All right ladies and gentlemen, I would like to officially call this meeting to order the commas and the meeting of Monday August 21st, 2023. And I would like to start out by standing and going. I will do a vacation and then we'll start with a pledge. So everybody please rise. The Lord as we gather here today, we're so thankful. Thank you for all the many blessings that you have for the punish. Thank you for the freedom that you've given us. Thank you for this county. Thank you for all the people that you've given us. Thank you for this county. Thank you for all the people that have worked in this county. And most thankful for allowing us to be a part of helping drive this county to make it a continuous better county for our children, grandchildren and future people to drive to to improve, and have this best county in the state. Again, watch over tonight, guide us through our meeting, that the work that we do to be die we, not my will, but die we have. If all of us were younger or less ill, and let you take the reins and run our life, our decisions, the world will be good and we will all end up being able to reach yours and get your after. If that said again, I ask you to take these people as they travel home and that tomorrow we wake up to another wonderful day in crochet. Amen. I'll play a gillic and sing a flag. And the two republics will reach the hands of one nation and another God, individual, the individual and justice for all. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. At this point, the ZU organizations have anything they want to add to the agenda tonight. No. Okay. Would you have anything to add tonight? No, sir. Nice. Madam Clerk. Okay. But that's the other one for a motion to prove the agenda. I got a motion and a second. Motion by Mr. Garter. Second. Mr. President of the branch. Any further discussion? Period none. All in favor say aye. All opposed, same sign. Period. Okay. I need a motion to approve the minutes of the August 7th meeting. So motion by Mr. Branch. Second, I commission your Edwards. Any further discussion? Here none, all their favour say aye. All opposed same sign. All right, I'd entertain. I'm going to send a to move motion. So commissioner down. Second, the commissioner branch. Any further discussion? Period none. All in favor say I. All opposed. Carry. All right. That moves us to item number one. Public comment. Okay. That moves us on the item number two. Just Kennedy. Good evening. Good evening. I'm here to conduct the public hearing from Mr. Gregory Brown to name Picket Lane of the Cool Springs Road at 300 P at 300 people like in Kenosville township. Okay, we move into the The public here and at this point anybody's been voted got any comments they want to make in regard to the name of this rate All right here none. I'll close the hearing plus pleasure of the forward motion by Mr. Garner second thank you commissioner Dow any further discussion. Here and none all in favor say aye all opposed carry it must out of number three. Thank you I need to schedule another public hearing for Mr. Harry Dorsey on the September to 18 meeting to name a lane at 200 block of HC powers road Allen Creek township. Second by commissioner Branch. He felt the discussion. Here and none all in favor say aye. All opposed same sign carried. Thank you. Okay that brings the item number four. The same to the next year. Good evening. I was here the last commission meeting requesting a public hearing to be held for our administrative and capital grants and I inadvertently asked for the break date our commissioners meeting for September is September the year. So I'm here to request approval of the fiscal year 25 public transportation grant funding to be changed from September the 7th to September the 6th. For a minute. Second. Motion by Commissioner Garner. Second by Commissioner Brant. Any further discussion? Here none. All in favor say aye. All opposed. Same sign. Here. Thank you. That moves out thousand. Number five. Mr. Jerry. Yeah, even. I'm here to request an approval for contract with um, veterinary medical center of teaching and a contract with Warsaw Animal Hospital of Warsaw. Got a motion by Commissioner Dyle second by commission of branch. He follows question. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go to the next meeting. I'm going to go Let's go. Good evening. When we close the Magnolia Library area, I started thinking about ways to serve underserved areas in our county. And naturally, I started thinking about the Alvarson area. They have a community library with great support from their grid. In fact, they had 172 participants in a back to school bash this week, with back facts and things. Patrons are coming to that library from the general Auberson area, also from the Glissant and Wolfsgrape Fire Districts. So there are roughly 3,051 residents in the Auberson community, comparing Magnolia, which was only a thousand and nineteen. The poverty level was very similar. Income level is very similar for those two ends of our county. The residents of Albrison, if they want, um, faxing services and things like that, they have to go all the way to Pink Hill. They're 15 miles from any of our branches. So what we could do, um, They're 15 miles from any of our branches. So what we could do, oh, also they're collaborating with our digital literacy grant. So they've got nearly 40 people participating in that. So it is a good hub in the community. I feel like it would be a good addition to us. There would be no impact to our budget because we already have book money budgeted for Magnolia and it would just be transferred to Olverson. Also, when we weed books, we have sister branches, so Rose Hills surplus books or books in the more time to be circulated would be moved to Olverson before they are weeded and sold. What I'm looking for is to create a memorandum of agreement between different county library and the all-werson community library and the initial term would be five years. That would allow to look at the data of what the traffic increases. This would give that into the county access to the 7.9 million items that we have with our consortium. It brings them a lot more access to the 7.9 million items that we have with our consortium. So it brings them a lot more access to materials. It also brings faxing and color printing and those type services to that branch. The five-year initial agreement would include that the Albuisson Library continue to operate as they are with volunteers and one paid person to cover their hours. So again, not impacting our budget at this time, time to look at, you know, if there's enough interest and traffic to increase it, you know, five years down the road or more. So our state aid is normally around 123,000, that's 22% of our operating budget, and that's the money that I use for programming and all the book collections. So that would not change, and no money would come from regular county funds to fund this process. Ladies and gentlemen, I have a motion, but Commissioner Garne, I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go ahead and go a great opportunity, from everything that I've seen, they run a great ship over there. It's been a big advantage to the community and if we can join in with them and help make it a little more efficient, I'm sticking to that for us to do. Thank you. Any further discussion? Here and none. All in favor say aye. All opposed same sign. Thank you. Thank you. And Miss Brady has two fast tickets. And I will tell you for a while to go. I've been served with time. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Now I'd entertain a motion to go out of the registration and the closed session. NCGS 143-318.11A3. Second thing I would just like to thank all of you for your time tonight. The first thing I would like to thank all of you for your time tonight. The first thing I would like to thank all of you for your time tonight. The first thing I would like to thank all of you for your time tonight. The first thing I would like to thank all of you for Your time tonight. We had a lot of information to have to go over into close session. I think it was very informative and I Appreciate the work of all the people that brought information to us in the closed session that broad information to us in the closed session. With that, unless somebody has something else first, I would like to turn it over to Mr. Wood to let him give us some updates or announcements that he made with like this. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. First thing, and you may already know this, I cannot remember if I sent you an email on it or not. Our planning director, Job, has been filled. Jim and his Chris Hatcher here we begin work next month. And we've notified notified insight planning of this. Insight planning is Mr. Cox. And so he's aware of that. Chris has almost seven years of planning experienced with the city of Wilmington rising from a co-genforcement officer, disowning officer, the current planner, to associate plan. Another good item is he is also a native of Duper County and lives in teaching. So he's been commuting. So we're very pleased to have him. I have reached out and called him. I didn't have anything to do with the selection process, but he seems very personal and we got into discussing some things on planning and I think it's going to be a good addition to your state. And one of his first duties obviously is going to be help get the CDBG thing back on track. And I'll be meeting with you in the early Monday morning to discuss that. So that's good news. Secondly, as y'all know, Donna Brown retired. Friday was her last day and I met with she and Jeff Williams on, I believe it was Wednesday. We discussed everything. Jeff is obviously the choice who she recommended. I'm very comfortable with him. who she recommended. I'm very comfortable with him. Many of you may know he's got over 10 years of experience with the department and he is currently the water treatment system superintendent. So he was already the number two guy. So I've promoted him. He has all the necessary certifications for a position. And he is in the process of trying to backfill his position of water treatment system superintendents. And I believe he has someone in house and mind on that. So hopefully we'll get that taken care of. And then as far as the major jobs over there will have all of them. The application period for the finance director closed this afternoon at five o'clock. I advertised I had Simeca advertise that for 21 days, not 30. We will be reviewing those as soon as possible as we are in one of finance's busiest seasons closing the fiscal year 2023 books by September 30th and of course beginning fieldwork on the fiscal year 23 audit. We hope. Chelsea has been doing a great job in the interim role. I've been very impressed with the job she's done. And finally, the last thing I just wanted to mention too, the airport advisory commission had established a committee to help interview applicants for the airport director's job. And they met, not this past, route. It was a week before. Anyway, they are going to interview on Thursday and then they will make a recommendation to me on that. And I hope by the following week to make a decision on that. I will tell you we do have a very strong internal candidate. So that's basically all I want to talk about. I'm trying to fill these vacancies in key positions as soon as possible. And you know we're making progress on it. So we got a few more to go. See if I have any questions on any of them. Questions from Mr. Liz? I would just again like to say thank you. It's obvious that you got your hands around it and you're moving forward and you know everything is looking good from our eyes and I appreciate our work and continue to know. Thank you. Anybody else any comments going on Mike? Yeah I just want to say too thank you for getting the ground running. It appears that you your experience and attack us. It's paying off well. So thank you for all that. Well, thank you. I'm enjoying it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to reiterate what they just said, but they just covered everything. But what I want to say is Wayne and myself will be going to the NCA State Conference this week. And if anybody has anything they want us to take forward to the conference. I mean, it can be anything from the health and human services. A lot of us sit on boards, app board, public education, general government, justice and public safety. education general government justice and public safety. If you want to take anything, take your legislators for legislative goals or anything that concerns the county, we'll be the ones that being that will be there to take that on and we'll see a lot of vendors, auditors, I mean every time I go I talk to all of them and see what they offer countings and you'd be surprised. I probably talk to five of them that build jails and we have auditors and different people waste sites. They say you equip them. All of the different things. I get to see many things. You know, squeezy balls. But, you know, if there's anything seriously that you want to be us to discuss, you know, we are here for that. Anybody up? But I'd like to say there's going to be a holiday but for we have our next meeting Labor Day and so I ask everybody to enjoy, be safe, but enjoy your holiday and we meet the Tuesday after after Labor Day because you know being Labor Day we're moving back from Monday to Tuesday. So at this time I was in a motion to adjourn until Tuesday September the 9th at 6 o'clock. So they say September the 9th? September the 10th. Yeah. Okay. I'm just going to look at that. I'll go ahead and say this. the 9th. 10th. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just going to look at that. So. For the correction. I got a motion from commission or Edwards second. For commissioner thou. That we adjourned until September. At 6 o'clock. The. Any further discussion. during until September 6th. Any further discussion? Here and none. All in favor say aye. All opposed. Same side. Here we will see you on Tuesday.