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and

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Major.

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Alright.

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Let us pray.

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Dear gracious eternal father, we thank you for another opportunity to come together and

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to conduct the business that has been laid before us.

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We want to thank you for all the men and women who served in our public safety services.

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We just ask you to lead, guide and protect them as they go about doing the statutes and

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and doing the work that has been given and put into their hands.

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And we ask this in Jesus' name, in the name of God.

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All in favor.

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Approval of tonight's agenda.

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I make a motion to approve.

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I'll second.

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Moved by Ms. Hayes, seconded by Mr. Whaley, Mr. Whaley.

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Any questions?

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All in favor?

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All right.

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All in favor?

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All right.

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We will approve of meeting minutes

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for January 6th, 2026 meeting.

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Move to approve?

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Move on to the wails.

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I'll second that.

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Second by Ms. Hayes. Any questions?

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All in favor?

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Aye.

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I'm going to pose. I have approval of claim.

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Public property is $92,403.88.

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Public safety is $152,733.

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the Holocane, three sets, entertainer most, so moving to a full, be moved by Mr. Newby, I'll second that, seconded by Mr. Wheeler, any court, all the papers, all the Pope, you sure you signed those please,

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Public Comment, I've got to stand in a room with nobody saying nothing, okay.

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Report to Committee, Sheriff, Departments.

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Mine will be short. We have the NAPTO program, which is a school that will graduate in April.

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The Supreme Suppression Unit staffs will put out and we are off and running in February.

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You're going to walk up next to your son.

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That's all I have for my report. Now, do you want me to go right into your new business or do you want me to wait?

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Oh, you can wait. Okay, I'll tell you what, since you got the floor anyway, you might as well go and do the coroner's report.

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Oh, okay. So the coroner's report is for January 58 total deaths, 49 were natural, two lost their lives to a fire in Cedarville, and seven are pending.

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Now at your request from the last meeting, I was able to get some 24, 25 stats. So,

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I will do a stat that Montana gave me. In 2024, we had 263 medical, and I'll tell you what that is

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in a second, medical deaths. In 2025, we had 288, a medical death versus a coroner death means a

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Dr. signed off on the death certificate. The foreigners signed off on 285 in 2024 and 248 in 2025. The comparison for natural deaths in 24 were 511. In 2025 were 485. In 2024, we had 30 accidental deaths. In 2025, we had 17. In 2024, we

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we had two suicides, in 2025 we had nine suicides, in 2024 we had three homicides, in 2025 we

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had one homicide, in 2024 we have two undetermined, and in 2025 we have two undetermined. So there's

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Any questions? Thank you. Okay. Emergency Management Agency. Thank you. Good evening, everybody. I'll be brief also. We are having two classes again. We talked about last month. First one is the OMS 30 exercise and evaluation program. That's going to be LAS.

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April 1st and 2nd at the County Boardhouse.

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Right now I think we have that nine people signed up

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for that by the time that people gate comes around.

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I also have scheduled the NIMS overview

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for Senior Officials, Executives, Elections, Appointed Class.

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That is scheduled tentatively right now

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for March 7th, Saturday morning.

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I want to speak with Carl Larson a little bit

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about my concerns getting the County Board together

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and the Open Meetings Act and all that stuff

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I want to make sure that, what I need to do,

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I'm speaking with Georgia, and I want to make sure

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I need to post an agenda.

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There is a clause in the Open Being Act for training,

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which is what this says,

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but we want to make sure that we have all of our

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cheese cross lines and that is the same.

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Okay.

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Our office is continuing to work on our credentialing

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and our emergency operation plan review.

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It's due this year, but we still have no final date

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as when it's due, we got a region two meeting coming up

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at the end of the month.

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I hope to get some more guidance on that meeting,

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but as it stands right now, there is no set date,

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but we're moving forward as it's going to be

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probably later this fall.

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Had some good news today.

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I received a final check.

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I received a check earlier in January,

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a second for $18,114.

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and then today I received the additional $4,200

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for the Emergency Management Preparedness Grant.

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That's the outstanding grant

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that I was worried about getting paid.

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We got paid in full as of today.

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So we got that off tomorrow.

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At this point, I still have not applied

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and we are not allowed to apply for Fiscal Year 2025, 26.

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Hopefully that will come.

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Okay, but I'm not real positive right now.

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Who's next, what else?

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I think that's about it.

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Any questions for me?

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Any questions?

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Samuel, Samuel, thank you for that.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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We'll move on to nothing for the old business,

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but go to the new business.

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Very simple.

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This is, it looks worse than it is.

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So the first order of business that was mistakenly left out

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of the contract that was signed was the declaration

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that the PDPA, which was the union representation

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for our union was removed.

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And the FOP was put into that spot.

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Apparently what I was told by the attorney

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is that you have to declare that in all the contracts,

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which they didn't both sides miss that.

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So that's what the first part is.

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That will be added to all three contracts.

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Article five, not accrued for time off and not getting paid.

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that is for all three contracts also.

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This is for the person that has an injury off duty.

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They've used up all of their FMLA.

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They've used all of their sick time, all of their vacation,

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all benefit time whatsoever.

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And now they're actually going to George's office

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and paying their own portion of the insurance.

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What I suggested to the union, which they agree with me,

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which is unheard of, as I said,

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Why would they accumulate seniority

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if they're not really working at all?

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Both sides agreed to that.

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That's all that provision is.

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And that will be in all three contracts.

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Well, any questions with that, Ronnie?

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You're looking at me.

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Not good.

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Okay.

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Article 14.1.

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That was a provision for people

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that had X number of service years.

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Deputy here in Corey was mistakenly put in that.

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She had two less years than she was supposed to.

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Her final year or her final, um, um, wage increase is this year.

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This was her 21st year that was mistaken.

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We thought she was at 23 years or at least ripped it at the time.

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So this is her last year.

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So it's actually a cost savings because she didn't get moved up to the top of the line.

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She actually went with what the contract says for 2026 at 21 years old.

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that'll be in the only in the LE contract.

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And then the last section 23.4,

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the emergency response team verbiage was inaccurate

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and mistakenly left out for the training.

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This would give members the ability

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to receive cash for overtime for training.

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We've never done that.

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It was time and a half,

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competent only, they do not get cash for training.

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So that was left out.

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The way you actually read it is they could take either.

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Thank goodness we had a couple of people of the old timers that were like, Hey,

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can we pay cash for this?

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And I said, absolutely not.

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And then we looked at it.

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So I immediately contacted our attorney and he contacted the FOP and they knew

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what we had met, it was just mistakenly taken out.

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So there's absolutely no, um, wages.

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There's no cash.

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There's none of that in any of this contract, uh, upvases.

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It gives more wording than anything else that was left out.

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Correct.

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And all of this stuff was done from day one.

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We knew about it.

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It was a handshake agreement until they could get the verbiage the way they needed it and

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that worked.

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Any questions?

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No, I got a few.

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What's an example of a person who might be with the department and not work in pregnancy?

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That would be one.

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So it's and I'm not saying every pregnancy so you have some

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I'm not saying every pregnancy, so you have somebody that gets hired, they just get out of PTI, they're on in the agency for two months, they're pregnant and they have complications.

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Well, being there less than a year, or somewhere around a year, you're only going to have about 40 hours of vacation or comp time, and you're not, at that time, you didn't have vacation at all.

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So they ran out of their time right away. They're on FMLA. Their job is still secure for the 12 weeks, but then you stop getting paid. So now you're stopped getting paid. I have four new recruits coming in. Why would that person still be getting seniority? And really the only thing that seniority gets you is bumping rights. So now you've been working this whole time and that person's not and you want to bid for that day shift. They haven't been on. They can bid for that day shift before they even came back to work.

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Work, so now I have an open day shift. So that's how that whole thing happened. If we

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wouldn't have saw that firsthand, I probably would have never thought of it, but that's

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not right.

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I don't know if women can be penalized.

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No, no, no, no, no. Don't take it as a penalty for women. Okay. You're on for the exact same

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scenario and you break your legs skateboarding on your own off time. Same thing. Same thing.

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I understand, but pregnancy is not an accident.

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It is a life experience.

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It's a life event.

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Well, but if you're not getting paid,

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if you put yourself in that predicament

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and you don't have the time, you're not getting paid.

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And that's not us.

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I mean, that's all, you don't have any time.

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So you're not getting paid.

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The lawyers looked at that?

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Mm-hmm.

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And you and Dan agreed to this?

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This is it.

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You said you and Dan agreed to it?

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So, why are we trying to go against it?

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Just to me, it just seems like...

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I shouldn't ever use the pregnancy.

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No, the broken leg skateboarding, I agree with you.

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But, to be perfectly transparent, that's what happened, is you're not working, you're back, you're on two months and now you're gone.

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It's not fair that you can actually be off for however long you're going to be, and then there's a day shift open and you can bid on it, which locked everybody else that you haven't even been there.

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and the same thing goes if you have 20 years on, if you have 20 years on and you run out

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of time, you're the person that's using all of your sick and every time you get a day

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you take two, you should not get seniority.

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You should have planned for that.

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So hopefully this is going to curb some of that loophole used sick times.

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How many times do I see this happening in the future?

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Zero.

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Well, we wanted to make sure it's covered.

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That's why the union had no problem with this.

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I'm not saying anything.

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You got to do it.

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You got to just.

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No, I just.

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Yeah, this is kind of, yeah, okay.

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But the union agreed to it.

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Yeah, I mean.

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Then, I mean, they're supposed to be looking out

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Investing System, your employees, then, and if this is legal to do, I just,

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I would say, don't use this as an everyday job.

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This is law enforcement or fire somebody that you have to have there.

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And I can't have anybody extra.

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So if I have five females that just happen to be pregnant at the same time,

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what's that do to my office?

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You're not taking anything down.

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And it's not picking on that.

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If I have, if I have five males that all break their legs skateboarding,

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yeah, no, I won't.

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So, I have to do something.

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No, I understand.

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But like I said, Fricke is a much better example than becoming pregnant.

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But that's what actually happened. So, I used Fricke.

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Well, it actually happened.

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Okay.

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So, this is approval. So, we have to vote on this next?

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It just has to go to the board. I think it has to go to the board.

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To follow the code because that's an actual agreement.

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agreement, approved, approved by Mr. Wheeler. All three? Yes, sir. Always. Seconded by Mr. Newton. Any questions? Any, any, any, any questions? You know, I've taken them all three at once, so what else? All in favor? Aye. All those? Aye. Any comments from the committee members? None.

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Bale, I'll second.

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Then move to session.

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Good night.

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That would remind her finances Friday morning.

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Yeah, we'll move stuff.

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See you later.

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OK.