He said, "How many Pretty good though. Your hand at Where's the cord at? Gary, navigating that website of yours is is good. Yeah, that's nice. Dana just redid hers too and it's
similar. Drop downs are nice because you get, you know, you know, if you have too many selections, we can't find the the right drop down. You use very nice.
Everybody likes the big buttons and everything. The whole list of things that you have to file, you know, to record and it goes on the wrong time of year. Surprised I didn't just give you a temporary top off.
That's a cool. I couldn't even see it at first. Yeah. Yeah. Like the new the new units, the new the new refrigerant. It's basically a flamable gas. It's a CO2. I mean, it's fine, but it's
Okay. a different disagree. What we going to do? I talked to him earlier today. Yeah, I talked to him earlier. making an entrance. That one. Beautiful. Yeah.
Do you think they'll be here or I've mentioned that before though? Okay. Father in heaven, we thank you right now for this hour. We thank you for this opportunity. We bless your name because your name worthy to be blessed. Father, as we come now, we come to pray
for those folks in Texas. We pray for the home folks having problems and situations and conditions. Thank you, Father, for what you have done and what you're going to do. We bless your holy name. Again, Father, as we go through this meeting, let us be mindful about
people that we serve and we do the best we can. Thank you again. these blessings and all of the blessings we ask in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. I aliance 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. Welcome everyone to our meeting this Monday. July 7 2025 to 6:00 p.m. We have a conference line set up. Number there
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speak one time for each agenda item. With that, we'll move on to item three of the approval of the agenda. Did you see we had one item on the table table 20 item 23? I move a motion to approve the
commission. All in favor on your consent items. Anyone have a chance to go over your consent item? Is there any questions discussion? No question or discussion board. A motion to approve. Motion
second motion by commissioned by all in favor. Down to item 17 under bids public hearing. The board to award bids for the demolition and new construction of two homes through the ship program and
approved as exceeding the arbitrary cost limits for the ship local housing assistance plan due to the rising cost of construction as agenda by me cox. Hey everybody. Hey, we are recommending that certified
dripping and construction be awarded the home of Glenda Smith in the amount of 157740 and Alicia Cooling in the amount of 196500. In addition, we need you to approve that
we can exceed the arbitrary cost limit of the ship for the local housing assistance plan, which is 150,000 due to rising cost of homes. Certified roofing was the the lower of the bids that we've
received. So, we need your approval um on the arbitrary limit and then to award the project to um certify Any questions for the board? I think everybody has noticed that they
not wave any cousins or have any conflict on this. I don't have any. Not related. Not related. Don't wave at them. No conflict. Okay. Just want to make sure everybody's there. Any other questions or concerns for the
board? Discussion. I do have one more thing. I do want to let you know that um one recipient will be paid on a we will be paying that on a 2425 gift fund and then the other we were
hesitant. We actually received these bids um about 6 weeks ago, but we were afraid we didn't have sufficient funding because we hadn't turned on 2526 from Florida housing and we are being awarded 350,000
and that's where um Mulie will be awarded out of the new funding that we're receiving. Understood. Okay. Any other questions? Motion to approve. Motion motion move with a second by
commissioner D. All in favor? Thank you all. Thank you. Item 18, the board to receive bids for Taylor County BCC employee insurance benefit set for this day 605
p.m. or as soon thereafter as possible. All right, I think we got several here from Humana. Back up. Better watch out. Yeah, that's the case, right? Yeah. Cleaning fish.
It doesn't see I don't know what kind of numbers I don't see here. If I'm reading this right and there was no bid on the medical on the vision is 5.95 for employee only 1191 for employee
spouse $12.95 for employee child I don't think this is right but it says $1,927 for family but it's probably 1927 7 for for dental would be 2377 a month for employee only,
4753 for employee spouse, 6105 for employee child, and 91.48 for employee family. And for the low bid on group term life, no bid on retirey life. Look like all the bids on that one.
put these in a spreadsheet and come back to us. Yeah. Well, Mr. Chairperson, the insurance committee um will meet later this week and bring bring a recommendation back to the board. I think we're already scheduled for is
it Thursday or Friday. Yes, sir. Make sure that this one is not a healthcare. This is heat. I never seen one. So in the first plan that they've
proposed employee only health insurance 78070 employee spouse 191272 a month child employee child 145210 a month and family coverage is $2349.92
a month in the employee. Well, I think that's the same that they already um submitted to us, isn't it, Carrie? Yeah, it looks like it's probably it's a rate pass, I believe, like what we currently do, what we currently pay. All right.
So they didn't bid on dental vision was 738 a month for employee 1477 for employee spouse$1562 for employee child and 23.90 for employee family
no bid on group term and That's all the bids on that one. This one's in two boxes or two packages. Got it. Florida blue. for basic life they is 130 I mean $130 a
month per employee. Okay. Uh for health insurance for employee only is $845.37. For employee spouse is $1,92745. Employee child is 1,69075 and employee family 270520.
And then for dental it was 23.82 for employee only, 4764 for employee spouse, 6942 for employee child and 9564 for family.
I think that's all the proposals on that one. Mr. Clerk, for Florida, is that for basically the same plan that we have now or we we don't know yet? We don't know yet. They had it on there, but I Yeah.
So, we don't know if that's apples to apples yet. No, we don't know that yet. This just says there's electronic media with that proposal. This one is from Matt Live. So for dental it's 2177 for employee
only 4355 for employees. spouse 6344 for employee child 8741 for employee family vision is 729 for employee only 1461 for employee
spouse 1543 for employee child and 2361 for employee family. It looks like us all met life. We have one more. This one is from OCS, Inc. No bid on medical.
No bid on dental. No bid on vision. And on the group term life is $881.96 a month. That's for all employees
for life. It's a dollar $15 a month. So the insurance committee will bring the recommendation back to the board I'm assuming on the 22nd, but we can discuss dur budget workshops as well.
Any other questions? All right. On to the board to receive a bid for county set or soon after. All right. So, there's only one bid for that one.
One bid. Yep. All these are just copies here. It's all the same same bid from the same company, but the original Total. So the total lump sum bid price is
9,120,000. 270 days to complete. 270. That's Yes. So Katon is 7,50,000 150 days to complete. Steam Hy is 2,7,
120 days to complete. I'm sorry. The name is CNM Dredging Environmental out of Leburg, Florida. CNM CNM Dredging Environmental Leburg, Florida. The big committee is Kenneth Dudley,
Charlene Strollland with WSB consultant and Hank Evans and um we'll have to review the available funding and some different options we may have for that. So
that bid was based on the criteria given I'm assuming. Yes. Steam hatches spring. That is only steam hatch boat. So when when are we looking to finalize this?
The bid committee. Well, there are a couple of challenges as far as funding. So, I'm hoping they can make a recommendation at the next meeting, but um we'll have to look at some, you know, maybe some funding alternatives and when and how long we
have with the current funding through um FDM program. What's the funding amount we have on that? I believe about 5 million for sure. Okay. But we may have some options. So, All
right, we'll move on to hospitaliz DMH CEO to discuss Taylor's promise of model. I know Commissioner Fel asked me to give a report. Unfortunately, she's not here. Hopefully, we're recording this so she can watch it. Um, I do have a guest with
me, Jill Hodgees. I'm going to ask her to pop up in just a second. She's with Appalache Center because they're the real experts. Um but in your packet um it's just some information. There's a flow of the funding just for anybody who's not aware to show how it goes through many layers from Department of
Children and Families to Northwest Florida Health who's a managing entity to the county. And I know we had a committee probably two years ago and this money kind of sitting and no one had really stepped up to do anything with it. So as a hospital we feel like that's our responsibility. So we did but we are not the experts. So we brought
experts together and this grant's really about collaboration. So, we're partnering with Appalache and TMH behavior help to provide services. There is much more money needed than this little pot of money gives to this county for opioid addict opioid addiction treatment and training and intervention.
But what we could do is add value to people that are already doing this hard work. So, um that's what we've done collaboratively. We came up with a campaign called Taylor's Promise, letting people know there is hope. We do have a vehicle that has the 800 number with a mobile response team, which I'll
let Jill talk about, but this is a 247 800 number. People can call and get help wherever they are. They help can come to them. Unfortunately, we often see people at the end or the height of their addiction um when they most need help. And so, we can make those referrals and
really partner with our partners to make sure they get what they need. We also through our partners with TMH have 247 access to psychiatry. If we need to have um examinations done in the ER, we can do that through tele medicine. So we're not putting somebody in a crisis in a
police car or an ambulance and transporting them to another county. They can get that right here at DH through tele medicine. So that's part of this agreement as well. On August 20th, we're doing training with all of our physicians, local physicians on medically medical assisted treatment.
Um, and so a psychiatrist from TMH is going to be training on how we can use medication to train I mean to treat people and get them out of addiction. And we're also going to be doing a big marketing campaign so people are aware of the resources that are out there. In your document, it lists a list of uh all
the services Appalache Center has provided. This is just in six months. This is a lot of people getting a lot of help. And this money is going to help supplant the services for those who do not have insurance or means to pay for the services. We're making sure they can get them in. So, we have subcontracted
that money at Appalache. They can get the outpatient programs they often need. There's always PE, you know, there's services for people who need to be hospitalized, but once they get out of the hospital, that's where it falls apart. They often can't access those outpatient services that they need. So, you can see some of the numbers on
there. Um, we're hoping to keep growing those numbers as we refer people who need help. They have a great peer counseling kind of um program where people can talk to people and been where they are. And so that's really the value that Appalache and TH bring to the to
the table. But Jill, if you want to come up. Jill's director of outpatient services for Appalachi for eight counties including Taylor. Good afternoon. Um so Appalachic Center, we provide medication assisted treatment in our outpatient program here at in
Taylor County. Um we have a nurse practitioner who presides medication to help those recover from opioid disorders. Um and also alcohol. Um we do provide you know we provide the
substance use counseling. Um we provide peer specialist services as well and case management. It's all very important to look at the client as a whole. Um and we partner with Dr. memorial to provide that care.
Of course, um she was super excited about getting in front of me here. I made her come with me in case you questions, but I will tell you it's working. In small towns, we have to partner together because there's not enough resources to go around. So, we
know our part. We know what their part of the system is and it's working very well. We also do have that van that we can transport people if they need to get to Appalachi or get to those appointments because we know there's a real lack of transportation. Um but on a side note, I just wanted to take this opportunity real quick to introduce Charles Barard. Um so you can make a
face with a name. He is our survival flight EMS regional director. Um as you know, we started doing interacility transports and I know that's the next agenda item but um July 1st and it's working great. So I just want to make sure you put a face with the name. But do you all have any questions for me?
Any questions? Tell Commissioner. Thank you. To public request Greg Maryland specialized event service to discuss certificate of public convenience and
necessity for private advanced life support and service. Good morning. Afternoon. Um I've been um a paramedic and critical care paramedic for a while and over the past year or so I've been helping out
with in facility correction um special events here in the county as well as other counties. You know I have my own ambulance service up and running full state license. I want to continue that. Right now I know civil flight has just come on board but I've been doing it for a while helping out with inner
facilities coming out of hospital. I'm not here to replace anybody. That's not my goal. My goal is to be part of and be another um attorney that should that happen. I've been called out of the hospital several times to take patients out and stuff of that nature. So, I just
need that COPC in so we can cut red tape and get we can transport patients or loved ones that needs to go from our current facility to another facility. And when we have special events within the county, I can take care of those special events with a transport service
if need be. And it also gives a little bit of you have somebody. The only question I have is our current contract with Century. um is for so they provide the 911 transportation
or ALS correct and then the BLS or the inter facility transportation I don't think is an issue and I'm I'm not even 100% sure at this point that that every provider needs a
COPCN but I don't think it's a bad idea. My only question, and I may need Conrad's help with this, if this is outside of our contractual agreement that we currently have with our 911 provider, because you're asking, are you asking if there is a a 911
call from a special event that that your company do the transportation instead of Century? I'm I'm not sure how that works. Back it up before you first start. You have ALS and BLS. most in the facility transports is advanced life support because they're on cardiac monitoring, medications, things of that nature.
Okay, that's ALS transport from hospital to hospital that nature. BLS is just basic life support which is somebody need a band-aid not be EMTs or that but there is a huge difference in it and you know that's why I'm advanced life support. I
carry the cardiac monitors the drugs and things of that nature. If we're at a special event, let's use the mud bugs or any type of event going on in the county, they can call um Landa Pen can call me up and say, "Hey, I got a special event. I want you to provide EMS
service at my facility." Okay, we can go out there. I don't need a CP a COP for that. However, common there's this is where that comes in at survival flight might have five trucks here, etc. might have whatever trucks they have here. But if there were no trucks available and
you're having a cardiac event, not being rude, you're so I can't transfer up that property even though I have everything I need to transport. So a COPCN allows me to transfer off that property if I'm at that special event. I'm not here to take a 911 call from Taylor County. Now, if
Taylor County calls me and say, "Hey, I'm out of ambulances. Can you bring ambulance online?" I do it with other counties as well. And because I do special events for other counties and I have a CSV stand for a neighboring county. If they call if any county calls me up and say they need an ambulance for
whatever reason, 91 or otherwise, and I got a crew and a truck up, we're headed that way because we're going to do that. All I need is I'm seeking for that COPC. That's so if I'm out at the mud box and there's something goes I'm using that as an example or at any event like at
fiddler fest whatever they need bam once therefore on standby I can provide those services because let's be honest if you or any of your loved ones is having a medical emergency there and I'm there as the provider of your 911 service but I can't put you in my boo boo and take me
down the street to the hospital because I'm waiting for somebody to come out of Perry or if I'm in um another part of the county and they're saying matching. You're going to look at me and say, "What? What's going on?" So, I'm trying to fulfill that need. I'm not trying to
take over survival flight. I can't beat them if I wanted to. They're a huge conglomeration from out of town. I'm in town. I'm local. I've been here. I'm just trying. Plus, all my staff is Taylor County people. All this, all the equipment I buy puts this money back in
your pocket for the taxes. I don't know survival flight. I don't It's what is what they are. But where are they buying all their stuff from? So if they buy that accounting, guess what? That taxes that is gone. I'm trying to keep everything local. I can't beat them.
They're I can't even under bid them. However, I'm trying to give give the people of this county business another alternative. So if I am there, will you utilize me? I don't cost the county a dime. My people don't cost you a dime. I carry every insurance there is imaginable should things go wrong. But
I'm just trying to be a part of the solution because right now the solution is horrible. Right now I get calls quite often. My trucks other places and if I get a CPC in I'll be happy to bring another truck on. I've already went to the hospital once had a sit down meeting with them. They said we can't put a
truck here because every survival flight shows up and they get COPC and do the exact same thing. And I've already been banging on that wall for months. It's amazing how that happened. So, I'm just trying to be a cog to help fix this will and make sure we keep
going so we can give the citizens county accurate and good advanced life support transport if the case needs to be. That's all I'm trying to do. So, and I'm not trying to confuse ALS, but I'm just asking about the 911 calls.
If I am not here to take a 911 call, but if Taylor County calls me and said, "Hey, we are out of ambulances." Absolutely. I'm coming to you. I just my CPM will be very limited for special events and in in a facility transports.
That's all I'm asking for. I think part of the confusion on that though is based off of our contract with our current provider that we need to make sure it doesn't conflict with that because we don't want them to come back and say those calls at the m are 911
calls. I can say that from dispatch's point of view when it's done like that, Century is always asked, "Do you have a truck or you want somebody else to do the transport?" If they don't have a unit, they'll usually just ask you to go ahead and do it. The last not trying to to take Century's business. They're just
concerned about and we ask Sentry if if they have permission to transport it. Now, this will use let's do the elephant elephant in the room. If this young man owns has anything to do with survival of flight and I'm out there and they don't need a transport, that's fine. Absolutely. But end of the day, I want
you to put yourself in that family member's place cuz I can go out there provide medical care at that facility all day long twice on Sunday. But I want you to put yourself in that family member's place. You're having a heart attack. You're bleeding out. Whatever the case may be. This isn't about me. No, no, no, no. I'm just want you to put
yourself in that family member's place. Well, I won't have anyone come out of St. Hatchy, I'm already there because they and I don't have to see PC in I can just do it. But it's nice if I can just say, "Hey, I'm here and if they we have an emergency out there, they want me to
call, you want me to transport, we can make that work. I'm just trying to fix the problem that we have had in the years and try and fix this going forward because and we worry about well where contractual needs with century. Let's be one. The contract already says primary,
they got one. So why can't I get one? We're elephant in the room. I mean, that's I don't have an issue with Yeah. I My only concern is is just a 911 calls. How those and only because of our contract with Century
because my understanding is Survival Flight does not transport any 911. Right. I mean, our contract or not, we have a contract for 911, right? Primary call is Sentry.
Yes. So, we would call Sentry. Sentry needs to reach out to these guys, not us, right? I mean, if they don't have a truck, then they might need to reach out, not us. I mean, if we do a C
C Oc. But we don't need to get dispatches and said, "Oh, they can't do it. Let's call these guys." I mean, if our primary call is Sentry, then Sentry should have to make the police call. They can't service. So, so what would happen, Mr. English, is that Sentry would tell our dispatch,
"Hey, we're we're out of trucks. Is there anybody else in town? Can y'all make the call?" Because if they're busy on a medical emergency, they're not going to have time to make that call even. So then our dispatcher would call the next if it's survival flight, if it's a specialy event service, if it's I don't know ABC ambulance service out of,
you know, wherever. But our dispatchers will make that call for they'll go down the call list for here to take the 911 call. If you call for 911, I'm not here for that. I'm here. Yeah, I understand that. I'm just talking if we just not getting ourselves
in any trouble. I don't have I don't have no problem with an extra added service. I don't think I mean that that would only be that would probably could benefit in the long run but can maybe cut out some of the issues that we may have had in the past. Um, but I just
don't know there is there any I think technically if if you're saying Century is your primary unit in this county and they have the primary response, they have the primary response for everything, which means technically everybody's supposed to get Century's permission
to transport that patient. They have the first right refusal basically for anything that happens in this county if they're responder. I think with the current contract, but the the Century contract, I think they have to they do not use 911 trucks for enter facility
transfers. They only use 911 trucks for something that's an emergency or emerent. So my understanding and y'all jump in if it was like when that COPCN was granted
it was only for inter facility transfer or any type of like if there's a mass casualty or something like that then they could provide you know support services for that but I'm not
I'm not aware of any allowance with our copcn for them to to take 911 calls and I'm just calling any type of That's what I'm saying. I'm not here for 911. I'm asking for the if and the special events. Okay. So, and if we're at a special event and
there's an emergency go down where we we have we will call 911. My remember my staff or whoever is there will call 911 and say, "Hey, we have XYZ problem going on." At that point in time, Centric can say you transport it or we have a truck to
you. and that and that's how it's normally normally is. Last times with the times we've been out there, they've asked us on the front end of it, hey, if you need something, you just go ahead and take it because we're already there. We already started the patient care with Don because we've been hired to come do that and that. But it's just nice to be
able to say that we have your loved one in the back of my ambulance because we've already started patient care to go ahead and transport on. But we're more than happy to go ahead and call 911 and let Century or whoever the primary person is to say, "Hey, we're in route to you or you going to transport to the
facility." And then also on the back side of this here, let's say it is a trauma alert sty alert or a major emergency. We're taking one of your 911 trucks out of service, taking them to Gainesville, Tallahassee, whatever the appropriate facility is. If a helicopter is not available, we're now your trucks
out of service. We're already there. But that is that primary person's at this point in the century to say if they want to call or go and transport, we're happy to do that. But just trying to fix the problem and bridge that gap. That's all I'm trying to do. Um,
so in the event, Century could not respond. Well, Mr. Bish, you had something. Go ahead, Mr. Bish. Well, of course, I think we need to hear from Century. You know, they should have the opportunity to come in and tell us what what their position is with regard to
their contract. If you don't, excuse me, on special events, then grant me a state the state of CF. I would like to ask that would be contingent on centuries agreement with what's already in place, Mr. Bishop.
So why don't we table this until we can get that input? So my question is Greg, are you just asking for for right now until we get the special event questions answered? You're just asking for COPC for inter facility trans transportation until we
can get the rest of it resolved. Correct. because I can just because they're calling but right now they have several flight there which I'll dig into that later. However, right now if I get the IF uh for the um in a facility be great and that would be from hospital to
hospital nursing home to to whatever the hospital called me for. Okay. But with that being said I I can't come all the way in to do a $25 transfer from hospital nursing home. I can't because I don't have 24-hour crews, which I wanted to do last time I wanted to be here
because they're already there doing it. So, I was I tried that once before and I was told no. Okay. So, that's the whole thing. I'm trying to figure out but that's but the poss you would have the possibility for nursing home transportation if you had a truck available. Yes. So,
are you asking for that now? And let's go ahead and get the ball rolling so I can do that without having to make 20 phone calls to do now. But thing is I don't mind making the phone calls. Absolutely. I don't mind. Right now they it's at Carbon because Central hasn't made available. They're coming out of Lake City or whatever.
For IFS. Yes, sir. No. And I think that's I mean I think that's a great option for IFS. I mean the and pushing the shove. I just keep doing my special events in the county. If somebody has a movement, we'll call them number one and tie another truck up. I
think that's either way I'm here. Yeah. Are we get with century? I think what he's asking for is if you will grant a CFPCN only for IFTS until we answer until we
dig into the whole special event coverage and the attorney can review the contract and we can talk to Century and just see if there any ramifications strictly from a contractual I understand what you're saying but also understand that if any entity
or person hires my service that can provide service for them to be on-site medical. I'm still going to do that. If they have a boo boo, I'm going to call 911. Oh, sure. There's no still there. I I don't I don't think that's an issue. It's just we've got to dig into the the
911 calls, right? Because if they can have the same thing for natural disasters, man-made all this other stuff, I want one too because I've already Yeah, we would just need to bring issue the same type of COPC in and then draft for the next board meeting
for the right once we get the answers as far as the our contract and how our responsibilities as far as the contract the inter facility transfer. Yes, sir. I think that's what he's requesting. I would suggest the board
instruct staff to draft a COPCN for inter facility transfers similar to survival flights for us to bring back at the next board meeting for your approval. Question follow that you with survival flight. Who are you with? Survival flight. Yes, sir.
And you have contract with who? Who you contract with? Walkers Memorial Hospital. We have anou. It's not there's no cost. It's just an agreement because they're based at our facility clarifying who does what and all of that. So they do have anou with us
for just you want too. I've already have two based at the hospital. First hospital several months ago and they were all game for it but we couldn't get a CPC in because they've been denied multiple times based on what
we're talking about today. So that's we were investors one I need um we need to figure out who what when because just you know I'm sorry thing is is you know how to all this co and that's something
that I'll be digging into very deeply because it's amazing you know when I offered a truck 247 365 it couldn't based on now they can there's something there and it is public record and I will
So, Mr. Chairperson, what I'm I'm sorry, we're having a sidebar conversation. If we if staff can draft a COPCN, that's basically the same as what the board approved for survival flight, which is only enter facility transfer,
and we right. I mean, would there be an issue asking the chairperson to sign it prior to the next meeting or do we need to have that hard copy before the board? Hard copy. Okay, we'll bring it back and maybe by then
we'll have some answers from from Century. Okay. Um, just instruct staff to prepare the CFCN and have it on the next agenda. Any other questions from the board? You need a motion for it.
Thank you. Item 22, the board to continue discussion removal for designated credit cards. After the last board meeting, um I did contact staff at county extension who
contacted our county forester and did another survey of the trees at the garden club. And since I think I've lost track of time, maybe January is when he looked previously, December, January,
they're actually more trees that have um beetle damage. So, um, we got new quotes for a removal of 10 trees. Um, and then we also had updated quotes for the 17
trees. So, um, basically it's a difference of the quotes for the nine trees, $5,000, and quotes for 17 trees, $8,500. So if it and it's the rule of the board,
if you want all all the trees removed, I'll need to ask for funding for that. Or if you just want the damaged trees removed, it's the difference between 10 and 17 trees. Mr. Chairman, good. Um, given the issues
that we continue to see with the beetles and our pine trees, it's a matter of time before they find their way to the remaining seven trees, which could equal another visit from a tree
surgeon or someone else. So, seemed to me like it may be in the best interest to to go ahead and remove those trees so that they're not a greater risk to the building or another liability should mortality
prop. Yeah, there's some more discussion. I I looked at it 17 trees near the building that that happened. Now, what about those outside of that? We'll deal with it as you come. I think what um the garden club would
like is all 17 trees removed and the price difference is is only $3,500 to just go ahead and remove all of them. No problem. Yes, I believe that would be the motion to move to remove the 17. You got
a second. All in favor? I move on 24 governmental units. The board to consider the appointment of two regular
members, one alternate member and one citizen appointment of the 2025 value adjustment board and to appoint the chair. Yeah. So, you know, this is what we do every year. We need we need a
chairperson and an alternate um chairperson, another member, an alternate member and one citizen. That citizen has to be a um at the own property of Taylor County.
Who was the citizen last year? Was it Mr. Wallace Holmes? and he has agreed to do it again if you guys if that's who you guys wish to need two members from the board here. Yeah, we need a chair, another member, and then alternate member. So, there's
really three. The ultimate member won't have to do anything less than the others can't serve. You say you want to. I said my servant. Do what? I don't serve me. Commissioner, are you willing to be the
chair? Thank you, Mr. Clark. But he is pressure. So then I need another Are you going to be the alternate or you want to be Well, there's that. Mr. One more regular member from the board.
Yeah. All right. Then we got Mr. Wallace as a citizen to continue service. Okay. If everyone's okay. So, we need a motion to approve all these. One motion to give.
We have a motion by Commissioner Dimps for Commissioner Newman to serve as the chair the value adjustment board to be a regular member in the auction and
Mr. Wallace Holmes his service adjustment board. We have a second for Mr. We'll be contacting you guys and letting you know when the audience started to be probably in September.
All right, we'll move on to uh county staff 1125. the board to consider approval of change order number one in the amount of $36,740 for an additional bedroom that has been determined to be made necessary to the demolition new construction home of
Christine and Robert Herp further agend. Hey everybody. We are requesting approval of the additional $36,740 for an additional bedroom to be
constructed in the hover home. We typically um if the children are the same sex, we typically build one bedroom. So, they were getting a two-bedroom, one bath home, but one of the children has a
medical problem and we have had that documented by um appropriate medical professionals. So, we are um requesting this increase of $36,740, which puts their home at a total cost of
$221,540. and install 100% grant funded with an HHRP hurricane for a change grant. Okay. Any questions for the board? And we a motion to approve.
Motion to approve. Motion and a second by favor. Thank you. Don't get too far. We'll go on to I got a lot 26. the board to review and consider
approval of closing documents and invoice for the acquisition of the 3.95 acre site by Spring Warrior Cox. Did you ever think we would get to this point? It's been a long time coming on
spring warrior. We're asking for approval on pursuit documents for the acquisition of this 3.9 acre 3.95 acre site. The documents have been approved by Valmore group and we are ready to
move forward with approval. We are um required to submit within 30 days a long-term management plan site and we are already working on that. So we uh need your approval to move forward. The
grant will fund $435,000 of the acquisition. The county um has approved funding $115,000 which is the amount over appraised value. The closing costs are an amount
of $3,467 and that will be funded with the grant. But with your approval, I um think Mr. Conrad has reviewed adopt. So we are finally ready to wrap this thing up with your approval.
U I did get the closing statement. I did get um what else did I get today? You have my email that I sent to you? Yes, the um oh gosh, the everything the
the deed, right? The general warranty and also the the affidavit, the county affidavit. Uh I'm assuming that. Did you get a hold of Laura with regards to the title policy? It will be issued upon closing.
Upon closing. Okay. Um, so that's where it's at. And of course, there's been a survey a long time. Had a survey for too long really. Anyway, you know, it's been quite the process. Yeah. It's been a real
Yes. We completed um the survey, the environmental assessment, the appraisal, and the appraisal review. All of those have been completed and all were approved by vulneras was the survey matched up with what the
county was showing? Yes, we did get that amended to show what the county uh was showing. So, we are good to go on that. All all of the documents match and and as I said, it was approved by Baltimore. And I want to
let you know, Commissioner Moody, I thought of you every step of the way on this. Every time they wanted something new, I thought of you. I told Miss Landa, I thought of you because you wanted this property for so long. And I I hope you go home and celebrate
tonight. Thank you. You are welcome. You have been You've been in my heart every step of the way on this. Okay. only know the history of that property. Old-timers know the history of that
property. There's no other discussion from the board. We have a motion to approve. Motion by Commissioner a second. Second by Commission. All in favor? I.
All right. We'll move to item 27. Uh the board will discuss upcoming funding cycle for the Florida Commerce Office of Long-Term Resiliency Community Development Block Grants disaster recovery funding for 2023 2024
storms of potential projects. Well, as you know, we've discussed this previously um prior to the state setting um all the the the rules and regulations have now been set. As the funding cycle is getting ready to open,
the state received $400 million um for this program with 25 million of that going into the HDP match. 15% of that will be used for mitigation project. I know it sounds like a lot of
money, but there are 47 counties all competing for for this funding. So actually we need to select very good projects and be very competitive um to to be awarded these funds which I think we can pull it off. We are um
designated as a priority county to um to to being um our demographics and having damage from those storms. These projects do need to be tied directly back to Hurricane Adelia or Helen or they go in
that much smaller pot of money that is just for um mitigation projects. So hopefully um many of our projects are are about recovering. Um I know we've discussed dredging and I as you can see
we are very short on our dredging fund. So, I would recommend that. I know Turner Road has been discussed. I know um there's a um road being that's been discussed. Um Mana and I talked about a couple projects today and I
don't know if she wants to address those. And also, I know um the historical society was going to appear tonight for um that grant in reference to damage the historical building had
during the storm. I don't know if you want to consider that now um since it is a county owned facility. That might be something to keep in mind, but I I think, you know, we definitely want to pursue the projects that that I mentioned. These grants must meet
federal guidelines. We will have to follow all of the federal requirements. So, um, we need to be clear and keep that in mind. We also are required to document how they are tied back to Adelia and Helen and I know some of
those projects we can do that. So, um, I'm ready for y'all to direct me on what you would like to move forward with. I got questions. Sorry. Um, if I could ask that this funding is in
addition to the the housing repair and replacement program, correct? Yes. Yes. This is not there's another division of funding that's coming out that is housing repair that we can't be administering. The um people will be
contacting um the people at Florida Commerce directly. This is not tied to anything to do with housing. So, so this um 400 million is in addition to it looks like 434 million
that's allocated. Is that correct? So, in other words, the 4 million and they 4 million that's been set aside and then 25 million was set aside for HMPG funding. Right. So um
it is not in addition. It is all the same cut. It's just how they broke it out now. I see. But there is an allocation specifically for housing. It's a direct housing program. Yes. And so we would not be applying directly to Florida
Commerce. They will not be going through us. And and if you have, you know, anyone that you know needs assistance with that, um, feel free to just give me a a call and I'll reach out to those people and direct them to the right personnel
at Florida Commerce, which they are going to do preapps for the the individual homeowners and assist them with that and then help them down the road with the actual application. Um, but you know, feel free to to give them my contact information and I'm more than
willing to help anyone. Any any projects for infrastructure will not be in competition with any of these funds for housing? No. Oh, no. Um, Mr. Chairman, if I may, um, in
addition to some of the roads that Melody mentioned, we may want to consider, um, mitigation for some of our evacuation routes, and I know that, um, Jody Morgan Road
comes up continually as far as, you know, we may want to take a look at that um, and tie that right said, "I think it's urgency." That's not right. That's not the only road, but I think we could tie back with
maintenance records. Um, as far as storm activity, um, also supplemental funding for the dredging, supplemental funding. Dan just texted me for completing fire stations where we do not have sufficient funding. We may
Melody, do you think that would be applicable activities or eligible activities if we have partial funding for fire stations? Well, on the fire stations, it will turn into mitigation, not disaster recovery
because we're constructing new fire stations and not repairing existing fire stations. Now with that said, um we could probably um say Katon is uh more like disaster
recovery, but you know, I think any conversations would get thrown into the mitigation and we can apply for mitigation. We have strong mitigation grants because we do actually have a match for those and and
have a a game plan for them. So they would make strong mitigation but they I'm certain they would be thrown in into that talk. I I would say you know any projects that we want to do um we should
feel free to whether it is mitigation or disaster recovery. I'm just saying our stronger our best chances to be competitive is going to be in that disaster recovery because there is substantially more money. Okay. But I
encourage you, you know, what five stations left was. Yes. Let's ask for that additional money. Um I are we do we think we need to ask for additional funds for the public safety complex?
Uh yeah, that that may be well possibly um for mitigation maybe for that for hardening or sheltering that that is I think one of the missing pieces as far as the public safety complex where we may not have sufficient funding.
Okay. I mean we can go on and hold we can go ahead and hold we need to start these public hearings on we don't have a public hearing on each individual project. So, I mean, we can go ahead and have a public hearing and that doesn't
necessarily mean we have to submit a grant application. Do we have to have separate Could we maybe combine all of our road projects into one public hearing or is each one of those a separate grant application?
Um, during the webinar it said separate. I I would recommend separate just so that we have a because they have to be uploaded separately. Um and we have to do a preapp on each project. I would recommend an an
individual you know backtoback public hearings just so that we have it clean clean and concise what we're turning in. That's true. If I could c certainly we need to see through the dredging whether that is in addition to what bid
came in this evening or if there's another option by all means but we have these areas that are continuing to deal with the silt and erosion from all these well through these storms really but certainly from idea and Helen so I think
you know we need to see it through in in completing the dredging that Dr. Island, Cedar Island, and Eagle Beach for sure. Well, remember to projects that are designed, right? So, Melody, do we know the timeline for grant award and then grant
expenditure? Because we know that they're at this at this point they're saying grant award will be J in January for 2026. So, they're saying a pretty quick turnaround. Personally,
I know that's their goal. I I would say probably I mean, don't hold your breath on that. The state does move quicker than Yeah. Um, you know, the Fed Feds have been
than Department of Treasury, but to be safe, I would say you're probably looking at February 2026. But again, that's not that far away. It's going to move along quicker than any restore act grants we could submit.
I did want to mention in reference to the dredging, it's my understanding the criteria that was bid was based on hydrographics from 2022. We've had two major hurricanes come
through and it's also my understanding that there's new hydrographics, updated hydrographics that's the data is probably better than double than what 2022 right right
so I would think that I would be prepared for more than what we just saw opened up today that's possible I just it's it's going to happen. I mean, if we talking one of the locations the
17,000 what cubic yards or whatever. I mean, when they get they're going to know when they got 17,000 yards done and then what Well, that's why that's why we asked them to bid.
I don't think we we made it clear that the graphics were from 2022. So, so they could provide a, you know, they could update, they could get their own updated hydroraphic and bid accordingly, but I I understand what
I don't think required for them. I don't think you sent a bid out. We probably shouldn't give up graphics ourselves. I don't even know what the cost for that is, but I can I'm just I'm just saying it would be our due diligence to give that I would think
to give updated numbers versus something that's prior to two major hurricanes and then we don't really have we're not being good data. I mean, really. So, I just don't want the job to get halfway done and then we hey, we've gotten what we're getting paid for. Now,
what do you want us to do? And they got a bunch of equipment sitting there. So, somebody's going to have to be thinking it through as the bid committee opens up their discussion. I'm sure they will. Well, and Miss Wanda and I um spoke with
WS on this particular grant and the dredging and um because we knew we did not have funding uh we knew we didn't have sufficient funding for um Cedar Island, Dark Island, Dark Island, and
Spring Warrior. No, we knew we didn't have that funding, but we thought we would be okay on Dean Hatchgy and Dean Hatchgy and obviously not. So, I think we're looking, Miss Lana and I thought maybe $5 million might work on
this grant and I'm thinking we're looking at more than double of that to ask for this grant. Yes. because we I'm referring to Millie is just what's in the bid and keep them keep.
Right. Right. So I I think we're probably looking at requesting funding assistance um well over $12 million with this grant. It's just on what I heard tonight and
our past discussions. I I think we're looking at considerably. I would just I would say I would recommend and the clerk may have it. I would recommend getting with maybe the clerk to look to
see if you can get your hands on that most recent recent hydrographic. Yeah, we'll do that. We we will do that. We have to we have to submit a valid budget with this grant and that's why we
had asked Mr. because we're going to need documentation um from a a firm like that for this grant application for the pre-application. So, we'll we will we will be reaching out and we'll get a hold of that because
we want to make sure you know we are submitting um a request for as much or more than for what we know we're going to need. Mr. Mr. Chairman, if I may, and also Melody, we have not started discussions
with USACE yet regarding the federal funding, and I know Steen Hatche was included in that budget and it's possible. I mean, we I think we just need to clarify with you what areas they
will be drudging um in Steen Hatchee versus what versus what we know is in our scope of work. And that may offer some relief as well. Right. Right. Okay. Do you need more information respect to
roads? I mean I know Turner Road was mentioned in that. Um do we anticipate the survey information and design indicator as to what that is?
We do not have that yet. I'll see where we are in that process. I mean, I know the survey was completed. Sure. But, um, I will, you know, there's also right-of-way acquisition with that project. So,
but that may be possible I think in some of this funding also. So, correct. acquisition money is an eligible um activity if it is needed um to complete one of one of the projects. Um
acquisition is it is funable. I actually looked that up today because I thought that might come into play on some of the projects and it is an eligible activity. By all means, emergency evacuation routes, I think those
certainly qualify. Right. Well, and the and again the road that comes to mind is Jody Morgan because that's a secondary evacuation route and I think that um I mean that we and again we may be able to provide data
as far as maintenance. Yeah. And I'm a little unclear. I know there was a um street um street road in Steam Hatches we discussed that had some damage. Um yeah. So a number of the areas in fourth and fifth avenue.
Right. That's what I had. Fourth and fifth. I mean it's because of the amount of water that came in there. So and then the damage that you know we have gotten to and and repaired and some of that that we're still working to get. So Okay.
Absolutely. So we have dredging Turner Road fourth and fifth um and steam hatche the historical society Melody I'll I'll talk to you about that I we're still looking for the uh for some FEMA
reports as far as um how to tie that back to storm damage. Um we know the balance of the funding for the fire stations and Jodie Morgan. Well and you you may also consider the streets down at Eagle Beach
Cedar Island damage because of those roads being inundated and then all the debris that's been removed and tons across there which have very uh significantly led to the degradation of
those those roads. So Delel Beach Road, Cedar Island Road, and Dark Island Dark Island is on the DOT service. Um, so if it's eligible, I'm not jumping in the way there, but I I do
think um there is down key beach road that over top and then all those loads of debris that have led to
aging, let's say, for lack of terms, it's just road decation. So, are you talking um taking um are you talking about paving or resurfacing or both? I would think that would probably be the
the best solution. Yes, sir. Those are roads that that are paved. So resurfacing resurfacing except for Jody Morgan. Well, it's paper lime rock but we prefer
asphalt expedite the evacuation route process. You hear that lady? Yes. Yes. And I will get with you tomorrow to make sure I wrote down all the correct information. We have to
submit our projects ahead of time. So, we're just trying to make sure that we have an accurate list. Okay. Item 28, the board to review and approve the release for bid manual runway 12
through30. We have release for bid drawing runway 12-30 rehab of task order 8 with Avcon Incorporated for the runway rehab at Perry Foley Airport. We have received an SDM grant in amount
of 3,525,321 for the rehab of runway 1230. It is not FA eligible because it's our secondary runway and only our primary u runway is eligible. We are requesting approval to go out for
bids on this runway rehab and approval of past quarter 8 with fun in the amount of $298,80 for um project the design engineering project management and oversight of this project. The project will be 100% grant
funded. Question to approve that second question. All in favor. We'll move to item 29. the board to consider approval to obtain outside legal counsel to
represent the county for the honor of Robin Paul due to the county attorney having a conflict of interest as attended by Mel on ship homes. Um the recipient signs a lean in the event they um are deceased.
A family member can e can reside in the home as long as they pay us whatever the prorated amount is which is due to us which is it's prorated over the uh term of the lean by years or they are um
required to qualify as low to moderate income. Miss P passed away her father is residing in the home. He had indicated the prorate amount which is due is $34,37578. He had indicated to us that he did want
to keep the home and would reimburse the county in that amount. When we called him to follow up on it, he indicated that he would not be paying it back. He had obtained um legal counsel um which is Sunny Bishop through Mr. judicious
office. So we are requesting board to get outside legal council to assist us with this. Any questions? And we've had this happen numerous times um and the family has either qualified.
Usually they pay us back the programed amount and it goes directly back into the SHIP program. So this is um really a a first for us to to be pursuing it legally. Got it.
Mr. Chairperson, I I guess we need some additional guidance as far as whom to whom to reach out to. Should we obtain quotes from, you know, local attorneys or I know that we use the Madison County
attorney um from time to time for for backup when we need assistance or do we just need to get quotes? You just wait and see what happens and then you determine whether you need an attorney or I can't help but
Okay. Follow. Yes, sir. Don't jump in the Don't jump in the lake yet. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So, uh we a motion to approve. Move forward. Motion and a second. All in favor?
All right. Go on to item 304 to review. Consider approval of ALW architect standard formal agreement between honoring architect attachments D exhibit B federal provisions and ALW scope of
work and fees for professional services for the Dr. Florida hospital roof project. We are requesting approval of the um state of form of agreement attachment B and AW scope of work for the
professional services for the doctor's memorial roofing project. We um these are $23,515. They are 100% grant funded. They have been approved by Florida Commerce for us
to move forward. I know Mr. Conrad reviewed the contract and I think we are good to move forward. Um the project will be the entire project will be 100% grant funded. So we are covered with everything on up. Um the board has
received bids. ALW was awarded the bid. They had the highest score of 373 points out of 400. So we are asking your approval to move forward with this contract. There's no question or discussion from
the board to approve. All in favor? Thank you. Thank you all for everything tonight. Thank you. All right. We'll move over to our county administrator Adam County administrator
to discuss informationational items. Uh just to re to reiterate to the board, all of our budgeted projects were um not vetoed by Governor DeSantis. We're very um appreciative of that. It's $6.75
million for the public safety complex, $700,000 for courthouse air handlers and a million dollars for the beaches fire station. We are still awaiting word on the community budget request for the public safety complex. Um, I believe $3
million was included in that budget and we're just waiting to see. Um, if if all of this is approved, we'll be up to what number did I give you, Marty? We be up to the 12 million that we 12 million.
Um, so um, that will certainly give us a good head start with that, right? And we'll know more when the design is finished. And other than that, the final place we going to put that um the property located behind the
hospital out of the out of the what area? What would it take to get that place out by the airport? So, Melody, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that where
we had had originally been discussed um is not eligible property because that is that is property that's in the FAA stipulated settlement agreement and has to be utilized for economic development.
Any other areas? Um I think would be if Melody I don't is there any other property or is would that have to be taken out of the airport's name? It would have to be taken out of the
airport's name and in addition as you know we are trying to get funding to go ahead and update the master plan. FAA has indicated they will not fund that until 2627 funding which will be next
um July at the earliest. So we have checked in to to do that updated plan. There's also I know that over that land that you're talking about over there on Carlson Cemetery is an ideal location but there is that parcel of
maybe 4 acres that's across the road from the airport to that we did have um appraised a few years back. Someone was interested in buying it and they didn't want to pay the appraised value and we were going to
be able to move that out of airport ownership because it was actually across the road and wouldn't impede any airport growth. So rolloff site, right? A parcel to keep in mind too. I I know right now it's a mess because some of
the timber debris was put over on that parcel, but but that's an option. I think most people don't realize that parcel does exist right there. But but that that's available, too. But Melody, that's right next to the
rolloff site, right? That's off Carlton. Yeah. No, no, no. It's on the other side of Industrial Park Drive. Oh, gotcha. Okay. over. Do you know where the housing edition is? It's in between the housing edition and Puppet Road where that um there's some vacant
land right there. It's right over in there. I'll I'll send you um I'll send you um a map of it tomorrow. Okay. Just that's where all our resources end up going. I know. And it just seems to make a lot more sense to have the public safety
complex. I guess we need to Well, and Melody, we don't have any other parcels that are not in the airport's under the airport's ownership, right? That's at that site.
No. Right. Correct. And in fact, um, we actually got that that was part of the land settlement, right? Um, issue that we had, right, getting getting that back under the airport.
nail down tonight. It's just a thought. Just I know just I guess my my concern would be by the time we go through the process of um changing the airport um plan and then
the county would have to purchase the property from that airport at appraised value. So, um I just don't know how long that would delay the construction of the public safety complex by the time we go through all of all of that. I mean, it
may it may align um may affect the design phase though. It may affect the design phase based on location. That's all. All right. We will move on to comments and concerns
from the public for non agenda items comments. Gentlemen, uh I'd like to encourage each one of you to go to the Florida Rural Economic Development Association summit meeting in November. It's going to be
down in Ocal and your uh other counties surrounding counties. Swani County will be well represented. Columbia County be well represented. Hamilton County be well represented. So
will most of the other 15 counties that are associated with our rural economic development area here. Uh, and I can't stress enough what you will learn there from talking to other county
commissioners, county managers, and city managers in the area about their successes and failures in economic development. It's just a three-day conference. It's down in Ocala and uh, you know, please put it on your calendar
and give strong consideration to attend those. Yes. from the public for not. Thank you, commissioners, for allowing me to speak. I I came here tonight to uh talk about uh a few months ago I offered
to buy a vaco on Second Street because we thought we were going to have insurance possibly was going to cover it. But a homeowner in seeing Hatche uh donated a gazebo. He wants to remain anonymous. So we're going to leave it like that. Although some people might know. Uh we just there are some people
listening as you want to do things like that to help. And I've been talking to uh Mr. Newman about how like the signs a lot of the signs are bent down. There are capable people in Steve Ashley that can help with things like that.
volunteers that can actually help stand the sign up, okay, who were craftsmen in their own life. So, it's something to look at just like some years ago I was with was Jack Brown, that's how long ago volunteer code enforcement and I was on
that. He asked me to look into it. I did a report for him. You don't get overzealous people on code enforcement, but there are people out there that can point things out that are obviously a violation. And then it goes to the code enforcement officer and he looks at it.
So, uh, we got some growing pains here. We're eight months past this and you still got things going on. I mean, we've got a lot of things. We're trying to button up u with the building requirements. I've noticed so many of
the power boxes now elevated. We got over that, you know, part of it. Now people are are locating them high up, but we've also got a lot of folks who are in violation of ordinances like on the right. This past weekend, I could
have taken it to 15 or 20 uh RVs that came into town and instead of renting a place, they parked on county rideways for staying. And I was only it's good for business. Okay. But in my neighborhood, we had somebody living in a Winnebago and it was finally the
sheriff's department. They got him out of there because the the code enforcement couldn't make them move. Okay. But when they got found out that they were actually living there, had a garden hose running to it. So we've got to we we got to start thinking
later on, you know. So some of the stuff we've got to reel in. But the volunteer code enforcement talking to the folks that I did those three or four cities they another way not to get overzealous people because you can't have you know people that have a a problem with
somebody unless you want to go ahead and and bring an issue. But if we're going to we're you know we keep hearing about how broke we are which we are and all that money we're talking about with the grants. Thank God we got a governor that loves this county. Huh. We are blessed, you know,
and so we're going to get by this, but there is life after disaster. And I thank you very much. Anyone else for nonended items? All right, we'll move on to
more information. I want to thank people for coming to hear and bring some good thoughts tonight is it is your county and your community. you do bay and I'm one that will listen and I'll go
out of the way to listen. Thank you, Mr. N. I hear you Mr. Chairman with Commission D. I appreciate time schedules to play and have some meetings. Also, just
I like to thank folks that that had so much effort in our past weekend and celebration had to celebrate Independence Day and a number of folks that weren't on the county right aways doing that. We thank them for all those
things. Our law enforcement who certainly were tasked with quite a quite a undertaking at first like this. So, um, it was encouraging to see the number of folks
that were at Rose Head Park and on our our coastal communities that happened to be down there and the celebration was ongoing for quite a while. So, it's good to be in a free nation and and certainly we see good things
taking place. So appreciate all all the things and you know just a great team effort and and just this funding opportunity and to see how these things are coming together. There's a lot of work and effort by our staff and and the partnerships that we have of course and
cooperation the board and our state and federal partners. So it's it's uplifting to see that coming coming to pass and we're always thankful to see the appropriated funding coming down. as well as the house. So, thank you to
each one of those. We're looking for great opportunities. did not receive it and still haven't received it as of today. So just forformational purposes you guys know I do think they're planning on presenting it as a workshop on workshop Monday
right so we do have the workshop Monday morning at All right.