[Music] Ready? Call the budget meeting to order. Is there any citizens communication? No, ma'am. No citizens communication. Okay. Ready to approve the minutes for May 13th, 2025.
Second. Has anybody got any changes, corrections? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Commissioner Guppy is out today. Next, we are for a lot of
transfers and I'm gonna hand this over to Phoebe. Thank you. This evening, we do have quite a few transfers. Um, as this is our almost our last opportunity to make those adjustments before fiscal year end. The first in the first request
is from the election um department. This is administrator ad minister of elections. These are to take care of some maintenance and repair items due to the city elections and and general maintenance that they have at the end of the year. So, the first one is for a
total of $35,600 pulling those from dues, freight, and printing and combining those dollars so that we can do some maintenance on repair and repair on that equipment. The second transfer is $3,500 moving from dues and memberships
to other expenses. The third request is to transfer trib from tribal and printing into license a total of $12,139. Can I get a motion? Second. Has anybody got any questions about these
transfers? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. The next transfer request is from our county clerk. This is transferring $3,700 from printing and stationery and
distributing those among the lines for communication, dues and membership, operating lease, and travel. Again, this is just to meet the needs for the remaining of the fiscal year. Second. Anybody have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in
favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Those transfer requests the next um two actually are from the sheriff. The first one is to transfer funds from the drugs and medical supply, natural gas, water and sewer and moving a
100,000 combined into medical and dental services. Okay. Motion second. Anybody have any questions? Just a question. How much how much do we have left in that account for the one month we've got left? Um, currently we have an
open purchase order for 108,567 and we have not encumbered 61 for a total of 169,000. So you're explain to me how you need an extra 100,000 on top of that. So the the
monthly payment for TK Health is roughly $84,000. So, we have the um May payment that should be posted now, but then we'll have the June payment that will come out out of there. We also have claims that have been received and forwarded to TK Health that we've not
been received back and invoice for to pay those outstanding claims to TK Health for the providers. So, you've got this hund,000. Yes, sir. And then you've got a resolution built in here for half a million dollars. Yes, sir. And if that
goes through, how much will we have spent on medical and dental for our prisoners this year? Our our total budget at that point will be to try at $2.3 million. And last year we paid actuals I think right at $2.4 million. And last year actuals for medical.
Um we get a motion. Okay. Does anybody have any more questions on this? Ready to vote. All those in favor say anybody as four to zero.
Our next transfer request is to transfer $30,000 from training into prisoner transport for additional cost to cover through the fiscal year. Motion second.
See if I got any questions on this. Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. The next transfer request is from our property management
director. The first one is for $8,000 to move from custodial personnel over to overtime pay. The second is to move 10,000 from water and sewer and five from inservice staff development for a total of 15,000 for
maintenance and repairs so that we can utilize those funds to do some repairs at the end of the fiscal year in our buildings. And the last request is actually transferring $2,700 $27,000 into electricity. And we will be using
utilizing the remaining balance from communication contract with private agencies, gasoline, and inservice staff development to absorb that cost. So second, does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in
favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Next transfer request is from my public safety director. The first transfer you will see is moving $16,000 from assistant
into overtime. This is to cover some of the overtime that we incurred due to disaster employment. Um so our team actually went out to Florida and North
Carolina to um initiate help and so we will get those costs reimbured to us. You will see actually later this evening there is a resolution where we receive some of the funds but not all of the funds. Therefore we're having to to make up the costs within our within our own operating budget for the time being.
That is your first one. Your next transfer request is for $2,000. And that's just moving just switching some allocation into operating lease payments. $14,000 moving from operating lease payments, moving those funds into some
maintenance for vehicles. This is just to support some uh fire apparatus for some repairs that we need there. The next request is for $2,000. This is moving from gasoline into maintenance and repair services as well
for additional cost. Natural gas $3,000 into maintenance and repair. Again, these are just some end of the year maintenance on those fire apparatus. The next transfer is 4,000 from water
and sewer into repairs, 22,000 from maintenance agreements into other supplies and materials, and again for volunteer fire recruitment, we are moving $6,500 from maintenance agreements into advertisement.
The next transfer request is for $2,700 and this is just some some um additional funds needed in our diesel fuel. So, we are absoring that from our natural gas line item. And that would be all for public safety.
Any questions? [Music] Connor, my question to you is twofold. The I'm sorry I didn't get this to you ahead of time. Which one of where and what are
we doing to the fire apparatus repair? Where's it at and what kind of unit is it? And what kind of which unit is being repaired? So, this funding is going to go towards several units. We've been since we had so many repair needs this year, we've been putting off lower
priority needs. So, this will be able to let us catch up with some of those lower priority needs across a bunch of different apparatus and do some preventative maintenance that we were going to push until next year, but we were able to find a little bit of savings to do some preventative maintenance in June.
[Music] And specifically, that's the same thing. Then you're looking at the 22,000 for the maintenance room. the 22,000 going into other equipment and supplies. That's going to be um the majority of that about 14,000 is going
to equip engine 20 which is our new fire engine we're standing up in on Malachi Lane in Triune and then um the remainder of that is going towards some IT needs and radio communications needs. So that money is going to the the new location I mean the new equipment
out there. Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. And then just specifically two of the larger maintenance vehicle maintenance items in there that we're going to use funding for are engine 28 in Paytonville and ladder 22 in Grassland. So you know
those are two of the larger items that that funding is going towards. Thank any other questions about question. Just just curious how the uh recruitment's going on volunteer firefighters.
Volunteerism is down across the nation as you know and so we we do struggle. We really where we struggle is retention. A lot is asked of volunteers in terms of the training that's put into it, the time that we ask them to commit and uh
just with the need for training and all all that goes into that increasing. It's a lot to ask of people to give their time and just the overall national situation with people having less free time and having to work more. We're definitely seeing a downward trend.
Right now, our average volunteer lasts just about a year, which is pretty painful when you think about it takes us almost a year to get to the point where they can be fully trained and a productive firefighter. So, we definitely struggle there. Overall, for the entire county, our number is just
about I think we're about 210 volunteers and that's across 14 stations. And of course, some of those are more active than others. So really what you'll find is at just about every station you have a core of maybe four or five volunteers who are very active and then others who
can kind of give what time that they can. So we do struggle there. The the fair is a big event where we try to do a lot of recruitment. So that's what this funding is for is to get some more supplies and materials so we can attract some more people at the fair. But we are constantly recruiting throughout the
year. And again, we we do fairly well with recruitment, but keeping people keeping them engaged and getting them to give of their time and spend time away from their families is always a struggle. Thank you. All right, ready to vote. All those in
favor say I. I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. The next transfer request is for our health department from our health department. This is to finish up the upgrades in the health uh in the Fair View clinic
utilizing funds that are left in the drugs and maintenance supply or medical supplies, instructional supplies, and office supplies for a total of $3,293 to go to that maintenance and repair so we can finish that project.
Can I get a motion? Second. See any questions about this? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Next transfer this evening is the
request from the director of juvenile services. The first one is $7,000 moving funds from part-time line item to overtime. The second request is for other supplies of $600 to be moved to
periodicals. And the third is $600 moving from inservice staff development to dues and membership. Again, this is just to complete um those expenses through June 30. So second, does anybody have any questions about that? Ready to
vote. All in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. We have a transfer request from our community development director. The first one is moving from operating lease payments $4,500 and distributing those
over office supplies, communications, and consultants. As you can see there, I've got one more for that one. That's okay. Um I paused too long. The second one is for other contracted services of 12,000 and moving to consultants
12,000. So anybody got any questions about this? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes. Four to zero. We have two transfer requests from the
highway superintendent. The first one is moving $4,000 from legal or I'm sorry, into legal from natural gas. This is just um legal expenses were a little little higher than estimated. So $4,000 moving
that money into legal services. Can I get a motion? Second. Does anybody got any questions about that? Ready to vote. All in favor say I. I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. The second transfer request is to cover
some cost uh for the traffic signal at Oxford Glenn and Clovercraftoft. Moving those funds from the bridge construction line of 21,000 into that highway construction line. So move. Second. Does anyone have any questions?
I do have one. Eddie, you'll have to come up here. Okay. So, the question I'm asking is we're taking it from bridge going to highway construction for that light. Is that a result? Why? Why is that? Why do we put
a light there? Was that the request of the state back years ago? Now, we we lower Cloth Road down at McKay's Mill Glenn Drive. That's where this red light is going. If you put the red traffic signal up back won't have put up but does not have a left turn arrow. This
should install left turn arrows. Is that a result of the city? Well, the city is actually partnering with us on this $21,000 and they helped pay for some they funded some of that did years ago. I think $150,000
what the city park was then. So, we have been in contact with them as well. They are going to fund half of this cost which is 20 42,000 I cost you 21,000. Thank you. Does anybody else have any questions? Ready?
Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. The next request is actually for a surplus vehicle. This is just requesting when that vehicle becomes available that we transfer that over into the IT
department. Amen. Anybody have any questions about that? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. We do have one additional transfer request from the IT department and that
is for $335 moving funds from part-time to overtime just to cover those additional unforeseen overtime cost. So move. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I.
Anybody against passes four to zero. Our next transfer request is for our A extension. This is a total transfer totaling $9500. We are taking monies from the truffle line communication line dues and
membership gas and janitorial and we are consolidating those and moving those to equipment line for $9,500. So second, does anyone have any questions? What equipment? So well, it's
actually it's actually listed as office supplies, maintenance, and equipment. So it could be things like we have a a board that is used for a monitor for some of the teaching display rooms, and so it's 12 years old. So replacing that,
replacing some outdated printers and then maintenance and supplies of other things that have been utilized throughout the year. So as a followup to that, does UT help us with any of that? So UT provides a lot of the the travel
provides a lot of the HR cost. And so every other for the most part every program fund that we use we raise either through uh sponsorship or donations or some class fees. In other words, no.
[Music] Does anyone have any more questions for Matt? Ready to vote? All those in favor say I. Anybody guess it's four to zero. We have a transfer request this evening from our a expo
park. This is transferring $2,500 from vehicle maintenance into equipment maintenance. So move. Does anyone have any questions on this? Ready to vote. All those in favor
say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Our last transfer request for this evening is from our parks and recreation director. This is to move a few line items. Um, one, the biggest thing is to
part-time instructor and personnel. We are moving 34,000 into another part-time reclassification and overtime. We also are moving from permits and maintenance to take care of some adjustments for some shortages in pest control, pool
chemicals, and custodies for a total of 557. Second. Does anyone have any questions for Gordon on this? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to
zero. All right. Ready for a resolutions. Uh resolution authorizing the Webson County Mayor to grant an easement to Comcast Cable Communications Management concerning property located along Horton Highway.
Second. Um Kevin, Madam Chair, commissioners, basically this uh we've been u contacted by Comcast to provide a hub. What that is going to do is actually increase the service and the ability for the patrons
that live in that area to have better communications. No cost to us. We have a site that's available out of the way, out of sight, out of sound. Does anyone have any questions on that? Oh, I need We already got the motion. Go too fast.
Um, see anybody have any questions on that? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? No. Oh, you're against. Okay. 341 against. Resolution 6255, resolution to transfer
funds to the rural and general debt service funds to pay principal and interest on energy systems conservation debt 1,163,173.88 second. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is uh our annual ESCO Energy Service Company
contract year 8 of 15 uh to reimburse for the energy savings improvements we did a few years ago. Does anyone have any questions on this? This is one last year we let y'all keep. That's correct. You don't get to keep it this year.
Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Uh, anybody gets passes four to zero. Resolution 6256, resolution amending the 2024 2025 general purpose school budget 900,000
for additional textbook expenses. Second. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is a resolution, a proposed resolution to cover the cost of the science textbooks and some of our AP textbooks for next year. When we went through the budget process last year, we actually reduced
our budget by one point about $ 1.5 million and it came in 600,000 less than that original. So that to cover those textbooks for next year. Does anyone have any questions? I have a question. Is this the textbook
that was such a controversy about between the teachers and the school board. Yes, it is. Uh but the reality is we would have had to had this expenditure no matter which one was selected. So, does the school board realize how much more these were? Uh
this $900,000 is $900,000 more than our budgeted amount, but it's not $900,000 more than it might have been had they selected a different textbook. uh just based on our our numbers in the workbooks uh we ended up with this um
with this lower increased amount above our budget. Uh so we did have that discussion uh but we can't identify that it cost this $900,000 more. We had just lowered our budget last year. How is this going to affect funding next year
if you're taking almost a million out for this? Uh, Miss Farmer actually projected that as we went through this budget process. So, we did not include this 900,000 in our fund balance. Okay. Does anybody else have any questions?
Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes 40 to zero. Resolution 6257, resolution amending the 2024 2025 general purpose school budget under 50,000 for
additional special education expenses. Second. Thank you, Madam Chair. This is actually a move from one expenditure line to another uh from contracts with private agencies to mileage and other contracted services. Uh so we actually were able to do a little bit more of the services through our folks. That's the
mileage. Uh and then um some other contracted services that for state reporting purposes to be in a different line. No no money taken out of fund balance. Anybody have any questions?
Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution number 6258, resolution amending the 2024 2025 general purpose school fund budget 20,000 for additional expenditures from
existing revenue funds. Thank you, Madam Chair. This $20,000 actually comes from revenue uh and and is scheduled to go to custodial for rentals of our facilities by local nonprofits. Uh we had a little bit more rental than we projected, but we had the
revenue to cover. Does anyone have any questions? Um I I have a question. When you rent these, I assume you're making money. It's just not covering the custodial, is it? Uh we uh we actually as a nonprofit
entity, as a government entity, cannot schedule it to make a profit. Uh so these fees are designed to cover the expenses and that includes custodial plus we have a building monitor. Uh and if I'm not mistaken our our our
schedules are designed to cover a little bit of the um of yeah utilities as well but this is not a money maker for us. It's designed to be flat. All right. Has anybody got any
questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 625 NA resolution appropriating 700,000 in the 2024 2025
general purpose school operating budget for liability workers comp and property insurance claims. Second. Thank you, Madam Chair. These this is proposed adjustments based on actuals versus projected for liability
excess risk workers comp and billing and compens so that it doesn't affect your funding having enough funds. All right. Does anybody else have any questions? Register to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? passes
4 to zero. Resolution 62510, resolution appropriating 300,000 in the general purpose school fund budget from current revenues for related trustee commission. Thank you, Madam Chair. We had actually budgeted 5.1 million from trustees
commission that we're passing back to the county. Uh this covers uh that the was actually a little bit more than our projections. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against passes five
to zero. I think that's all for you, Jason, unless you've got some at the end. I'm hoping not. Resolution appropriating and mending the 2024 2025 election commission budget by
$290,786.83 revenues to come from county general fund. So second Chad, did you want to come speak on this? Madame Chair, members, uh when we have a a large presidential election,
um an August election prior to that, we generally have overages in order to pay our election workers. We had about 122,000 vote early uh last fall in the presidential election. So, uh, making
all that work is certainly very expensive, but so that's where we are with our budget. Does anyone have any questions about this? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes
40. Resolution 62512 resolution appropriating amending the 2024 2025 health department budget by 456133 revenues to come from donations and then second yeah and I
think there's an amendment read that yeah madam chairman the amendment should be on a single sheet that was laid out to um replace the 456133 3 with the number
13,561.33 and the reason of that and also to add the amendment to pick up Sigma and St. Paul Episcopal Church to the list of donors. Kathy can explain all that while we're doing it at the last minute here. Thank you, Mayor. Uh
the health department is chairing this year's big backpack giveaway. This is our 22nd year to do this. So we have been reaching out along with our committee members to different churches, local organizations and so forth for
donations to help us with uh purchasing school supplies and backpacks for over 20 2500 kids this year. Could I get a motion on the amendment? Second. Has anyone got any questions on
the amendment? Is it okay? Let me ask legal Jeff. Is it okay we can add both of these amendments in one swoop rather than doing one and add another? Would you have a problem with that? No. So, if you could, whoever made the motion to put both of those in there to pick up the two entities that are actually
making a contribution to change, but it' be all right with you, Madam Chairman. So the motion to amend is to replace the 456133 with 1356133 and then on the third whereas to
add Sigma Insurance Company and St. Paul's Episcopal Church to the list of donors. Get a second on that second. Um y'all ready to vote on the amendment? I just have a quick question I guess on the amendment. Um, is it is it I know that
we just did the RFP award or to Sigma Insurance Company. Is it is there any conflict with there with them doing a there's no quid proquo. Okay, that's it. That's my question. All right, ready to vote on the amendment. All those in
favor say I. Anybody against? Amendment passes 40 to zero now on the original resolution. Has anybody got any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes 4 to zero. Resolution
62513, resolution appropriating amending the 202425 parks and recck budget by 250,000 revenues to come from parks and recck participant fees. So second, would you like to speak?
Good afternoon everybody. Uh this $250,000 is money that is necessary to meet our contractual obligation to the Freeman's for the payment that they are due for the u festival.
Does anyone have any questions on that? Commissioner Smith. How did it how did it go this year? Well, it was went very well. uh just to give you a brief idea and this these numbers aren't 100
uh the final numbers because there's still some reconciliation being done but it looks like our uh the net re the gross revenue was $2,284,950 expenses $990,000
Total net revenue 1,294,950. And I'd like to thank uh folks in the room, Rodney over here. He helped us with our sheriff deputies out there for nine days and they did a fantastic job.
Uh we're very appreciative for them being out there. Kevin Perry was here earlier. We had folks from IT um all the different departments chipped in. Connor, all the folks from EMS EMA were there. Uh Arrington volunteer fire
department and of course parks and recck staff did a super fantastic job. Very proud of everyone. Um also it should be noted that the the $250,000 is not what the Freeman are actually going to receive. We just need to add that to our
budget. uh because we already had money in there from other things that we didn't spend during the course of the year. So, uh helped us with our bottom line also. But a very successful rimfest. Might point out that we did have rain on four of those days out
there. And uh and despite four days of bad weather out of nine, we had the best uh festival that we've ever had. Over 80,000 tickets sold. Wow. Awesome. I just want to say thank you. I got zero complaints about Anton Road this year. So, well, you can thank Rick, you can
thank Rodney. He can give you a list of all the uh deputies that were out there hustling the cars and uh once again, it was just a group effort. Everybody working very well together and I couldn't be more pleased. Great. Thank you. I have a question and it sounds
like it was a great success. So, um, when it comes to the the other agencies like the sheriff's department or EMA or whatever working, does them paying the deputies or the uh, EMS people or the whoever else that are out
there, does that come out of their budget or does it come out of your budget? So, the only part that comes out of our budget is for sheriff's deputies. we give them $70,000 that's transferred out of our budget into theirs. Uh all the other uh
agencies are all uh doing this on their own now and we really appreciate that. Does and it may not be for you, but does that cover the how much it cost other agencies to when the sheriff's department's getting the
money? Does it cover? So this year with Rodney's work, we came in under budget with the assistance of the reserve division that also was is non-paid, but between reserves and Rodney and his team, we came in under budget this year. Thank you. We won't be asking for that
money back, although we could use it. Any other questions? Thank you, Rodney. Are ready to vote? All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Thank you. Don't move.
Resolution 62514, resolution appropriating amending the 202425 parks and wreck budget by $50,000 revenues to come from parks and wreck participant fees. So, second.
So once again, participate participation fees just being put into uh line items so that we can spend that those funds. Any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes. 4
zero. You can read for them now. Resolution 62515 resolution appropriating amending the 202425 county commission tax relief budget by 30,000 revenues to come from unappropriated
county general funds. Amen. Second BP, you want to talk on this? Uh yes. This is actually for the tax relief base program that we have. This is for relief for the elderly um veterans, disabled
and their widows and widowers. And this is we have had um additional participants this year and so our costs are a little bit higher than what we had projected. So this is putting in 30 additional thousand to cover those. Does anyone have any
questions on this? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. All right. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62516 resolution appropriating and amending the 2024 2025 trustees commission in the respective
operating funds revenues to come from fund balance in each respective fund. So it yes this is to cover additional revenues. um as our revenues um increase and are a little higher than projected then so is the commission in which the
trustee must take on those revenues. So this is to offset those expense which is a good thing. It is a good thing. The higher the revenue the higher the cost but we didn't project it. So that's great. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All in favor
say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62517, resolution appropriating amending the 202425 veterans service budget by 2586 revenues to come from the memorial
brick paper sales second. So these are revenues that we have received for papers. So when someone um purchases a paper for a loved one, then it goes into our revenue line item and
this is to move those monies so that we can pay for those that were actually ordered for this year. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution
62518 resolution appropriating and amending the 2024 2025 capital projects fund balance by 60,000 for the distribution revenues to come from privilege tax.
Second, this is another one of those where you have a double-edged sword. We received more inadequate facilities tax than we had anticipated. Along with that, the more that we receive, the more the higher the percentage we have to then pass on to
the cities. They do receive 30% of our collections for those adequate facility tax. This is to cover the remainder of the year for those those checks for the distribution of their portion of the revenue. Does anyone have any questions on this?
Phoei, what are these actually both supposed to be spent on by the cities? So we these are supposed to be used towards the obviously the school and the the maintenance and and additional capital expenditures and construction
for the city schools and is this for all the cities this amount? Um yes this is this is for everything total. So we we base those distributions on population. So each city will receive their portion based on
their population of the total dollar and this is what we're expecting to finish out that fund. So really the city should be spending this on the schools that's in their city. Correct. Or improvements related to right. Do you
know if that's ever done? And then once I once I issue those funds I have no control over what they use those funds for. Okay. Does anyone else have any questions? Yes. Commissioners, based on what you just said, it seems like there would be
some sort of accountability at the municipal level to make sure that those funds just like we have to make sure those funds are used for the schools and the municipalities would also have to have that same sort of accountability. That's a project where you work on.
All right. Is everybody ready to vote? All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes 4 to zero. Resolution 62519. Resolution appropriating amending the 2024 2025 rural debt service fund by
290,979 for interest payments revenues to come from undesated fund balance. So move second. This if you remember we issued bonds in November. Um this we when we issue a bond then we have to pay the first six
months of interest when it comes due. It comes due before the fiscal year end. This is to make that first interest payment that was not in the original appropriations. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in
favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62520, resolution appropriating amending the 2024 2025 general debt service fund by 845,269 for interest payments revenues
to come from undesated fund balance. Second chair, this is the same. This is just for the general debt service. So this is interest that is due within the first six months of that bond issue. Any questions? Ready to vote. All those
in favor say I. Anybody against? Task is four to zero. Resolution 62521, resolution appropriating and amending the 202425 county attorney's budget of 170,000 revenues to come from
unappropriated county general funds. Second, pay me please. Yes, this is for litigation. Um so we have incurred a little extra this more this year than we had anticipated. Um these are to take
care of those fees, the court costs related to litigation and this is just to put those into the different lines so that we can finish out our fiscal year. I might also point out not giving Jeff cover but we have several legal issues
that are baked into this fee. um back taxes, um personal property, um litigations that go along with with those types of regularities. Is it just Jeff?
Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes 4 and zero. Resolution 62522 resolution to authorize a $12.50 a 50 cent charge by the clerk of every court in Williamson County having
jurisdiction of state misdemeanors and felonies for the purposes authorized and set up in TCA 40-3-106. So move secondy good afternoon u this uh resolution is to allow the uh court clerk to collect
$12.50 50 cents on um convictions for all misdemeanors and felonies. Um that will go into a fund um similar to our current economic crime fund, but where that only applies to certain crimes,
this will apply to all misdemeanors and felonies except for non-moving traffic offenses. Uh and then that money can then be used uh for public safety purposes uh through the district attorney's office including salaries.
Can the county find a position for y'all? Yes. Do you use this for that or use that? This would be an addition. Okay. Does anyone else have any questions? Not a question, Madam Chairman, but for the county commissioners are here that night
require first vote. No questions. Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62523. Resolution authorizing the Whimsy
County Mayor to execute a 2025 2026 grant contract with the state of Tennessee Department of Health for the provision of dental services at the Williamson County Health Department in an amount not to exceed 175,800. So move second Kathy.
Thank you commissioners. Um, this is our cost reimbursement dental grant between the county and the state and our dentist and dental assistant at Does anyone have any questions?
I have a question on the dental services there. Do you charge like is it a sliding scale rate too or do you do all types of dental services or is it limited? It is li limited. He doesn't do periodonal care. He does
fillings, extractions, sealants, um cleanings, things like that. Okay. Thank you. No root canals, no dentures, that sort of thing. I won't vote. Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Uh, anybody against passes 4 to zero
resolution 62524 resolution authorizing the whimsy county mayor to enter into an interlocal agreement with the city of Murphy'sboro for solid waste management backup services. Is that me? Second. You know, in life, things
happen. You can't plan for them. You just have to deal with them. So, you're going to see three resolutions. One Frank, City of Franklin, one for Murphersboro, and other for Rutherford County. All four of us will have transfer stations. All four of us also
do haul garbage. city of uh the two cities don't have rolloff trucks, but they have rear loader trucks and knuckle bend trucks. So, if something happens to a transfer station, there's an option to go somewhere else to dispose of their residents trash, not their business's
trash, just what they pick up from the curbside. So, if they've got businesses coming to their transfer station, it's picking up trash somewhere in the county or the city or whatever, we're not taking those. And then if it's a big storm comes through and something, you know, the fleets go down, big sickness
goes through, it's just what anything that happens that we need help. But it the only way it can be triggered is the mayor of each ind industy has to trigger it. Waste directors can't pull that off. I guess my question is it's not going to
be like say Rutherford County is full up and needs some help to get rid of their excess garbage. It's not like that. We can't do that because we don't have that equipment. All of us have a private contractor that hauls our garbage away from our transfer stations. None of us do it ourselves.
Okay. So, this is only if the transfer station is down. If the transfer station is down, if a big tornado that comes through and we need help picking up debris off the streets, they have knuckle boom trucks. We have rolloff trucks. They can use their knuckle boom and put in our rolloff trucks, which will haul a whole lot more than their
trailers will. So, you have one knuckle boom in in a neighborhood and five trucks running to it, then you'll get that neighborhood cleaned up pretty quickly and you move to another one. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I.
Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62525, resolution authorizing the W County Mayor to enter into an interlocal agreement with the city of Franklin for solid waste management backup services. Can we get a motion? Um,
this is the same as the last. Any questions? Yeah, I guess the question that we were chatting about, what is a knuckle boat? Knuckle boat. It's not the That's not the driver. It's You see him riding down the street and they're picking up brush and putting in
in a bed behind them. That equipment is called another. All right, ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62526 resolution authorizing the Williamson County Mayor to enter into an
interlocal agreement with Rutherford County for solid waste management backup services. Second. This is the same as the last one. Any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Even with the
Renaissance getting rained though and they generated over 20 tons of garbage, 300 gallons used cooking turkey. Resolution 62527. Resolution authorizing the
Williamson County Mayor to execute a real estate sale and purchase agreement to sell a simple and temporary construction easement to the town of Nolanville for the expansion of Sunset Road. Second, Madam Commissioner, uh we got a couple years ago M and I got
approached by the city of Nolanville. They're expanding Sunset Road. Part of that is in front of the convenience center. We've got some area out there that uh is point uh 226 acres and they're going to give us $104,000 for that property. They're also going to do a temporary construction easement a
little bit more closer to the entryway where they're going to do a lay down yard, but they're also going to do some improvements to the entryway for the convenience center. So, it's a win-win situation for us in my opinion. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody
against passes four to zero resolution 62528 resolution to surplus and approve the conveyance of mobile adoption trailer and authorize the whimsy county mayor to execute all documentation needed to complete the conveyance secondre a volunteer email. Sorry about
that. Um, we have this extra adoption trailer. As you know, we were gifted a trailer from Mark and Cindy Enderly. And um, so now we have this old one, but we don't need. Does anyone have any questions about this?
Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Thank you. Resolution 62529, resolution authorizing the Whims County Mayor to execute a notice of limitation of use concerning the use of a portion of the Osborne Park property for public
recreation purposes. Second, before I do that, I want to apologize. I don't have my teachers eyes in the back of my heads, but I forgot during the uh Renaissance Festival, the school system also provided us six buses and six drivers. And then of course,
Mac, he speaks for himself. Anyway, so I do appreciate everything that you guys did as well. Uh in regards to this uh resolution, this is just an administrative uh clean house cleaning and order for us to comply with all the
terms of the LPRF grant that we were fortunate enough to receive from TDC in the state of Tennessee. Does anyone have any questions? Just one quick one. Um how long does it does it have to be used for just the public
recreation? Is there a time limit on it? It's for perpetuity. For perpetuity. Yes. Any more questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes. 4 to zero. Resolution 62530
resolution authorized the Williams County Mayor to execute a notice of limitation of use concerning the use of the Castle Park property for public recreation purposes. Second. And once again, this is the second piece to that LPRF grant. We
combined Castle Park and Osman Park uh Tde allows us to be able to put those two together. This is saves the county money and that we can hire one architect design firm. Um and if we need overages
from one or the other, we can uh be able to do that. So once again, we'd like to thank Tekk for uh giving us the opportunity to put these parks online through these grants. Any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes
four to zero. Thank you. Thank you. Resolution authorizing the Wims County Mayor to enter into an interlocal agreement with the town of Nollesville for the provision of firefighting and emergency response services. Amen. Second, Connor.
So, we've talked about this a lot throughout the budget process, but this is the agreement whereby we would work with the town of Nolanville for them to essentially respond to fire calls that are closer to their station than they are to ours, providing more efficient response. The agreement would be that we
reimburse them $250 per call, which on the high end we're estimating is about $70,000 per year. And we were able to find almost all of those savings within our budget to stay as close to neutral in terms of budgetary increases this year. But it's a collaborative agreement
that we worked on with them that we think benefits both parties. Did we do this with Franklin? Is this the same one we did with Franklin? Did we do something similar to this just like a month or two ago? We are we're working on a similar agreement with
Franklin. We have a similar agreement coming up next with Fair View. We are working on a hopeful agreement with Franklin where we actually have put money in our budget but haven't come to a solid agreement with them that's similar for Fair View and Nolanville. We're asking them to be the first
response to fire calls that are coming to them. So they're taking sort of primary jurisdiction for those calls. For Franklin, what we're hoping to do is to enter into an autoate agreement whereby they would be automatically dispatched for just structure fires. And
what that does is it gets more help on structure fires, but also can help with insurance payment or homeowners insurance in that people who are outside of five miles of the county station, but within five miles of Franklin station would benefit from that coverage. We
don't have that agreement with Frank with Franklin right now. So for a structure fire that happens in that area, sort of that uncovered zone, people are treated as if they are without are without fire coverage in that area. Even though today we can get on the radio and request Franklin to
help us and they do all the time. We're looking for this autoate agreement that that would automatically dispatch them, but they have to consider that that's a draw on their resources and they would be giving up people to support incidents outside of the city. So, we're working on that agreement and hope to come back
to this body with an interlocal sometime soon. Commissioner, I will remind we discussed this in the budget. Correct. The extra money. That's I kept thinking there'd been a resolution, but it was it was put in the budget for next year. Correct. Yeah, that put it in the budget and this is the actual interlocal
between the town and county. Any questions? I have one while you while you're there. So, as we all know, 840 except for just a sliver is in um Thompson State in the
Williams County side. It's all in the unincorporated area there except for a little in Thompson Station and a little bit in Fair View, I think. Correct. And a little bit of H a little bit in Hickman County over towards the west side. Kevin, I I can't help Hickman County out.
So, when we have an accident out there and it's 100% unincorporated, do you know of any funds or is that something we could work on a bill with our legislators to set up an agreement like that? because they're
receiving highway taxes. They're receiving uh weight fees t uh fees for those heavy trucks that we could would would the state do you think in any way be able to reimburse counties
across the state? That's a large question. But when you think about all that jurisdiction being served by volunteers Sure. Um, and now we're having to pay for Franklin or Fair View. I would see Fairview going out loaded at
840. We're going to be paying them for things that happened on state state rideways. I'm not aware of anything like that, but we can certainly look into it and begin the conversation with the state. There are abilities to uh for the fire departments to build insurance companies
that are responsible for vehicles that crash on anywhere and Arrington Volunteer Fire Department does do that. They do bill insurance companies. The other two departments don't currently, but it's certainly something that we can look into. But that's mostly for fire. I'm talking about spills. Sure. So for
spills, the responsible party does ultimately have to pay for it. And we do collect that information and we provide a list of cleanup companies that they can choose from or they can choose their own cleanup company but ultimately they are responsible and
ultimately our bill for Have we ever collected any? I don't remember seeing that come through. Have you ever seen any money fee come in with your spills? We don't receive the revenue. They essentially pay for it themselves or private party to private party or paying
to cover up a hazardous material. So who pays for the manpower to go out there and clean it up on our side? On our side that service is given for free. That's what I'm asking you to go after. Yeah. Yeah. We can absolutely look to it. You know, I would think one of our
legislator I know that's a big ass from Bristol to Memphis. It's worth that's a lot of turf out there that un rescue squads and independent fire stations are hard to take care of with no reimbursement except the county which the state gets
the money for all those ropes taxes from. Thank you. Any more questions? Just I guess another comment the mayor said would almost be the same thing with I65 too, right? Yeah, it would be any area served by
our county un out in the unincorporated section. Now I65 is a little different. You got Brentwood, you got Franklin, Thompson Station and Spring Hill, but that it's those outer areas like 840 that just, you know, Thompson Station it touches, but they don't have a fire
department. So the only one is that little tip of of Fair View, right? Seems like the municipalities would be interested in probably joining with us to do get some money back in the state. I'll let you try that. I think we'd have better luck at the
state. It's definitely worth exploring the conversation. Thank you. Ready to vote. All in favor say I. Anybody against? Passes four to zero. Resolution 62532. Resolution authorizing the W
County mayor to enter into an interlocal agreement with the city of Fairview for the provision of firefighting and emergency response services. Second. So, similar agreement with the city of Fairview where we would be asking them to take the primary response
for fire calls that are closer to their stations than they would be. Any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against passes 4 to zero resolution number 62534
resolution accepting a conditional donation of pet food for Mars Pet Care on behalf of the Williamson County Sheriff's Office. Second. Who's speaking for the sheriff? Yes. Where is the sheriff?
This is a donation from Mars who is going to contribute $8,400 in dog food for our K9 program. Does anyone have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody
against passes 4 to zero. Resolution 62535, resolution authorizing the Williamson County Mayor to execute a grant contract with the state of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, Office of Criminal Justice Programs, and approving a new full-time evidence-based program manager
for the Williamson County Sheriff's Office. Second move. Second. Good evening. You got any questions for me? Well, if you want to just tell a little about about this. So, yeah, we are entering into a grant contract um and we will work with our partner who is
Educare here in the city of Franklin. They're going to provide evidence-based programming for the inmates to reduce recidivism within the facility. Um, and along with this grant is going to come funding to pay for one of our staff members to kind of manage and oversee
and assist with those programs inside the um inside the facility. We've already got a program coordinator. We're just going to have another one that will only work with the evidence-based programming that the state is paying for. And the sheriff's department understands
that when this grant ends, that position ends. Correct. It's written in the job description. Ernie Williams thing to always once the grant's over, that's the end of position. Has anybody got any questions? Just a question about the I guess the program itself. Is this a new
program? Is new program? Is this being a new program with this? Yes, I believe we're adding four new programs. This is Miss Demetri Carlo. She's the CEO of Educare. Oh, good afternoon. So, this program itself is new to Williamson County. It's not new to the state of
Tennessee. There is currently 30 jails in the state of Tennessee that has implemented this evidence-based programming. And so, we hopefully want to add it into the Williamson County jail. And there will be four curriculums that will be implemented which will uh consist of the matrix model which deals
with alcohol and substance use as well as some parenting curriculum and a curriculum called MRT which stands for moral recognition therapy which deals with cognitive um distortions and negative crimogenic thinking patterns.
So I guess you've seen a good success rate then so far. Yes. I even followed up with the state to ask about the success rate. so to say and they are currently collecting that data and they're also collecting data to see how it is impacting the jail in relation to decrease in inmates having to go to
deboard and other areas as well. So where it's not um it's having more of a positive impact on the staff at the jail because they're not having to deal with so many incidences within it. I have a question. Does it work any with
job training or helping them work on getting jobs when they get out? The program itself does not have a job training component in it. However, I have been speaking with the University of Tennessee Extension that does have
the capacity to offer that as well. And the grant does have a 3-w weekek um post-release assistance period within it so that we can help in relation to uh maybe they need a resume writing or they need maybe clothing so that they can go
on an interview we are able to pay for that within this grant. Okay. Thank you. Do anybody else have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against passes 4 to zero you late file resolution 62538 resolution
appropriating and amending the 2024 2025 Williamson County Office of Public Safety budgets by 46,59583 for overtime supplies and maintenance of vehicles revenues to come from the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency reimbursement for emergency
management assistant to North Carolina and Florida. Oh move. So these are reimbursements coming back from Florida and North Carolina for emergency management deployments that we sent personnel on to support two hurricane events in 2024. And we're just
hoping to take this money back and put it back into our budget to offset the overtime that was used, people and equipment costs and food. I think it's about $200 worth of food. Does anyone have any questions?
I think I think it's I'd appreciate Connor to outline that, but this program so many the sheriff does where we're engaged with third party vendors. I see Stacy nodding her head. Getting that reimbursement back oftent
times takes months or years. And it's always important to have a good strong fund balance. Here we are at at budget time to be reminded of that. Um we received money earlier from one and that it was several months and get to us.
Yeah. And we're still owed about 25,000 from other deployments that we're waiting on. And I appreciate that. But the employees that are working, they they kind of like to be paid on the Fridays every two weeks. They do. We try to keep up with that. All right. Ready to vote? All those in
favor say I. Anybody against? Passes. Four to zero. Late file resolution number 62539. Resolution appropriating and amending the 2024 2025 sheriff's office detention budget by 500,000 for medical
services revenue to come from unappropriated county general funds. Madam chair, we have here on the resolution. Good evening everyone. Um I'd like to take a few minutes to
um speak about some of the issues that we have um that happen um that our facility faces when we're dealing with inmates. Um and they're lack of a better word, they're coming in sicker. They're staying with
us longer. Unfortunately, you know, we're governed by the Tennessee Corrections Institute to um provide care for our inmates while they're in our custody. Um and sometimes that requires hospitalizations. Um and sometimes um we
have to send them to hospitals that are not in our county and they go to Nashville. So with that being said, sometimes we are able to negotiate the pricing, but um we run into
um an extensive amount of money that we have to pay for their care. Um I'd like to take a few minutes just to share with you some of the issues we face regarding the inmates coming into our facility. Um sometimes they come in with serious uh
health issues. Um, and I'd like to give you just, um, a few examples of what we've have faced this year. Um, we have a number of inmates that have cardiovascular diseases, strokes, and with that comes medications that they
have to take. Um, and that's upward to um, $600 a month for their medications. Um we had an inmate uh recently that had stage four stage 4 kidney uh failure. So we had to take him to dialysis. This
individual came into our custody uh last year on May 15th of 24 and he did not leave our facility uh until May 2nd of 2025. Um and so that in
itself is is is a is a lot. Um we just recently had an inmate that fell off his bunk, fractured his hip. So um and that in individual has been with us since May 15th of 24 and does not return to court
until August 13th of 25. Um so you can see just a few of those. We run into this all the time. Um, we'll get some out and then we have some that come back in the back door. Um, we have a few that
take very expensive medications. Right now, I have uh three on hand that their medication cost us almost $3,900 a month. We have a couple that have been on a specific program that pays for their medication, but there are certain
criteria that these inmates have to meet in order to be able to receive those funds from the state of Tennessee. Um, so as you can see, we have multiple things and we never know what's going to be coming in the back door. We work very hard with our
district attorney's office to try to um get people adjudicated as quickly as we can so that if they are going to be a state inmate, we can call the state and say we need a bed for those. If we if we know that they are going to be they're pre-trial and we know they're going to
be a state inmate, then we ask for a special needs bed. Um the state doesn't have lots of those, so we have to wait in line um in order to get one of those beds. Um, and we don't get um, state bids uh, a lot. Um, this past year I I
looked up the stat on it and um, from June July 1st of 2024 until current, we only received mail six times for the year for a total of 50 male inmates that went to the state. Um, we
had females that went four times to a total of eight females that went to prison from July 1st until present. So, as you can see, we don't have a huge turnover because we're not um the state looks at us as we're not overcrowded with state inmates. And so, those beds,
we don't get them. Um, so that's that's just kind of a little um snapshot as the mayor says of what we deal with um on a weekly basis. We never know when the the next major medical
issues going to come through the back door. Does the state not reimburse the county for those medical bills since they're state inmate? No. No ma'am. No ma'am. They don't become state inmates until after they're convicted. This is mainly pre-trial.
There is one program that they have just started about a year or so ago where there is a certain medication that um the legislature put into effect that if an inmate takes that specific medication, I can get reimbursed for
that. And so um I applied for that this past year and it took about six months, but I did get reimbured for that. I guess my concern is I know how long it takes to get through the legal system and continued and continued and
continued. Is there any way y'all are able to push that a little faster? I I have I don't have any control of that. We, like I said, we do try to if we know someone who is is rather sickly. We do communicate with
the DA's office and um we also deal with the court clerk's office to see if we can get court dates pushed up. There are certain specific things that have to happen before somebody can be totally adjudicated. So, it the process takes
time and we're not and we're not the only um folks that deal with that. I read an article a couple of weeks ago that talked about that this is a problem across the country with the delay in adjudication and they're bringing it
back to um COVID saying that because the court shut down for a period of time that it backlogged everything. So, and I could see that as well. I do know that there was u back in 2022 there was a um a law put into place called truth and
sentencing law where there are certain crimes that are committed that the individual is required to um serve 100% of that sentence. So they cannot receive any work credit. They can't receive any behavior credits. So nothing comes off
of their sentence. So they are day for day. Um and so that we run into that too. They um in the article that I read, it said that um they don't even know the long-term effects of this that it could be someone could spend an extra year
year. 2 to 15 years incarcerated. So until and they won't know um the ramifications of that for years to come till they start analyzing that.
Well, the DA is aware when you have inmates that have serious medical needs. Are the judges made aware of any inmates like that or they just have to overlook that? No, we don't reach out to the judges. No, I guess Stacy, could you do you want
me to answer your question? Well, if there's anything that the county can do to speed up those things that could save a lot of money, you know, um we we do um speak with defense council.
Uh we also uh try to get that in front of the judge um to let them know we're having certain issues. You know, ultimately a lot of it is just dependent on what their case and and unfortunately some of the issues I can think of off the top of my head, you
know, these were very serious crimes, um, homicides, um, violent crimes. And so that takes a process. Um, and I know one of the most recent ones, the judge, uh, the defense attorney, and, um, our
office all work towards trying to get a resolution as quickly as possible. But, um, they're aware. It's just not always something we can do anything about, especially if we're dealing with competency issues. Uh, that tends to
slow everything down, um, significantly. So y'all y'all all try to work together on it? We do. Good. Good. Thank you. And I guess my other question is Oh, this is for you. Stay. Okay. You wanted me to stay? Yes. We've only got a month left
and you're wanting half a million. So when someone goes out to the hospital, um we don't always get that bill right away. um it goes once we get the bill, we send it to our provider, then they send an
invoice for it. So, the lag time sometimes is several months out. Um I do know that we did not have the funds to pay our monthly uh bill as Miss Davis alluded to for the month of June because
we have had so many expenses. So, some of those uh folks that I just talked to you about like the the gentleman with the hip. So that just happened like a week and a half ago. So we don't have a bill from the hospital. So I have no idea how much his is going to cost nor
whatever they say that if he has to have some type of other surgery. He's already had one. So some of that is for expenditures that we haven't had come in yet that we know that are going to be there. Okay. Okay.
Well, first of all, um I I have to remind everybody if we don't spend this money, it just rolls into the fund balance. So, I think number two, I want I I I think Carol does an outstanding job of
trying to monitor all this and my hat is off to her and I appreciate what you do. On the other side of that, one penny of the tax rate goes for inmate medical and dental care across
this county. And sometime when you all don't have anything to do, and that's never, but I'd like to see how our county faces other counties uh in that cost. And I don't know if
that's something you can get from um from other counties, but I mean a penny is a million is is a million eight. So we're spending more than a penny of our total tax rate going from
inmate medical and dental. I'd like to know what Rutherford County and some of these others are doing. Yes, sir. We we can look into that. Overall, I think you're doing a great job. I you're just saddled with handcuffs behind your back and
really the problem needs to be addressed in Nashville and at the federal level. Because quite frankly, they're getting better health care than some of our own employees right here. Yes, sir. I agree with that. And I have one more question. Why would
you have to send them to the Nashville? What type of So sometimes um and do they give a discount? we work with them to get a discount. So, I'll just give you a an example of someone that we had to send to Centennial um back several
months ago. Um he presented with esophageal veraces. So, that's a very bad disease. So, he had to go to Nashville and his bill
actually um turned out to be $310,000. So our healthc care provider negotiated with that particular hospital and got it down to 81 on $81,000. Um so sometimes Williamson
cannot take care of the needs of some of these folks and they send them on to Nashville. If there's a brain trauma, things like that, they go to Vandy. Um and so we do the best we can to negotiate the price down. [Music]
Um, so we can Well, it's like the mayor said, it'll go in the fund balance if you don't use it all. So hopefully everybody will stay healthy. I hope so. But like I said, we just never know um
what the next next issue is coming through the back door. Does anyone else have any questions? Ready to vote. All those in favor say I. Anybody against? passes 5 to zero. Is there any other business? Madam Chairman, the only thing I remind you
tomorrow at 5:30 we have the public hearing that will be conducted immediately in the auditorium. That's it. Anybody get a house to adjourn? [Applause]
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