Thank you for bringing us here tonight to discuss the city and our city-county business and be with us, be with the ones that cannot make it here tonight and follow these and everything else. Yes, in your name. Okay, approval of tonight's agenda. Thank you. So, what about Mr. Buster?
I'll just second. Second by Ms. Lawfer? Yeah. Any questions? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Ayes have. Public comments? There is none. Report to, oh, I'm going to back up that.
Review and approval of meeting minutes from April 7th, 2026 meeting.
Mr. Busker, seconded by Ms. Lawfer. Any questions? All in favor? All opposed? All right, Sam, okay. Public comment before to committee, Sheriff's response.
Real quick for this evening, in the hiring process, we have four that have completed the field training program and they are now released to the patrol.
we have two that have graduated from school and they're in the third week of the FTO program and
that is it. We're at full staff for the first time in years. You put out the crime suppression
unit stats. Okay, I did not see those this time. And that's all I have. The only other thing I
want to bring up is I want to thank Beth Henning from the zoning. I've been working with her and
the road commissioners about vendor agreements. So when like a company is putting something up,
for example, solar, they're using trucks on roads and they're beating up the roads.
What we found out is some of the County Commissioners didn't really know what their
authority was to get those roads under control and maybe have a permit to allow these vendors to use
the roads. And then what to do if they do break up the roads. So we are in the beginning processes
of that. I was able to give them a lot of information. I just did that with their,
their Commissioner President this morning, Josh. And then the next thing I'm also working on when
it comes to roads is overweight vehicles. We're finding out overweight vehicles are running amok
around the county, even when the roads are posted. I believe the latest one that was brought to my
attention was a $30,000 fine that an overweight vehicle was on a road, a township road. And I'm
I'm not sure what we're going to do about that one or that's going to be in the court proceedings, but I have, I am sending four people to wait, uh, wait, truck wait school.
I don't even know what it's called because we've never done it before.
And then that way, if a road commissioner or a, um, highway department, a county highway, uh, department person finds a vehicle, uh, that they feel is overweight, we can, uh, weigh that and see if there is a problem.
So we're in the beginning stages of that.
I've also talked to the Circuit Clerk about fines,
and then I will be talking to the State's Attorney
on how we're going to proceed,
if we do put a lot of time and effort into this,
how we're going to handle that.
I will keep you up to date on that,
as I get more information.
Any questions?
With the being fully staffed, how many difficulties are you?
29.
Does that look like on the road at a time?
On the road at a time, there's four per shift.
We will have four per shift.
So right now we have, with the two that are in training,
we have three shifts with four and one shift with three.
And that was the overall goal is to get that one,
one more person for each shift.
Before we go ahead, I need to back up
to get approval calling whether it's public safety
getting 151,148 dollars and 96,000 dollars
6 cents in public property of 56,432.30 cents.
Motion to approve.
Moved by Mr. Buster.
Second.
Seconded by Ms. Lawfer.
Any questions?
All in favor?
Aye.
All opposed?
Aye.
Savage.
Okay, now we can move on.
Emergency management agency.
Pension for Scott.
I think we're just aware of the tornado that hit that first off the sheriff and his staff did an excellent job from the beginning of that, certainly in the response phase, but now we're in the public stage, so yesterday we toured with the Small Business Administration.
They needed 25 major damage dwellings, which we achieved that pretty quickly and so now we're just waiting for paper.
Do you have any questions?
Okay.
Corner.
For April, we had a total of 43 deaths.
We responded to nine of those.
Autopsies were performed in three cases.
We signed 17 cases.
The doctor signed was 26.
42 of those were natural.
And one suicide was zero pending.
Pending. And the other thing I have to report is that same storm that went through Lena
that produced your tornado. Our vehicle also suffered some panel damage of what that storm.
And I believe that's lumped in under the same claim for the rest of the county vehicles.
So it's a long deductible that the county's paying for.
Mr. Bush, can you ask a quick question?
Oh, it was the individual who committed suicide, do you know?
Ah, you got it off the top of my head.
Was that a city or county? I can't remember.
I don't remember.
Well, there's no old business, no new business, any comment from committee members?
Motion to adjourn.
I have one statement here. So for the vehicles that got damaged, the three that got damaged for the Sheriff's Office were all vehicles that were actually working that night and responding to Lena.
The rest of those, we have standing order when there's bad weather that they have to get them inside.
So all of our vehicles, all of our vehicles except for the three that were working were fine.
And then the other thing with the tornado that I forgot to mention is if there's a declaration,
I believe there is right now, EMA is working on getting reimbursed for a lot of the
expense that was created through the tornado. So we have all of our fuel usage and all of
our overtime has been documented. We'll be submitting that to EMA if we do get that
and that reimbursement from the state.
So we're ready to go for that also.
That's all I have, Mr. Bush.
I make a motion to adjourn.
Moved by Ms. Lawford.
Second.
Second by Mr. Bousker.
All in favor?
Aye.
All in favor?
If the person is okay.
In public.