All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna call the Knights Meeting Monday, July 15th, 2024 to order. And at this time, I'm gonna ask Mayor AJ Conner to leave us in an invocation, followed by the pledge of allegiance. So if everyone, please stay here. Let us pray. Heaven and Father, we come before you to thank you for the wonderful things that you give unto us each and every day. We ask you now, Father, as we go forth tonight, that you remember our commissioners giving them the wisdom and knowledge that is needed. Remember the county manager and assistant manager, as they go forth each and every day, doing the work that you've called them to do. We ask you to be with their families as they are away from them, protecting them and caring for them. And then Father, we ask you to remember I absent member of the board be with Decks Commissioner Edwards. And then Father, we ask you to remember our citizens in this great and wonderful community. We thank you for the rain that you blessed us with the other day. And then Father, as we go forth where this rain is needed. We ask you to send it again. We thank you for this blessing. And in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, that all of God's children say amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, individual with liberty and justice. Thank you, Mayor Connors. And just so it will be stated on the record, we have four commissioners, President Chairman Edwards is out of place tonight. And I'm ill with Garner and I'm the vice chairman and I'll be leading the meeting. All right, commissioners, I will entertain them. We've all received a minute so our last regularly held meeting on June 17th, entertain a motion to prove those minutes with or without correct. So move, have a motion and a second to approve the minutes. If I regularly help me on June 17th, 2024. All in favor, please let it be known to say an eye. I'll oppose saying sign. Cheers. All right. I got to hit on myself. We need to approve your judgment. All right. Let's back up. myself. We need to approve the agenda. All right. Let's back up. I'm sorry. That was my fault. I got to head on myself. Approval of the night meeting agenda. Anybody wish to have anything to add to the agenda? Commissioner Dio. No sir. Commissioner Ed which is your sir. Commissioner Brankton. Sir. Miss Shields. Yes sir. Actually, we need to or we you're asking for adding we need to remit add all remit. Thank you sir. Yes sir. We would like to remove item number six on your packet. Chris Vernon. Our recipient of the plaque is unable to be here today. So we would ask that we could remove that from the agenda. We would also like to remove the closed session for personnel matters. No financials, actually one through four, that's three, one eight, that's one one, a six. Alrighty, anybody else have anything else? All right anybody else have anything else? All right. Commissioners you've heard, there request to remove item number six. Mr. Chris Vernon from the agenda is presented and also removed the closed station from the agenda. So move the page with the meetings. So have a second. I have a motion on a second to your approved the agenda is amended. All in favor please let it be known to say an aye. Aye. All opposed. Same time carries. All right. Next we've got the consent agenda in front of us. We have a motion to approve the consent agenda. Moe should in a second be improperly made to approve the consent agenda. All in favor any discussion? All in favor please let it be known to say and I all oppose same thing. Okay. All right, same thing. Okay. All right, that carries us into our regular agenda. Public comments, anybody signed up for public comments? Commissioner, due to being delayed getting here for me, I apologize, I did not have the information document outside, but I would like to end up to the audience to see if anyone would like to have three minutes for public comment. I apologize for not having the paper. Anybody to wish to make a public comment? Here none will move to item number two. Commissioners, do we have any road concerns? Members of the public, we would now hear from you with road concerns that we can help forward to the North Carolina Department of Transportation on your behalf. Anybody have any road concerns? Okay, none. We're on to item number three, Miss Melissa Kennedy. Good evening. I am here on behalf of Ronald Keenan to help the public here. We're here to name a lane at the 900 block of Oum to Road. And he has chosen Ronald and Lane. All right now we'll open up a public hearing. We won't from the public has anything to wish you say regarding this naming of the lane miles your time. I will close the public here and ask the commissioners their pleasure. So move. Have a motion in a second to name a lane in the 900 block of Old Wemerton Road, Walla Stores, Kalana, Island Creek, Township, Ronald, Ann Lane, and a quarters with the Dupin County addressing and road name and ordinance in a discussion Here none all in favor let it be known to say it. I all opposed same-sign motion carries. Thank you We used item number four Mr. Branding with man Good evening I'm here to request the ambulance franchise agreement with Stiller-Maid. This is a private ambulance company out of Jacksonville, North Carolina. Currently we have two franchises in our county right now, cast and elite medical. However, they cannot keep up due to staffing issues. This causes us a problem or the hospital problem to get patients out So I'm asking you guys or I'm asking the board to not to approve the Granting stellar med private ambulance franchise agreement in Dupland County All right commissions we've heard to request pleasure of the commission Mr. Rignan just for clarification. That's non-emergency Yes, sir non-emergency transports and this will allow stellar med to come in and do Discharges from my hospital and also allow them to do dialysis runs for patients They require a stretcher to be transported. Most do approve. So have a motion and a second. Or I'd have a motion and a second to adopt an order to regulate the amulet service and granting of friends to ambulance operators and authorized to check, authorized the chairman to sign. All in favor let it be known to say and I. All opposed. Same time motion case. Thank you. Item number five is Lord Jones. Good evening. Good evening. My request today is to accept LSTA grant from the State Library in the amount of 19402 and that is for story walks to be placed in recreational areas around the county. Kenan'sville Park, Warsaw Park, Wallace, I mean, Roe's Hill, Wallfields, and the Face and Park. These are aluminum stands with acrylic faces where books are separated into sections. So the families and the children walk through the area reading the books all the way around the park area. We will use bilingual materials when we find those available so that are Hispanic and non-English and English speakers can enjoy those books. All right, commissions you heard to request to accept these LSTA grant funds in the amount of $19,400 and $2,000 per county match at $2,307. Pleasure of the board. Have a motion. In a second. All in favor? Let it be normal to say no. I motion cares. Thank you, ma'am. Item number six has been removed. That cares us to item number seven, Mr. Gay Rose. Good evening. I'm here to present a retirement plaque to one of the old timers in the tax office. Okay, come on up here. Okay, okay, started to work in the tax office. November of 29th, 1994, about the same time I did. Two months ago. And she has been there a long time, and we miss her. She must have worked in Riddlestate, transfers in Olive, and she wanted to do things her way, which thank goodness was the right way and she wasn't afraid if a deed had an error in it to call up their attorney tell him he made him a state and tell him you know that isn't that much but she has agreed to come back to help us out on the evaluation and maybe some of the listing next few years. Okay, okay. But just played, I got to work with K all these years and county law state, a good employee with a few tires. Okay, so I'd like to give you this. Thank you so much. I'm a charterer, Platt. Appreciate it. It was a fast 30 year. Seeing mighty slaves sometimes, but I for your service. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for your service. Thank you. Mr. Nichols, I'd like to say thank you for your service and I've had occasion to come up there to the tax office and have you deal with me on occasion. And this is such a milestone for somebody that bank bank 30 years in the county. So thank you for your service. All right. Let's see. Make sure she. Mr. Groves was right. She would take when that needed. Oh, yes, she would. Don't get it right. So thank you for your service, Ms. Kay. Thank you. And also have the tax collector settlement. Present to y'all for y'all's acceptance. You all have any questions about anything I'm going to have to go to the other and I'm going to have to go to the other and I'm going to have to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I'm going to go to the other and I proving my real appointment in the consent agenda for the next four years. Thank you. Continue the good job. Thank you, sir. All right. Item number nine has Mr. Brock Miller, but we go to you to miss shields. Yes, sir. Thank you. The NCEAC, which is the North Carolina Association for County Commissioners, is holding their annual conference on August 10, 2024 at 2pm. At this conference, we are required to appoint two members, one delegate and one alternate to this board for the annual conference. I would like to request that we make the motion tonight to appoint those members. Commissioner Daly, I'm just sorry. So I did. Commissioner Dow and Commissioner Branch have expressed their interest in going. And what we would ask is if more or both are interested in being voting delegate and nominate one is a voting delegate and the other is all. I'm aware of you so it doesn't matter. I'm not going to be able to attend. I'm probably there. Do you want to be a bullet? You? I'll take it. I do. He missed it last year. I took it because Mr. Branch had to leave. So I recommend that he be the bullet and delegate. If it's in the green, it's in the green. I do. All right. So we've got Wayne Branch. Commissioner Wayne Branch is the voting delegate and Commissioner Jessica Dyle is the alternate voting delegate yes all right I have a motion do I have a second say you made the motion All right and all in favor let it be known as saying aye. All opposed same sign motion carries. Here's item number 10 announcements and comments. We should. Yes sir. Thank you again Commissioner. Our animal service center open is open once Saturday a month for adoptions, which starts at 12 p.m. to 12 p.m. Specific dates can be found on our Facebook page, on the Animal Shelter's Facebook page. This is new for us, so we're excited to have Saturday adoptions. Free adoptions for July 1st through the 31st for active and non-active military with for-and-first responders with proper identification that's something our animal service is doing. Our detention center groundbreaking will be held on July 22nd at 9 a.m. so we look forward to everyone being there to celebrate the groundbreaking of our new detention center. As you have heard in the House but it's approaching quickly our Tracy Bird concert will be held on July 26th. Pre-party begins at 4pm and gates will open at 5.30. I look forward to seeing you and a lot of Duplen County citizens as well as outside the Lyon County citizens there as well. Two additional items, elected officials ethics course. We hosted by the town of Magnolia, behalf of the DCMA. The Magnolia Fire Department, dinner will be served from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. If you would like to RSVP commissioners, if you will let me know, how will RSVP for you? if you will let me know how RSTP for you. We have to have RSTP's turned in about July 29th. And a date again? It will be on... Excuse me. I think the 31st. It think the 31st it is the 31st is July 31st from 16 to 9 p.m Dinner will be included and it will be held at Ninoia Fire Department. Okay. Thank you Incubation is that's only required for newly elected or re-elected that's only required for newly elected or reelected officials. So only those newly elected or reelected officials are required. If you take it now and you're not totally reelected, will it still count? Do you have to take it again after November? That's an excellent question. And that's not specified in the stock end, that we can ask that question. I think I think it will. And speaking of newly elected, the 2020 or the 2024 presidential election early voting schedule is out. Early voting begins on October 17th and 18th. That's the third day on Friday. We will have two voting sites. One in Keynesville, of course, and one in Wallace. We have additional information on our Facebook page and the and the election's Facebook page. Also have a printout that will be included in your packets that you have as well. If there's any additional comments, I'm happy to answer any questions or provide any additional information. Right here. Yes sir. You want to just able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to do that. I'm going to be able to operating hours as soon as we can, we can provide more information that we can provide a statement at a different time. In the commissioners having anything they wish to announce. Here you know that brings us to the end of our agenda. Closetion has been removed so I would entertain a motion to adjourn and to August the 5th at 6 o'clock. Here in this room. Second. Mr. Dyle, you seconded that? I did. Have a motion and a second to adjourn in the Monday, August of year 2024, 6 o'clock. And it's a Mr. Dio, during here in the administrative unit, 224, similar street and community in any discussion. All in favor of let it be known to say an I. All opposed saying, sound motion case. We stand adjourned into the fifth.