Good evening. My name is Kim Thompson. I'm the vice chairman of the Ducyone Board Commission. Today is Monday, October the 18th, 2021. I'll call this meeting to order. We'll be led by my fellow commissioner Wayne Branch with the invocation followed by our pledge allegiance. Let's stay. That was great. Dear Wies and Precious God, we thank you for this day. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity to come together one more time to conduct the business for the citizens of this great county of Duplin. Father, I ask that you clear all hearts and minds and allow us to come together and work in unity, working harmony, to do the things as necessary to bring about what is in the best interest of our people. God continue to guide us, continue to give us the courage to stand for those things that will make us better as a people. Continue to give this strength to go forth, Lord. Continue to give us all that we need. As in the name of Jesus that I do pray, let us all say amen All right. Okay, it is any fellow members of the board have anything to add to tonight's agenda. I'll do that. I do that. Mr. Branson. Mr. Chairman, members of the board as I stated earlier, there will be no need for a legal session or a closed session for legal matters tonight. Also, I would like the Board's permission to add a bad debt and deceased write-offs for the health department for the month of October 2011 in the amount of $7,285.37. That was $7,285.37 being written off for the month of October 2011. I would like to add that to the consent agenda. Now I have a copy of the request here if any board member would like to take a look at it. Okay. Thank you. We'll just approve your agenda. Sick. It's been moving properly a second that we approve the agenda. I want to say aye. Moving along, can I entertain a motion to approve the minutes from the October 4th agenda? So we'll check. It's been moving properly a second that we approved the minutes for the October 4th, 2021 meeting. I'll in favor say aye. I'll entertain a motion to approve the joint minutes for the October 5th meeting with the James Front Community College Board of Trustees. So move. So do move to the proper second we do so. I'll in favor say aye. Motion carries. All right. In addition to the right off, bad right off, bad deck right off that Mr. Brinston has just missed to add to the consenting in on entertainer motion to approve such It's been moved and properly approved to consent agenda all in favor say I Okay, do we have any public comments? At this point in time anybody from the public who wishes to speak and sign up public comments and the floor is yours for up to three minutes. Chairman, no go- All right, make that we have risen to request a settlement here. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, members of the board. Up here now, on behalf of your E-Number 1 addressing office to request that you schedule a public hearing on November 1st, 2021, regarding a request from Domingo, Caranza, and Susanna, come up Rio to name a lane at 278 Fort Knox Road, Magnolia and the Magnolia Township, Cruz, Camarillo Lane, and of course with the Dufflin County, now we're one addressing and road naming ordinance. Okay, on your agenda motion. It's been moved in probably a second that we approved the request that a public hearing be scheduled on November 1st, 2021 regarding requests from Domingo, Caranza and Susanna Camarillo to name Elaine at 278 Fort Knox Rose and Magnolian North Carolina and Magnolia Township, Cruz Camarillo Lane in accordance with the Duke and County Nominum when we're addressing road naming coordinates. Any questions or concerns? All in favor say aye. Motion carried. Miss Brown. Next up, we have Miss Melissa Brown, Director of Services for the Agen. Good evening. Good evening, Matt. I'm asking the board for approval of a service contract for the Warsaw Congress and nutrition site location. This contract is a four year term between the agency and the town of Warsaw. This designated space for seniors is located at the Warsaw Community Center on 309 Memorial Drive, seniors meet Monday through Friday, each day for a meal and socialization. I'll hand it over to you. So, Moe, it's been moved and processated when we approved the service contract for the Warsaw Congregate and Nutrition Site location and authorized the chairman and the finance offer to sign on the same, any questions or concerns? All in favor say aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Mr. Chairman who's seconded that motion sir. Mr. Branch made the motion. Mr. Dow thank you. Someone needed to my right or left. Miss Simmons Carnegie here. Okay here she is. Next up, we have our health director, Ms. Tracy Simmons. Good evening, Mr. Commissioner. Good evening. The first agenda item was to come before you guys tonight for the acceptance and the approval of a grant from East Point entitled whole person integrated care. The Health Department applied for grant funding through East Point this year for whole person integrated care to focus on our tell us like I drew Program. With this funding opportunity there are two areas of focus to include integration of behavioral and physical health along with the social terms of health. These funds will be used for continuation with the department's Tell us Psychiatry Program through NC step through ECU in addition to providing case management and crisis response. So the requested action is for acceptance of these points. Whole person integrated care grant for $50,000 and then a budget amendment approval for fiscal year 2021-2022. So, I'm going to take it. It's been moved and probably segmented that we accept the East Point whole person integrated care grant in the amount of $50,000 on the happenment in County Health Department. It will approve the associated budget. Is that right? Yes, I think so. Any questions or concerns? All in favor say aye. That motion carries. Okay. Okay. Second come before you guys tonight to give a comment update for the county. Thank you. And I am invited, Dr. John Pranik, to join us again tonight to get us another update from the hospital. the Per the North Carolina DHHS COVID-19 dash for today the Dupland County's positivity rate is 5.5%, which is a Decrease of a total of 3.2% from the last commissioners meeting on September 20th where it was at an 8.7%. Compared to the states rate today at 6.4% compared to the state back on September 20th at 10.3%. To provide some recent county level data. So from the last two weeks, which would be from October 3rd through October 16th, the county had a total of 317 lab confirmed COVID-19 test of those 28% of our school age, which is between the ages of 5 to 18. Majority of the cases are between the ages of 19 to 49 at a total of 148 cases, which makes up 47% of the total cases. Per today's Health Department Work List, which includes again the electronic and paper results, there are 197 on that work list compared to 544 the night we reported on September 20th of those who are currently in isolation. To date, there's been a total of 183 COVID-associated deaths in Dupline County, which is an increase of 18 deaths since our last commissioners meet on the 20th. Of those deaths, 98 are in 2021 thus far, and there was 85 deaths in 2020. For the months of August and September of this year we have had 11 deaths in August and 20 deaths in September related to COVID and again you can see the age breakdown per month. Majority of these cases are of 65 and older. Additionally there are still continues to be several outbreaks and clusters and various settings throughout the county. Dupland County is still noted as a high level of community transmission per the CDC. Per today's North Carolina DHHS dashboard of our eligible population who can be vaccinated is those who are 12 and older, 50% have had at least one dose and 46% are fully vaccinated. Some just some general updated information to provide to you. This past Thursday, the FDA Advisory Committee, Health and Meeting, and unanimously recommended to the FDA to approve Moderna Boosters IV. Those who are 65 and older, those are 18 to 64 who are high risk of developing severe COVID-19 because of underlying health conditions. And those individuals who are 18 to 64 years of age who live or work in situations that increase the risk of complications from COVID-19. Then on Friday, the FDA Advisory Committee held another meeting to review J&J for boosters. It was unanimously recommended for those who were 18 and older to receive the J&J second dose. Once the FDA makes the regulatory action on both Moderna and J&J boosters for the criteria previous mentioned, then the Dupland County Health Department will begin administering boosters. In regards to children who are ages of 5 to 11, the FDA and CDC will be reviewing Pfizer vaccine data at the end of this month. In preparation for this authorization, the Duplen County Health Department has been chosen to serve as an enhanced access site for the pediatric population of ages 5 through 11. From September to October, subordered health meeting, the members assessed and discussed the recent COVID-19 data to include the county's vaccination rates, the case rates, which includes the new cases per 100,000 residents and daily positivity rates, deaths and hospitalizations related to the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. The board has released a letter to encourage vaccinations and the recommendation to wearing a face covering. Again thanks for the invitation. I would be glad to take any questions at this time. Okay thank you. Do you want me to ask something? Simmons, for Nikki. Okay. Dr. for Nikki, you can go to the hospital. Good evening, Dr. Nikki. Good evening. Good evening. I'll give another hospital update tonight. I am happy to report that over the past 10 Hospital updates. Good evening, Dr. Kniggy. Good evening. Good evening. I'll give another hospital update tonight. I am happy to report that over the past 10 days we have seen a pretty significant decrease in the amount of COVID-19 patients in our hospital. As of today we had a total of four patients that vital in the hospital that were COVID-positive. All of them were receiving ICU level of care. Keep in mind that we had days with over 25 COVID patients, including all nine of our ICU beds, the past two and a half months. And this is our lowest amount we've had since late July. We are out of emergency operations. They're remained at 100% big capacity locally today, but again, local COVID is not the main driver of a current bed situation, a violent dupline. We are seeing a similar decrease in the amount of COVID in patients across the state. On September 14th, there were a total of 3,630 hospitalized COVID patients in the state. On October 14th, this had dropped to 2,277, which is a 37% decrease across your states in patient hospitalizations due to COVID in that one month time period. I'm in the entire Biden system, 89% of current hospitalized COVID patients are unvaccinated. Even though we are certainly seeing a decrease in our COVID numbers, we do continue to have difficulties getting patients to tertiary care centers for definitive care for procedures and treatments that we do not perform locally. Hopefully this will improve in the near future as well. And I'll be also glad to take any questions at this time. That's Good news. Good news. Anyone have any questions or comments or comments about the Canadian? All right. That's quick and easy. Thank you, sir. Thank you all. Thank you. Appreciate it. Okay. We have Brandon and Man next with Emergency Medical Services. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you all. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. We have brand new man next with emergency medical services. Good evening. I appear before you deny that you're permission to apply for the USDA rural community health grant. With this, we're looking at trying to replace the administration in the town of Wallace. We're the many two stations. Currently we're having to share the station with the town of Wallace. We're limited to three little small bedrooms. On probably the station is this big. We're having to share a kitchen, two bathrooms with the town of walls, which is causing some issues. Also we're only down, where when we first started, we had a couple of bays we could work with there, how the store extra illnesses in. We're only down to one bag now. This community health grant will allow us to build a station kind of like the one in Chica Pien. Don't know the exact pulse, but with the construction pulse, it probably go up up I think we spend a lot of half a million dollars with the one in chicken pin so I'm assuming that this is going to be anywhere between up to 600 thousand maybe more. This will be a matching grant from what Miss Daniel tells me this is 55 of 45 so the county big response for 45% of the total cost. This is I'm just asking you guys for permission or the board permission to apply for the grant and I'll go from there if we do get it. All right, what says the board? So moved. Second. It's been moved in, second, that we grant permission for the Duke and County Emergency Services Department to apply for a USDA rule community health grant funds to construct an EMS station. Any questions or comments from Mr. McMahon? All in favor say aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Next we have Miss Chiqueta-Lessane. Is it Lissane? Lissane. Come on up, ma'am. See you as a CEO and founder of Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency. Good evening. Good evening. We have a few packets that we want to give out to you so you can follow along with us. We emailed some packets to the county administrator kind of manager Mr. Davis, Branson, Mr. Ish, Mr. Ish. So I don't know if you guys have that or not, but we want to give you both packets. Thank you. Any extras we have you pass out to the audience. I am Shakwita Lassane, CEO of Shackle Free Community Outreach Agency. And I have to say when I first came in here, I brought back memories because back in 1994, this was the Health Department. And I came in here and found out that I was getting ready to have a baby at 17. And so years later, I was able to return as an employee of Duke and County Board of Elections office. So I came here every day. So that was definitely a change from coming in here as a pregnant team, growing up and living in Duke and County. I've been chicken clean native all my life, of course, born and raised there and lived here. My mom is here. She lives here in Dupland County. So I have an invested interest in a state in what happens in Dupland County. So coming from a place of poverty, I want to talk to you guys about poverty and how poverty plays a major factor in everything that we all do. It plays a factor in our safety. And I'm hearing everything about all the great things that Ms. Griniggy is doing at the Health Department and Shackle Free is here to come in and supplement and help with the things that are missing. There are quite a few gaps here in Duplet County when it comes to services. And what I mean by that is people who are in poverty, they need navigation services. They need direction. They need one place to go and not have to go from place to place seeking services. So what I bring to you today is the capacity to provide navigation services for the people who live in Dupland County. I don't come to you into handy just as Ms. Carnegie said about grants. I come to you with a $350,000 grant that we were awarded for the rise vaccine equity challenge. And the equity challenge, excuse me, I can't hardly talk with this last one, but the vaccine equity challenge, it comes in five parts that means the first thing is to address systemic any any systemic institutional interpersonal environmental type racism that may be still going on not saying you guys are part of that but I know for sure that Dupland County does have some things that we are trying to overcome when it comes to equity and making sure everyone is treated fairly. So what Shackle Frey brings is the ability and the capacity with both professionally and personally to take care of that. So I can go ahead and jump right into the documents that you have in front of you and those that you have extra. And we pass them out to the people in the audience. Our mission, and I'm on this packet right here, our mission is to promote self-reliance, not enabling, and to address all barriers that hinder the holistic wellbeing. That means the mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families. Our purpose is to educate, inspire, advocate, consult, counsel, and increase awareness in the community and beyond in support of a better way of life. Shackle Free is deeply rooted here. We already came here and he'll bring the juvenile crime right now from 50 to 1 with the implementation of our camp community. And we did that in partnership with the town of Warsaw. That was back in 2011 to 2016. Since then, I became the CSBG director and so I was actually in charge of Dupland County, Oneslow and New Hanoi County. I secured $1.4 million in disaster relief through grant writing to rent a Dupland County to help with hurricane Florence. So we're not new here and like I said we know exactly what's needed education, transportation to address that we wouldn't secure the 25 passenger bus. So we're coming to you with all of these things and asking that you make a decision to utilize the funds that you may have or the ones that you can acquire to bring services to the people that need it the most. They need a rent assistance, they need utility assistance, they also need navigation, they need case management, they need someone to guide them from where they are on Maslow's pyramid with a lot of people on the bottom. They don't have homes, they don't have adequate nutrition and things like that, but they need a body. And that's something people in counties listen. We can send them to this place in that place and say, let's do run a assistance. We can give you utility assistance, but that's putting a band-aid on a much larger problem. It's not changing the numbers when it comes to poverty and it's not making our lives safe to live, work or play here. So with me knowing that, like I said growing up in poverty and knowing what I had to do, it's my obligation to come back and share what I know for the people who can articulate like I can, who can't put the data together like I can and speak for them. And that's what I'm here to speak for. There's a quote by Henry Ford said if you always do what you've always done you're going to get what you've always got. Our poverty rate is only going up. It's going up. We're going to mature to to a tier one. That means we're the most one of the most distress families in the state. Our social vulnerability index sits at .97. The highest is one. So we're right there. And we're all messed up. And none of us are safe because if you have poverty, you have teenage pregnancies. We're number six in the state for that. So our numbers are awful. And we're here to make a difference and produce outcomes. It's really tough to sit back and watch so much money shifting from one place to the other and knowing that some of the agencies don't have the capacity to even assist people from beginning to end. I wrote the grant about the NC Care 360 platform here that's being used in a hundred pounds across the state. And so that was through William Boughton and C. Sir's Coastal, a program for veteran military families. So I'm here today again to ask you to take a look at providing services that are direct to families. And that doesn't mean giving the money to them. It doesn't mean an able it. It means putting them on a success tool kit that will help them to become better individuals and to rise up on that hierarchy of needs. There's no way we can be healthy, no way we can be smart, go to school, or care about any of those things, speaking from someone who's done it. If we don't have food, if we don't have shelter, if we don't have utilities, and things like that. Our children over 90% on free and reduce lunch, another indicator of poverty. So we need to do something different. And that's what I'm here to talk about to the commissioners. I did speak with Ms. Grenivie and we do plan to sit down and have a conversation that involves DSS, that involves transportation, and the other entities here in Dupland County. Because I believe that we bring one of the most vital pieces to the table, and we are able to have right grants, as you can see, to bring more money to Dupland County to address the things that we know are needed. Let's see, another thing I wanted to touch on is that I happen to be a member of the African American COVID Task Force Plus through Duke University. So I bring that health information that I can share and collaborate with with Miss Saun Carnegie. I serve on the executive board for that. I also were participating in the Harvard's front with Harvard Medical School and we have 11 Duke Certified trained community health workers on our staff. All of these individuals are volunteers. They have been volunteering their time. We've been around for a long time but we just came back and set up shop in Warsaw. I used my savings to do it because that's how much I believe in fighting poverty. I didn't have any money other than my own money to come and bring it. And so I was thinking I said, well, I should talk to the commissioners because if I'm going to help them to flip these numbers around, I should be paying my own rent. I should be paying my own rent to bring a service here that's definitely needed and that the community wants to have a destination. We have a petition that's going around. It has 500 signatures on it from the public. And they're speaking out. They're saying we want a boys and girls' clothes. So what did I do? I jumped on the phone. I talked with resident of American communities. They gave me all the data. They said, Shiklida, it would be great if you could get a community hub there. You don't have any broadband. You have a problem with your broadband. And I know you guys have been trying to address that. But Shackle Free is about to put an application for a grant for $20 million. And that will establish a one-stop shop community resilience hub, which will take a lot of planning on shore and working with Davis and Mr. Branson and with the county planners and other municipal planners to give us a one-stop shop. Again, people who are in poverty do not have the money, they're not medically able, mentally able to go from place to place under to get turned around. And have to go someplace else. It's not fair to them. This is one of the, we're talking about belongs to taxpayers. And I would like to see it go to a place where it actually helps. And again, if you don't try to think different, then these numbers are only gonna get worse. And people are paying attention to Dupland County because this rise challenge, excuse me, was targeted toward eastern North Carolina and included Dupland and focused in on Dupland. So it consists of people who are coming in to try to make social change. Chromatic black is part of the Black Lives Matter movement. They're going to be coming in doing storytelling and help us with any kind of advocacy that we may need in order to get this message out there. I'm set to go speak to Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson pretty soon, and I want to be able to tell him that I have the support of Duke McHommie's Commission, Health Department, and everyone else. With us, as we try to get something better and change the numbers, if outcomes are not there, then we're not doing anything. We do have a proper report in here, and I'm about to wrap it up. I think about 15 minutes. But I do have to share this. Our team, we do have a governing board. We do have several volunteers right now who have a lot of experience in anti-poverty movements. I have over 20 years experience in political and human services. We utilize beauty and barber shops as our main outreach recruitment and marketing tool. We make sense of what is in Duke and County. All of Duke and County people of course everybody's going to go get their hair done, get their hair cut or get their nails done. And that's what we use to spread information, holistic information about health, employment, education and all those things that people need. We have trust in the community, we have the ability to transform systems. I have here a snapshot of people in county self-data and basically what is showing is that there has been no change. This is something we've gotten worse here. And what we focus on is the fact that if you don't address population health and community health, which means we don't just wake up with hypertension. Hacker attention a lot of times comes from the way the homes were brought up yet, which is in Dupland County, it's full of domestic violence, which we don't have, and adequate domestic violence shelter. Now you add natural disasters in COVID-19 onto an already suffering county, and you've got poverty magnified. Here's a snapshot I wanna share with you and interview that was done of Dupliblical County resident. By the time she pays her bills, now she's 23, she's a college student, she doesn't have any children, she's employed full time and she's a juvenile diabetic. She has a negative $940 at the end of the year. She makes nothing. So what type of services do we have here that will help her in one style in order for her to come from this income that she has to rise above poverty because this person is living in poverty but she's working every day so what's there to help her and I'm gonna ask this question if you had to go somewhere right now and get help with your mortgage where would you go? I asked everywhere everywhere I go and nobody could sit on me. In this place that they can go and get help. I know Dupin, Christian Outer reaches there. They provide usually one or two time services, but they don't provide the navigation support to help people to stop having to go. You got to say to people going every time. Every time. The same people seeking services. We have to transform the mindset and break generational curses like I did. Now my son, and I had, got an out of gay burqa too. He's 27 years old. He graduated from NC. I'm not trying to anti. He's in the military. He just gave my first grandchild. And I'm proud of to anti, he's in the military. He just gave my first grandchild and I'm proud of him because that generational curse was broken with my son and my daughter the same way. So that's what we have to do. And it comes from, it has to come from people. I'm sorry, like us, who are trusted messengers who look the part. That's just the way it is. I also want to show you this. This is what our children are faced with, David. These are the cows that we receive. All this are right in our children, and we have nothing here for them. Now, this is the cartoon, and this is real life. These are the children or the youth that we have lost within the past year. If you count them, this is what we show all of them. Now we're up to about 20. It was 15 the first time. So this is the outcome of not paying attention to what I'm telling you right now. There is an outcome. So we wanted to be a positive outcome. These parents of these children have joined our miles program and they're ready to go and talk about the things that they want to do, they want to see different with other parents to keep their children, to keep their having their children. That's part of our miles program. Excuse me. We have a good day this program that meets on the third and fourth Saturdays of each month. That helps dads to become more visible in their children's lives. So we have something for everybody. Now, last year, with COVID got pretty bad. I'm type of person. I don't like to sit back and look at stuff and not do anything about it. I wasn't raised like that. So we established that you are well-initiative in Pender County as a pilot. I have a doctor here in the bad Miss Tony Gray. We have 950 participants in that program. It's a one-stop shop. You go there, you get primary care, you know health, paid in addiction management and shackle free for human services and social services and navigation support on at one place. 950 people. I would love to see that same service duplicated here and everybody else is going there at all and I want to see Dupland County catch up with that and have a one stop shop and I think that's what Mr. Carnegie was her her grant the whole person integrated care. We already had this idea. We already did the pilot and we know it works. So you don't have to go and reinvent the wheel. It's already working. And she sees Dupland County's patients. Currently Dupland County, we've got 212 people seeking services from Shuffle Free on our case load, but our demand is exceeding our supply. We realized that Duplankhining was awarded $11 million in American Rescue Act funds. We realized based on information from our board, Treasury, who happens to be the City of Jacksonville's fiscal analysts, that this can go toward in an interim rule and I have that letter in here as well that that money can go directly to nonprofits and for assistance utility assistance and things like that so I'm not asking for something that really can't be done. I've also included a budget. Our request is $150,000. Of course, we will add, we could take more of you likely to give us to give it to us. But I believe, like I said, that our service will keep you from having to dispatch money to different places, allow us to be the whole, to get the grants. We brought that. We shung that we can do that, to get the grants and then help businesses, individuals, and shoot it down that way. And I believe that'll be better than you should money out this place in that place. And I haven't got to wait to measure it or not seeing a difference in these poverty numbers. Do I have any question? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Sainte. Mr. Branch. Mr. Sainte, let me first start off by saying that I commend you for the information that you presented. I find it to be organized in detail and that's a lot of questions that I had prior to come. But in regards to what I think you're pursuing is partnering with the county to present more of a customized relationship between your services and those that's in need. Is that kind of what you're looking at trying to do for each individual? You customize the package so that their needs are met outside of what they just kind of go through the known through the DSS or the health of what they just kind of go through the known through the DSS or the health department. Is that kind of what you're trying to achieve? That is correct. There are signs of community health ambassador, again, do certify that, well, health, they first we do an assessment on them, we assess everything from mental all the way, even with children. We assess the need and then we help them to develop a success tool kit, which throws in education. You need a better job. Unemployment, if you live under the poverty level, you need a better, a better job. So we have to have education to do that. James Brent is offering free tuition. So, but the, the scrubs that they need and other things they may not be able to get. So we will be able to provide education supports, gas cards, things like that. People wake up in the morning, it takes two days to get on the bus here. You have to put the two day request in. So we wouldn't got a bus, so we can eliminate that. But yeah, we provide everything that we feel like they need so long as they're complying with their success toolkit. If you don't comply, we don't enable. And then that will be grise for you not to be able to take advantage of this program. But yes, we provide customized, holistic, one-stop services for individuals. I was going to ask the question, those my second question, if he or she is not conformed to the information that you presented, there is an exending clause for that person that does not want to apply. Absolutely. And they can stay on our program for three years. That helps get them through an associate degree, certifications. We recently donated about 100 books to Jane Sprint for their Barber program. And that was for the outliers, but by Malcolm Gladwell. We understand that the message has to be sent a certain way and so we're here to be the liaison between the police departments that I have issues, even with graffiti and tagging. So we're playing to get kids together to go get that off. So we're books on the ground 100% and we we understand what's going on. And I just say to see people coming in, they have all these ideas, but they don't work because our folks look at them, you're like, okay, I'm gonna get what I can from it. And that's all I'm gonna do. I don't have anybody to hold me accountable for it. But by me already being here and doing that kind of work, when I work with Eastern Carolina Human Services, thousands of people, we help get jobs, thousands. And I do have some of those support in here from one of our community. She was a peer tutor at Camp Unity when we had it. And she's now a DDS student at ECU. We have ECU handling all of our social media. They chose to adopt Shackle Free and they got us for the whole semester. And they're going to be handling all of our social media for us. So we have that presence. So we're involved with some high-stake people. And because we care about the Dupland County, and we want to see all these older people sit on their porch again. That's my problem. It's that they work hard and then we have a generation where the village is no longer here. So somebody has to come back and make it make sense. And we also are, our next meeting for moms is at a restaurant where they're going to make biscuits and talk. So things like that, it's making it make sense. You got to bring it back down to where people who live in poverty understand and will come to what you're having. Any other questions, Mr. Branch? Any other questions? I mean, the other commissioners. No. from any other commissioners? No. Mr. Fillion, you have a question? Yes, how you doing tonight? Good to see you. Yes, sir. Something is timely, it's perfect. There's a nationwide program now, with Sandra Day O'Connor and Sulta, my lord Mayura is called I-Sivitz. Please look this up. It's a world, but it's a nationwide and here's the program for civics, for young children. It teaches them everything. It preamble, articles, and amendments. It teaches how Congress works. It teaches the history of their country. And the Democratic principles of democracy. I would love you to integrate that. I'm going to join the State Board on that now because I'm going to retire and cop right off you. You know, you're a preemble articles and amendments and you know what's been done for you, your history in the first African-American elected 1874. They're gone here. But that's what I want to bring to the table here. Hit me here. What she's doing, that's perfect time to give my kids a better break and appreciate their history. Thank you. Yes, sir. I just want to add one more thing I forgot. Our Senior Care Program, our Care Program, it targets seniors, this able and house found. We realized that they are going through senior isolation. So we actually adopted those four. There is a letter of support in here as well from the Garden of Rosal, our character director, Miss Condor Abonnius here. And basically what we do is we give them company. We take them flowers and put them on the tables. And just the things that like I said, make people feel better. We're gonna do Christmas car carols this Christmas outside. We would love to do a whole lot more but again we've been doing all of this out of our pockets. And like I said now that we know what works and we've made these connections. We want to bring that information back to Duke McHowning and just keep on getting money for the things that we need. But long term I want you guys to look into partnering with us about this Boys and Girls Club. We have a building donated to us that only needs walls and then we can get the grants from there. I don't know that it's located in a place that would be good for resilience hub, but I plan on getting that $20 million for Dupland County. This budget also includes the fact that our unincorporated times like Chica Pian where I'm from they're asking where is our help. So if you happen to decide which I hope you do to assist us in getting whatever funding you have with the CDBG, American Rescue Act funds, some of these grants it doesn't matter we would love to be added to your system as a public agency to be in response to disasters for disaster and pandemic relief and if you don't mind I'd like for this to be made a part of public record. Okay thank you so much. All right Miss Lissane thank you very much. Thank you. Come prepared and well spoken and very persistent. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. All right. Thank you. What says the board? Does the board have any questions or any motion? No. I guess I have one question for Mr. Brinson and probably Tim. In terms of the ARP funds and small business portion of it. Is there clear guidance as to what can be done, should be done before we make decision as pertains to the ask? There's different schools about there's not fair guidance. I believe Mrs. Whissane referenced the letter she has from the finance I was in Jacksonville. Our finance officer says she wants to wait for the final interim guidance from the US Treasury Department before the board makes any decisions on granting funds to small businesses and nonprofits just to protect the county in case they come down with a rule that's contrary to a decision that we may make. That's not saying no, but the finance officer and myself would feel better if we had some final internal guidance from US transfers. Is there a timeline specific? They've not given us a specific date commission branch that they're telling us it will be before the end of the calendar year 2021. Okay. Which will then allow us to move into budget season, January and February, where you guys can start making some budgetary decisions to help guide us and how we're going to use these flowers. Thank you, sir. Yes, sir. I'd like to just say one more thing. Is it possible because we have in the middle of the pandemic? Is it possible that there have in the middle of the pandemic, is it possible that there can be a reach out because it's not understanding that anything that happens during the interim is allowable whenever the final rule comes out. So is there any way we can be proactive to find that out or do we just wait for them? And that's just my question about that. We have four questions to the School of Government as well as to US Treasury and we'll see if we can give you a response. Question. We know we still call them R, because if you got some more in a different part that you can, I don't feel like our people can wait too long. Thank you. Okay. Seeing anyone else have any questions or? I have one question. Yes sir. The very last sentence on the first page of that document right there. Can you explain it to me? I'll do that. I'll do that. I'll do that. I'll do that. So in addition public litigation regarding hog waste and contamination for food processing plants, highly contributes to the downward spiral of an equity and different surrounding counties. Absolutely. Uh-huh. Public litigation, we don't take sides, we're not political. Well why would you put that in your statement if you don't take sides? Why did I put it in there? That's right. Because it's a fact that there is public. That's all I need to know. Public litigation. Okay. Anyone else have any questions or comments? No. You might as well be heard. All right. Thank you. You're welcome, thank you, man. Thank you. All right, mr. Brinson you're next mr. chairman I have just a few announcements to make some information to convey to the board early voting for municipal races has started started last Thursday October 14th it's being held at the Ed Emory auditorium where all thery auditorium where all of the municipalities from all of the county can come and vote early in their local town elections. As of this afternoon, the chairman of the Board of Elections and our Board of Elections supervisor advised that we've had only 24 voters to cast a balance thus far. The county fair will be held at the event center beginning this Thursday, October 21st, and continuing through Saturday, October 23rd. The fair will operate from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday nights, and from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday, and it will conclude with a fireworks demonstration on Saturday night at 10 p.m. I want to remind the board once again of the ribbon cutting ceremony which will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday of this week at the new Nursing Education Center at the Hofler Building on campus of James Brown Community College and all the board members are cordially invited. The Duke and County Municipal Association will hold its final annual meeting of the year on this Thursday night at the Roe Thiel restaurant at 6 p.m. If any Board member would like to attend please let me know so it can RSVP for you. Commissioner Branch is attending I will be attending on my after-the-county so if anyone else would like to attend, just let me know and I'll make sure that they get your name on the list. I wanna talk to you just a moment about the Solid Waste Christmas schedule. This year the County Government will be closed on Thursday and Friday, December 23rd and 24th as well as on Monday, December 27th. The Solid Waste Director and I have decided to keep our convenient sites all 15 of them open throughout the county because if we don't, we're gonna open them on that Monday. The convenient sites throughout the county would be closed for an entire week from Tuesday, December 21st until Tuesday, December 28th. And we simply think that's not a good idea as it is typically the busiest time of the year for us all the ways to far from us. Thus, we will be closed from the close of business on Tuesday to 21st until we reopen at 7am on Monday, the 27th. Typically the sites don't open until 1 p.m. on Monday so we are opening six hours early to make sure that we can handle the expected influx of holiday related waste and trash. The altered holiday schedule will be posted at each of the 15 sites on the county's website and the county social media page will also be asking that the holiday schedule be placed in the dupland towns as well. We support to have any questions about holiday schedules. So we would be close if we followed the county's holiday schedule from Tuesday to Tuesday, but we get concerns and complaints from the public when we're closed at any days at Christmas because as I said that's the busy time of the year so with all the Christmas related waste and trash so we'll be reopening on Monday morning at 7 a.m. to give our citizens a chance to come and bring their trash through the 15 convenient sides throughout the town., thank you very much. Yes sir, thank you. Do we have any other business? All right, I'll entertain a motion to recess until tomorrow at 7pm, so I'm a little too discussed redistricted. And moving in seconded. All the favors say aye. We are in. Rebest thank you for all right. Yeah.