in a state of delusion one day to the next here you go pretty good [Music] oh yeah okay the percentages is it under 80% under 84 now yeah i
into all their numbers and then to make sure I mean that's I think that's the lowest I think I've seen they reported 84 Four [Music] [Music] just landed
literally right what time did you guys get out not long [Music] okay [Music] to do i haven't watched this [Music]
about ready to get started if everyone want to stand up please 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 we call on you because you're the only one we've been taught that man can be saved just by them calling on the word in the name of Jesus we thank you now for what you've done we thank you for what you want to do in the future and bless your name again lord as we go
through this meeting we ask right now that we be able to do what those things is right and we will be able to help satisfy knowing this father it's not about us as it is all about you and doing right
blessed be as right now in Jesus name I pray 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 [Music] like to welcome everyone to our meeting this Tuesday March 18th 2025 6 p.m we have our conference line set up number there is
9179001022 access code 32347 pound this is not a toll-free number and you may be subject to longdistance charges according to your longist plan the chairperson open the meeting for public comment please follow the instruction if you wish to speak
please dial star five the moderator will unmute your line when it's your turn to speak and notify you by announcing the last four digits of your telephone number please announce your name and address you'll be allowed to speak for three minutes any person wishing to address the board regarding an agenda item will be given three minutes for
comment the commentator may only speak one time for each agenda item said we will move on to item three approval of the agenda we have a motion to approve motion to approve motion and a second to approve our agenda all in
favor i have a new consent items we'll have a chance to go over your consent item any discussion questions got a couple um which I think need to be corrected on number seven and number
nine where there's attachments mentioning what employment we have in Taylor County and it's still putting in Buckeye of 500 and something employees that needs to be taken out because we don't have those employees
anymore unfortunately was it in that in the grant application it was in the it's it was in the attachments to that and and the grant application okay okay i'm sure that was just an oversight no it's just to prove that I read all that stuff
you know i know you read every word we had no doubt that you read it not every word i tried number 11 um it should be if there's a contract
attached to that the venue should be exclusively state court in and for Taylor County exclusively i keep adding words to that to make it even exclusive better okay but other than that those are the only things I had which you got
to your consent very good any questions from the board discussion there's no question or no discussion on any of your consent items we'll have a motion to approve motion to approve motion take by Mr amendment all in favor i go to bids public hearing item
13 the board receives bids set for this date to 6 p.m or soon thereafter is possible for first avenue south sidewalk projected by the county engine yes so we have two bids two bids that will open so the
first one is Anderson Columbia Company out of Lake City and their lump sum bid price is1 [Music] million45,729 1,45,729 and then the next kid is from
LS Contracting Corp out of Tampa Florida okay last contracting corp or LA contracting corp out part of their bid is $875,377 $875,377 mr um that big committee will be Kenneth
Dudley Hank Evans and Scott Knight um I'm sure they will bring a an agreement a recommendation and agreement back to the board at the next meeting thank you all right
to item 14 the board receives statement of qualification for planning grant [Music] [Music] consible this is a SOQ we received one for
[Music] [Applause] [Applause] This one is Adams and Reese LLP [Music] mr clerk I believe that's an a request for proposals right instead of statement
of qualifications so there should be it says yeah request for proposal for grant consulting services what it says on this i think there is a it's a RF [Applause]
[Music] So the proposed fee schedule professional services fee for planning grant consulting services $50,000 so on that committee it would be myself Melody Cox and Jamie Evans and
what I'd like to do for that particular proposal if we can if we can get everything organized and reach out to the consultant I'd like to try to put a a contract agreement on the actually have a special meeting next week have
that on the agenda so we can execute a contract and get moving on this project because it's a very short turnaround we're going to do public request item 15 forgive me for pronunciation
how about Mr florida Association of Counties Trust Mr tom Connley Florida discuss insurance program update quick good afternoon commissioners and Miss Peton um chair I'll just say that I
married it the last name he's a great guy he is a great guy um for for the last 35 years we have had the pleasure of being the insurance carrier for your general liability and your cyber liability insurance here in
Taylor County you were one of the first members of the Florida Association of Counties Trust whom I represent i'm standing before you tonight to present our annual report closed out end of calendar year 2024 so I will refer to
the materials in front of you um the trifold is the brochure that highlights for you once again and most of you are very familiar with this um the many many benefits that come with your policy you
do not pay extra for these benefits as a reminder the Florida Association of Counties Trust was created by counties for counties as a notfor-profit public entity pool we are different from other insurance carriers in that main
aspect okay so please keep that in mind the first page that I have included the full-size page um it is from the prisoner group one of the biggest benefits that all of our members receive is unlimited HR and employment law
advice to your staffs and when I say to your staffs commissioners I mean not only the BOCC but the clerk of court the supervisor of election um and the tax collector as well okay you can see on this report that in calendar year 2024
there were 284 electronic mail communications with any of those groups within the county saving you all anywhere from 30 to $50,000 in uh legal fees okay that is included with your policy also included
at the very top of that page you will see the annual audit of employment files um that happened this past year through both Miss Pimton's office and Clerk Nolles's office okay and at the very bottom you see all of the other
educational trainings that were afforded to your staff and that I might add uh were well attended by your staff if you would for me take a look at uh the sheet that has the American flag at
top that is the current year's calendar of training activities you can see if you will look on the left hand side um on February 4th uh just a little over a month ago we were actually here in Taylor County to do our regional roundt training um again
I just want to highlight that those are incredibly well attended by all of your employees in Taylor County um Clerk Nolles Miss Peton may be able to um throw in a little editorial comment here and there the value of these trainings and what it provides to your staffs
again those are provided to you all at no additional cost okay those are all free um and then that is just a synopsis of what is offered this year and the very last um large flyer I've included for your information
today FAC as many of you know offers the IC through their ICG program the certified county commissioner program they also offer something called the CGE the county government employee education designation if any of the employees
within the Taylor County system would like to um earn that designation and take those classes because you are a member of the Florida Association of Counties Trust there is no fee for those courses for your employees there okay another huge benefit to encourage your
employees to keep learning um and to keep updated on everything from HR and employment law to workers comp issues you name it anything that's going to affect their day-to-day operations okay um if you'll just real quick look back
um at the trifold brochure um and I just want to highlight on the far right hand side um all the benefits i will not read it for you i'll let you do that at your leisure um we are pleased to work with Taylor County um you can I am probably
on the phone with Miss Peterson at least once a week um if not more answering questions for either her or a member of her staff um we are aware that you all are facing a humongous shortfall on your budget and we are going to do everything we can to get those premiums as low as
we can possibly get that truck you left outside is that way money out or no sir and I do not have a money tree the backyard of my house is not a cell either i wish I did i just I just live up the road from y'all um in Monaceel um at this point I would like to turn it
over to my colleague Tom Connley who represents the Florida Municipal Insurance Trust um and he can bring you an update from that arm of your insurance as well thank you thank you Denise i've been at this a long time some of you probably have seen
me in here over the years um in in case there's any confusion of why there's two different programs um we are she was talking about the Association of Counties we are the Association of Cities or League of Cities we also have an insurance program
um we're by far the largest insurer of local governments um in the state um we formed that program at a time when regular insurance companies were walking away from from cities and counties and
they they were just they were not happy with insuring counties and workers comp and and elected officials came to the league for a solution and that's how we formed this Florida municipal insurance trust and that was that you7 and that had a long time um several
years ago We join forces with fact uh we administer their program because we we've our program is much bigger they don't have the staff to do the administration and the claims adjusting and everything so our our people in our office do that for fact and
it's we were talking about synergy the company but there's a synergy when these two programs are together and you you guys have enjoyed that for a long time i just really want to thank you for your loyalty to our programs as Denise said you've been in both these programs a
long long time and she touched on the the fact that we're a nonprofit we were formed at your request we're our board is elected officials we're not in this to make money there's really only one
competitor which you heard from someone representing that company a few weeks ago I think but it's such a niche market to in to ensure all the various things that governments do that there's just not a lot of carriers out there well there's really only two but when you've
got one that's formed by associations and everything we do we design it with you in mind we don't want to go bankrupt but we also are not out to make profit and pay stockholders and everything else so it's just a different
mindset of how we approach claims we want to pay everything we need to pay to you we We're not sending money to stop court and you some of you may remember when I was coming in here with these return premium checks i think I've
presented checks at a few of these meetings probably can't remember this now where you guys live but there was a period about 10 years fairly recently where there were no hurricanes and state of Florida was very quiet and rather
than pocketing that money or building our surplus we were returning it back to the people because we had enough surplus we were financially stable for 10 years we were returning money like almost like a dividend you can't call it a dividend but it's a return premium and that's
that's what sets us apart from these other companies and our programs being your associations we're just we're here to help you in any way we can sounds like London and I need to chat tomorrow she's got some questions on some of the rebuild going on that was a lot any questions
look forward to the Hey you can come back with us that was fun if we can ask yeah i think we have peaked on the on the rates in Florida i think this year is going to look much
better than the last couple did yep we haven't finalized things that's going to be figured out next month and then our board will vote on it in June but so far so good we're looking good for property renewal so think Mr chair first if I
could how is that even possible don't ask well I mean with all of the hurricane activity the last 18 months how was the last were just not enough to move the needle like like you do with a Ian type
of storm where it hits you know a large metropolitan area i gotcha i understand so these markets they react and you know one pretty costly storm happens and rates go up and then if it's quiet they come back down so now they're they're
feeling good again they being the reinsurers the people that we buy our insurance lloyds have blown into that that's how that happens it's very sporadic i mean I'm grateful but that was not what I was expecting but I think we've just we're so accustomed to the
hurricane activity here right in the last little over a year that I haven't looked anywhere else great job thank you on item 16 Mr michael to discuss BFW home
mr do you want me to update the board on the situation with that building first item we do so here I mean whether
is well well just to clarify and then I can talk about it again later but the board had approved um a potential of a long-term lease for the VFW for the closed voting house on Kelly Grave and
shortly after the action from the board I received notification that that actually was there was a contract that I wasn't even aware of with Four Rivers now and if we are not utilizing that for
county purposes um it must be returned or it must be exchanged with them then subsequently Mr thrift and I talked and he felt like that building was too small anyway so now it is because now we
actually have an actual auxiliary going which we've been trying to get started for about seven years we finally get that started so now we have 40 50 of our post members showing up and then we have 20 auxiliary members showing up and then we have to meet separately but we meet at
the same night because our wives are in it our grandkids are in it that way we're not got wasting gas money with the way the economy is so but anyway first of all thank y'all for allowing us to come up here and speak to you really appreciate
y'all um and we've covered most of this already but regard this place on Kelly Green is is not going to be available we were hoping maybe I might have another place that's not
out of sight out of mind because we were told this while we were given that place by another official and I don't want to get into all that but u like sites I told y'all before we
really need a place where we can start finding hurricane relief supplies because we as I'm sure you've all seen we every year that we've had hurricane we give out tons and tons of hurricane relief supplies but it would also be nice if we could
have a place where we could do our fundraising because right now we're bouncing around trying to do fundraisers here fundrais very very difficult for us how big of a do you need uh well yeah essentially um the I would
say if we had uh something on it on a couple of acres where we could do a fundraiser outside you know with the um with like the the big red bus and whatnot like we did with the batters and maybe 2500 square feet
in building space something we that we can cook in we can have two separate meetings and uh the again like the salute to veterans we we pretty well filled that up i meet again we meet monthly once a month yes
yeah okay if if there's no fundraisers going on we just finished the fundraiser this past weekend also we have one just meetings we uh get together like this this past month we had three different meetings
I can I have to call special meetings for to get certain stuff accomplished in time we don't it's a lot of chaos and now we have an auxiliary we're having have a joint meeting with them besides our regular meetings so we go over our
fundraising ideas and our dinners and uh what we're going to do the local youth how how we can help our senior citizens like I said we just want a place where we can
you know make sure we have adequate space to store hurricane relief supplies and not to mention our stuff from our from our previous post we have the slave cases we have milit came out there didn't you we have
a military uniform going back to World War I and we have one that's a naval uniform it's pre World War I when they made the naval uniforms out of canvas and what we were doing was we had the schools come out and bring their students to come see these uniforms and
talk to us and actually be able to touch part of our history and speak to us about the wars that we fought in we keep it created because these are children but it's it's a nice learning experience for them i mean even the the teachers
were were in awe over it well I don't know if we would have I don't know if we'd have an actual answer tonight but I do have a couple of folks that I can reach out
to appreciate any assistance y'all can give us and if if it's all right with the with y'all I have one more thing I'd like to speak about uh I heard we're losing our uh veteran service officer Damian Walton have y'all found a replacement
yet we're accepting applications and I believe we had two people i have one of my post members that's interested in position but he's not certified through the state though we'll have to I I would encourage him to
go ahead and apply and that's something we can we can take a look at okay reason I was he's a combat veteran and of course he's a Marine but uh but he he he he's a good people person
sure and uh he really cares about our vets that's why he joined our post is to help our vets and once again thank y'all for your time i really appreciate y'all letting me get up here running the guns and I appreciate any help y'all can do for us thanks sir yes sir
to constitutional officers other units item 17 the board to consider approval of contract with weather stems agendas by Denny Glover emergency management how you doing so we've got
the opportunity to put a weather stem station here in Taylor County most all other counties have at least two or three of these in their county but it's just a station that we can um we've not decided exactly where we want to put it but it's online so that way you can log
in at any time there's a camera so you can log in to see the weather that time you know the temperature humidity all that good stuff that you get with with the weather station and um one good aspect of that is is our community can also use this lord forbid we don't have
another hurricane but you know we get a storm or strong winds come through and the hurricane um your insurance says you didn't have 80 mph winds well we actually can use this weather station to prove that we did have 80 mph winds or 90 mph winds or or things like that so
it's a big help to the residents also we look at we can incorporate with the schools there's a lot of lessons um that the schools can use with this weather stem station so that's why I'm coming to ask to approve this contract FDM so because we're fiscally constrained we
pay for the contract for the first three years they can't guarantee it but they will um as long as they receive the funding because we're fiscally constrained they will continue to pay for the contract after that that's as well i just won't put it in writing but
that's what they're asking to do we have one of these don't we have something similar to this at the airport not a not a weather stem we may have used to had um long time ago we did have some weather stems had I know like Big Ben
Tech had one there that one is no longer there they kind of restructured the company a little bit and now their focus is more on community and schools and making sure that they keep these these stations up and running if you don't have a location
so we were kind of narrowing it down to either because it's got a camera so I'd like to get a good view for our residents to see the area one was um the bridge of St hatching was we had mentioned that top of the courthouse
maybe the top of the EOC some locations that we we had talked about i didn't want to get it too high because if we are able to use that for wind speeds and wind gusts for our residents I don't want insurance to come back and say "Well y'all had too high." You know that's not going to be useful so would
this be one location or just just one we're just looking at one weather station right now so there's no cost um in years 4 through 10 FM's not able to cover that you're looking about 1,800 to 2,000 a year for
maintenance that would come out of um my budget through my grant so I would cover that so there's no cost to the the commission yeah a lot of counties have three or four i just don't really feel comfortable jumping out on that with not knowing 100% they would pay pay for that
in those years through 10 this is a memorandum of understanding i just want to put some of the high points on it um as far as we're concerned um the recipient will maintain each
weather station received for at least an additional seven years after the three years that's on the first page um also the recipient that's y'all expressly agrees to be fully responsible
for the maintenance repair software updates and any other cost of the weather station for the duration of the estimated lives following the expiration of the three-year period again that's so it's 10 seven years that you're going to be responsible for that unless like it
doesn't say unless at least I didn't see that so that's another thing also um the if it ceases operation in the 10 year life or if the weather station is destroyed by an accident not otherwise
covered by insurance neither poly neither party is obligated to replace it that was a a good one on that and then lastly guess what venue is
that's That's a bug in my saddle a bird in my saddle I mean but anyway when you get as I always tell you we're going to do it we probably have to go ahead and u agree to that but that's why I'm so firm on one that we
um prepare and it's all in Taylor County that I'd say that venue is exclusively in state court in uh Taylor County because slick lawyer one time tried to put in and say venue is in Taylor County
in all courts and they would pop you up to Leyon County in federal court just as sure as my name's Buster Bishop I'm telling you that should be a local I ask you by now yeah anyway those are just some of the high points and low points
of this memo there's always something ain't there yes sir there's always something yes sir do you have something Mr c i was just going to add the um the system that's at the airport goes to the National Weather Service so that's their own independent thing we don't have really access other than what you can
log on to their system and get on that one and then during the hurricanes they put up two temporary ones that we in the EOC relied on pretty often um because it did give us constant video feeds of the steach area
everywhere they were when they were located and it also additionally gave us that real time wind speed that we could look on to especially when we were looking at when do we need to stop emergency services it told us is this in this area can we continue or do we need to shut it down versus the north north
side of the county may may be completely calm so it gave us a lot better resources of you know when we kind of came to our decision- making at that time of so they are good systems and what's really nice is they are self-contained so even if the power goes out it stays operational as long as cell
towers and everything still [Music] question yes thank you appreciate it 17b of our addition here business to discuss speed limit change on Dorman agenda by commissioner
Jim what it is it's I don't know if y'all families you go down the bucket road past the golf course road it's a dead end road that turn to the right people live on both sides of it all the way down to the end they cut a sack at the end and turn around come back
out the people that live on the road it's a 25 mph speed limit now and they have a lot of trouble people flying up down the road they wanted to change it to 15 mph that's what they want to do and uh it's just a short
road i mean it's no big deal it's not like no curb straight shot and change it to 15 would be you know it's not going to slow everybody down but it might uh set example for everybody to be safer it's a safety issue but there's a lot of
children in the neighborhood all in the road on their bicycles would uh do it have any type of speed bumps or No speed bumps or anything it's just a graded road it's just a graded road i
got you not paved not paid go ahead sir i live on Dorman Street so uh I I can say yeah 50 miles an hour would probably be the best there's a bunch of dogs on it kids do play on the street and all that so it would probably be for the best if it was 15 miles an
hour 20 at least yeah okay just because people will fly down the road and all that and it's just it would be just better for the best uh does our attorney need to prepare a
resolution to bring back to the board ma'am I was asking Mr conrad if he needed to prepare a resolution yes ma'am so we need to make a motion for you to
do this yes yes sir we have a motion by Commissioner Dips to prepare a resolution second by Commissioner Moody all in favor i is it just Dorman Road or does it have a Dorman Peacock dorman Peacock dorman Peacock okay thank
you sir well we'll send it to you tomorrow Conrad okay go you know I guess I skipped over 17 alphabet my apologies my apologies
i'll wait for you it's okay we go we'll back up a minute here's to 17A the board to discuss fees agended by Commissioner well I I'm not mad at you Mr chairman i'm wondering what happened uh letter A
but it's okay we won't have a a debate about that i do appreciate the opportunity to bring this to the board and I realize this has been discussed previously i don't know if everybody's hearing this can you hear me Mr moody yes sir okay so you know given the
issues that we're working through with our budget and understanding um what we I believe can say is a resource with our boat ramps how that benefits our residents and our uh business owners and tourism and all the
rest really it it's a continuation and and those impacts are um really a necessity if we consider what we've lost when we see about these ramps and and the attraction and and the resource what it brings to us the
potential that we have for the future and growth and and also how that is really just a benefit to our residents that are here locally that we certainly don't want to um forget about but I wanted to bring
this to our board and and have a conversation have I know that the governing agency is FWC when it comes down to that correct me if I'm wrong Mr clerk Mr counselor so we've had this conversation but I have spoken with FWC
and and they asked if I would bring this to our board for discussion so that we could um have an approved proposed schedule B schedule for discussion with their agency i've talked with our clerk of
court and our tax collector and I appreciate their them and their staffs for the information that we've been able to provide and so the proposal and I will make this uh into a motion to to approve
contingent upon agreement with FWC if that's okay oh yeah Mr moody and I know all about you had that experience oh boy okay cut our heads off well I don't want to get in that line i guess y'all can take care of that but what I would say what the proposal is an understanding
where we are at and we do not want to make this a further burden on our residents and so in the conversation with FWC the the proposed fee would be to
retain the current rate for our Taylor County residents and for non which the the rate correct me Mr knows if I'm wrong that's $5 a day and $20 annually which we would
retain for our Taylor County residents and the proposed fee for non-residents would be $10 a day and $40 annually which we can understand and a little research with that proves and shows
adjacent um counties are at rates much much higher than even what we are proposing so that's the reason I wanted to come to this board demonstrate to our residents that we certainly still have
um them at heart knowing the burdens we've already been through and that's been discussed at length with FWC but that we also still have needs for maintenance which these funds will have to be dedicated to the maintenance of our boat ramps so that we can go forward
and understanding we do have constraints in our budgets but We also will see this as a catalyst or mechanism to be able to maintain these resources that are that are necessary they're they're not just a want to but that these are really a necessity when we look at going forward
and we look at the losses that we've had so the proposed fee again would be um for Taylor County residents $5 a day $20 annually which is the current fee we would maintain that and
we are going to have a proposed fee of $10 a day for non-county residents and $40 annually and so I'm more than glad to discuss that with the board but I'll make that into a motion at the time i I
would just I don't really have a problem with it but I just a couple questions would be out of out of town out of county land owners are they considered on the local rates because they're going to be able
to pay taxes in the county and then how on the $5 and the $10 who is that going to be left up to distinguish and collect at the boat ramp or is that just a good buddy system that hopefully not a non county resident are they going to
just be nice and be $10 that based on the signage that may be posted certainly um pertinent questions i talked that with our clerk and the tax collector we're looking at the process of possibly having QR codes which would minimize some of the need for cash drop box
things of that nature but these would be you know details that that really the clerk and the tax collector would would agree upon as far as who was going to do what the day rates or the annual rates as they do currently believe that y'all still have that agreement as far as how that's
managed so my understanding in in confirming or um quantifying the um non resident or resident I believe other municipalities use um the
registration of the votes in some cases but really those are particulars that we can agree upon with the clerk and with our tax collector but we have considered you know how do we get to that point so that it's it's an even field and we have
a fair system but I don't know yes i mean I you know I mean the annual ones I don't think would be any problem whatsoever you know I mean you know they can they can determine that based off of um you know if they're a land owner in
Taylor County or not the daily um I think we could still identify it now you know as far as we would have to try to probably do something because what we were thinking was they'd scan a QR code they'd put in some information and be charged
$5 maybe the system could do that based off of a zip code or something i don't I I don't know um but we could certainly have a non-resident and a resident selection there are they going to get some I'm just thinking when
someone may be riding around checking these vehicles are they going to be a kind of fly or sticker that they may get that one's one identifies that hey I'm I'm a out of county non-county res uh
individual and this identifies that I am in county so the the thought was is that whoever's checking those would have to have a laptop or something to look at who registered for the day a list of who registered to determine if they paid or
not and it would be by tag or registration or address or whatever we decide that that what data is needed but they would be have access to that data and the only way so there wouldn't be a wouldn't be any paper or any tags or email ad it
would be a here's a list of who's paid and just you know matching up have to be it probably have to be tag numbers if they're going to be identifying it with the vehicle sure so it probably have to be their license plate number so now as far as non-residents and
residents that that might be that might be a little bit tricky but um you know it might have to be more honor system or there might be a way to to tie that together we just have to try to work that out i think outside of anyone knowing that this was on our agenda for tonight I had several calls in the last
few days and I'll be honest the the the field was to raise the out of pond county residents to anywhere from three to $500 per year well uh
we have to be uh rational um well I know we do so in conversation with um our our FWC partners you know we we just entered into a discussion as to looking at you know closing areas or
counties that have these these same um let's say these catches or or similar variation because of a non non-resident or a a local resident so you know and and none of those things are set in stone it's just the fact that
we realize and see where we're at and the needs that we're going to see coming forth so the thought process was this this could be a starting point that we can land on if we see the needs for maintenance continue to grow i I believe
we could revisit that you know but we're we're really still talking twofold twice over for non-residents versus residents and not raising uh the fee on our folks that have been subject to so many uh setbacks and loss so it
just seemed like a fair point of of initiation and so at the same time you know I think we also have to to be considerate to the the both sides of the coven don't scare
them off i don't believe that will i I mean I don't think I've had conversation you know with other folks about county i think $83 [Music]
yes make a difference yes well I mean we you know we are we're grateful that FWC was open to the conversation number one i mean given the past experience we don't want to get an eye on Mr bishop where it's an execution and um those kind of thing we we didn't have a fire
squad come out thankfully but it just was a way to look at these costs expenses and see a path to be able to deal with the the issues that we see at hand and and also have some
um revenues for future use and needs that we see coming on so again that's kind of the faces i might say one thing about it people the average people don't realize that we keep we maintain the
garbage pickup the clean up and the mowing we do port John's and we have to keep them up i mean there's more expense now than there ever was because we got it a lot nicer than it ever was and so I mean it's I'm fine with it we We tried
this once before and then Mr bishop got her ears bent for more or less fwc i believe they'll work with you now uh well you know understanding the uh the all the negativity from the
storms and costs expenses and everything else and hardships um I think that did factor into the the discussion i I didn't I didn't name drop so I don't know who y'all talked to but I'm glad I hadn't ran into that individual whoever they are I think they probably
Hallelujah uh we won't be looking for them but when you go to other states Georgia for instance right it cost you a lot more right for out of town people for hunting fishing and everything you know all the way across the country it's usually a lot higher for out of town
people and out of state people but I mean it's just a situation where we we've tried to be as close and cheap as we could all these years but just just keeping up the portage John has got expensive maintenance has got more expensive but you know other things got
you know given the given the extent of the storms and the damages and that you know we don't have any any crystal ball to see or know what the upcoming maintenance costs are going to be um but we know that the if if for nothing else the age of the ramps and and elements
that they're being exposed to are going to going to sooner or later have to be dealt with so I I think all those things in consideration and in the discussions that I've had with our FWC partners they they've been fair I would say and so you
know we we just are thankful for everybody that's had a part in in the conversation and and again our our core tax collector and their staff our local staff of course so um you know it's it's certainly not set in stone but it it's
good to have a at least have a conversation without getting the uh the axe that the the floating dock issue i know you've got a lot of calls about the floating dock you know calls come in every week to me about why ain't we got
floating dock why we got floating do we going to get them and I tell people you know we're going to get them built going to get them back down there but there's nothing you can do overnight well and I believe this Friday Mr wanda we're going to Friday is the deadline to
receive quotes for the repair of the docks and we've included within the quotes a separate provision um for one the restoration of one floating dock at Katon and one at Steen Hatchee with a deadline of 30 days to
install those so we're really trying to um get that something installed at both ramps as soon as possible it's just a interim um option so that we we understand the the scope of the total
they were heavily damaged unfortly and it should be because we don't want to rush that we don't want it to be unsafe we can't afford to do that however I mean I appreciate staff's efforts to at least have a solution in the interim knowing that season as warm
as it was today is really upon us so we're trying to to get to that place thank you for all those efforts so I think Conrad and I are maybe on the same wavelength but my recollection um and I believe we've attempted twice
to have separate boat ramp fees for county and non-county residents and both times we were told that we were not able to do that because the funds came from permit fees for the entire state of Florida does this sound familiar Conrad
it does and uh we are on the same what I would like to do is I want possible for FWC to tell us are we going to do all this and then get
it snafued because you can't charge a person that doesn't live here more than you do one that does live here that's where it got it got stopped it got stopped and so I don't like I said I
think that's the first question that I would ask that because some of these funds may have come from the state but the state being the conduit from the feds you understand where I'm coming
from so uh my suggestion uh would be okay we probably want to do this you know because it's a good idea but we don't want to go all the way get it all prepared and then have that happen so so the reason to bring that this evening
was so this board could be um in agreement with the proposed schedule fee or fee schedule whichever way you want to repeat that so that we can demonstrate that to FWC that the board is in agreement in in the proposed fee
schedule so in the discussion we've absolutely had the conversation and numerous times of fe of the requirements of the funds that were previously used so this isn't a surprise or gotcha game or to try to sneak around with with our
partners but that we've been very forthcoming and understanding that previously there were um let's say prohibitors to get getting to that place that has that has been looked into by their staff and their folks and what
I've been told is that there's not a constraint currently i'm not sure if it's a time frame sunset i'm not a legal department with FWC i only know what I was told is that if we
could agree upon a a proposed fee schedule i love an email i actually happen to have one so you're you're living right Mr bishop so um just wanted to bring that to to staff and our board
do you mind forwarding that to me and then I can forward that email to the grants department within FWC um and make sure that it's within the terms of our grant agreement because I think that's where we stalled last time
was because of the grant funding that was provided for the Stein Hatche and the King Beach program ramp my I certainly will i mean I believe they've had discussions internally so I don't have a problem with that my my thought is you know what I'll have all the
conversations necessary if we can get to this point and and see um this through given time lapse so that's no glory if if it comes out that I have to get in line with Mr bishop Mr moody well I guess I'll be in good company we won't be lonely but given the situation
currently and knowing um what we have at our ramps and the needs that will be coming if we wind up and they say sorry no dice then and that's that's the way it is but it's not going to be because
we're not working in behalf and on behalf of our folks knowing the things that we see coming you also get I mean don't want to burden your citizens local citizens absolutely you you do it has to be the same across the board you could
potentially go to 30 bucks and $10 for everyone and always Yeah sure i mean have the same goal i I you know I'm not set on any any feet um my my focus was
understanding where our people are at and the hardships they've been through and if there's a way that given all of that occurrence we can work through this and come to this proposal let's go
one thing about the new ramp if we get the spring warrior all situated we hadn't got a FWC grant for them they really won't have no control over that correct you know so that'll be a different funds the revenues blessing hopefully for us we get that squared
away down the road we might want to you know get a grant to do some repairs there or or I mean build seaw walls and floating docks and all that kind of stuff there and if we do we might have to get into that direction maybe we can work in a different direction not get
tied up with them you know so hope So moving forward Commissioner D is going to forward confirmation email to maybe Mr lwanda Mr bish well to move forward I I would like to make a motion that this board approve
the the proposed uh fee schedule of maintaining the residence fee of five $5 a day and $20 annually and proposing a non-resident fee of $10 a day and $40
annually i'll second that motion all right we got a motion on the table by Commissioner Newman and a second by Commissioner Moody all in favor i carry it forward and see what we got sir going
carry it forward and see what we got we're going to see if we can get there Mr d all right moving on to county staff item item 18 the board do review phase 2 page station to design VNRQ submissions
and consider approval of request to move forward phase two proposals of the short short list of parties by council good evening everybody so the big committee went over the RFQS we had three that were submitted um as you can tell on our
scoring sheets we scored ramp construction and gray construction as the top two um so the bid committee's recommendation is to advance those two into a phase two where they will give us their pricing and the other option would be either do
none of them or go ahead and advance all three since there's only three that turned in that is up to the board your recommendation is to move the two into the Yes sir there was some issues on the the third one there was some documentation that was missing out of their RFQ um it's things that we could
probably go back with them and and get if we needed to but since they did not submit and the other two did we that was one of the things that kind of push forward other than they were very well qualified any questions from board
and you said great instruction and RAM were moved by Mr demp second second second by Commissioner M in favor item 19 the board to consider approval
of change order number one $13,200 for contract for demolition new construction work through the CDBG program on the home of Tim Millie agenda by Malie Cox hey everybody hey Melanie
we have a change order number one for this home in the amount of $13,250 as it has been determined that they do need an well inspection system um when Taylor County Health Department did an inspection so I need your
approval to move forward with that this is 100% granted grant funded through CDBG grant program i move a motion to approve by commission second second by Commissioner Mary all in favor
all right thank you Malie hold tight there uh item 20 the board to consider approval of change order number one in the amount of $12,375 for contract demolition new construction work through the CDBG
program on the home of Joey Tuton jennifer GR it's the very same situation the health department determined that the existing septic system is unus is unusable as well as the wellwater needs a new
pressure tank and pressure pressure switch again this is 100% grant funded any discussion [Music] got a motion by a second Mr moody all in
favor thank you administrator 21 the board to receive update regarding lease of post site to the VFW post 9225 is agenda by government
as I mentioned earlier it has come to my attention that we have an agreement with um with four rivers it was Foley land and timber foley timber and land at the time an agreement that was executed in 2006 my understanding is as far as a
history of this agreement was that when we closed the old landfill we needed additional properties I think for monitoring and so we entered into this agreement with with them and there was a
conveyance of four um closed rolloff sites to four rivers at the time and then there are an additional eight I believe on the list so when this you know when the board agreed to um use this site for the BFW it was in the
paper and I someone from four rivers reached out to me and educated me about this agreement and I guess what I need from the board they would they would like for the county to convey this back to them what I would like from the board
is to um to give me some direction of if you if you want us to try to negotiate with them to keep this property for some type of future county use um there has been a little bit of discussion um with
Commissioner Newman about using it as perhaps a staging area um there there I think are multiple potential what I am not exactly sure about is if this would be within the spirit of the agreement i think the original agreement was that
once the county stopped using it for county purposes which this is a building that was a a voting site for the supervisor then we would our next step would be to convey the property back to back to them which we did not because I
was unaware of this so um I don't know if you wish to speak to this Commissioner absolutely I do how much land is there maybe an acre somewhere there i would just say I don't believe that
the county has ceased or the use has ceased and and I'm saying that even as recent as last week the county staged a piece of equipment on this property so there's there's
quite the potential in respect to this parcel of property and the reality that I don't believe they're making any more property Mr bishop so Mr glover perhaps in the spirit of emergency management you could help me in that respect but I
think there's all sorts of possibilities in the utilization of that parcel and one of those things is that it just happens to be on on the location of of one of our um routes you know of state
so when we talk about um the the numbers of possibilities and knowing that we're not considering hypotheticals in many cases and being limited in space when we have these events um we don't have to
really think back very far to understand how not just equipment but if it were a host of of assets or resources through emergency management so Mr yeah i mean as far as a staging area it could be for
equipment uh food you know even if it was tarps MREs water so you know you are a you do have a good county road there to get in and out so I mean that is a good location if we ever needed that right so I mean I understand um the
southern does not need that for the supervisor election any longer and I'm quite pleased for our voters that they have better amenities given the current arrangement I believe the thing about the church so I would just say I don't
believe the county's use has ceased and I'm not sure if it was explicit in saying that it had to be maintained as a voting site but I would I would demonstrate that there is a magnitude
and and a multitude of potential uses for this parcel so um my my request would be not to convey uh the county's use or that property given the resource and the potential that it has
there were they the ones that wanted it back i believe that's correct it was a mutual understanding between the county and and the land and temperate company at the time and it did benefit I mean it has benefited us greatly being able to enter
into this agreement to exchange the properties um Danny would you be willing to write to just write me a short letter that I could send to them explaining the potential emergency management uses yes
okay so what what is the benefit on both both parties it was the exchange I believe of properties given the need the county had if I'm not mistaken excuse me yes so so there were four
sites there were four sites that were immediately conveyed that were closed rolloff sites and then I it's and I and I apologize i've been trying to backtrack all these documents i'm assuming that the other sites comrade do
you know if those are the the active sites that we have now i can't really quite the ones that were conveyed no ma'am those were were abandoned sites no no no not the four that were already conveyed the other the additional sites that are still I believe those are current sites okay
i've had a little bit of difficulty tracing that down that's quite a legal description so it says here uh if I may Mr chairperson it says on paragraph two on page
one with respect to the remaining eight parcels of county land described only V5 through V12 within 90 days after the parcel ceases to be used for its current purpose and it is not deed for count needed for county purposes the county
shall provide Foley with written notice of the parcel's availability for conveyance and fully shall within 30 days of the receipt of the county's notice notify the county of election to accept or reject the conveyance of that parcel was this originally called property no I
don't believe so i I believe it was I don't know who owned it originally but the county owned owned these properties at the time and because we had the need for properties um I believe they are adjacent to the closed landfill for
monitoring purposes that's when we reached out to them and asked if they would enter into an agreement with us so there was no from what I can tell I didn't see an exchange of any any funding it was you know when as if if
and when these sites close then they would be conveyed back to um to what was Foley at the time so these sites that kind of we swap did the county still access those the four the four that were
swapped were closed sites and they were Tennel San Pedro Boyd and Spring Warrior sites so those were those were exchanged it looks like maybe back around 2006 or in that time period and
then we acquired the the sites that were exchanged and then for the last almost 20 years that you know basically this agreement was in place so I guess I really just need direction from the board if you would like me to
continue to work with with them and ask if we could retain the properties for the uses that were listed um I've asked Dr glover to you know send me a letter explaining what that would be and I'll forward it to them if that's the will of the board
so county owns property today right mhm i mean so do you have to ask i mean I guess well I believe so because the terms of the agreement are that once it ceases to be used as a rolloff site or a trans well as a transfer station then we
were to convey the property is that or will you help me with that is it when they cease to be used as a rolloff site it says here Let's see actually after a parcel ceases to be
used for its current purpose is not needed for county purposes it's county purposes so it's it's kind of um I guess I just who and why would it like this even be made but you know whatever i
think part of the reason was for necessary footage around the old land and it looks like originally that their predecessor is to if you look in the background and purpose um it says the county land consists of
12 parcels that were conveyed to the county by Foley's predecessor in interest to be used as rolloff sites or transfer facilities good right so they were they were conveyed to the county originally and so then when we needed
these moni this this these parcels for monitoring we we agreed to convey them back to what is what was fully at the time what is now for rivers i think I think the vantage point would have been the requirement for the additional
footage at the monitoring area correct it really to do this this is non we don't have access to those sites but they still want access to these this
closed site right so if I understand it right Mr wanda what the request is per their agreement or their understanding or their position even is that it's not being used as a voting precinct
well I just want and that's fine but if I understand the language then uh help me Mr philadelphia attorney um it's county purpose right emergency management on page one i mean it it kind
of hits all all things um sure commission if on the very last paragraph of the first page it says "If a parcel ceases to be used as a rolloff site or
transfers facility the county shall within 90 days thereafter notify Foley of the county's election to convert that parcel to an alternate county purpose and the failure to provide such notice within 90 days periods shall
conclusively evidence the fact that the parcel is no longer needed for county purposes so that's pretty stout if you understand what I mean by stout so um so you got rolloff site or transfer
facility um of course everything's negotiable but this you know like I said this was uh this was a hard hard agreement to get done at the time um and it went through several
um back and forths when it was negotiated okay so I know you were maybe looking for a letter from Mr glover we could gain from the people and see if they would consider it the
missing piece for me is when when we started using it as a voting precinct did we did we notify them at the time and I'm assuming we did i think we did okay but I you know I think that doesn't
mean I know right but we did not notify them when it ceased to be used as a voting precinct that we would no longer be using that of course a voting precinct is a county purpose correct but I think that the terms of this agreement
say when we cease to use it for county purposes then we were to notify them now that doesn't mean we haven't used it as a staging area and you know and we have continued to maintain it but um I I
Conra correct me if I'm wrong i think we just need to um request consideration just like what you asked um Dr glover to do huh be a motion or anything for this do we i
would think so no go ahead and make the motion motion by Commissioner Newman we have a second second by Commissioner Moody all in favor all right thank you Dr glover we'll look forward
to the Yes sir i move on to item 22 the board to discuss commerce office of long-term resiliency community development block grants disaster recovery funding for 2023 2024 storms and potential projects
presented by the grants writer and the county administrator melody do you wish to lead off hey everybody hey can you hear me hey before I before I get started on um this um
topic I do want to bring up um on your boat ramp feed as far as spring warrior you will um Miss Bel you'll need to look into um that site will be co-owned by us and the federal government so you will
have to get approval on any boat ramp fees at the Spring Warrior site so um I do want to let you all know before I get started on this that that's important to look into that too as far as programs
okay as you know there is going to be CDBG funds being released um for the 22 23 24 storm and the statewide plan will be released on the 21st and there's a
30-day approval period for that we have listed some projects on here which we have since found out will not be eligible because any projects we submit have to be directly tied to hurricane
Adelia or Hela for us or they have to be directly tied to future storm mitigation there is $925 million that's going to be available that sounds like a
lot but 47 counties are eligible to apply for this funding and it is a competitive grant so um we're going to have to have very very good projects the um closer they are to
shovel ready to our advantage and it they do have to meet federal guidelines for example um the open grant we have for the jail generator right now that has been so difficult and has required
so much work it is the same kind of funding but it goes back to hurricane so um the grant applications will most likely be due in sometime between late October and December but again these are very time consuming
grants and we need to make sure we're being competitive some of the projects we thought we might um if you all approved moving forward would be the public safety complex that would apply as it is
um mitigation we all know the need for it after hurricane Adelia and Hurricane Oen the second project Heaton Beach Fire Rescue would probably be a good candidate because it is mitigation and
there was damage to the existing state station so we can tie that back in two different ways shady Grove Fire Rescue could potentially be a candidate because of um future
medication taylor County Agriculture and Expo Center was on that list that would not be eligible taylor County courthouse air handler and duct work could potentially because of the damage to the roof and we know there
was an additional damage there right now the mold remediation is on hold till those repairs are made taylor County Animal Shelter would not be eligible and I would say Taylor County Fire Rescue at
the airport is not eligible because it did not receive um it doesn't tie back directly to Adelia or Nang and as it is a working station right now it would not be um considered mitigation would not be strong
mitigation miss Wam and I did discuss we don't think we're going to have sufficient funds for the DH we will know that over the next three or four months before the grant application will be submitted so
that's um a potential project to consider also um one and I discussed um there was some concern on rebuilding the restrooms at the boat ramps because they have to be elevated and due to the expense those would qualify as potential
projects and we did confirm today that paving um would be eligible if we can tie back the need to for paving to Adelia and Helen and mitigation
so we need input from y'all and how you would like us to move forward i can spoke to um someone that's going to be working closely with us with the Department of Commerce today and thankfully they have direct ties to
Taylor County and I think they'll be very very helpful for us um so I was really excited for that to to have someone with the state that has direct ties to us mr wanda and I will be speaking with them again later this
week but we do need input from from how you would like us to move forward mr chairperson if I could ask Melody a question melody do we need to ask for additional dredging funds um because of the Oh yes that was dredging yes that
was on our w too and that is actually on my agenda we know that we are about $5 million short on dredging for the canals that we've added this would be um probably much faster to get those funds
through this program than through going back to Department of Treasury and Restore they hope um to award these grants in early 2026 and we already know that if we
apply for the additional funds through Treasury we're looking at a year to two years i mean we all know how slow Treasury moves at this point so that would be a much quicker way and we are
also watching for um the new RIP grants that will be coming available probably midsummer and and um canal dredging would be good through that as well as uh a couple of the other
projects the a center even though it's not eligible for this that would be a good risk candidate but we are watching for risk to open up too because those funds we could get quick
so Melanie just listeners when I was hearing you some of the uh comment just going into canal dredging am I hearing that we're really don't even know maybe a year or two from dredging that's for the additional canals not for
Katon Beach or Steam hatching that's not for Katon and Steam hatching correct we're in the design as you know we we went out for bids on Katon Steam hatching and did not receive any bids we have that money in hand and um Sir Bud
Sudley was waiting for some of the debris to be removed to um redid that and the design engineering and permitting is currently underway for Deco Dark Island
Cedar Dark Island Cedar Island and we just added Spring Warrior to our list which as soon as the acquisition's complete think we can move forward with that that work is in hand but we know for the actual dredging of Cedar Deagle
and Dark Island we don't have sufficient funds in hand understood okay just a question we can get back on track now um any comments from the board discussion mr chairman I do I think we
need to give great consideration to um the streets and the damage that that was incurred there if paving or restoration resurfacing i know a number of those that we're still dealing with because of problems with asphalt things
of that nature so um of course um Mr evans certainly has a list of of what we've been working through um but if if the re the resurfacing or paving is eligible I believe she said it is we checked on that melody checked on
that today yes yes yes it is eligible right does that have to be resurfacing or or how does that work i think I can find out from her i just asked if paging was eligible and she
said yes paging is eligible and she did con confirm it with um the the deputy director of the program too so it is eligible i I did not spec specify to her anything other than paying but I can
confirm um when Miss Wanda and I speak with them on what do they consider paying so with in respect to that could me could uh the issues on and I know we're
addressing this and potentially could the issues the Turner road issues be handled through this as well i would think so from all the issues that are there we can we can ask them
that in particular that I would I would guess it would be eligible yeah i mean I'm just in the last few weeks I've gotten quite a few calls in that so I mean that's something we can I I think there's probably potential interest for
um paving resurfacing elevating portions of roads so we can explore all that with commerce um what what I'd like to do is send them a list of projects that the board would like to be considered go
ahead and submit that to them and then they can help us work through what would potentially be eligible or or not well I I'm certainly not opposed to that if um the eligibility is there but I'm per a conversation I had yesterday Mr one is
aware um our our residents are being told by another state entity that there's funding in Tallahassee that'll touch Turner Road so we're going to be seeking that out and so I'm not saying we couldn't use funding from this option um but I'm absolutely and I I was very
clear to that resident that we would be more than glad to give these agencies the opportunity to write a check and um we're looking forward to it well well we will definitely when we speak with them we will definitely speak to them about the turn
of road situation and and we can you know report that I'm more than happy to report that back to you okay so I guess our question and we can get with Mr hank and get a list of of roads that um he considers critical we we can
do that and we can have that information for them too oh yes ma'am i'd be more than glad to contribute to that um opportunity so So the question is Melody I think the what the question
is is if the board wants us to submit all the projects on this list that we know are not ineligible and if you know it's not ineligitable I wouldn't submit it correct so that would be the public safety complex the Katon Beach fire
rescue and public safety the Shady Grove fire rescue and public safety the courthouse air handler and duck work um the DMH roof restrooms at the King Beach boat ramp for I think the steam hatchy
is okay um critical roads that need paving or repair um dredging and was that it Melody did I get everything okay yes okay
i think there's already that funding for that i believe so yes yes we have the funding for Hajes so that that we don't have to worry about yeah so are we in agreement with the
project well one thing we did discuss was the possible elevation of the destroyed restroom is was that included yes i missed that one sorry all right so we have a list and uh we need a motion to probably move
forward motion second motion by commission all in favor and and there may be other other things that come to light as we move through the process but this is just a list to submit the commerce of the potential
projects okay and before and before we go there's going to be additional funding released for housing uh for houses damaged during Adelia i spoke with their program
director today and we know we're not going to have funding for 26 of the 43 applications we've received so she's going to work closely with us with those applicants and she indicated to me if I can provide a list
of those applicants to her and their email addresses what we will do is go ahead and get those individuals prequalified and the state will actually be accepting those applications and
administering those funds the county doesn't have to do it directly but they would be willing to contact those individuals and get them pre-qualified and start working with them because that program is going to be first come first
served so just to let you know I I know y'all know some of the applicants i will um work with getting that information from answer and get that provided to the state here within the next few weeks and
we'll go on and start working with them get that information to the state and let them start working with those individuals one thing I'd like to ask Mr for one u would that be a way to get some funding on the cleaning out all this debris in
these creeks i I don't I don't know um as as you and I discussed I there may be some additional funding um through another program for all of that um waterway
debris removal i'll it depends on how quickly um I have sent that list to Swany River Water Management District and they are going to try to help us come up with a dollar figure of what it would cost to complete that debris
removal and and that may be something we can pursue through I'm not through these funds right and maybe by then we'll have a better idea of the cost okay okay that'll be fine okay i just I just don't know if that was you know fit into that
category yes sir thank you Maline thank you everyone all right moving on to item 23 the county administrator to present the annual status report for economic tax exemption for you
so these reports are a little late this year um I had some issues um receiving the report from one of the entities there was a employee change but nevertheless um here they are um for Sting Hatch Marina at Dead Man's Bay if
you recall they applied for the economic development tax exemption in 2022 um and they anticipated a um large capital investment in 10 years and the creation of 35 plus jobs over a 10-year period at the time of this report um
Steen Hatchee Marina has created they're reporting they have created 69 jobs 12 full-time and 57 part-time 43% live in Taylor County and there is a list of the jobs that were created in their rates of
pay and some of them are are newer positions that were um either created or filled in 2024 any questions from the board i think we they are trying to feel their commitment and I think what we offered
before I think it should still stand this is going to be the third year of that correct and they are current on their um tax payments um do we need a motion to move forward
i think just a motion to accept the report now um just for the board and the public's information the actual abatement amounts for Steen Hatchee Marina for last year was $3,731 you need a motion for that we got one by
Commissioner D we need a second second by Commissioner Moody all in favor all right we'll move on to item 24 the same scenario the county administrator to present the annual status report for economic aor exemption
for super puff snacks USA so this is a similar report um Super Puffed applied for this adorum tax exemption in 2019 they anticipated a $20 million capital investment in two years
and the creation of 100 plus jobs um as of the date of this report they um they're reporting a total creation of 162 jobs 95% of total employees live within Taylor County they are current on
their taxes as well any discussion from the board motion to accept i moved by Commissioner D to accept that second movement all in favor
move item 25 the board discuss approved starting salary for mechanics [Music] this was an umformational item requested by Commissioner Feele i I don't know if you wish to table this or accept the information but um the starting pay for
a mechanic one is $14 per hour the starting pay for mechanic 2 is 1522 per hour um we do have a vacancy in our environmental services department which has of course added to some of the
issues we've had with our drugs being down um I I don't know that I would call this a competitive salary unfortunately when you're looking at the hourly amount however we do offer rich benefits um but
that position was vacated I believe the end of December and remains unfilled there we did have one applicant and could not meet um his salary requirements because he could make substantially more um with another
entity as a diesel mechanic request to change potentially look at I am not I'm not sure this is something commissioner requested so do you wish to table it until the next meeting yes okay everyone in agree
she's the one that put it on here to discuss she She did ask me to follow up so I just added it to the agenda okay in other words you want to see if we approve of going up on the No sir that is not what I'm suggesting i was following up with a request from
Commissioner Feele of course I would love you know for for some of these rates to change yeah but these are the approved rates that were approved um during last budget cycle and um I just wanted to bring them back to the board that's good so does someone have any
recommendations on what we should do or if there should be any changes no I'm not aware i getting a good mechanic at that price is going to be a blessing if you find one i would agree
all right so do we want to table that item table to the next meeting item 25A the board consider approval of FMIT turnkey coverage memorandum of understanding and election form for the
courthouse roof replacement by county administration so in spirit of talking about our insurance coverage this is one of the programs that um benefits us through Florida Municipal Insurance Trust um it's it's their turnkey program and
basically if um a damage damage to a building is more than our deductible amount there is the possibility of them um taking it it's what they call a turnkey project which is basically they they do the leg work for us um the
fiscal impact for the repairs to the courthouse roof um the deductible is $399,850 um the repairs are estimated at $500,000 to a million um because it's not only I think replacing at least a
portion of the roof but some of the interior repairs um we have a preconstruction meeting scheduled for is it tomorrow um we are eager to move forward on this courthouse roof repair um and which is why we added it to the
agenda for consideration it is leaking it has leaked i don't know that it's actively leaking because of the mitigation efforts that they took to I mean they've made several visits to that roof to stabilize it but um we've had um
with all three storms I think we've had some issues motion to approve the motion motion by commissioner movement to approve we have a second second commission meeting all in favor all right we go to item 26 administrator
to discussformational items i have just a few items that I wanted to update the board on um the first is very unfortunate um I found out today that we have had a puppy who tested positive for
parvo at our shelter um the puppy did not survive we there were actually three puppies lost out of that litter it was an owner surrender um with multiple puppies the puppies were tested upon intake everyone was vaccinated for parbo
virus but unfortunately um they they were not protected um I'm I'm assuming they were already exposed but the incubation period um can be anywhere from 3 to 14 days is what it looks like so um the recommendation is
that we close the shelter to all animals moving in and out all dogs moving in and out for 14 days um we actually had lost a puppy over the weekend immediately on Monday um upon entry you know to the
shelter they deep cleaned and sanitized um and then unfortunately today there were between the weekend and today there were two more puppies that were lost this is a highly contagious disease and what we would like to do is put
something on our Facebook page on our website letting people know that we will not be able to take any intakes and not adopt any pets out um for the 14-day period and we will continue to quarantine the best we can uh but we
definitely need to limit traffic um to to the dogs and be very careful um with the remaining dogs at the shelter we say they call that arbo virus how long we've been in existence years oh
many years we have not as far as I know now I don't want to speak out of turn but I don't recall a parvo outbreak for some time but this is the time of year it normally happens and puppies under the year at the age of one year are the
most susceptible because they do not have the natural antibodies we do test and vaccinate but um obviously we you know with with these puppies coming in um we were unable
to prevent it i was just in them agree with me and my boys so you're going to be down for 14 days from today yes well I would say Well I would say
today yes tomorrow i mean we will get the word out as quickly as we can i know even today I spoke with a citizen who was insistent that we take owner surreners but it's just not safe for for the dogs even even if we vaccinate them
I don't think that they are protected immediately and they would be vulnerable first I see the calendar properly here okay need a motion it's not on the agenda I just wanted to inform the board and that's pro that's
My understanding that's standard protocol okay um also wanted to inform the board that we have um received some interest from Top Gun Sports USA to have tournaments starting in April um it
looks like twice a month April May and June they're interested in having tournaments at our facility and as of right now they do not need concession staff which is um helps our workload greatly they just wish to maybe use some of the amenities
or have um food trucks um before they start these tournaments we would have the the application for the food trucks and um and have all of that have the agreement in hand i just wanted to let
the board know that um we have been successful in in having another um organization um interested in using our facility and just saying that that doesn't mean that the tournaments will happen you do
still have to have the teams right enter right into the tournaments for the given dates that they have set so if you don't get between two or three teams likely the tournament's not going to happen second anyway and that's what's happened in the past um I think we've been
successful as a overflow facility but you have to have those teams sign up and um it seems like pardon the pun hit or miss y So anyway that's good news yes um also wanted to give you a quick update about
debris removal um as far as our the right-of-way debris removal at the last time I checked there was a total of 5,466 total cubic yards on the non-county maintained roads and our um
county maintained roads is at 728446 still an estimated $1.8 million cubic yards million excuse me million cubic yards of debris they haven't changed that amount um the our mowing
contractor has started picking up trash from roads that are cleared from FDOT and as of last week they had picked up over 660 bags of trash which is a lot so they are
quite busy um and that's that's just a few roads so they have been picking up trash you know FD of FDOT has been removing debris once a road is considered clear then our crews um enter
that road and pick up any existing like debris that's a diameter of of 2 in or or larger so I think between the all of the entities we're making some progress um still a lot of concrete out there
that will be the last to be removed but we seem to be making headway on our waterway debris removal um we are at a total of 100 over 134,000 cubic yards for Taylor County um
and that includes 8 to 10 miles of the Ailla River 7 to 8 miles on the Eafina 6 to 7 miles on the Fin Holloway 2 to three worth miles on Spring Warrior and approximately 8 to nine miles on the
Stein Hatche River um they are on pause at the Finn Holloway there is an area that um seems to be inaccessible there's Rock Scholes there um but I'm receiving daily updates from them but I am very grateful to FDIM for doing this on our
behalf they have um done a phenomenal job as far as I'm concerned with this river cleanup and I'm hoping that it will be a great help with flooding concerns in the future and um my last update is that our
building official um Terry McKver has received his provisional license so he's our official building official mr johnson is still working um part-time to to train Mr mckver we're extremely busy right now there's a lot of moving pieces
with um issuing permits reviewing plans um I would like for him to stay until the end of the month if possible that's only that's only two weeks and I feel like Mr muber will be better prepared at
that point to be able to work independently and one last question Mr commissioner Moody is it Dorman Road or Dorman Peacock Road dorman Road is what it says on on the aerial okay i thought Dorman
Peacock when I was 27 i thought so too well it was the gentleman who was in the audience so I just wanted to make sure dorman Peacock is a paved road dorman Road is graded so that's the one that Okay okay okay that's I got
it might do two item 27 comments and concerns from the public for non agenda items all right to board informationational item
mr d hey I have I'll tell you keep doing what you're doing and we all survive good i appreciate um these updates is these these numbers are quite
um when you look at other counties the the differences are quite substantial so and I know this is just on the waterways so they have done a lot for us and I think part of the reason you see that discrepancy is they included the marsh cleanup in those
numbers as well and we know there was there was a lot of of uh debris in the in the marsh well I mean I'm just uh what thankful to be at this point we got more work to do but thank you for those efforts
i like to say I've got several phone calls from people about Followway River getting it cleaned out was a blessing because last time we tried to get it cleaned out on last storm we couldn't get no help with it they did a good job at F hallway and people said it's better
it's been in 20 years you know so I'm glad we got that done it really worked out good for the commercial and crabs that go in and out there they couldn't go they had to fight the tide every time they had to rush to get back in and that
kind of thing but now they can they can go and they're real proud of it they still got to rush cuz they didn't get rid of the sands i'll put that on they better get all that's all I got so all I have is u
just thinking of our planning board and some of these approvals that we're looking at i know we got a lot of things rolling through our building department maybe you would know you' be able to chase it down better than I would but maybe you know a lot of as much as it's
coming through would it be feasible for that board to meet more than once a month i just I just know that just talking to some of those folks I mean they had five items they already knew that was at the last meeting that they had
now you got five citizens out there that's got to wait another month to get what they want to get approval of what they're looking to do and we we had the the the information but information wouldn't be shared until the next
meeting a month away so then you got citizens waiting that much longer um I mean we can certainly look at that i think the only the only other timing consideration is if it's like if it's a land use change and it has to be I mean it it there are certain things that have
to be advertised um and then we may have to meet more often as a tech review committee but I'll certainly take that to um to our team and ask them if that's possible yeah that the timing is the only thing that I wouldn't be sure about maybe some
things you have to steps you have to take in order to get to this is there a tag committee that meets prior to on some of these items prior to Well there's tech review i got you yes
so tech review meets and then a recommendation is made to the planning board so that may but that's for I mean that that's really for all development um we met today and then these those items that we voted on today would be on
the next agenda for the planning board so we may just have to look at the calendar and see what we what we need to do well if there's just things that can move along then maybe it's you know something that to help citizens move along and then not Well I know um we had a tech review committee meeting today
and I think the next planning board meeting is the 3rd um of April so that is I mean that is a couple of weeks for for folks and those are mainly variance applications where they're you know but
I know um what we've tried to tell folks is once tech review committee approves go ahead and bring in your plans and we can be reviewing the plans so you're not waiting two weeks you know we can look at the plans um before the planning board meets and it's just you know that
that doesn't harm anything and then the permit would be issued if The planning board approves very good all I have a motion to commission
okay all in favor go ahead go ahead blinded thank you for sticking out with [Music] us oh my gosh just leave the I know held
the