of Perry was awarded $15,000 for supplies, replacement, replacement parts, uh, sewer infrastructure that I
know that uh, you so desperately need in the city uh, in order to provide services. And the Chamber of Commerce was awarded $10,000 to support local small businesses with many grants for new signage, parking, and essential
equipment. And all of this is related back to that terrible year, two years that we had where we were impacted by so many storms. >> And we are still rebuilding, aren't we? We're we're still uh hard at it as a
community. So, we will continue to do just this, just this very thing I'm announced. We we've got a year planned where we're going to help our communities and we're going to be there as we continue to rebuild and revitalize our communities. So, without further
ado, I have it says $25,000. It's for the city, $15,000. And for Don Perez and the Chamber of Commerce, $10,000. And I'd like to get a photo with with all of you guys. Come on up. All right. We need to
put it on. >> And uh can we get everybody at this table up here too if you got I know Lyn I know you prepped in the mirror for an hour. >> No, I don't think so. $25,000 ticket.
One, two, three again. One, two, three. And one more. >> Thank you. Thank you guys. I'll just take this with me. >> Take care. Anybody else want that need to be made
DCDA give us an update? feel someone like Scott, those are big shoes to follow. Those kids are great. What's happening is great. Obviously so appreciative of what Duke Energy is doing in our town. I'm Bob Kade. I serve as the director at T County Development
Authority. And what I would like to do today is give you a quarterly update as I have been doing for the 15 months I've been here. So let me just go ahead and get started. As always, if you have questions, feel free to ask them. This is a a conversation more than a
presentation. Appreciate you providing me the opportunity today, though. While there are many ways to measure success, poor communication is the root of most failures. The day may come when I'm not here providing these updates. But I would never want anyone to say, you
know, we never knew what they were working on while Bob Kaitton is at TCDA. So, we want to give you this update. The purpose of that is to review t review TCDA's core priorities, providing you with a meaningful update in such a way that you have the opportunity to ask
questions and share your insights so that TCDA can be an effective contributor to and leader of economic development in Taylor County. You may not always like what you hear in these updates, but you'll always hear the truth.
So for my agenda, what I would like to do is take a a minute and kind of look back in 2025, the year that was, and talk about some things we did and some initiatives. As always, review our core priorities, which are support existing
businesses, have properties ready, and attract new businesses. Just watching these children in the drama program makes you want to make sure we have good jobs for these kids. if they want to stay in Taylor County that they can stay in Taylor County and have meaningful
employment and also give you a few updates on people and personnel. Never want to stray too far from our roots. You know, we have all kinds of initiatives and people call and want to do this that and the other and talk about this that and the other and I'm happy to do all of that. But we really do have a three-legged stool here. It's
to support our exist existing businesses, those that didn't leave, and help them to grow and expand, have properties ready for those who want to come to town and make it easy for them to do so. So, in our communication and outreach, I
provide I said it'd be a little bit of a look back. You know, it's imperative to have a good story to tell and tell it well. This has nothing to do with seeking public praise, but everything to do with building support and gathering momentum. Committed to you from day one
that you would not go to bed at night wondering what TCVA was doing as long as I was here. We provided TCVA quarterly updates to the Taylor County Commissioners and the Perry CD Council four times in the past 12 months. We
also posted TCDA quarterly update information to 31 separate Facebook sites. So, we realize not everyone reads the newspaper. Nonetheless, though, I would like to thank Aaron Portwood for giving TCBA a voice and an opportunity to share our message throughout Taylor
County. We got a Duke Energy grant as well, $10,000 to reimagine Taylor County. And you know, this is reflecting that your website is the window to your world. So we can go out and tell all the story we want, but if they go click on TCDA parody and don't find properties,
don't find information, don't find about how they might get incentives or qualify for something, we we've kind of failed in our mission. So we've got to make sure that supports the message and we we just got the contract today. We're working with the same company that does the Chamber of Commerce and the tourism
websites for Taylor County. So, we're going to have a partnership with that same company. I'd like to share with you about the Select Florida initiative. I'm pretty excited about this. If you can't tell, I uh you won't be able to read my body language very well. I think the value of
this is just to reinforce to all of us the value of getting to go to a conference. I'm aware in 2024 I got to go to the Freda conference and I got to go with Andy Jackson and John Hart Thomas Dimps Anna King and Scott Mixon and with Shirley Hampton in 2025 I got
to go again and at this conference I got to meet Matt Swanson Dr. Matt Swanson who's the head of Select Florida. Select Florida for those of you do not know is the international arm of Florida Commerce. So I didn't know all this. We
have offices in 40 countries. Florida does today. We have offices in 40 countries. Matt shared at the conference shared about what they've been doing. Shared that they had brought$ 1.9 billion dollars of investment to Florida in the
past 12 months. So on the 8th of December, I emailed that and I told him, "We are uniquely challenged in Taylor County, but singularly focused and we need help." and asked for a meeting
the next day. He scheduled that meeting and on the 16th we had a team's call and I told him the Taylor County story. I asked for his help
and Matt responded invited TCA participate in the select Florida February 19th international offices reception in Orlando where I'll be speaking to all 40 international offices. He asked us to join in going to
Washington DC May 3rd through the 6th and share the story again where we'll have foreign countries looking to invest and grow in the US and be part of the Florida team there. He opened the Florida select website section to us for to put our ready sites
in that comes from going to a conference meeting someone you know someone else I see take full advantage of that is John Hart he'll go to these conferences and he comes back and all a sudden he's in Tubka Alabama asking someone else how they revitalize their downtown will
anything come with this I don't know I don't ever promise what I can't deliver but I tell you we have a better opportunity than if we hadn't picked up the Huh? We call Matt Swanson. >> Yes. >> Interesting though, it's a small world. You know who hired Matt Swanson? Laura
Bell. Come full circle. So, we are expanding our outreach. We're marketing Taylor County to the world. We're supporting our mission of rebuilding Taylor County's economy with intentional diversification. And we are targeted on force products,
aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing. thinking about what we did in 2025 with our existing businesses. We met with every existing business in Taylor County. First, I did it by picking up the phone and calling them. Then when EJ Gabbar came from Florida Commerce in
September, we did it again. And these are the ones, as I said, the ones that would like to stay. They'd like to grow. They'd like to have the opportunity. What do I do when I meet with them? I ask, what can I do for you? Is there any way I can support you? So, we've done nothing and some things. We don't take
credit for what other people are doing, but we help big top get the turn lane RIFF grant. I mean, we so we we step in wherever we can to do whatever we can do. We want ourselves to be open for these businesses to grow and to expand. We're so happy they're doing it.
having the qualified properties ready. Our city of Perry property, I've updated you before, but we have completed that Duke site readiness assessment. And now we have taken and ask if Duke Energy would sponsor the Bessie Green Trust property. That's 80 acres on Wright
Road, right just north of the city of Perry. And they haven't committed to do it yet, but what they did do is send a team of three people to spend a day at the site walking around and looking at it. They were impressed with >> impressed with what they saw. So, we won't know for a while until they actually accept that, but we certainly
hope they will. So, we continue to work on getting sites ready. Working with Omnitra, the parent company of Georgia Railroad, they provided we'll serve letters for both of these properties. Now, I'm learning things I didn't know 15 months ago, but we'll serve letter one of those if you build it, we will
come. So if someone comes to these properties, city of Perry property or the messy green trust property with a railroad coming past to go through it, if someone needs rail, they'll put it in. Now the former West Frasier site's now available. It's for sale. We had the
broker in town last week and met with our with several people in our towns to do some brainstorming on idea generation. In addition to these, I had a project last week which I'll talk about in a minute. But what I was so pleased was when I went looking for a property for
River says we have 440 acres you can you can share. >> Okay. >> So in attracting new industries just looking back since I arrived on August 11th 2024 and I don't do that because I arrived. That's just a starting point for me. We've had 41 specific industries
contact us about specific projects. We posted 10 site visits. We're looking forward to reaping benefits from growing a relationship with select Florida. A master project list. I always share this with you. It's the next slide.
And you'll see that some of these you've seen before. These I only share the ones that are still active. So there's not 41 up here. There's a new one at the bottom just came in two weeks ago. So we have a company has just come looking for munitions defense hiring 100 people
looking at a potential of coming to Taylor County and that's the one four rivers has partnered with us on so pretty excited about this we've also had some personnel changes as you know Laura Devela got promoted she
got confirmed by the US Senate to the f federal maritime commission >> so she can no longer and I think it's a great law she can't work for Taylor County and work for the government at the same time. That would be double dipping and we don't support that either. But she had to re resign and retire. However, she made a big
difference while she was here. No question about it. She went to England with me in November of 23. She led the strategic assessment for Taylor County. She led the Taylor County strategic plan. Jim Passid always referred to her as TCDA's big game hunter. We will miss
Laura, but she reminds us just because she's not on the payroll. She's just a phone call away. And I'll be honest with you, I've called her twice in the last week. So, she she is answering her phone. Let me talk to you a minute about Chad Thompson. I believe everybody knows
Chad. He's served across you. What he has done is Chad has reported through a grant that we had for Taylor County and was paid on the retainer to kind of keep an eye looking over the shoulder of George Pacific. Why is this
related to economic development? Because when that Foley site is is is a fully certified brownfield site cleaned up, it's going to be the best property in the southeast. A 21 acre make a site ready to go. That'll be a good thing. But the meantime, we got to make sure it
is properly remediated, properly cleaned up. Well, Chad's first year ran out. Ran out January. Taylor County said we don't have any more money to support that. But because of Lara's departure, we actually had a little money left in our TCDA budget. And we hired Chad yesterday to
continue working for Taylor County. Not working for me, working for Taylor County, doing the same thing he was doing, but he's funded for another 12 months. And I think that's important. My last slide is uh we're getting near the end. It's not to ask for money. It's just to remind you we do spend a little
bit of money. We did the Doge survey. Never heard any response. Don't think they would find that we were wasting any money, but if they did, I'd sure let you know. I can't imagine if all I buy is pens and post-it notes. So, so you know, there's not a lot to it. We will have a shortfall this year, but we're
appreciative of every penny of support we get and we have asked for support in 27. So, we're working on keeping that funding stream going. How do we encourage ourselves in economic development? You don't get
an A for effort. You get an A for results. But if we don't give a effort every day, we won't have the opportunity to get any results. We're not going to become worthy in
committed. We pick ourselves up every time we fall down and we go after it the next day. >> Yes. >> And I appreciate your support. >> What questions do you have? >> I appreciate your hard work and dedication.
>> Oh, yeah. I got one question, Mr. >> Yes. >> If it's real easy, I'll answer. If it's hard, I'm going to give it to John. >> It should be simple simple um with the um board the board members um I'm just
making a suggestion, not saying that you got to go on it. Um, with us doing more and trying to get our our kids to stay here in town when jobs and stuff are available, looking at resources of getting someone from the school board on the board, that way they we can get
input from them also. >> I I would have no problem with that at all. What I do today to maintain a link with the school board is I I buy Richie Worth breakfast once a month. And so we sit down for an hour and talk about what's going on and what are we working on and what's he working on
>> and and that's been our thing since we didn't have anyone from the board on our board. >> Okay. >> I think that's a great idea. We have so many good people in this county and I have a great board and I could not be any happier. There's no butt at the end of that sentence. >> But there's a lot of people who'd like
to be on the board and apply to be on the board as well that are also amazing candidates. And sometimes I'm almost glad that's not in my hands. that's in the county commissioner's hands. They tell me it will be on my board. >> But I can tell you I could not feel any more supported. And I think that is a
great idea. I will I will surely mention it to our board. Is there a way to do that? >> Maybe it's an exeicio where we could have representative but even if it was non voting. So we'll explore how we can make that happen. >> Thank you. >> Excellent idea. Thank you. >> Quick
plan to hire another law to keep all that local. There's not a plan to hire another Laura de Bella. Laura de Bella is fairly unique. >> And even when we asked her, she was saying that prideful, but you know, Laura, what we'd like to have is another Florida Bella. And of course, you don't
there's just not many former Florida Commerce Secretaries floating around that did economic development for Duval County that you know and so we've decided to go with a uh when my replacement will be they'll be advertising in the paper because my
two-year term will end in August and they're going to uh go for fulltime. They're going for a fulltime Bobcate but not a halftime Bobcat and a half time. Good question. I came to serve for two years.
My turn will will end, but it's not ending soon. Let's not let's not weep early. There'll be tears at that time. I'd rather have a ribbon cutting between now and then. Let's work on that. >> Thank you again. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Agenda item 6B insurance and
investments and hub public risk incorporated to give proposal presentation and council take a necessary >> I feel like it's chewing >> well I'm asking Is that a five minute timer
you just gave him? >> That was one and the two. So he goes first and second. >> Who's going first? >> So you want me to leave? You want to ask >> I have some extras, so >> thank you. There's a little
>> Oh, sorry. >> Mr. Mayor, council members, my name is Russ and we are hub public risk. Uh I want to thank you for your time today uh to hear our presentation. We've uh become very familiar with city manager John Hart as well as Stephanie Bailey,
but uh we hadn't got to meet you yet. So, I'm excited to meet you today and share with you our presentation. Our goal is to demonstrate that Hub Public Risk is the ideal partner for the City of Perry uh in the analysis, the marketing, the placement, the management, and the service of your
various insurance portfolio. I would first like to mention that we usually begin our relationships by performing an assessment and having a discussion about what is important to you, what your needs are, and what you would like us to help what you would like us to help you accomplish. Should
you choose health public risk, we'll still do that uh moving forward, but uh today we'd like to give you an overview of some of the main areas that we serve our clients at Hub Public Risk. We focus on small to mediumsiz municipalities and
government entities. We pride ourselves on being more than a vendor, but a partner with our clients, being there when you need us and answering when you call. As you will see, all of our contact information is readily available on the placemat, on our cards, or in our email signatures, including our cell
phone numbers. Uh you and your staff can call us at any time. Communication is incredibly important to us and we would like to invite you to reach out to the references that we did provide in our RFP and ask them about our communication and our response time. I provided a place map for you to be
able to reference us during this PL presentation. I wanted you'll see our size and our experience in the public sector space as well as our team members and some of our team is here with me today. uh you'll hear from them as well, but I would be remiss to not mention Tanya Johnson, who
you'll see on there. Uh Tanya could not be here today, but you may remember her as Tanya Mosley, which is her maiden name. Uh Tanya is a Perry native, uh born and raised here, although she now lives in Gainesville. Uh she's excited for the opportunity to serve her hometown, where much of her family still
lives, uh as your primary account manager. I would like to provide you with a little background on how we got here. So, prior to the RFP process, we assisted city manager John Hart in exploring the marketplace to see if cost savings existed uh and if it would even
make sense to go through this process. We were in agreement with John that uh we didn't want to waste your time or the resources of the city if the process would not provide a benefit. We gathered the information needed for underwriting, became familiar with the city of Perry's
uh specific needs and portfolio, created submissions, and approached the marketplace. Our result was that this process is warranted. Uh, and we have already uncovered a savings of just over $135,000. I'm sure you can see how that large of a
savings could benefit the city. Currently, the city of Perry is insured on a direct basis with the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust or FMIT, meaning that there is no broker. Without a broker, the city does not have an advocate or negotiator in the marketplace representing them. This has
led to the city only receiving one renewal option from FMIT. We at No Public Risk work with most insurance companies to operate in the public sector space uh for profit and casualty especially the top two FMIT who you're currently with and preferred
governmental insurance trust. You may refer to them as preferred or pitch for short. We'll be able to market your insurance for portfolio year after year with FMIT and Pitch as well as the other carriers that will work in the public space. As
part of our work, we will negotiate with these companies and use competition at that level to yield the most advantageous results for the city area annually. Having the ability to access and work with multiple companies will benefit the city on a long long-term basis and not
drain city or staff resources. Pub Public Risk is here to do more than just drive down your costs through marketing and management of your program. With a dedicated Florida claims department comprised of adjusters and attorney, our team is here to assist if problems or coverage issues arise. Our in-house risk
services team performs risk assessments and provide solutions where deficiencies exist or help as needed. This includes services such as loss control strategies, catastrophe modeling, u and the development and implementation of safety programs. will also assist your
staff with contract review for insurance and indification provisions so that the city is properly protected. You'll hear more about this from Jeff Snigrass in a moment. Lastly, I would like to mention that we're committed to being of value to the city and in doing so we would be
waving our fee until we either replace or renew coverage. We want that to to take back, but we either replace or renew coverage. Uh, I'm now gonna ask Jim Duncan to come up and provide a few examples of how we recently helped a
similar city to pay. >> Good evening, Mayor and councilors. I'm Jim Duncan out of Tallahassee, Florida. Been with agency for almost 40 years. So, I've been there a long time. I wanted to talk with you tonight about the success we've had with the city of Panama City.
uh they contacted us in 2022 about two weeks prior to their renewal. Uh they were facing a 28% increase in their premiums and just like y'all they're still recovering from Hurricane Michael that was just devastating. They did not have the money on the budget to take
care of that. So we agreed to do a consultant agreement and within seven days we reduced their premium from a 28% increase to a slight decrease. So they were able to continue to pay staff and Christmas bonuses and things like that that were important for them. Uh since
that time we've worked very closely with their staff, try to take work off of their staff and uh we review their bid contracts to make sure that the city is properly protected in those agreements. Um and we've become an integral part of their safety structure. Uh we understand
that reducing claims is going to reduce premium and that you've got them headed in that direction. There are four members of the hub team that's go to safety meetings with them every single month. We do it virtually. We do it
under teams which some of their members also do. Um Jeff Snodrass and I are two of those four people on their safety calls. Um I'm going to ask Jeff to step up and talk about our process and the resources that we have available to the city of Kerry. and I'm also available if
you have any questions. >> Thank you. >> Good afternoon everybody. J mentioned us as well. My name is Jess Nigrass. I'm not from up here but I am born and raised in Orlando. So been in the state for a long time. Went to school in Tallahassee.
They sort of laid out part of what I do. who I represent our risk services division which is a team of 90 plus consultants across the country that work with our clients to identify quantify and reduce risk which is a overly fancy way of saying we are the second set of
eyes people who will come in and take a peek under the hood from everything from operational and employee safety your rich programs and any sort of regulatory implications that might take place on you guys the best part about what I do is my team so while I might be one of primary faces
that you might see if you chose to work at the pub. I have three other consultants in the state. Lexi Bandy, recent M grad, who moved down here and is just kicking butt so far. Uh Jim Peterson is another individual that's on the team. He has heavy workers compensation experience and is a former
work comp claims adjuster. Both of who work very closely with me and Jim on the city of Panama City account. So, we kind of have these guiding principles of helping our clients protect their profits, cultivate workforce vitality, and build resilience. And really, what that means
is, are you guys ready for that critical incident response? I know you've been tremendously impacted by things like hurricanes in the recent years. Part of our team is also a company that we recently acquired called Disaster Recovery Services. They specialize in
just that, making sure that you are prepared for those worst case scenarios. There are grant monies or FEMA dollars that are on the table. They help you maximize your ability to be eligible for those. They take an in-depth look at your insurance policies and also the different policy language, the limits
that you have on your policies to make sure that everything is insured properly. But they also take a look at your disaster preparedness programs to make sure that we have business continuity, things like that in mind as well. My expertise lies more on the employee safety side of things. I have
experience working with city of Panama City, couple school boards around the state uh and also with a couple counties as well. So very familiar with the risk that you guys face and had a lot of success helping my clients improve their risk profile. So not only would we want to come in and
be as involved as you would like, but our typical process is to do a gap analysis risk identification assessment as we would call it and that is up to you what you would like us to take a look at. But we are in a unique position as your broker to be your advocate. We
would never share negative information with the carrier. We would seek to identify any weaknesses and figure out the best path forward to help you guys improve that. So not only would I be involved with the city staff, but I would also be talking to the insurance marketplace
and trying to paint the best picture of the account that is carried. The other unique thing about what I have is the 90 other consultants across the United States. All of which are credentialed experts in the field of safety, insurance, compliance, and all
those types of things. We have a boundaryless approach, which just means that if the person who has the expertise in whatever subject matter it is is over in Wisconsin, I can call upon that person and they can be here to help you virtually or in person in certain
circumstances. But our goal is always to put the best foot forward, the best person in front of our client to address whatever that situation might be. Every single engagement is customized to address the client need. We do not do
the shotgun approach, which a lot of broker loss control services will do. We shoot you a login to go access these things that you can download and that you're done. We come in and figure out not only where do we identify weaknesses, but what are the goals that you guys have? How can we help reach
those? Whether those be financial, employee safety wise, you know, one of the things I always preach is to send your employees home the same way that they went to work that day. And in doing so, and particularly the city of Panama City, we have them now going through OSHA education courses. And although
they are not governed by OSHA or regulated by OSHA, it just helps that baseline across all of their various departments has helped improve their employee safety. As Jim mentioned, we also actively participate in their employee safety committee as well. Um, various things come up in that and it allows us to
figure out what it is that we need to do to jump in and help. So, there is a bit of an entrepreneurial component to my job in the sense that if I can justify to my manager what it is that I think is the solution to the problem, oftentimes I have no legal issue that that is. So, there is not a prescribed approach. It
is purely based off heavy experience on the fleet safety side of things as well. Uh we have an extensive vendor network to help with things like telematics on city vehicles, cameras, things like that and again helping you recoup the costs that might be associated with getting hardware like
that through insurance credits, things like that. So that goes back to the advocacy part of what I also want to make sure that I don't overlook the importance of that disaster disaster recovery services entity that is now a healthowned asset. It's not a separate company.
mentioned that they look at FEMA recovery and federal grant procurement, but that holistic disaster preparedness review is really their bread and butter. So, they're going to look through your statement of values, make sure that your limits are where they should be. They're going to help with the project management on the back end of those
situations as well. They have what they call their MVP or managed vendor partner program and that is prevetted, licensed, insured, but most importantly readily available to their clients uh contractors uh to come in and help with those restorative works the aftermath
those types of weather events. So while their goal is to put you in the best position for those situations, we also understand that you can stop something like an act of nature. So they help you on the back end. They oversee scoping, procurement schedules, and they also will look through your insurance
policies to make sure that whatever they do from a professional services standpoint is reimbured to you through that insurance claim. Um, we also touched on CAT modeling that kind of plays into what is going on there. And that's essentially looking through the statement of values that you have as a city. What is the anticipated
impact of those weather events? Again, I'll make sure that when you need to submit that claim that you are getting what you should out of those claims dollars and without risk of boring you talking safety, compliance and all those things, I thank you for the time and I look forward to the opportunity to hopefully
work with the city of Perry on this. Thank you for your time. Just in closing, I hope we've done a successful job demonstrating that public risk is the ideal partner for the city of Perry. We believe that we will benefit the city for years to come both financially and by reducing workload on
staff. So, thank you all again for your time uh and for allowing to listen to us uh and for the opportunity to partner with the city. We're available to answer any questions you have, but we do want to be respectful for your time. So, if you have any questions, let us know. But if not, we appreciate it. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Get off. I appreciate your your time, council members, this evening. Uh, my name is Michael Richter and I'm the vice
president of the North Florida Division for Boy Insurance. I don't know if you've all received a copy of this packet. I see a couple of them out there, but this this is our response to the RFP obviously and this is something that I personally put together for you
all and I don't want to regurgitate all of it which would would take too much of your time. We'll be respectful time for questions. There's a couple things that's not in there that I want to I want to mention and I think it is
important as you make a decision on who is the best partner and service uh arm for the city of Perry. And that's just to tell you a little bit about who I am personally that's not necessarily conveyed in this document. Um I am from
Liberty County. Liberty County is very similar to Taylor County if you're not familiar with it. We're a rural rural county um heavy in the timber industry such as Taylor. I'm a Hurricane Michael survivor
uh 21 days without power during Hurricane Michael. So, understand the impacts of a a natural disaster can have on a rural fiscally constrained um county and city area. Uh I've lived
in Liberty County my entire life. My wife's a school teacher. I got two children, one in Florida State, one over in Jacksonville playing volleyball, boy and a girl. And we've grown up in this area and experienced that. I say all that to draw your attention to the fact
of who do you want to serve, who understands the nature and the unique challenges that fiscally constrained municipalities face in the panel of Florida. It's different. It's it is difficult and sometimes
that's hard to to convey when you need when you need service when you need attention for your administrative staff when you you're don't you don't have uh as big a budget and you're you got staff members doing wearing multiple hats and
doing multiple things and you need support need responsiveness. I am confident through this process that this that the city of Perry is going to see some significant benefit regardless of what your decision tonight is on who
you select to be your to be your broker. Selecting a broker, kudos to your team and you as a council for going through this process. This is going to put you in a great position.
Um, I am uh Boyd Insurance to talk about our agency. Boyd Insurance is a multigeneration familyowned and operated uh agency,
been in business 50 years plus. Um Jim Boyd, the principal, and his son Austin, the primary owners and operators of Boyd Insurance. Uh main office is in
Bradington. I met Jim through state politics. We quickly, you know, hit it off and just had a great relationship, recognized the the value and character in each other
and decided to partner. I have operated my insurance agency for for 20 years out of Liberty County and that's how North Florida Division was born as an arm of Boyd Insurance uh out of Bon.
Boyd uh has been doing business in the municipality space for 25 years. We um are a respected and renowned you known player in that marketplace.
we service and support. Um I think as this RFP indicates, I think we have 16. Was I under time? I'm sorry. I didn't know I had I had a time limit, but I will speed it up. 16 municipalities. The one thing I will
point out in RFP, if you look at our references pages, I did include strategically three North Florida accounts that are similar to the city of Pier. they will give stellar reviews for what we've done. And I wanted to also
indicate that from the town of Alpha to the county, Liberty County itself, um, based on their different sizes, two two accounts smaller than yours and one a little bit larger, we provide exceptional service and that's what you need. We can talk about claims and
claims management and we and we facilitate all of that service, the same stuff all municipalities. But the one thing that's going to drive your price down and help the taxpayers of this city, which I understand as a rural county,
is competition. And we bring competition. If you if you witness what happened in Taylor County, we were the driver. 30% reduction. We we would expect to see the same type of result here. I look forward to
working for you and will serve uh the city of uh of Perry and we'll do uh everything in my power to bring the greatest benefit available and we have demonstrated our ability to do that um and look forward to bringing that to
bear here for you. You have any questions for me? There were a number of places in that document that asked for
a client list. Why wasn't it there? This is a public record document. We didn't provide names of clients because that becomes a target list for all our competitors. So we as an agency we said well we can provide that to you individually if you
want we did give references for relevant clients but we we just made that decision as a uh as an organization did we want to put all first of all we didn't get permission to display all our all of those clients >> I don't need you to do it I can do it
>> yes sir I meant we didn't want to put their names on display if it's a public record as I when we submit this as a response on RF is now as public record for anybody to request. >> But it's already a public sunshine law and public records law.
It's already I just hate to ask for information and it be ignored. >> Yes, sir. I understand that was the the reason was not didn't intend for it to be ignored, sir. It was a it was a
decision to say, "Hey, if you if you want a specific list, we can." And we didn't feel like it was appropriate for us to list and name our We're privately owned and operated, you know, company and it was our private personal client
list and we did not check with all 16 of those clients to ask if we should release their names. It is under the sunshine law you can go individually but that is you know we're we're protected by volume of I mean it would take you forever to go through all the municipalities in the state of Florida
look for just our clients why why the references one a year another year eight months why another 25
those um so those reference is I was I was looking for what was relevant to the city of Perry for uh size and proximity for rural county nature rural city and those are accounts that we have acquired acquired recently
over the past few years since we have been in operation in North Florida with my office up here and that is why it's most recent. We do have clients like you see in there 16 clients. All of them uh you know you know within the five past five years we retained all of those
those clients. We have a really high retention rate um and some of those been clients for 25 years and we're happy to give you additional information on any of those you would like to contact. >> Have you got any captives?
>> Yes sir. We do have a access to captives um commercial market brokerages as well as the the main um trusts that that provide coverage for cities such as city.
I understand we have access to them. We don't have to have to offer those, but we do have access either of the two proposals. They're going to actually be working
with the same carriers. self limited. So what we got or what you got to do is you got two different entities.
One of them is big is heaven, other one God. They both will you kind of make a selection then
they so to speak take over and uh search search in place coverage.
It's not a big from either one of them. I I I view it as a popularity contest. We got two. >> Thank you. >> Can we end the presentation before we move on to discussion? >> No. >> Do what?
>> Can we end the presentation before we move on to discussion about both? Yeah, I'll I'll end with one comment and you're you're right on the same page of what I just said about competitions is the most important and that's what we do. We position you with these carriers
and communicate and sell your account to them for them to compete and bring you uh the the the proper coverage at the most competitive price. Did this in all these accounts that you're looking at here. Liberty County, we cut their
premium $150,000 and increased their total insured value uh to double from 17 to 33 million twofold. There are a number of different ways you do that. But you're exactly right. You've got two you're looking for a partner to do that work for you and
take you to market. And what we say is I I would say think about it like this. If you're looking for a partner personally, buy your insurance. Are you looking for the billion-dollar corporate company or do you want the company that's big enough, it's proven, and also is a
community-based, family run, operated, serviceoriented company. That's us. That's what we're two different models. If you want the billion-dollar guy, it's not us. Those are some good guys. I know all Bart, all them. We've competed over the years. They're good people. It's a different model. the ownership of our
company know we'll know who you are and we'll be able to make service decisions about service for for your organization. So with that I'll leave you. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate the questions. I'm confident in the impact that we can have for you. We have
demonstrated across the panhandle in recent years and that was the point of those references and those are in keeping with dynamics of the city. Wait,
>> I want to know why I don't have this information was delivered to the house. >> The day after it was last. >> Okay. And it's supposed to have a evaluation committee.
Y'all want to fix the evaluation committee or do you all want to skip the evaluation committee or >> I think Hey, Bill. Stephanie, >> put you on the committee. Yeah, he's okay with it.
>> We'll bring those evaluation ranked and y'all will yall like our evaluation standard contract negotiations with the top pick that done before the next meeting. All right. >> 6 council to discuss repaving agreements
for Bishop Boulevard and council will take any action if necessary. Those are the appropriations lead for the free payment from last cycle. >> What do we need to discuss about
your signature on my lead? Yes. Vote for the DOT for the Minis. And first if there is any discussion on it motion move forward with I guess a sign agreement through it. >> Yes. Let's make sure we do one vote for
each one. Just our minutes need to show it. Our minutes need to show it that way for them. >> Yeah. On B. >> Okay. Have a motion. >> Second. >> Yes. Hampton. >> Yes. >> Council member Woodfall. >> Yes.
>> Vice Mayor Ranger. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gford. >> Yes. Item 6F. Council to discuss rethaming agreements for Willis Street and council will take any action if necessary. A motion on that one. Second.
>> Council member Bry. >> Council member Hansen. >> Yes. Council member Wood. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. May >> yes. Agenda item 6G. Council to discuss repaving agreements for Ball Street. Council to take any action necessary.
Entertain a motion. Second. >> Council member Bry. >> Yes. >> Council member Hampton. >> Council member Wood. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Lren. >> Yes. >> Yes. And item 6H. council to discuss
pepper easement for FD and council to take any extra thing necessary. What would they be? Bypass bridge. >> They're refilling it, but they're not going to bypass it because there's no room right there. They're going to use the entrance of the hospital way in. But
it only affects >> Yeah. Yeah. >> We probably won't be happy for a year. >> But they needed is needed. >> Yeah. They need an agreement signed and the actual easement signed. So you see that a little bit later down
any more discussion motion. Do we have a second? Second. Bronze. >> Yes. Council >> Hampton. Yes. Council Woodall. >> Yes. Vice Mayor Lry. >> Yes. Mayor Pton. >> Yes. Agenda item 6 I. Resolution number
202.5-35. Budget amendment Duke Energy Grant Infrastructure Improvement Resolution of the City Council amending the budget of the city of Terry, Florida for the fiscal year October 1st, 2025
through September 30th, 2026. >> Have a second. >> Yes. Yes. Council Landry. >> Yes. Yes. Agenda 96J resolution 26-01
temporary easement at Creek Bridge resolution of the city council of the city of Perry authorizing a temporary construction easement or easements in favor of the state of Florida of transportation for the purpose of bridge improvements
said request having been duly considered. That's just okay. Resolution 6H. I don't know why you put another item in between them. >> What about this? >> I told you put in what you want. Mr.
>> Have a motion. Motion. >> Second. >> Second. >> Council member Bry. >> Yes. >> Council member Hampton. >> Yes. >> Council member Woodthall. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Langry. Yes. >> Yes.
>> 96k ordinance number 1058. Introduction of first reading ordinance. An ordinance to the city of C ordinance to the city council of the city of Ferry Perry County, Florida regarding surplus lands main certain land and to provide
an effective date. through the property owners um from Strickland. We previously had a vote on this. So, this ordinance was drafted in accordance with what you guys have already voted on. We got the survey and we did the math for the purchase price based on the
survey. This is the first reading and I'm just here if you have any questions. Nobody find me where this is again. >> Yeah, got you. >> The same face. >> No. Gota
on Facebook. I don't know where it was that any discussion on this. 600 >> piece value. >> This is just I told you.
>> Okay, next time. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Then item 6L approval of minutes December 9th, 2025 regular session. Second. >> Yep.
>> Yes. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Done. We did get our award letter like I assume we would for the three garbage trucks.
I'm hoping I wish we didn't know of Barney Grimes. I want to change the trucks that we submitted originally. Hey, she >> John, she sent an email right before the meeting. Something that we're going to discuss Thursday in our meeting or that
meeting that is something because that's the question that's been brought up. >> I had three trucks, but they're trucks that we use every day. Ward found some old county trucks that would qualify for this. They're not they're not using hoping ask county to give them to us. Hopefully we can switch where we put our
application for the grant agreement and not have to take our working trucks out of service. >> Get rid of these three three ambulances where they are. >> We'll get that fig out in the next couple days. >> It's the ones I'm thinking.
She would ask me if I needed the boxes and she's gonna take the boxes off. >> Must be over there. But we got 25 million from the governor for commerce. What is that? CDBG DR that'll be about 20 million for
wastewater projects and 5 million water projects. We combine that with what we got from D state revolving fund that was 35 million for water and 19 million for wastewater. So between both of them it's about 40 million each for water and
wastewater projects. >> Yeah. >> I'm going to have to have have some help you need$100 million. Look at that >> between >> it's coming together. >> Yeah. >> What? Six million or so already going through rift. That's six of it right
there. 2.6 for your water meter replacements. You're right at $100 million. >> It's just amazing to me what it cost to build things these days. I mean 100 million. I mean it's a lot of money, don't get me wrong, but it's just things have gone up so much in
the past few years. It'll be a heck of a project. The major that major step probably the biggest step we've had for since the whole thing got built. >> We went look at the spot we want to drill the test well last week. Then they
try to clear us out a spot to get to it. They'll be doing that at the end of this month. It'll be a couple weeks to get rid of test track and all that, but hopefully we'll be moving forward with that too. Um chamber banquet is February
20th. February last Saturday. The first time in like 800 years every day before we fall. >> I got the city table so we have 10 seats. Let me know later. Y'all want
get them all filled up. I'll keep it really short. Um I guess there maybe two issues we have to bring before the commission. Um speaking um to speaking to Lavel with Curtis Law Group
is doing the title search for the Bville property that were attempting to give to the school board. Um the title search revealed that the property um and there were two parcels at two different times that were granted a warranty deed were
actually deed to both the city and the county but the city has been taking the responsibility and it was unknown in recent history that the county even knew. So um so we're going to figure that out. I
don't know if it's an even exchange be like, "Hey, you give us these ambulances and just give up this property." Um, but um but I think similar to another issue when I first came on, you know, um the
county doesn't seem to be in a position of taking on responsibilities. They don't have to. there probably some some argument regarding well would be adverse possession because they're titled to it but um we didn't realize so we don't have full authority to transfer but
we're hoping that there's not going to be an issue since the county hasn't taken interest um in taking and keeping up with it. So I even argue that our equity is greater. I don't know how much since 19 I think the first needed property was 1933
and the second time they when they added more property it was 1970 but it reads the county of Taylor and the city of Perry um but they who knows how and why it's not ever been known to be co shared
or owned I don't know um and just letting everyone know in case anyone's interested the Florida League of Cities Um, we get a legislature or legislative update where they ask city officials to
go and meet with different people in the state um in the rep in the Senate is well not next is January 27th and 28th. Um I'm not going this year, but I was just noting that they're um
asking um every Florida League of Cities. It seemed like one of their biggest um agenda items is discouraging the passing of any bill that would um take away the ability of municipalities to take property taxes. Um, I don't know
how successful that's going to be because that benefits everyone, but um, you know, they're hoping that city councils everywhere will make because I know it's going to be on the ballot most likely, right? Um, and to make sure where we can to inform the citizens of
what their taxes go to provide for the municipalities. But, um, that's all I'll share at this time. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Happy new year everyone. >> See
police department. >> Chief's out. So chief sent a conference. You know, he's on the board for FPCA, Florida Police Chiefs Association. So he's there this week, but uh as Mr. Bob said,
conferencing. So that's not a bad thing. But we did hire or excuse me, we have made an offer to hire two new police officers. Both are already certified. So they will not have to go through the academy and attend school. Uh if they accept, they have both accepted if they
make it through the drug screen and the physical. Uh they'll start hopefully sometime next week. Um and we'll have them on the roads. You may see some new officers around before the next meeting. So,
still leaves us two positions. Unfortunately, we had a veteran officer leave this past month. So, >> yeah, it's just like these >> days. You all start what we used to do in the past, bringing in new officers.
>> Absolutely. >> I would appreciate that. >> Absolutely. >> Because I I don't know. It would help too because these two young men are um although they're very close to the community, they don't actually live here. So, >> okay,
>> they live within about 121's 15 miles and the others maybe closer to 30. So, I don't have much of myself and Ben and a couple more went to Orlando last week for the fire conference.
Uh, they went through some training down there and then Ben and I went to conference and and uh learned some stuff. So, Very good.
>> We're just excited to get new trucks. >> Right now we're down to one. >> Hydraulics. Hey, I surely have any things you like to share with us. >> I would have to say that I enjoy with you and John. I don't know why we
didn't see it. We were the first ones to go. But anyway, we we're very happy about that. I don't know where to go from here. I ask John to send you all a copy of the
B. Y'all can decide if you want to go or it's okay to do what they need to do. She think you want it.
Maybe change the covers, the designs, anything like that. Um, and I personally would like to get this going so it can make 19
more. One other thing, I'm the proud grandparent of a 7 pound 7 oz boy. >> Congratulations. >> Very happy. Thank you.
>> Congratulations. I'm glad we're looking at banners for 19, but I want to know if there's been any more progress done on the city limit signs that we talked about several months ago
or like a year ago. There were me and >> yeah, me and Danielle went out there and there there's not a good spot on the rideways at the city limits and we was hoping to put it in a medium. There's not a spot that meets all the DOT's requirements. It's got to be so far from
a turn and unless you see a a really good spot for one, we could find a great spot to put one. Well, what if we got a smaller sign and just put it where the ones are now, but bigger than what we got and nicer
than what we got. >> Kind of like going into Dix County. >> They got some cities got some Dixie >> similar looking >> Clear Water's got one 25T tower clear.
I think if I get a car ride by and see the sun >> 221 I guess 58 >> 47 >> 27 has one supervisor. years a
we have a employee and a former employee that have facious health issues right now with James you already do that no >> no I already asked me and I said probably not right now at this meeting
but you're the boss >> so you go ahead with >> that generates more prayers more prayers have already conference and Robbie Moon, former fire chief. Yes,
I seen where the um the county had got like $4 million for like homeless nursing homeless homeless place >> for the shelter. >> Yeah. You know what I'm saying? For the shelter. I'm just making a proposal if y'all want to go with it. Is there any
kind of way that you and a woman can get together and see if we can make the shelter a permanent place for them through the year? Not just on when it's emergency weather. We've had too many deaths behind homeless people getting killed for not being in the proper
shelter when the weather gets cold or when it's wet. So, >> want to see what their plan is for that. >> Yeah. See what their plan is and see if we can as a city and as a county work together on that. also
big. >> Let's get back to see one. That's it. >> Thank you. >> Happy New Year everyone. Anything I want to say is Aaron's dad passed away.
>> Mr. Jerry Portwood known me since I was a kid. Zodiac miss anyway.