May 1, 2025 – Board of County Commissioners Meeting
Johnson County, KS Government
[{'start': '532.399', 'end': '537.800', 'text': "chair. I'm ready. Thank you very much."}, {'start': '537.839', 'end': '540.399', 'text': 'Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.'}, {'start': '539.120', 'end': '542.399', 'text': 'Thank you for your patience with the'}, {'start': '540.399', 'end': '543.600', 'text': 'technology this morning. Uh my name is'}, {'start': '542.399', 'end': '544.959', 'text': "Mike Kelly. I'm the chair of the board"}, {'start': '543.600', 'end': '547.920', 'text': 'of county commissioners for Johnson'}, {'start': '544.959', 'end': '549.320', 'text': 'County, Kansas. It is uh Thursday, May'}, {'start': '547.920', 'end': '551.920', 'text': '1st,'}, {'start': '549.320', 'end': '553.360', 'text': "2025. Uh we are here for today's meeting"}, {'start': '551.920', 'end': '554.880', 'text': 'of the board of county commissioners. So'}, {'start': '553.360', 'end': '557.279', 'text': "at this time, I'd welcome the clerk to"}, {'start': '554.880', 'end': '559.519', 'text': 'please call the role. Commissioner Fast,'}, {'start': '557.279', 'end': '561.440', 'text': 'I. Commissioner Myers, Myers, I.'}, {'start': '559.519', 'end': '563.440', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer. Brewer here.'}, {'start': '561.440', 'end': '565.519', 'text': 'Commissioner Hansick. Hansick here.'}, {'start': '563.440', 'end': '567.760', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft here. Commissioner'}, {'start': '565.519', 'end': '569.519', 'text': 'Alen Brand. Alen Brand I. And Chairman'}, {'start': '567.760', 'end': '570.480', 'text': "Kelly. I'm here. All are present. Would"}, {'start': '569.519', 'end': '573.880', 'text': 'you join me for the pledge of'}, {'start': '570.480', 'end': '573.880', 'text': 'allegiance, please?'}, {'start': '574.560', 'end': '579.760', 'text': 'I pledge algiance to the flag of the'}, {'start': '577.040', 'end': '583.040', 'text': 'United States of America and to the'}, {'start': '579.760', 'end': '586.399', 'text': 'republic for which it stands. One nation'}, {'start': '583.040', 'end': '590.120', 'text': 'under God, indivisible, with liberty and'}, {'start': '586.399', 'end': '590.120', 'text': 'justice for all.'}, {'start': '590.640', 'end': '595.920', 'text': 'Thank you all very much.'}, {'start': '593.120', 'end': '598.240', 'text': 'Uh, we have a an important proclamation'}, {'start': '595.920', 'end': '600.240', 'text': 'this week. And as I walk to the podium,'}, {'start': '598.240', 'end': '601.760', 'text': 'would you do me the favor of checking'}, {'start': '600.240', 'end': '602.959', 'text': 'your cell phone or another noise making'}, {'start': '601.760', 'end': '604.720', 'text': 'device that you may have brought with'}, {'start': '602.959', 'end': '607.279', 'text': "you today, making sure that that's"}, {'start': '604.720', 'end': '610.399', 'text': 'turned to silent or turned off? We'}, {'start': '607.279', 'end': '610.399', 'text': 'really appreciate your'}, {'start': '620.120', 'end': '624.959', 'text': 'cooperation. All right. On behalf of the'}, {'start': '622.959', 'end': '628.040', 'text': "board of county commissioners, it's my"}, {'start': '624.959', 'end': '631.079', 'text': 'honor to proclaim May 1st through 7th,'}, {'start': '628.040', 'end': '633.760', 'text': '2025 as National Correctional Officers'}, {'start': '631.079', 'end': '635.519', 'text': 'Week. During this appreciation week, we'}, {'start': '633.760', 'end': '638.079', 'text': 'recognize and honor the dedicated'}, {'start': '635.519', 'end': '640.399', 'text': 'professionals who serve with integrity,'}, {'start': '638.079', 'end': '643.360', 'text': 'resilience, and unwavering commitment'}, {'start': '640.399', 'end': '646.120', 'text': 'within our facilities. They play a vital'}, {'start': '643.360', 'end': '648.320', 'text': 'role in maintaining safety, supporting'}, {'start': '646.120', 'end': '650.720', 'text': 'rehabilitation. They act as role models'}, {'start': '648.320', 'end': '653.519', 'text': 'and foster accountability among their'}, {'start': '650.720', 'end': '655.760', 'text': 'clients. The work is demanding. We'}, {'start': '653.519', 'end': '658.680', 'text': 'understand that it requires integrity,'}, {'start': '655.760', 'end': '661.519', 'text': 'compassion, and professionalism at all'}, {'start': '658.680', 'end': '663.920', 'text': 'times. Therefore, we express our deepest'}, {'start': '661.519', 'end': '666.160', 'text': 'gratitude for their invaluable service'}, {'start': '663.920', 'end': '668.320', 'text': 'and acknowledge the profound impact that'}, {'start': '666.160', 'end': '670.640', 'text': 'they have on the justice system, on'}, {'start': '668.320', 'end': '672.800', 'text': 'those who they serve, and frankly on the'}, {'start': '670.640', 'end': '674.720', 'text': 'well-being of our entire community.'}, {'start': '672.800', 'end': '676.480', 'text': 'Please join me in welcoming Jodie'}, {'start': '674.720', 'end': '679.200', 'text': 'Taylor, deputy director of juvenile'}, {'start': '676.480', 'end': '681.120', 'text': 'services center to say a few words about'}, {'start': '679.200', 'end': '684.839', 'text': 'the correctional officers with whom she'}, {'start': '681.120', 'end': '684.839', 'text': 'has the pleasure of working.'}, {'start': '692.000', 'end': '695.200', 'text': 'Um, good morning chairman,'}, {'start': '693.360', 'end': '697.120', 'text': 'commissioners. Thank you for having us.'}, {'start': '695.200', 'end': '699.200', 'text': 'Um, correctional officer appreciation'}, {'start': '697.120', 'end': '702.160', 'text': 'week has been observed annually since'}, {'start': '699.200', 'end': '704.279', 'text': '1984. On May 5th of that year, President'}, {'start': '702.160', 'end': '706.800', 'text': 'Ronald Reagan issued Proclamation'}, {'start': '704.279', 'end': '708.480', 'text': '5187, officially designating the first'}, {'start': '706.800', 'end': '710.399', 'text': 'full week of May as National'}, {'start': '708.480', 'end': '712.160', 'text': 'Correctional Officers Week. This'}, {'start': '710.399', 'end': '714.160', 'text': 'proclamation was made in recognition of'}, {'start': '712.160', 'end': '715.680', 'text': 'the vital role of correctional officers'}, {'start': '714.160', 'end': '717.279', 'text': 'play in maintaining the security and'}, {'start': '715.680', 'end': '720.160', 'text': "order of our nation's correctional"}, {'start': '717.279', 'end': '722.399', 'text': 'facilities. As of 2025, this marks the'}, {'start': '720.160', 'end': '724.399', 'text': '41st year honoring the dedication and'}, {'start': '722.399', 'end': '726.560', 'text': 'professionalism of correctional officers'}, {'start': '724.399', 'end': '728.160', 'text': 'and employees nationwide.'}, {'start': '726.560', 'end': '730.399', 'text': 'On behalf of the Department of Corre'}, {'start': '728.160', 'end': '731.680', 'text': 'Corrections, I sincerely thank the board'}, {'start': '730.399', 'end': '733.920', 'text': 'of county commissioners for this'}, {'start': '731.680', 'end': '736.160', 'text': 'meaningful proclamation recognizing'}, {'start': '733.920', 'end': '737.920', 'text': 'correctional officer appreciation week.'}, {'start': '736.160', 'end': '740.079', 'text': 'We deeply appreciate your continued'}, {'start': '737.920', 'end': '741.839', 'text': 'support and acknowledgement of the'}, {'start': '740.079', 'end': '744.320', 'text': 'critical role of our corrections'}, {'start': '741.839', 'end': '746.720', 'text': 'officers play in ensuring safety,'}, {'start': '744.320', 'end': '748.480', 'text': 'fostering rehabilitation, encouraging'}, {'start': '746.720', 'end': '750.720', 'text': 'behavior change, and upholding the'}, {'start': '748.480', 'end': '753.440', 'text': 'values and mission of our department.'}, {'start': '750.720', 'end': '756.240', 'text': 'Today I have shift supervisor Graves,'}, {'start': '753.440', 'end': '758.800', 'text': 'youth correctional advisor to Miller and'}, {'start': '756.240', 'end': '761.440', 'text': 'shift, excuse me, and correctional'}, {'start': '758.800', 'end': '763.839', 'text': 'advisor Enrew of the Juvenile Services'}, {'start': '761.440', 'end': '767.120', 'text': 'Center. I also have transportation'}, {'start': '763.839', 'end': '769.040', 'text': 'officer Abalar, shift supervisor Smith'}, {'start': '767.120', 'end': '771.120', 'text': 'and correctional adviser Mchugh from the'}, {'start': '769.040', 'end': '773.279', 'text': 'adult residential center. This'}, {'start': '771.120', 'end': '775.120', 'text': 'recognition honors their commitment,'}, {'start': '773.279', 'end': '776.959', 'text': 'professionalism, and daily contributions'}, {'start': '775.120', 'end': '778.480', 'text': 'to our community. Thank you for this'}, {'start': '776.959', 'end': '782.600', 'text': 'acknowledgement and appreciate'}, {'start': '778.480', 'end': '782.600', 'text': 'appreciation of their service.'}, {'start': '794.480', 'end': '797.279', 'text': "So if you wouldn't mind joining us for a"}, {'start': '795.920', 'end': '803.240', 'text': 'photograph real quick. Try to all'}, {'start': '797.279', 'end': '803.240', 'text': 'squeeze around camera. Would you mind'}, {'start': '814.639', 'end': '819.560', 'text': 'Thank you. Thank you very much.'}, {'start': '836.639', 'end': '840.000', 'text': 'All right. At this point in our meeting,'}, {'start': '838.399', 'end': '841.600', 'text': "we'll turn to our public comment"}, {'start': '840.000', 'end': '844.000', 'text': 'portion. This is an opportunity for'}, {'start': '841.600', 'end': '845.760', 'text': 'speakers to address the commission on'}, {'start': '844.000', 'end': '848.160', 'text': 'county business that does not later'}, {'start': '845.760', 'end': '850.000', 'text': "appear on today's agenda. If you do wish"}, {'start': '848.160', 'end': '851.680', 'text': 'to wish to speak on an action item, we'}, {'start': '850.000', 'end': '853.600', 'text': 'ask that you register in advance with'}, {'start': '851.680', 'end': '855.120', 'text': 'that action item. And if you happen to'}, {'start': '853.600', 'end': '857.120', 'text': 'speak on an action item during this'}, {'start': '855.120', 'end': '859.440', 'text': "general public comment session, we'll"}, {'start': '857.120', 'end': '860.959', 'text': 'ask that you refrain at this time. When'}, {'start': '859.440', 'end': '863.120', 'text': 'you do come to the podium, we ask that'}, {'start': '860.959', 'end': '865.360', 'text': 'you state your name and the community in'}, {'start': '863.120', 'end': '866.959', 'text': 'which you reside. Uh the comments are'}, {'start': '865.360', 'end': '868.959', 'text': "limited to two minutes. There's a clock"}, {'start': '866.959', 'end': '870.800', 'text': "on either side of the dis that'll assist"}, {'start': '868.959', 'end': '872.959', 'text': 'you with that time limit. If you happen'}, {'start': '870.800', 'end': '875.160', 'text': "to go beyond that two-minute limit, I'm"}, {'start': '872.959', 'end': '877.360', 'text': 'required to ask that you conclude your'}, {'start': '875.160', 'end': '878.800', 'text': 'comments. We do ask that members of the'}, {'start': '877.360', 'end': '880.399', 'text': 'public refrain from remarks that are'}, {'start': '878.800', 'end': '882.399', 'text': 'personally offensive, impertinent,'}, {'start': '880.399', 'end': '884.000', 'text': 'profane, or slanderous. And please'}, {'start': '882.399', 'end': '886.000', 'text': 'refrain from the use of offensive or'}, {'start': '884.000', 'end': '889.440', 'text': 'incorous language that would insult or'}, {'start': '886.000', 'end': '892.880', 'text': 'demean any person. If that kind of'}, {'start': '889.440', 'end': '894.800', 'text': 'public comment uh is received, we will'}, {'start': '892.880', 'end': '896.320', 'text': 'provide a warning. If it continues, we'}, {'start': '894.800', 'end': '899.000', 'text': 'will ask that you step aside from the'}, {'start': '896.320', 'end': '901.600', 'text': 'podium. We do accept public comments'}, {'start': '899.000', 'end': '903.600', 'text': "virtually, and I'll ask the clerk to let"}, {'start': '901.600', 'end': '907.320', 'text': "me know when we're prepared to call on"}, {'start': '903.600', 'end': '907.320', 'text': 'those virtual commenters.'}, {'start': '910.959', 'end': '918.040', 'text': "Chair, we're ready. The first virtual"}, {'start': '913.760', 'end': '918.040', 'text': 'commenter is Leo Kayatt.'}, {'start': '920.320', 'end': '925.040', 'text': 'Good morning, commissioners. Can you'}, {'start': '921.600', 'end': '928.240', 'text': 'hear me? We can hear you. So, I received'}, {'start': '925.040', 'end': '930.480', 'text': 'an email this past weekend from Chief'}, {'start': '928.240', 'end': '933.040', 'text': 'Counsel Trent. She periodically emails'}, {'start': '930.480', 'end': '935.120', 'text': 'me on the weekends. Uh, apparently this'}, {'start': '933.040', 'end': '937.600', 'text': 'particular email, as I understand it,'}, {'start': '935.120', 'end': '939.680', 'text': "was sent at your guys's direction"}, {'start': '937.600', 'end': '943.120', 'text': 'because apparently the commissioners on'}, {'start': '939.680', 'end': '944.880', 'text': 'a Saturday morning were troubled by an'}, {'start': '943.120', 'end': '948.240', 'text': 'order that came out from the Kansas'}, {'start': '944.880', 'end': '951.360', 'text': 'Supreme Court uh this past Friday where'}, {'start': '948.240', 'end': '954.079', 'text': 'the commissioners are a party to it. Uh,'}, {'start': '951.360', 'end': '956.720', 'text': 'now notwithstanding your lawyers'}, {'start': '954.079', 'end': '959.279', 'text': "opinions on the matter, uh here's what"}, {'start': '956.720', 'end': '962.160', 'text': 'will be proven in federal court. number'}, {'start': '959.279', 'end': '964.560', 'text': 'one that it is the irresponsibility of'}, {'start': '962.160', 'end': '968.160', 'text': 'the county management department for'}, {'start': '964.560', 'end': '970.320', 'text': 'months now and this board and your legal'}, {'start': '968.160', 'end': '973.120', 'text': 'department that caused that order to be'}, {'start': '970.320', 'end': '975.079', 'text': 'issued by the Kansas Supreme Court. The'}, {'start': '973.120', 'end': '977.639', 'text': 'timing of that order was not a'}, {'start': '975.079', 'end': '980.279', 'text': 'coincidence. It was based on'}, {'start': '977.639', 'end': '983.440', 'text': 'irresponsibility of the people on this'}, {'start': '980.279', 'end': '985.759', 'text': 'dis and the legal department and the'}, {'start': '983.440', 'end': '988.240', 'text': 'management office and all of that will'}, {'start': '985.759', 'end': '990.880', 'text': 'be proven in federal court. It will also'}, {'start': '988.240', 'end': '993.839', 'text': 'be proven that as recently as last week,'}, {'start': '990.880', 'end': '995.480', 'text': 'one of the directors of Johnson County'}, {'start': '993.839', 'end': '998.320', 'text': 'continued to lie to'}, {'start': '995.480', 'end': '1001.120', 'text': 'me cuz your lawyer has admitted that'}, {'start': '998.320', 'end': '1003.839', 'text': 'repeatedly this past week and now law'}, {'start': '1001.120', 'end': '1005.600', 'text': "enforcement's involved. Yesterday, just"}, {'start': '1003.839', 'end': '1008.160', 'text': "before 10 p.m., law enforcement's"}, {'start': '1005.600', 'end': '1011.360', 'text': 'contacting me asking me for evidence.'}, {'start': '1008.160', 'end': '1013.560', 'text': 'So, you all can keep can continue lying.'}, {'start': '1011.360', 'end': '1016.079', 'text': 'You can continue'}, {'start': '1013.560', 'end': '1018.720', 'text': 'negligence. I my understanding is'}, {'start': '1016.079', 'end': '1021.360', 'text': "there's been some progress made and"}, {'start': '1018.720', 'end': '1024.079', 'text': 'hundreds of thousands of un of dollars'}, {'start': '1021.360', 'end': '1025.799', 'text': 'in undocumented taxpayer money is no'}, {'start': '1024.079', 'end': '1027.839', 'text': 'longer being paid to Kirk Ridgeway'}, {'start': '1025.799', 'end': '1029.360', 'text': 'apparently. And my understanding is'}, {'start': '1027.839', 'end': '1031.919', 'text': "there's now an interview process to"}, {'start': '1029.360', 'end': '1033.600', 'text': 'actually retain somebody to stop the'}, {'start': '1031.919', 'end': '1035.600', 'text': "corruption that's been going on for 20"}, {'start': '1033.600', 'end': '1038.559', 'text': 'years inconsistent with every other'}, {'start': '1035.600', 'end': '1040.559', 'text': 'county in the state of Kansas.'}, {'start': '1038.559', 'end': '1042.679', 'text': "I'll see you all in federal court"}, {'start': '1040.559', 'end': '1045.439', 'text': 'because you all torture people, ruin'}, {'start': '1042.679', 'end': '1046.640', 'text': 'lives, negligence, and massive'}, {'start': '1045.439', 'end': '1049.440', 'text': 'irresponsibility. Thank you very much,'}, {'start': '1046.640', 'end': '1051.320', 'text': "Mr. Kay. Your time has expired. We'll"}, {'start': '1049.440', 'end': '1053.520', 'text': 'move on to our in-person public'}, {'start': '1051.320', 'end': '1056.520', 'text': 'commenters, starting today with Ben'}, {'start': '1053.520', 'end': '1056.520', 'text': 'Hobert.'}, {'start': '1077.280', 'end': '1080.480', 'text': 'Ben Hoverbert, Westwood Hills. Chairman'}, {'start': '1078.960', 'end': '1083.200', 'text': 'Kelly and Commissioners, my comments'}, {'start': '1080.480', 'end': '1085.039', 'text': 'relate to your 5.5 million toilet'}, {'start': '1083.200', 'end': '1087.360', 'text': 'travesty of rainwater catchment at the'}, {'start': '1085.039', 'end': '1090.320', 'text': 'new health services building. I provided'}, {'start': '1087.360', 'end': '1090.320', 'text': 'you with detailed'}, {'start': '1091.080', 'end': '1095.600', 'text': 'computations which demonstrate that with'}, {'start': '1093.280', 'end': '1097.120', 'text': 'a 10,000galon storage tank, a best case'}, {'start': '1095.600', 'end': '1099.360', 'text': 'scenario is that the system recaptures'}, {'start': '1097.120', 'end': '1101.120', 'text': 'less than 70,000 gallons a year. Even'}, {'start': '1099.360', 'end': '1102.720', 'text': 'that is grossly optimistic given that'}, {'start': '1101.120', 'end': '1104.320', 'text': 'the tank may be only partially empty'}, {'start': '1102.720', 'end': '1106.240', 'text': 'when rains come. There are measurable'}, {'start': '1104.320', 'end': '1108.480', 'text': 'rains of 1/10enth to 3/10en of an inch'}, {'start': '1106.240', 'end': '1110.320', 'text': "that don't flow and there is an initial"}, {'start': '1108.480', 'end': '1113.120', 'text': 'flush cleansing with every rainfall that'}, {'start': '1110.320', 'end': '1115.280', 'text': "doesn't go into the tanks. Mr. Baron"}, {'start': '1113.120', 'end': '1117.440', 'text': 'used the simple payback method which'}, {'start': '1115.280', 'end': '1119.840', 'text': 'disregards the loss of investment income'}, {'start': '1117.440', 'end': '1121.679', 'text': 'on the cost incurred. Any college'}, {'start': '1119.840', 'end': '1123.520', 'text': 'finance major will inform you that the'}, {'start': '1121.679', 'end': '1126.080', 'text': 'simple payback method is only used for'}, {'start': '1123.520', 'end': '1128.559', 'text': 'short-term decisions such as do I buy a'}, {'start': '1126.080', 'end': '1130.200', 'text': 'skid steer or a truck. In such a case,'}, {'start': '1128.559', 'end': '1132.720', 'text': 'the time value of money can be'}, {'start': '1130.200', 'end': '1134.720', 'text': 'disregarded. In this case, Mr. Baron'}, {'start': '1132.720', 'end': '1138.400', 'text': 'disregarded the cost of investment'}, {'start': '1134.720', 'end': '1141.039', 'text': 'income loss of approximately 4.2 million'}, {'start': '1138.400', 'end': '1143.679', 'text': 'at a 4.66% 66% interest rate in weighing'}, {'start': '1141.039', 'end': '1145.840', 'text': "the let's waste the money decision. I"}, {'start': '1143.679', 'end': '1150.480', 'text': 'provide the board with a future value'}, {'start': '1145.840', 'end': '1150.480', 'text': 'calculator showing that amount. Chairman'}, {'start': '1151.400', 'end': '1158.240', 'text': 'Kelly, your'}, {'start': '1153.400', 'end': '1159.799', 'text': 'cost of nonpotable water is in excess of'}, {'start': '1158.240', 'end': '1162.559', 'text': '$2 per'}, {'start': '1159.799', 'end': '1164.640', 'text': 'gallon. Mr. Baron mentioned the simple'}, {'start': '1162.559', 'end': '1170.559', 'text': 'Bayback method in your March 6th meeting'}, {'start': '1164.640', 'end': '1171.880', 'text': 'three times at 420 4232 4423 and at 4453'}, {'start': '1170.559', 'end': '1173.919', 'text': 'under'}, {'start': '1171.880', 'end': '1176.400', 'text': 'KSA45-22120 when records are publicly'}, {'start': '1173.919', 'end': '1178.200', 'text': 'cited or identified in an open meeting.'}, {'start': '1176.400', 'end': '1180.880', 'text': 'The exemption to disclosure does not'}, {'start': '1178.200', 'end': '1183.679', 'text': "apply. I've given your legal department"}, {'start': '1180.880', 'end': '1185.280', 'text': 'three grace periods to respond. They'}, {'start': '1183.679', 'end': '1187.919', 'text': 'have not provided the simple payback'}, {'start': '1185.280', 'end': '1190.000', 'text': 'method computation. Accordingly, I will'}, {'start': '1187.919', 'end': '1192.480', 'text': 'be filing a court of complaint with the'}, {'start': '1190.000', 'end': '1194.480', 'text': 'Kansas Attorney General and the Johnson'}, {'start': '1192.480', 'end': '1197.039', 'text': 'County District Attorney. Thank you for'}, {'start': '1194.480', 'end': '1199.440', 'text': 'receiving my comments. Thank you. Next'}, {'start': '1197.039', 'end': '1199.440', 'text': 'is Jeff'}, {'start': '1209.480', 'end': '1214.799', 'text': 'Harkness. Jeff Harkness, Overland Park'}, {'start': '1212.400', 'end': '1217.280', 'text': 'Chair, Commissioners. America has become'}, {'start': '1214.799', 'end': '1219.679', 'text': 'seriously polarized and who suffers the'}, {'start': '1217.280', 'end': '1222.080', 'text': 'most from this our children and our'}, {'start': '1219.679', 'end': '1223.679', 'text': 'young adults. So we this which has put'}, {'start': '1222.080', 'end': '1225.600', 'text': 'us to the point where we need crisis'}, {'start': '1223.679', 'end': '1227.520', 'text': 'centers and co-responders. In the'}, {'start': '1225.600', 'end': '1230.000', 'text': 'transition of co-responders to Overland'}, {'start': '1227.520', 'end': '1232.520', 'text': 'Park I filed two notices with Overland'}, {'start': '1230.000', 'end': '1235.120', 'text': 'Park about incidents I had at the main'}, {'start': '1232.520', 'end': '1236.880', 'text': 'library. And as I figured nothing was'}, {'start': '1235.120', 'end': '1238.799', 'text': 'going to appear on the incident reports'}, {'start': '1236.880', 'end': '1242.080', 'text': 'about the library or or the incident'}, {'start': '1238.799', 'end': '1243.600', 'text': "itself. The mental health department's"}, {'start': '1242.080', 'end': '1246.880', 'text': 'indifference towards the public'}, {'start': '1243.600', 'end': '1248.720', 'text': 'resonates throughout our county. Sheriff'}, {'start': '1246.880', 'end': '1250.159', 'text': 'Hayden was concerned about the'}, {'start': '1248.720', 'end': '1253.039', 'text': 'inflexibility of the mental health'}, {'start': '1250.159', 'end': '1255.360', 'text': 'department. So, he he outsourced it to'}, {'start': '1253.039', 'end': '1258.320', 'text': 'vital core. Now, I hope we keep this'}, {'start': '1255.360', 'end': '1259.760', 'text': 'going when, you know, helped develop'}, {'start': '1258.320', 'end': '1261.360', 'text': 'the, you know, work with our in-house'}, {'start': '1259.760', 'end': '1264.159', 'text': 'stuff and help develop the crisis'}, {'start': '1261.360', 'end': '1266.640', 'text': 'center. I have faith in the new new uh'}, {'start': '1264.159', 'end': '1268.720', 'text': "Sheriff Robertson because he's from one"}, {'start': '1266.640', 'end': '1270.240', 'text': 'of my favorite cities when I was growing'}, {'start': '1268.720', 'end': '1273.600', 'text': 'up. Overland Park, Prairie Village,'}, {'start': '1270.240', 'end': '1276.240', 'text': 'Roland Park, and Shaune. Sheriff Denning'}, {'start': '1273.600', 'end': '1278.480', 'text': 'is was for the crisis center and he made'}, {'start': '1276.240', 'end': '1280.159', 'text': 'me aware of the social order changes and'}, {'start': '1278.480', 'end': '1282.799', 'text': 'he was going to be standing at the gate.'}, {'start': '1280.159', 'end': '1284.400', 'text': 'So, I took notice to that and realized'}, {'start': '1282.799', 'end': '1286.640', 'text': 'what was going on in our neighborhoods'}, {'start': '1284.400', 'end': '1289.039', 'text': 'and regions and I decided to wait till'}, {'start': '1286.640', 'end': '1292.559', 'text': 'now with redistricting and rebranding of'}, {'start': '1289.039', 'end': '1294.880', 'text': 'our cities to speak up about that.'}, {'start': '1292.559', 'end': '1296.640', 'text': 'Now that Facebook and Twitter have'}, {'start': '1294.880', 'end': '1298.240', 'text': "changed their names and platform, it's"}, {'start': '1296.640', 'end': '1300.480', 'text': 'time we go after the individuals and'}, {'start': '1298.240', 'end': '1301.760', 'text': "groups that harass people. I'm willing"}, {'start': '1300.480', 'end': '1304.400', 'text': 'to work with the county, the sheriff,'}, {'start': '1301.760', 'end': '1305.919', 'text': 'and whoever. We probably share the same'}, {'start': '1304.400', 'end': '1308.480', 'text': 'groups of people and same individuals'}, {'start': '1305.919', 'end': '1309.520', 'text': "that that harass and bully. So, let's,"}, {'start': '1308.480', 'end': '1310.799', 'text': "you know, I don't want to come up here"}, {'start': '1309.520', 'end': '1312.159', 'text': 'every week and say this. Maybe we can'}, {'start': '1310.799', 'end': '1314.080', 'text': 'work something out in the background.'}, {'start': '1312.159', 'end': '1317.400', 'text': 'Thank you. Thank you, sir. Next is'}, {'start': '1314.080', 'end': '1317.400', 'text': "Charlotte O'Hara."}, {'start': '1326.320', 'end': '1331.840', 'text': 'Good'}, {'start': '1327.720', 'end': '1333.919', 'text': 'morning. 1st of May and uh with all this'}, {'start': '1331.840', 'end': '1336.799', 'text': "rain that we've had, the flowers are"}, {'start': '1333.919', 'end': '1339.280', 'text': 'beautiful. Except my dogs are playing'}, {'start': '1336.799', 'end': '1341.679', 'text': 'havoc with my irises. They are demanding'}, {'start': '1339.280', 'end': '1343.919', 'text': 'that that is their play pen, I guess.'}, {'start': '1341.679', 'end': '1347.280', 'text': 'Anyway, beautiful, beautiful weather.'}, {'start': '1343.919', 'end': '1349.159', 'text': 'Beautiful, beautiful flowers. Um, I'}, {'start': '1347.280', 'end': '1353.120', 'text': 'wanted to talk about the cruel'}, {'start': '1349.159', 'end': '1355.919', 'text': 'indifference that we uh as a taxpayers'}, {'start': '1353.120', 'end': '1359.039', 'text': 'are suffering from not only the county'}, {'start': '1355.919', 'end': '1361.039', 'text': 'level but at the state level. Our'}, {'start': '1359.039', 'end': '1365.520', 'text': "governor just announced that she's"}, {'start': '1361.039', 'end': '1369.919', 'text': 'giving $154 million of our tax dollars'}, {'start': '1365.520', 'end': '1373.679', 'text': 'to FISve, a Milwaukeebased uh financial'}, {'start': '1369.919', 'end': '1376.320', 'text': "service company that's coming down to um"}, {'start': '1373.679', 'end': '1379.760', 'text': 'uh be in the old Sprint Center and they'}, {'start': '1376.320', 'end': '1383.120', 'text': 'will be leasing the space for 10 years.'}, {'start': '1379.760', 'end': '1387.919', 'text': 'Uh now Overland Park is also considering'}, {'start': '1383.120', 'end': '1391.200', 'text': 'giving them a 40% tax rebate on the'}, {'start': '1387.919', 'end': '1393.120', 'text': 'property taxes. I have asked uh how that'}, {'start': '1391.200', 'end': '1396.080', 'text': 'is going to be accomplished because I'}, {'start': '1393.120', 'end': '1399.200', 'text': 'have not heard of that uh collecting the'}, {'start': '1396.080', 'end': '1402.799', 'text': 'taxes and then rebating and then doing a'}, {'start': '1399.200', 'end': '1404.799', 'text': 'rebate to the to the um applicant. But I'}, {'start': '1402.799', 'end': '1407.200', 'text': 'will report on that. The other thing I'}, {'start': '1404.799', 'end': '1410.240', 'text': 'wanted to talk about is that I think'}, {'start': '1407.200', 'end': '1413.200', 'text': 'that you should be aware of the books'}, {'start': '1410.240', 'end': '1416.720', 'text': 'that are in our school libraries and in'}, {'start': '1413.200', 'end': '1420.240', 'text': 'our public libraries. Um, this is this'}, {'start': '1416.720', 'end': '1422.000', 'text': 'is compiled by the Moms for Liberty and'}, {'start': '1420.240', 'end': '1425.039', 'text': 'you can go out on their website and find'}, {'start': '1422.000', 'end': '1427.200', 'text': 'it. I cannot show any of the pictures or'}, {'start': '1425.039', 'end': '1431.120', 'text': 'read anything from this because it would'}, {'start': '1427.200', 'end': '1433.919', 'text': 'be in violation of um profane and lack'}, {'start': '1431.120', 'end': '1436.320', 'text': 'of decorum and in my opinion it would be'}, {'start': '1433.919', 'end': '1437.919', 'text': "obscene. So it's very important that you"}, {'start': '1436.320', 'end': '1439.760', 'text': 'go out and look at this and then I would'}, {'start': '1437.919', 'end': '1442.080', 'text': 'like to know what you think that the'}, {'start': '1439.760', 'end': '1444.480', 'text': 'value of these books being in our school'}, {'start': '1442.080', 'end': '1447.120', 'text': 'and public libraries what value there'}, {'start': '1444.480', 'end': '1448.880', 'text': 'is. Now I do believe that Gardner has'}, {'start': '1447.120', 'end': '1451.360', 'text': 'removed a couple of the books that are'}, {'start': '1448.880', 'end': '1453.520', 'text': 'listed. So I just wanted to make that'}, {'start': '1451.360', 'end': '1454.720', 'text': 'and thank you Mr. Chairman. All right,'}, {'start': '1453.520', 'end': '1456.559', 'text': "that's all the registered public"}, {'start': '1454.720', 'end': '1459.279', 'text': 'commenters that we have this morning.'}, {'start': '1456.559', 'end': '1462.320', 'text': "We'll move on to the business session at"}, {'start': '1459.279', 'end': '1464.159', 'text': 'this time or but prior there too, one'}, {'start': '1462.320', 'end': '1465.600', 'text': "quick note for the record. I'll be"}, {'start': '1464.159', 'end': '1467.520', 'text': 'signing an agreement with the city of'}, {'start': '1465.600', 'end': '1469.360', 'text': 'Roland Park for a storm water system'}, {'start': '1467.520', 'end': '1472.000', 'text': 'renewal project known as Null Avenue'}, {'start': '1469.360', 'end': '1472.000', 'text': 'storm water'}, {'start': '1472.039', 'end': '1476.159', 'text': 'project. Uh and without further ado, now'}, {'start': '1474.480', 'end': '1478.720', 'text': "to the business session. We'll start"}, {'start': '1476.159', 'end': '1480.799', 'text': 'with a consent agenda and hear a motion'}, {'start': '1478.720', 'end': '1483.120', 'text': 'from Commissioner Hansick. Thank you,'}, {'start': '1480.799', 'end': '1487.120', 'text': 'Mr. Chair. I move to approve the consent'}, {'start': '1483.120', 'end': '1489.200', 'text': 'agenda as presented. Alan Bran. I So'}, {'start': '1487.120', 'end': '1492.159', 'text': 'moved by Commissioner Hanick and'}, {'start': '1489.200', 'end': '1493.279', 'text': 'seconded by Commissioner Alan Bran. At'}, {'start': '1492.159', 'end': '1495.600', 'text': 'this time, would the clerk please call'}, {'start': '1493.279', 'end': '1497.520', 'text': 'the role? Commissioner Fast. I.'}, {'start': '1495.600', 'end': '1500.000', 'text': 'Commissioner Myers. Myers. I. Mr.'}, {'start': '1497.520', 'end': '1502.720', 'text': 'Brewer. Brewer. I. Mr. Hansick.'}, {'start': '1500.000', 'end': '1505.039', 'text': 'Hanslick. I. Mr. Ashcraft. Yes. Mr.'}, {'start': '1502.720', 'end': '1507.279', 'text': 'Alenbrand. Alenbrand. I. and Chairman'}, {'start': '1505.039', 'end': '1508.480', 'text': 'Kelly. I We have seven in favor, none'}, {'start': '1507.279', 'end': '1510.880', 'text': 'against. Is that consistent with your'}, {'start': '1508.480', 'end': '1512.799', 'text': "count? That is correct. Very good. We'll"}, {'start': '1510.880', 'end': '1514.320', 'text': "move on at this time to what's item"}, {'start': '1512.799', 'end': '1517.120', 'text': "number five in your agenda? It's the"}, {'start': '1514.320', 'end': '1519.440', 'text': 'minutes from the April 10, 2025 business'}, {'start': '1517.120', 'end': '1521.120', 'text': 'session. Commissioner Allen Brand will'}, {'start': '1519.440', 'end': '1522.760', 'text': 'abstain from this vote. Are there any'}, {'start': '1521.120', 'end': '1525.039', 'text': 'questions or comments on these'}, {'start': '1522.760', 'end': '1527.039', 'text': 'minutes? Seeing none, is there a motion?'}, {'start': '1525.039', 'end': '1530.159', 'text': 'Commissioner Hansick. I move to approve'}, {'start': '1527.039', 'end': '1532.480', 'text': 'the April 10th, 2025 business session'}, {'start': '1530.159', 'end': '1534.159', 'text': 'minutes. Second. Moved by Commissioner'}, {'start': '1532.480', 'end': '1535.760', 'text': 'Hansick and seconded by Commissioner'}, {'start': '1534.159', 'end': '1537.679', 'text': 'Myers. Any further questions or comments'}, {'start': '1535.760', 'end': '1540.960', 'text': 'at this time? Seeing none, would the'}, {'start': '1537.679', 'end': '1543.120', 'text': 'clerk call the role? Commissioner Fast.'}, {'start': '1540.960', 'end': '1545.120', 'text': 'I. Commissioner Myers. Myers. I.'}, {'start': '1543.120', 'end': '1547.039', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer. Brewer. I.'}, {'start': '1545.120', 'end': '1549.440', 'text': 'Commissioner Hansick. Hanslick. I.'}, {'start': '1547.039', 'end': '1551.760', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft. Yes. Commissioner'}, {'start': '1549.440', 'end': '1554.400', 'text': 'Alen Brand. Alen Brand abstain. Thank'}, {'start': '1551.760', 'end': '1556.000', 'text': 'you. And Chairman Kelly. I. We have six'}, {'start': '1554.400', 'end': '1557.520', 'text': 'in favor, none against, one abstension.'}, {'start': '1556.000', 'end': '1558.799', 'text': 'Is that consistent with your count? That'}, {'start': '1557.520', 'end': '1560.880', 'text': 'is correct. Very good. Thank you very'}, {'start': '1558.799', 'end': '1563.400', 'text': "much. Then at this time we'll go to"}, {'start': '1560.880', 'end': '1568.000', 'text': 'resolution number'}, {'start': '1563.400', 'end': '1570.400', 'text': '040-25. This is a request for a revised'}, {'start': '1568.000', 'end': '1573.679', 'text': 'preliminary development plan for metaf'}, {'start': '1570.400', 'end': '1575.600', 'text': '211 phase 3. Michelle Lininger is here'}, {'start': '1573.679', 'end': '1577.440', 'text': 'from the planning department. Miss'}, {'start': '1575.600', 'end': '1581.520', 'text': 'Linger, thank you for your presentation'}, {'start': '1577.440', 'end': '1583.039', 'text': 'on this matter uh and this application'}, {'start': '1581.520', 'end': '1585.120', 'text': "uh which is in Commissioner Brewer's"}, {'start': '1583.039', 'end': '1587.600', 'text': "district. Uh any further report you'd"}, {'start': '1585.120', 'end': '1589.679', 'text': 'like to provide at this time? Michelle'}, {'start': '1587.600', 'end': '1592.000', 'text': "Lioner, County Planning Staff. I don't"}, {'start': '1589.679', 'end': '1594.240', 'text': 'have any uh additional information to'}, {'start': '1592.000', 'end': '1597.520', 'text': 'provide. Just want to let you know that'}, {'start': '1594.240', 'end': '1600.720', 'text': 'um the business representatives are here'}, {'start': '1597.520', 'end': '1603.679', 'text': 'and available for any questions and also'}, {'start': '1600.720', 'end': '1606.000', 'text': 'is the engineer. Very good. Well, thank'}, {'start': '1603.679', 'end': '1607.120', 'text': 'you all for being here this morning. Um'}, {'start': '1606.000', 'end': '1609.039', 'text': "Miss Linger, at this time I'm going to"}, {'start': '1607.120', 'end': '1610.240', 'text': 'ask that you step aside. We do allow'}, {'start': '1609.039', 'end': '1612.640', 'text': 'public comments from those who'}, {'start': '1610.240', 'end': '1614.080', 'text': 'registered on items in advance. Uh we'}, {'start': '1612.640', 'end': '1617.400', 'text': "have two of those today. We'll start"}, {'start': '1614.080', 'end': '1617.400', 'text': 'with Ben Hobert.'}, {'start': '1626.640', 'end': '1629.919', 'text': 'Ben Hobert, Westwood Hills. Chairman'}, {'start': '1628.480', 'end': '1632.000', 'text': 'Kelly and commissioners. The proposed'}, {'start': '1629.919', 'end': '1635.200', 'text': 'plan development at 210th Street on the'}, {'start': '1632.000', 'end': '1637.120', 'text': 'west side of Medcat a a metaf is'}, {'start': '1635.200', 'end': '1639.440', 'text': 'directly to the southwest of the soccer'}, {'start': '1637.120', 'end': '1641.120', 'text': 'complex to be constructed between 203rd'}, {'start': '1639.440', 'end': '1643.279', 'text': 'and 205th street on the east side of'}, {'start': '1641.120', 'end': '1644.640', 'text': 'Medcaf. Please recall that when this'}, {'start': '1643.279', 'end': '1646.480', 'text': 'board approved the conditional use'}, {'start': '1644.640', 'end': '1648.400', 'text': 'permit for the soccer complex, you did'}, {'start': '1646.480', 'end': '1650.640', 'text': 'not include a southbound turn lane into'}, {'start': '1648.400', 'end': '1653.200', 'text': 'the complex despite then commissioner'}, {'start': '1650.640', 'end': '1655.039', 'text': "O'Hara pleading with the board to do so."}, {'start': '1653.200', 'end': '1657.120', 'text': 'Now, this plan development will increase'}, {'start': '1655.039', 'end': '1658.640', 'text': 'traffic likely significantly. I noted in'}, {'start': '1657.120', 'end': '1660.880', 'text': 'the final development plan briefing'}, {'start': '1658.640', 'end': '1663.279', 'text': 'sheet, it is stated, quote, "The East'}, {'start': '1660.880', 'end': '1664.960', 'text': 'Consolidated Zoning Board also strongly'}, {'start': '1663.279', 'end': '1667.840', 'text': 'recommended that business traffic'}, {'start': '1664.960', 'end': '1669.840', 'text': 'utilize METACF Avenue South to 223rd'}, {'start': '1667.840', 'end': '1672.240', 'text': 'Street to avoid the potential traffic'}, {'start': '1669.840', 'end': '1674.480', 'text': 'from the proposed soccer complex. What'}, {'start': '1672.240', 'end': '1676.720', 'text': 'good does a recommendation do? Will'}, {'start': '1674.480', 'end': '1678.320', 'text': 'there be a stipulation that no large'}, {'start': '1676.720', 'end': '1680.000', 'text': 'truck traffic to this planned'}, {'start': '1678.320', 'end': '1682.960', 'text': 'development will be permitted from the'}, {'start': '1680.000', 'end': '1684.960', 'text': 'north by a medaf? Otherwise, the very'}, {'start': '1682.960', 'end': '1686.640', 'text': 'traffic backup problem and safety issue'}, {'start': '1684.960', 'end': '1689.120', 'text': "that former commissioner O'Hara warned"}, {'start': '1686.640', 'end': '1691.279', 'text': "about will result. Shouldn't this"}, {'start': '1689.120', 'end': '1695.440', 'text': 'restriction requiring that large truck'}, {'start': '1691.279', 'end': '1697.120', 'text': 'traffic exit 69 highway at 223rd Street'}, {'start': '1695.440', 'end': '1699.760', 'text': 'and then come north to the planned'}, {'start': '1697.120', 'end': '1702.640', 'text': 'development rather than using metaf from'}, {'start': '1699.760', 'end': '1705.200', 'text': 'the north be embedded in both the final'}, {'start': '1702.640', 'end': '1708.000', 'text': 'development plan and the subsequently to'}, {'start': '1705.200', 'end': '1710.640', 'text': 'be considered conditional use permit.'}, {'start': '1708.000', 'end': '1713.279', 'text': 'Thank you. Thank you. Next is Charlotte'}, {'start': '1710.640', 'end': '1713.279', 'text': "O'Hara."}, {'start': '1719.760', 'end': '1725.440', 'text': "Charlotte, O'Hara, Johnson County. Um,"}, {'start': '1722.480', 'end': '1729.120', 'text': 'yes, the traffic is an issue on METAF.'}, {'start': '1725.440', 'end': '1731.600', 'text': 'That is a two-lane road. Uh, I echo uh'}, {'start': '1729.120', 'end': '1735.200', 'text': "Mr. Hbert's concerns on that and would"}, {'start': '1731.600', 'end': '1738.240', 'text': 'would urge you to make a stipulation'}, {'start': '1735.200', 'end': '1741.279', 'text': 'that there would be no uh no heavy'}, {'start': '1738.240', 'end': '1745.360', 'text': 'trucks that are that carry the medical'}, {'start': '1741.279', 'end': '1746.880', 'text': "waste from 199th down to 207th. I don't"}, {'start': '1745.360', 'end': '1750.960', 'text': 'know how that that was going to be very'}, {'start': '1746.880', 'end': '1752.080', 'text': "very very difficult to police. Um so I'm"}, {'start': '1750.960', 'end': '1753.840', 'text': "not sure how that's going to be"}, {'start': '1752.080', 'end': '1755.600', 'text': 'accomplished. But this these issues need'}, {'start': '1753.840', 'end': '1758.880', 'text': 'to be taken into consideration before'}, {'start': '1755.600', 'end': '1760.720', 'text': 'giving giving a conditional use permit'}, {'start': '1758.880', 'end': '1762.880', 'text': 'and going forward and then finding that'}, {'start': '1760.720', 'end': '1765.760', 'text': "you have these issues and there's really"}, {'start': '1762.880', 'end': '1767.760', 'text': 'nothing you can do. Uh turning lane on'}, {'start': '1765.760', 'end': '1769.760', 'text': 'the soccer complex would have been a'}, {'start': '1767.760', 'end': '1771.679', 'text': 'great help, but the majority of the'}, {'start': '1769.760', 'end': '1774.240', 'text': 'board refused to take that into'}, {'start': '1771.679', 'end': '1777.279', 'text': 'consideration. The other the other thing'}, {'start': '1774.240', 'end': '1781.600', 'text': 'is is that these facil this facility is'}, {'start': '1777.279', 'end': '1785.679', 'text': "is on septic tanks and I'm wondering if"}, {'start': '1781.600', 'end': '1788.960', 'text': 'a medical um waste treatment facility'}, {'start': '1785.679', 'end': '1791.440', 'text': 'like this is is are there any others'}, {'start': '1788.960', 'end': '1795.799', 'text': 'that are on septic tanks rather than'}, {'start': '1791.440', 'end': '1798.320', 'text': 'being on a municipal um sewage treatment'}, {'start': '1795.799', 'end': '1801.039', 'text': 'facilities? I know that none of the'}, {'start': '1798.320', 'end': '1804.000', 'text': 'contamination is supposedly going into'}, {'start': '1801.039', 'end': '1806.399', 'text': 'the the septic system, but I just wonder'}, {'start': '1804.000', 'end': '1809.760', 'text': 'if if this is allowed. The other thing,'}, {'start': '1806.399', 'end': '1813.200', 'text': 'there are only four people on our east'}, {'start': '1809.760', 'end': '1815.279', 'text': 'zoning board. There should be seven. And'}, {'start': '1813.200', 'end': '1817.520', 'text': 'I think that as you go forward and'}, {'start': '1815.279', 'end': '1819.840', 'text': "you're taking a look at these huge"}, {'start': '1817.520', 'end': '1823.919', 'text': 'impacts on the community that you need'}, {'start': '1819.840', 'end': '1826.399', 'text': 'to have that zoning board fully um uh'}, {'start': '1823.919', 'end': '1829.279', 'text': 'staffed with um with representatives'}, {'start': '1826.399', 'end': '1830.640', 'text': 'from the community. Thank you. All'}, {'start': '1829.279', 'end': '1832.399', 'text': "right, that's all the registered public"}, {'start': '1830.640', 'end': '1837.039', 'text': 'comments we have on this one. I invite'}, {'start': '1832.399', 'end': '1839.440', 'text': 'Miss Linger uh back to the podium for uh'}, {'start': '1837.039', 'end': '1843.600', 'text': 'questions. And Miss Lininger, it looks'}, {'start': '1839.440', 'end': '1845.360', 'text': 'like this was uh approved uh by the'}, {'start': '1843.600', 'end': '1847.200', 'text': 'Eastern Consolidated Zoning Board'}, {'start': '1845.360', 'end': '1849.360', 'text': "unanimously. Is that correct? That's"}, {'start': '1847.200', 'end': '1851.360', 'text': 'correct. And staff recommends approval'}, {'start': '1849.360', 'end': '1854.159', 'text': 'with the stipulations'}, {'start': '1851.360', 'end': '1856.320', 'text': 'um as presented within our briefing'}, {'start': '1854.159', 'end': '1858.080', 'text': 'sheet. Correct. Correct. All right. Uh'}, {'start': '1856.320', 'end': '1860.480', 'text': 'invite questions and comments at this'}, {'start': '1858.080', 'end': '1863.520', 'text': 'time. Commissioner Allen Brandt first.'}, {'start': '1860.480', 'end': '1865.440', 'text': 'Thank you, Chair. Um well, I want to I'}, {'start': '1863.520', 'end': '1868.720', 'text': 'appreciate the detailed um briefing'}, {'start': '1865.440', 'end': '1872.240', 'text': 'sheet that we received and um I see that'}, {'start': '1868.720', 'end': '1875.760', 'text': 'that no residents attended or had any'}, {'start': '1872.240', 'end': '1879.679', 'text': 'issues with this going on. And then also'}, {'start': '1875.760', 'end': '1881.279', 'text': "um I know that you've talked to um"}, {'start': '1879.679', 'end': '1884.080', 'text': 'according to this briefing sheet, you'}, {'start': '1881.279', 'end': '1886.399', 'text': "also talked to our roads. So we've we've"}, {'start': '1884.080', 'end': '1890.799', 'text': "completely studied that. Um, I'm"}, {'start': '1886.399', 'end': '1893.360', 'text': 'impressed by um their um their outdoor'}, {'start': '1890.799', 'end': '1895.120', 'text': 'landscaping and the exterior lights and'}, {'start': '1893.360', 'end': '1898.559', 'text': 'stuff. So, to me, this meets all the'}, {'start': '1895.120', 'end': '1901.200', 'text': 'criteria um that we set forth and I'}, {'start': '1898.559', 'end': '1904.320', 'text': 'appreciate the expertise from our staff'}, {'start': '1901.200', 'end': '1908.200', 'text': 'and from our uh roads people of their um'}, {'start': '1904.320', 'end': '1908.200', 'text': 'comments. So, thank you,'}, {'start': '1908.480', 'end': '1912.720', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer. Uh and I just want'}, {'start': '1911.120', 'end': '1914.960', 'text': 'to say, Miss Linger, I appreciate the'}, {'start': '1912.720', 'end': '1917.039', 'text': 'time that you and Mr. Penley took uh'}, {'start': '1914.960', 'end': '1919.360', 'text': 'with me in meeting along this'}, {'start': '1917.039', 'end': '1921.919', 'text': "development and uh the motion that's"}, {'start': '1919.360', 'end': '1924.159', 'text': 'currently under review is is replatting'}, {'start': '1921.919', 'end': '1926.159', 'text': 'of land within the existing footprint of'}, {'start': '1924.159', 'end': '1928.080', 'text': "area that's already been platted for"}, {'start': '1926.159', 'end': '1931.360', 'text': 'this type of for the type of industrial'}, {'start': '1928.080', 'end': '1933.679', 'text': "use that's going to be uh recommended."}, {'start': '1931.360', 'end': '1936.080', 'text': 'And um I appreciate at the agenda'}, {'start': '1933.679', 'end': '1938.399', 'text': 'review, the robust conversation we had'}, {'start': '1936.080', 'end': '1941.039', 'text': 'regarding the platting and regarding the'}, {'start': '1938.399', 'end': '1943.519', 'text': 'changes uh on this particular motion'}, {'start': '1941.039', 'end': '1946.399', 'text': "that we're looking at right now and road"}, {'start': '1943.519', 'end': '1948.480', 'text': 'usage. Um so my questions were satisfied'}, {'start': '1946.399', 'end': '1951.039', 'text': 'in those two gatherings. So I appreciate'}, {'start': '1948.480', 'end': '1952.960', 'text': 'that and uh chair when the time is'}, {'start': '1951.039', 'end': '1954.640', 'text': "appropriate I'd be happy to offer a"}, {'start': '1952.960', 'end': '1957.120', 'text': "motion. I'll come back to you for the"}, {'start': '1954.640', 'end': '1961.000', 'text': 'motion. Thanks Commissioner Ashcraft. Uh'}, {'start': '1957.120', 'end': '1964.240', 'text': 'thank you Mr. Chairman. Uh so Miss Lonni'}, {'start': '1961.000', 'end': '1968.240', 'text': 'um the two public speakers raised issues'}, {'start': '1964.240', 'end': '1972.320', 'text': 'regarding traffic and the impact on Flum'}, {'start': '1968.240', 'end': '1974.960', 'text': 'or excuse me on Medcaf. Uh could you uh'}, {'start': '1972.320', 'end': '1977.519', 'text': 'elaborate in terms of what has been done'}, {'start': '1974.960', 'end': '1981.039', 'text': 'to address the existing or potential'}, {'start': '1977.519', 'end': '1984.000', 'text': 'traffic changes with the expansion of uh'}, {'start': '1981.039', 'end': '1986.080', 'text': 'this and probably the other properties?'}, {'start': '1984.000', 'end': '1988.880', 'text': 'Sure. Michelle Liner, county planning'}, {'start': '1986.080', 'end': '1991.440', 'text': 'staff. So this development in its'}, {'start': '1988.880', 'end': '1993.799', 'text': 'entirety was originally approved by'}, {'start': '1991.440', 'end': '1998.320', 'text': 'preliminary development plan in'}, {'start': '1993.799', 'end': '2000.559', 'text': '2002. So along with that and along over'}, {'start': '1998.320', 'end': '2003.600', 'text': 'time since then there have been many'}, {'start': '2000.559', 'end': '2006.399', 'text': 'revisions to this development plan which'}, {'start': '2003.600', 'end': '2008.519', 'text': 'also takes into consideration revised'}, {'start': '2006.399', 'end': '2012.159', 'text': 'traffic studies for the proposed'}, {'start': '2008.519', 'end': '2014.880', 'text': 'development. So based on the information'}, {'start': '2012.159', 'end': '2017.039', 'text': 'um every time is revised, the applicant'}, {'start': '2014.880', 'end': '2021.360', 'text': 'has also provided an updated traffic'}, {'start': '2017.039', 'end': '2023.679', 'text': "memo um that states that they'll be"}, {'start': '2021.360', 'end': '2026.720', 'text': 'minimal increase to what has already'}, {'start': '2023.679', 'end': '2029.600', 'text': "been shown to be proposed. Um they're"}, {'start': '2026.720', 'end': '2035.200', 'text': 'talking at this point to'}, {'start': '2029.600', 'end': '2038.880', 'text': 'um single unit box trucks and occasional'}, {'start': '2035.200', 'end': '2041.519', 'text': 'uh semi traffic. um initially one to two'}, {'start': '2038.880', 'end': '2044.399', 'text': 'trucks entering and exiting the site'}, {'start': '2041.519', 'end': '2047.600', 'text': "each day and it's expected to increase"}, {'start': '2044.399', 'end': '2049.839', 'text': 'from about 10 to 20 um over time with'}, {'start': '2047.600', 'end': '2052.399', 'text': 'the growth of the business. This is an'}, {'start': '2049.839', 'end': '2055.119', 'text': 'industrial park. There is anticipation'}, {'start': '2052.399', 'end': '2056.879', 'text': 'from the beginning that there would be'}, {'start': '2055.119', 'end': '2058.879', 'text': 'uh traffic a variety of types of'}, {'start': '2056.879', 'end': '2063.240', 'text': 'traffic. Currently, there are two'}, {'start': '2058.879', 'end': '2067.359', 'text': 'landscape uh businesses in the site and'}, {'start': '2063.240', 'end': '2069.919', 'text': "um there's contractor storage, there's"}, {'start': '2067.359', 'end': '2073.119', 'text': "um I think it's a concrete type of"}, {'start': '2069.919', 'end': '2076.639', 'text': 'business. They all have associated types'}, {'start': '2073.119', 'end': '2078.480', 'text': 'of um traffic involved with that. So,'}, {'start': '2076.639', 'end': '2081.040', 'text': 'all of that has been taken into'}, {'start': '2078.480', 'end': '2082.800', 'text': 'consideration over time. One follow on,'}, {'start': '2081.040', 'end': '2084.560', 'text': 'Mr. Chair. Go ahead. Uh so Miss'}, {'start': '2082.800', 'end': '2086.639', 'text': 'Lanninger given the current'}, {'start': '2084.560', 'end': '2089.359', 'text': 'configuration of Medcaf and the'}, {'start': '2086.639', 'end': '2092.240', 'text': 'surrounding roads what is there a'}, {'start': '2089.359', 'end': '2094.720', 'text': 'capacity index uh in terms of the volume'}, {'start': '2092.240', 'end': '2097.440', 'text': 'that it can handle and how close are we'}, {'start': '2094.720', 'end': '2101.440', 'text': 'at getting to capacity? Do we have any'}, {'start': '2097.440', 'end': '2104.880', 'text': "sense of that? Um I'll I'll go based on"}, {'start': '2101.440', 'end': '2109.680', 'text': 'my knowledge from working uh extensively'}, {'start': '2104.880', 'end': '2111.599', 'text': 'along this area. Um our traffic uh'}, {'start': '2109.680', 'end': '2116.560', 'text': 'people in public works have acknowledged'}, {'start': '2111.599', 'end': '2120.720', 'text': 'that this and 199th are both um improved'}, {'start': '2116.560', 'end': '2122.920', 'text': 'arterial streets. Um they have uh the'}, {'start': '2120.720', 'end': '2125.760', 'text': 'capacity to handle this type of'}, {'start': '2122.920', 'end': '2129.440', 'text': 'development. Um they have continued to'}, {'start': '2125.760', 'end': '2133.440', 'text': 'say that over time and um they have no'}, {'start': '2129.440', 'end': '2134.640', 'text': 'concerns. Okay. Thank you.'}, {'start': '2133.440', 'end': '2136.000', 'text': 'Not seeing further questions on this'}, {'start': '2134.640', 'end': '2138.240', 'text': "one. We'll go to Commissioner Brewer for"}, {'start': '2136.000', 'end': '2140.599', 'text': 'the motion. Thank you. I move to adopt'}, {'start': '2138.240', 'end': '2142.880', 'text': 'resolution number'}, {'start': '2140.599', 'end': '2145.119', 'text': '040-25 which approves a revised'}, {'start': '2142.880', 'end': '2148.160', 'text': 'preliminary development PLA plan plan'}, {'start': '2145.119', 'end': '2149.760', 'text': 'for MEDAF 211 phase 3 for the reasons'}, {'start': '2148.160', 'end': '2153.040', 'text': 'and subject to the stipulations set'}, {'start': '2149.760', 'end': '2154.320', 'text': 'forth within the resolution. Second.'}, {'start': '2153.040', 'end': '2155.480', 'text': 'Moved by Commissioner Brewer, seconded'}, {'start': '2154.320', 'end': '2157.599', 'text': 'by Commissioner'}, {'start': '2155.480', 'end': '2158.800', 'text': 'Hansick. Not seeing further discussion'}, {'start': '2157.599', 'end': '2162.000', 'text': "on this. So, I'd ask the clerk to call"}, {'start': '2158.800', 'end': '2164.880', 'text': 'the role. Commissioner Fast I.'}, {'start': '2162.000', 'end': '2168.880', 'text': "Commissioner Brewer. Brewer. I I'm"}, {'start': '2164.880', 'end': '2171.440', 'text': 'sorry. Commissioner Myers Myers Myers. I'}, {'start': '2168.880', 'end': '2173.599', 'text': 'Commissioner Hansick. Hanslick. I'}, {'start': '2171.440', 'end': '2176.000', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft. Yes. Commissioner'}, {'start': '2173.599', 'end': '2177.599', 'text': 'Alan Brand. Alen Brand I. And Chairman'}, {'start': '2176.000', 'end': '2178.800', 'text': 'Kelly. I. We have seven in favor, none'}, {'start': '2177.599', 'end': '2181.040', 'text': 'against. Is that consistent with your'}, {'start': '2178.800', 'end': '2182.640', 'text': 'count? That is correct. Very good. Uh'}, {'start': '2181.040', 'end': '2185.359', 'text': "we'll move on then to resolution number"}, {'start': '2182.640', 'end': '2187.359', 'text': '041-25.'}, {'start': '2185.359', 'end': '2189.040', 'text': 'This is an application for a final'}, {'start': '2187.359', 'end': '2191.520', 'text': 'development plan and conditional use'}, {'start': '2189.040', 'end': '2194.960', 'text': 'permit for the medical waste facing'}, {'start': '2191.520', 'end': '2198.400', 'text': 'facility and outdoor storage uh to be'}, {'start': '2194.960', 'end': '2200.720', 'text': 'located at 7400 West 210th Street.'}, {'start': '2198.400', 'end': '2203.280', 'text': 'Again, Michelle Lininger, thanks for'}, {'start': '2200.720', 'end': '2204.880', 'text': 'your presentation on this item during'}, {'start': '2203.280', 'end': '2206.240', 'text': 'agenda review. Anything further that you'}, {'start': '2204.880', 'end': '2208.640', 'text': 'wanted to add at this time for our'}, {'start': '2206.240', 'end': '2211.040', 'text': 'consideration? I have nothing further.'}, {'start': '2208.640', 'end': '2212.720', 'text': 'All right. Thank you. Um, we do have a'}, {'start': '2211.040', 'end': '2214.560', 'text': 'public commenter or two public'}, {'start': '2212.720', 'end': '2216.160', 'text': 'commenters on this one. Uh, who had'}, {'start': '2214.560', 'end': '2218.400', 'text': "registered in advanced. We'll call on"}, {'start': '2216.160', 'end': '2218.400', 'text': 'Ben'}, {'start': '2229.000', 'end': '2232.480', 'text': 'Hobert and Obert Westwood Hills.'}, {'start': '2231.200', 'end': '2234.079', 'text': 'Chairman Kelly and commissioners, I have'}, {'start': '2232.480', 'end': '2235.680', 'text': 'the following questions regarding the'}, {'start': '2234.079', 'end': '2237.200', 'text': 'proposed medical waste processing'}, {'start': '2235.680', 'end': '2239.920', 'text': 'facility.'}, {'start': '2237.200', 'end': '2242.400', 'text': 'One, where are medical waste services'}, {'start': '2239.920', 'end': '2244.480', 'text': 'LLC current waste treatment facilities?'}, {'start': '2242.400', 'end': '2246.760', 'text': 'Two, is it proposed that medical waste'}, {'start': '2244.480', 'end': '2249.680', 'text': 'will be transported south on Medcave to'}, {'start': '2246.760', 'end': '2252.240', 'text': '210th going directly past the outdoor'}, {'start': '2249.680', 'end': '2254.320', 'text': 'soccer fields between 23rd and 206th'}, {'start': '2252.240', 'end': '2256.000', 'text': 'Street? Three, have there been any'}, {'start': '2254.320', 'end': '2257.839', 'text': 'complaints against this operator for'}, {'start': '2256.000', 'end': '2260.480', 'text': 'waste dropping out of box trucks or'}, {'start': '2257.839', 'end': '2261.839', 'text': 'being blown from their facilities? Four,'}, {'start': '2260.480', 'end': '2263.839', 'text': 'where are the other medical waste'}, {'start': '2261.839', 'end': '2265.680', 'text': 'treatment facilities in the KC Metro and'}, {'start': '2263.839', 'end': '2267.760', 'text': 'have there been any such complaints?'}, {'start': '2265.680', 'end': '2270.079', 'text': 'Five, the land owner is a feed and'}, {'start': '2267.760', 'end': '2272.240', 'text': 'elevator company. Why is this location'}, {'start': '2270.079', 'end': '2274.960', 'text': 'so close to the soccer complex being'}, {'start': '2272.240', 'end': '2276.720', 'text': 'considered for this use? Six, how broad'}, {'start': '2274.960', 'end': '2279.359', 'text': "of a region's medical waste will be"}, {'start': '2276.720', 'end': '2281.520', 'text': 'transported to this location? Seven,'}, {'start': '2279.359', 'end': '2284.000', 'text': 'what is the total tonnage permitted or'}, {'start': '2281.520', 'end': '2286.400', 'text': 'limitations on such amount? Eight,'}, {'start': '2284.000', 'end': '2288.560', 'text': 'outdoor storage of trucks is permitted.'}, {'start': '2286.400', 'end': '2290.640', 'text': 'Is there a risk of odor engulfing the'}, {'start': '2288.560', 'end': '2292.839', 'text': 'soccer fields in the summer when winds'}, {'start': '2290.640', 'end': '2295.760', 'text': 'out of the southswest are the prevailing'}, {'start': '2292.839', 'end': '2299.320', 'text': 'winds? Nine. Will truck traffic be'}, {'start': '2295.760', 'end': '2302.320', 'text': 'concentrated at the end of the day after'}, {'start': '2299.320', 'end': '2303.920', 'text': 'uh gathering medical waste facilities'}, {'start': '2302.320', 'end': '2307.599', 'text': 'such that it will conflict with the'}, {'start': '2303.920', 'end': '2309.119', 'text': 'soccer complex traffic. Nine. So it is'}, {'start': '2307.599', 'end': '2310.960', 'text': 'the judgment of this board and your'}, {'start': '2309.119', 'end': '2312.560', 'text': 'staff that there will be no negative'}, {'start': '2310.960', 'end': '2314.400', 'text': 'impacts to the health, safety, and'}, {'start': '2312.560', 'end': '2316.960', 'text': 'welfare of the kids playing soccer'}, {'start': '2314.400', 'end': '2319.680', 'text': 'between 203rd and 206th Street and to'}, {'start': '2316.960', 'end': '2322.240', 'text': 'the greater Stillwell community. 10.'}, {'start': '2319.680', 'end': '2324.240', 'text': 'Given what I or 11 given what I perceive'}, {'start': '2322.240', 'end': '2326.079', 'text': 'as a dangerous use, I think the'}, {'start': '2324.240', 'end': '2328.400', 'text': 'conditional use permit should be for a'}, {'start': '2326.079', 'end': '2330.960', 'text': 'lesser number of years or should have'}, {'start': '2328.400', 'end': '2333.119', 'text': 'much more strenuous review windows than'}, {'start': '2330.960', 'end': '2335.359', 'text': 'is normally the case with a less risky'}, {'start': '2333.119', 'end': '2337.119', 'text': 'conditional use. Thank you for receiving'}, {'start': '2335.359', 'end': '2341.240', 'text': 'my comments.'}, {'start': '2337.119', 'end': '2341.240', 'text': "Thank you. Next is Charlotte O'Hara."}, {'start': '2346.160', 'end': '2352.640', 'text': "Uh Charlotte O'Hara, Johnson County."}, {'start': '2348.720', 'end': '2356.079', 'text': 'Again, I just want to um emphasize that'}, {'start': '2352.640', 'end': '2358.560', 'text': 'this w this decision was made on a a'}, {'start': '2356.079', 'end': '2361.920', 'text': 'seven seven member board, which'}, {'start': '2358.560', 'end': '2366.480', 'text': 'currently there are only four members on'}, {'start': '2361.920', 'end': '2370.000', 'text': 'this board. And I think that this is a a'}, {'start': '2366.480', 'end': '2373.680', 'text': 'different type of use uh in this area'}, {'start': '2370.000', 'end': '2378.000', 'text': 'than the um current uses that are there.'}, {'start': '2373.680', 'end': '2382.480', 'text': 'uh and a medical waste treatment plant.'}, {'start': '2378.000', 'end': '2385.440', 'text': 'Uh again, that is I just do not'}, {'start': '2382.480', 'end': '2387.680', 'text': "understand why we're putting it here"}, {'start': '2385.440', 'end': '2391.599', 'text': 'when this is on septic tanks. I know'}, {'start': '2387.680', 'end': '2394.079', 'text': 'that this um this company is coming in'}, {'start': '2391.599', 'end': '2397.359', 'text': "from Arkansas and I've also been told by"}, {'start': '2394.079', 'end': '2400.880', 'text': 'staff that there is one other medical'}, {'start': '2397.359', 'end': '2403.359', 'text': 'waste um treatment plant in Oland Park'}, {'start': '2400.880', 'end': '2407.440', 'text': 'and I I am not aware as to where that'}, {'start': '2403.359', 'end': '2410.320', 'text': "is. But again, I I'm just I doubt that"}, {'start': '2407.440', 'end': '2413.359', 'text': 'that it is typical that these types of'}, {'start': '2410.320', 'end': '2415.359', 'text': 'treatment plants would be on facilities'}, {'start': '2413.359', 'end': '2418.079', 'text': 'that are serviced by septic tanks. So'}, {'start': '2415.359', 'end': '2419.760', 'text': 'just uh and traffic again is an issue.'}, {'start': '2418.079', 'end': '2420.960', 'text': 'Thank you.'}, {'start': '2419.760', 'end': '2422.320', 'text': "All right. Thanks. That's all the"}, {'start': '2420.960', 'end': '2423.520', 'text': 'registered public commentaries we have'}, {'start': '2422.320', 'end': '2427.240', 'text': "on the site. I'm going to invite Miss"}, {'start': '2423.520', 'end': '2427.240', 'text': 'Linger back up.'}, {'start': '2429.119', 'end': '2435.440', 'text': 'Uh Miss Lininger, this is uh property'}, {'start': '2432.480', 'end': '2438.400', 'text': "that's already zoned PEC3. Correct."}, {'start': '2435.440', 'end': '2441.359', 'text': 'Correct. So light industrial is already'}, {'start': '2438.400', 'end': '2444.079', 'text': 'properly um contemplated within this'}, {'start': '2441.359', 'end': '2447.200', 'text': 'zoning designation. Right. Correct. A'}, {'start': '2444.079', 'end': '2450.640', 'text': 'plus plus meaning unanimous support from'}, {'start': '2447.200', 'end': '2452.160', 'text': 'the um East Consolidated Zoning Board'}, {'start': '2450.640', 'end': '2455.440', 'text': 'and staff with the recommended'}, {'start': '2452.160', 'end': '2459.280', 'text': 'stipulations. Correct. Correct. And also'}, {'start': '2455.440', 'end': '2461.119', 'text': 'it looks like at the uh zoning board'}, {'start': '2459.280', 'end': '2465.119', 'text': 'hearing there were some property owners'}, {'start': '2461.119', 'end': '2468.960', 'text': 'that uh wanted to discuss odor, trash,'}, {'start': '2465.119', 'end': '2471.359', 'text': 'debris, and those were uh addressed by'}, {'start': '2468.960', 'end': '2475.280', 'text': 'the zoning board and by planning staff.'}, {'start': '2471.359', 'end': '2478.079', 'text': 'Right. Yes. Um, and to that point, there'}, {'start': '2475.280', 'end': '2480.480', 'text': 'are some stipulations regarding outdoor'}, {'start': '2478.079', 'end': '2482.680', 'text': 'storage and trash enclosure to minimize'}, {'start': '2480.480', 'end': '2485.000', 'text': 'the impacts on the'}, {'start': '2482.680', 'end': '2487.520', 'text': "surrounding development. That's zone"}, {'start': '2485.000', 'end': '2490.079', 'text': 'PEC3. Correct. Correct. All right.'}, {'start': '2487.520', 'end': '2492.319', 'text': 'Thanks, Commissioner Brewer. Yes. Uh,'}, {'start': '2490.079', 'end': '2494.560', 'text': 'Miss Lanninger, thank you for the'}, {'start': '2492.319', 'end': '2496.319', 'text': 'conversations that we had once again in'}, {'start': '2494.560', 'end': '2498.079', 'text': 'a separate meeting and also uh the'}, {'start': '2496.319', 'end': '2500.000', 'text': 'robust conversation and agenda review.'}, {'start': '2498.079', 'end': '2502.160', 'text': 'and during agenda review. I did ask if'}, {'start': '2500.000', 'end': '2504.880', 'text': 'we could have the applicant available as'}, {'start': '2502.160', 'end': '2506.319', 'text': 'I had some additional questions. Um is'}, {'start': '2504.880', 'end': '2509.200', 'text': "and I didn't know if they were available"}, {'start': '2506.319', 'end': '2511.119', 'text': "virtually or in person. They're here in"}, {'start': '2509.200', 'end': '2513.200', 'text': 'person. Okay. If at this point in time'}, {'start': '2511.119', 'end': '2516.000', 'text': 'if I could ask a couple questions of the'}, {'start': '2513.200', 'end': '2517.760', 'text': 'applicant that would be awesome. Thank'}, {'start': '2516.000', 'end': '2520.839', 'text': "you. Yes. We'll ask you to come up to"}, {'start': '2517.760', 'end': '2520.839', 'text': 'the podium.'}, {'start': '2523.119', 'end': '2527.359', 'text': "Hi. And your name is I'm sorry. Justin"}, {'start': '2525.359', 'end': '2528.880', 'text': 'Methin with Medical Way Services. Thank'}, {'start': '2527.359', 'end': '2531.119', 'text': 'you, Justin. Thank you for making the'}, {'start': '2528.880', 'end': '2533.200', 'text': 'trip here uh to to be a part of this'}, {'start': '2531.119', 'end': '2535.440', 'text': 'conversation today. One of the questions'}, {'start': '2533.200', 'end': '2538.160', 'text': "that I had during agenda review that's"}, {'start': '2535.440', 'end': '2541.599', 'text': 'really more appropriate for you is um I'}, {'start': '2538.160', 'end': '2543.920', 'text': 'believe you have one uh waste treatment'}, {'start': '2541.599', 'end': '2545.680', 'text': 'facility in operation in Arkansas at'}, {'start': '2543.920', 'end': '2547.760', 'text': 'this point in time. That is correct. And'}, {'start': '2545.680', 'end': '2552.160', 'text': 'that facility, how long has it been in'}, {'start': '2547.760', 'end': '2554.240', 'text': 'operation? I believe 2012. Okay. Okay.'}, {'start': '2552.160', 'end': '2556.640', 'text': 'So, over a decade. And during that time,'}, {'start': '2554.240', 'end': '2559.200', 'text': 'have you had any fines or violations?'}, {'start': '2556.640', 'end': '2560.560', 'text': 'Um, with that, uh, we we have not in'}, {'start': '2559.200', 'end': '2563.839', 'text': "Arkansas, we're regulated by the"}, {'start': '2560.560', 'end': '2564.680', 'text': 'Arkansas Department of Health, and so we'}, {'start': '2563.839', 'end': '2567.280', 'text': 'have'}, {'start': '2564.680', 'end': '2569.040', 'text': "not we haven't had any fines or"}, {'start': '2567.280', 'end': '2570.400', 'text': "anything. Now, I'm not saying that there"}, {'start': '2569.040', 'end': '2571.520', 'text': "wasn't times where they told us there"}, {'start': '2570.400', 'end': '2573.119', 'text': 'was something we need to correct it,'}, {'start': '2571.520', 'end': '2574.720', 'text': 'but, we were adamant that we corrected'}, {'start': '2573.119', 'end': '2576.880', 'text': 'it before the next time and did whatever'}, {'start': '2574.720', 'end': '2578.560', 'text': 'they asked. Okay. Okay. And I did go out'}, {'start': '2576.880', 'end': '2580.240', 'text': 'to the Arkansas Department of Health and'}, {'start': '2578.560', 'end': '2583.119', 'text': 'just kind of look around myself a little'}, {'start': '2580.240', 'end': '2584.880', 'text': "bit. And um just for everyone's"}, {'start': '2583.119', 'end': '2586.560', 'text': 'understanding, can you discuss a little'}, {'start': '2584.880', 'end': '2587.319', 'text': 'bit about what it means when you talk'}, {'start': '2586.560', 'end': '2589.240', 'text': 'about'}, {'start': '2587.319', 'end': '2592.800', 'text': 'nonplacered medical'}, {'start': '2589.240', 'end': '2595.440', 'text': 'waste regulated medical waste? Um uh'}, {'start': '2592.800', 'end': '2598.960', 'text': 'placarded waste is hazardous waste. And'}, {'start': '2595.440', 'end': '2600.880', 'text': "so it's regulated differently and"}, {'start': '2598.960', 'end': '2602.560', 'text': 'non-placered medical waste is just like'}, {'start': '2600.880', 'end': '2604.160', 'text': 'you would see in a red bag inside a'}, {'start': '2602.560', 'end': '2606.480', 'text': "doctor's office or a dentist's office or"}, {'start': '2604.160', 'end': '2608.560', 'text': 'a hospital or or anywhere like that.'}, {'start': '2606.480', 'end': '2611.440', 'text': 'Medical waste is any waste that has come'}, {'start': '2608.560', 'end': '2612.960', 'text': 'in contact with bodily fluids. And so'}, {'start': '2611.440', 'end': '2614.560', 'text': "because it's come in contact with bodily"}, {'start': '2612.960', 'end': '2617.040', 'text': 'fluids, it has the potential of being'}, {'start': '2614.560', 'end': '2619.520', 'text': "infectious. That doesn't mean it is, but"}, {'start': '2617.040', 'end': '2621.520', 'text': 'uh medical waste is is regulated and'}, {'start': '2619.520', 'end': '2624.240', 'text': "hauled differently. It's not hazardous"}, {'start': '2621.520', 'end': '2625.839', 'text': 'like hazardous chemicals. Uh but it it'}, {'start': '2624.240', 'end': '2628.480', 'text': 'is still treated differently as far as'}, {'start': '2625.839', 'end': '2632.480', 'text': 'the disposal. And so we collect'}, {'start': '2628.480', 'end': '2634.560', 'text': 'non-hazardous medical waste or uh yes um'}, {'start': '2632.480', 'end': '2637.280', 'text': "from hospitals and doctor's office and"}, {'start': '2634.560', 'end': '2638.800', 'text': 'dentist offices etc. And we transport it'}, {'start': '2637.280', 'end': '2641.280', 'text': 'back currently to our location in'}, {'start': '2638.800', 'end': '2643.359', 'text': 'Arkansas and is processed and then once'}, {'start': '2641.280', 'end': '2645.680', 'text': "it's been processed it can go into the"}, {'start': '2643.359', 'end': '2647.839', 'text': "landfill and that's how it's disposed"}, {'start': '2645.680', 'end': '2651.599', 'text': 'of. Can you describe the is the current'}, {'start': '2647.839', 'end': '2654.880', 'text': 'facility is it on sewer or septic? It is'}, {'start': '2651.599', 'end': '2656.720', 'text': 'on a uh holding tank. Okay. And so'}, {'start': '2654.880', 'end': '2658.800', 'text': "that's that's what uh the questions"}, {'start': '2656.720', 'end': '2660.319', 'text': "about the septic. We're in we're"}, {'start': '2658.800', 'end': '2661.680', 'text': "planning we're not planning we're going"}, {'start': '2660.319', 'end': '2663.119', 'text': 'to do the same thing with this facility'}, {'start': '2661.680', 'end': '2664.960', 'text': 'where it will not be on sewer. It will'}, {'start': '2663.119', 'end': '2666.960', 'text': 'be on a holding tank. And so how does'}, {'start': '2664.960', 'end': '2669.760', 'text': 'that how does that process work? And and'}, {'start': '2666.960', 'end': '2672.720', 'text': 'is and is it compatible with with using'}, {'start': '2669.760', 'end': '2675.599', 'text': "a facility that's on septic?"}, {'start': '2672.720', 'end': '2678.400', 'text': 'Um'}, {'start': '2675.599', 'end': '2680.560', 'text': 'the decontamination process does okay'}, {'start': '2678.400', 'end': '2683.440', 'text': 'now impact the decontamination process.'}, {'start': '2680.560', 'end': '2686.720', 'text': 'the waste water. So, an autoclave uses'}, {'start': '2683.440', 'end': '2688.880', 'text': 'pressurized steam to get hot enough for'}, {'start': '2686.720', 'end': '2689.960', 'text': 'long enough with enough pressure to kill'}, {'start': '2688.880', 'end': '2692.079', 'text': 'any uh'}, {'start': '2689.960', 'end': '2694.720', 'text': 'biological whatevers that it has to'}, {'start': '2692.079', 'end': '2698.400', 'text': 'kill. And so, after it has cooked, then'}, {'start': '2694.720', 'end': '2700.720', 'text': "then it has been it's it's then safe to"}, {'start': '2698.400', 'end': '2703.680', 'text': 'be landfilled. And so, the waste water'}, {'start': '2700.720', 'end': '2706.760', 'text': 'is just the steam from that process. And'}, {'start': '2703.680', 'end': '2709.760', 'text': 'so, it will be captured and we will we'}, {'start': '2706.760', 'end': '2712.720', 'text': "will we will dispose of it. uh we'll"}, {'start': '2709.760', 'end': '2714.319', 'text': 'talk to wastewater plants or or whoever'}, {'start': '2712.720', 'end': '2715.760', 'text': 'uh when the time comes and find a place'}, {'start': '2714.319', 'end': '2718.599', 'text': "to dispose of it, but it's not it"}, {'start': '2715.760', 'end': '2720.800', 'text': "doesn't go into the septic and it's"}, {'start': '2718.599', 'end': '2722.480', 'text': "it's it's been hot enough and cooked"}, {'start': '2720.800', 'end': '2724.000', 'text': "long enough that there's not any danger"}, {'start': '2722.480', 'end': '2726.160', 'text': "in the water at that time. It's still"}, {'start': '2724.000', 'end': '2727.680', 'text': 'treated as as kind of a special waste.'}, {'start': '2726.160', 'end': '2729.119', 'text': "And so I don't know if that answered"}, {'start': '2727.680', 'end': '2730.400', 'text': 'your question or not. It does. And I'}, {'start': '2729.119', 'end': '2732.319', 'text': "only have one more question if that's"}, {'start': '2730.400', 'end': '2736.000', 'text': 'okay. Chair, go ahead. Um the last'}, {'start': '2732.319', 'end': '2739.040', 'text': 'question I have is the truck that that'}, {'start': '2736.000', 'end': '2742.079', 'text': 'um delivers the wa the medical waste to'}, {'start': '2739.040', 'end': '2744.000', 'text': 'be treated and is the same truck. So I'}, {'start': '2742.079', 'end': '2746.079', 'text': 'put the waste in, I transport it to the'}, {'start': '2744.000', 'end': '2749.119', 'text': 'treatment facility, I treat it and I put'}, {'start': '2746.079', 'end': '2751.359', 'text': 'it back in that truck to be uh uh taken'}, {'start': '2749.119', 'end': '2753.440', 'text': 'to the landfill. So the truck itself,'}, {'start': '2751.359', 'end': '2755.680', 'text': 'how that material goes into the truck is'}, {'start': '2753.440', 'end': '2758.800', 'text': 'is is packaged as such as to not'}, {'start': '2755.680', 'end': '2761.359', 'text': 'contaminate the truck. Correct. Correct.'}, {'start': '2758.800', 'end': '2762.960', 'text': 'Kind of. um after it after after it'}, {'start': '2761.359', 'end': '2765.359', 'text': 'comes out of the autoclave, it will be'}, {'start': '2762.960', 'end': '2766.800', 'text': 'put into a garbage compactor because'}, {'start': '2765.359', 'end': '2768.480', 'text': 'then it can go to the landfill. And so'}, {'start': '2766.800', 'end': '2770.640', 'text': 'the processed waste does not go back'}, {'start': '2768.480', 'end': '2774.400', 'text': 'into the same truck. Okay. Uh when we'}, {'start': '2770.640', 'end': '2776.800', 'text': 'collect it, the uh the the the regs are'}, {'start': '2774.400', 'end': '2779.920', 'text': 'all medical waste has to be in a red bag'}, {'start': '2776.800', 'end': '2781.520', 'text': "inside a box inside a truck and it's"}, {'start': '2779.920', 'end': '2785.599', 'text': "labeled and there's a manifest and"}, {'start': '2781.520', 'end': '2788.079', 'text': 'whatnot. And so our uh drivers should'}, {'start': '2785.599', 'end': '2789.440', 'text': 'never see or the the waste should never'}, {'start': '2788.079', 'end': '2790.640', 'text': "see the light of day because we're not"}, {'start': '2789.440', 'end': '2793.680', 'text': "allowed to pick it up unless it's"}, {'start': '2790.640', 'end': '2795.920', 'text': 'packaged correctly and it goes from the'}, {'start': '2793.680', 'end': '2797.680', 'text': 'generator to the truck and then when the'}, {'start': '2795.920', 'end': '2799.760', 'text': "truck gets back to our facility, it'll"}, {'start': '2797.680', 'end': '2802.160', 'text': 'go from the truck into the autoclave.'}, {'start': '2799.760', 'end': '2804.560', 'text': 'And so the the waste also with regards'}, {'start': '2802.160', 'end': '2806.720', 'text': 'to trash or debris, there should never'}, {'start': '2804.560', 'end': '2808.560', 'text': 'be any trash or debris outside anywhere'}, {'start': '2806.720', 'end': '2810.800', 'text': 'because it goes straight from the truck'}, {'start': '2808.560', 'end': '2812.880', 'text': "to the autoclave where it's processed"}, {'start': '2810.800', 'end': '2814.880', 'text': "and then it'll go from the autoclave to"}, {'start': '2812.880', 'end': '2816.960', 'text': 'a compactor that will get hauled to a'}, {'start': '2814.880', 'end': '2818.160', 'text': 'landfill at that time. That helps me'}, {'start': '2816.960', 'end': '2820.480', 'text': 'because that was part of the question I'}, {'start': '2818.160', 'end': '2822.560', 'text': 'had is the packaging going in, things'}, {'start': '2820.480', 'end': '2824.240', 'text': 'not being loose in the truck and the'}, {'start': '2822.560', 'end': '2825.440', 'text': 'packaging going out, things not being'}, {'start': '2824.240', 'end': '2828.079', 'text': 'loose in the truck when it gets'}, {'start': '2825.440', 'end': '2829.520', 'text': 'transported. Thank you for um all'}, {'start': '2828.079', 'end': '2831.599', 'text': 'answering all my questions. I appreciate'}, {'start': '2829.520', 'end': '2833.359', 'text': 'that. Absolutely. All right. Thank you,'}, {'start': '2831.599', 'end': '2834.960', 'text': "sir. We'll invite Miss Liner back at"}, {'start': '2833.359', 'end': '2836.560', 'text': 'this time. Commissioner Alen Brand.'}, {'start': '2834.960', 'end': '2838.560', 'text': 'Thank you, Chair. Um well, I just'}, {'start': '2836.560', 'end': '2841.440', 'text': 'appreciate the detailed um briefing'}, {'start': '2838.560', 'end': '2843.200', 'text': 'sheet and also, you know, the no storage'}, {'start': '2841.440', 'end': '2845.040', 'text': 'outside. So, it seems like everything'}, {'start': '2843.200', 'end': '2847.040', 'text': 'has been addressed. And Commissioner'}, {'start': '2845.040', 'end': '2849.359', 'text': "Brew, I'm impress you drove to Arkansas."}, {'start': '2847.040', 'end': '2851.520', 'text': "I didn't drive. I went out on I went out"}, {'start': '2849.359', 'end': '2856.040', 'text': "online and Wow. I'm like on the health"}, {'start': '2851.520', 'end': '2856.040', 'text': 'department just to look at making.'}, {'start': '2856.400', 'end': '2859.760', 'text': "No, thank you. Commissioner Alen Brand's"}, {'start': '2858.000', 'end': '2861.280', 'text': 'got the floor right now. Anything'}, {'start': '2859.760', 'end': '2863.119', 'text': 'further? No, thank you, sir. All right,'}, {'start': '2861.280', 'end': '2865.359', 'text': 'Commissioner Hanslet. Uh, yes. Thank'}, {'start': '2863.119', 'end': '2867.720', 'text': 'you. I just wanted to point out in the'}, {'start': '2865.359', 'end': '2871.200', 'text': 'briefing sheet and'}, {'start': '2867.720', 'end': '2874.640', 'text': 'uh that the Kansas Department of Health'}, {'start': '2871.200', 'end': '2877.760', 'text': 'and Environment oversees the these'}, {'start': '2874.640', 'end': '2880.319', 'text': 'processes. Um as it says here uh'}, {'start': '2877.760', 'end': '2883.119', 'text': 'hazardous waste processing facility is'}, {'start': '2880.319', 'end': '2886.000', 'text': 'regulated by the state which provides a'}, {'start': '2883.119', 'end': '2888.800', 'text': 'more use spec which provides more youth'}, {'start': '2886.000', 'end': '2891.839', 'text': 'specific regulations to address the'}, {'start': '2888.800', 'end': '2893.040', 'text': "public health and safety. So there's it"}, {'start': '2891.839', 'end': '2896.720', 'text': "sounds like there's quite a bit of"}, {'start': '2893.040', 'end': '2899.200', 'text': 'oversight uh and regulations to which'}, {'start': '2896.720', 'end': '2902.800', 'text': "this facility has to adhere. So they're"}, {'start': '2899.200', 'end': '2905.760', 'text': "not they're not just operating at at"}, {'start': '2902.800', 'end': '2906.800', 'text': 'will. they do have to follow the state'}, {'start': '2905.760', 'end': '2910.000', 'text': "guidelines. There's there's the"}, {'start': '2906.800', 'end': '2911.760', 'text': 'processing facility uh license or permit'}, {'start': '2910.000', 'end': '2914.400', 'text': "with the state. There's the potential"}, {'start': '2911.760', 'end': '2919.040', 'text': 'for dealing with'}, {'start': '2914.400', 'end': '2922.240', 'text': "um any air quality if there's any um and"}, {'start': '2919.040', 'end': '2924.960', 'text': 'with the permit to bring the treated'}, {'start': '2922.240', 'end': '2927.599', 'text': "waste to the uh landfill. So, there's a"}, {'start': '2924.960', 'end': '2930.720', 'text': 'variety of things that is beyond the'}, {'start': '2927.599', 'end': '2933.200', 'text': "county's um purview. Thank you,"}, {'start': '2930.720', 'end': '2935.440', 'text': 'Commissioner H. Ashcraft, sorry. Thank'}, {'start': '2933.200', 'end': '2938.160', 'text': 'you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, well, want to add'}, {'start': '2935.440', 'end': '2940.400', 'text': "on to Commissioner Hansick's question."}, {'start': '2938.160', 'end': '2944.079', 'text': 'Then, has the state reviewed and'}, {'start': '2940.400', 'end': '2946.960', 'text': 'approved this current configuration?'}, {'start': '2944.079', 'end': '2949.359', 'text': 'I believe they have not um applied for a'}, {'start': '2946.960', 'end': '2950.880', 'text': 'permit yet. So, that that is still'}, {'start': '2949.359', 'end': '2952.400', 'text': 'pending. You will have to meet that'}, {'start': '2950.880', 'end': '2956.760', 'text': 'requirement before you can go into'}, {'start': '2952.400', 'end': '2958.640', 'text': 'operation. Correct. Thank you. All'}, {'start': '2956.760', 'end': '2959.920', 'text': 'right. Seeing further questions. Is'}, {'start': '2958.640', 'end': '2961.359', 'text': 'there a motion? You want to,'}, {'start': '2959.920', 'end': '2964.880', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer, have the honor'}, {'start': '2961.359', 'end': '2967.839', 'text': 'here? Yep. I move to adopt resolution'}, {'start': '2964.880', 'end': '2967.839', 'text': 'number'}, {'start': '2968.440', 'end': '2973.040', 'text': '041-25, which approves a final'}, {'start': '2970.800', 'end': '2975.520', 'text': 'development plan and conditional use'}, {'start': '2973.040', 'end': '2977.920', 'text': 'permit for a medical waste processing'}, {'start': '2975.520', 'end': '2980.160', 'text': 'facility for the reasons and subject to'}, {'start': '2977.920', 'end': '2983.040', 'text': 'the stipulations set forth within the'}, {'start': '2980.160', 'end': '2984.160', 'text': 'resolution. Alan BR second. Moved by'}, {'start': '2983.040', 'end': '2986.480', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer, seconded by'}, {'start': '2984.160', 'end': '2987.760', 'text': 'Commissioner Alan Bran.'}, {'start': '2986.480', 'end': '2988.800', 'text': 'Not seeing further questions or comments'}, {'start': '2987.760', 'end': '2991.280', 'text': 'at this time. Would the clerk please'}, {'start': '2988.800', 'end': '2993.119', 'text': 'call the role? Commissioner Fast I.'}, {'start': '2991.280', 'end': '2995.200', 'text': 'Commissioner Myers. Myers. I.'}, {'start': '2993.119', 'end': '2997.119', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer. Brewer. I.'}, {'start': '2995.200', 'end': '2999.280', 'text': 'Commissioner Hans. Hanslick. I.'}, {'start': '2997.119', 'end': '3001.760', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft. Yes. Commissioner'}, {'start': '2999.280', 'end': '3003.680', 'text': 'Alen Brand. Alen Brand. I. And Chairman'}, {'start': '3001.760', 'end': '3005.040', 'text': 'Kelly. I. We have seven in favor, none'}, {'start': '3003.680', 'end': '3007.400', 'text': 'against. Consistent with your count.'}, {'start': '3005.040', 'end': '3011.760', 'text': 'That is correct. Very good. And rounding'}, {'start': '3007.400', 'end': '3014.079', 'text': "out this item or series of items. We'll"}, {'start': '3011.760', 'end': '3016.480', 'text': 'now consider the final plat for metap'}, {'start': '3014.079', 'end': '3019.839', 'text': '211 sixth plat as recommended by the'}, {'start': '3016.480', 'end': '3021.920', 'text': 'zoning board. Miss Linger, again, thanks'}, {'start': '3019.839', 'end': '3023.760', 'text': 'for your presentation and for the'}, {'start': '3021.920', 'end': '3025.920', 'text': 'proceeding items. Anything further for'}, {'start': '3023.760', 'end': '3028.720', 'text': 'us to consider at this time? Nothing'}, {'start': '3025.920', 'end': '3033.240', 'text': 'further. Okay. One public commenter on'}, {'start': '3028.720', 'end': '3033.240', 'text': "this one. Uh Charlotte O'Hara."}, {'start': '3037.920', 'end': '3042.079', 'text': "Thank you, Charlotte O'Hara. uh Johnson"}, {'start': '3040.240', 'end': '3044.319', 'text': 'County. I want to thank Commissioner'}, {'start': '3042.079', 'end': '3046.000', 'text': 'Brewer for her in-depth questions. I'}, {'start': '3044.319', 'end': '3048.480', 'text': 'thought that they were very very well'}, {'start': '3046.000', 'end': '3051.359', 'text': 'put and thank you for doing that. Again,'}, {'start': '3048.480', 'end': '3055.839', 'text': 'this was approved with a board that has'}, {'start': '3051.359', 'end': '3059.680', 'text': 'has three vacancies and has had three'}, {'start': '3055.839', 'end': '3063.200', 'text': 'vacancies for for at least since'}, {'start': '3059.680', 'end': '3067.280', 'text': 'January. And I just would encourage this'}, {'start': '3063.200', 'end': '3070.119', 'text': 'board to please get these uh positions'}, {'start': '3067.280', 'end': '3072.720', 'text': 'filled so that we have a complete'}, {'start': '3070.119', 'end': '3075.319', 'text': 'representation of the community when we'}, {'start': '3072.720', 'end': '3078.240', 'text': 'are going forward with these uh types of'}, {'start': '3075.319', 'end': '3080.319', 'text': 'decisions. Again, the lack of the'}, {'start': '3078.240', 'end': '3083.040', 'text': 'turning lane if and when that soccer'}, {'start': '3080.319', 'end': '3085.200', 'text': 'facility is built is going to be an'}, {'start': '3083.040', 'end': '3087.680', 'text': 'issue. And with the additional traffic'}, {'start': '3085.200', 'end': '3089.920', 'text': 'that all of the development in these in'}, {'start': '3087.680', 'end': '3092.400', 'text': 'in the industrial park and yes the'}, {'start': '3089.920', 'end': '3095.119', 'text': 'industrial park has been approved for uh'}, {'start': '3092.400', 'end': '3097.760', 'text': 'many many years and has has been'}, {'start': '3095.119', 'end': '3099.359', 'text': 'extremely compatible with the rest of'}, {'start': '3097.760', 'end': '3104.480', 'text': 'Stillwell'}, {'start': '3099.359', 'end': '3108.160', 'text': 'um until the u explosion of the size of'}, {'start': '3104.480', 'end': '3110.319', 'text': 'developments on the soccer field um that'}, {'start': '3108.160', 'end': '3113.119', 'text': 'has is not compatible with the current'}, {'start': '3110.319', 'end': '3115.040', 'text': 'development in in Stillwell. Um, so'}, {'start': '3113.119', 'end': '3117.359', 'text': 'anyway, I want to thank you for'}, {'start': '3115.040', 'end': '3120.640', 'text': 'listening to my comments.'}, {'start': '3117.359', 'end': '3122.800', 'text': 'Thank you, Miss Linger. Um, thank you'}, {'start': '3120.640', 'end': '3126.960', 'text': 'for being back here for now. Questions'}, {'start': '3122.800', 'end': '3126.960', 'text': 'and comments from the'}, {'start': '3127.240', 'end': '3131.760', 'text': 'board. Not seeing any at this time. How'}, {'start': '3129.680', 'end': '3134.319', 'text': 'about a motion from anybody?'}, {'start': '3131.760', 'end': '3137.200', 'text': "Commissioner Brewer. We'll round it out"}, {'start': '3134.319', 'end': '3140.040', 'text': 'with number three. So I move to approve'}, {'start': '3137.200', 'end': '3143.359', 'text': 'a final plat for medaf'}, {'start': '3140.040', 'end': '3145.359', 'text': '2116 plat as recommended by the zoning'}, {'start': '3143.359', 'end': '3146.720', 'text': 'board. Alen Brand second. Moved by'}, {'start': '3145.359', 'end': '3148.359', 'text': 'commissioner Brewer. Seconded by'}, {'start': '3146.720', 'end': '3150.559', 'text': 'commissioner Allen'}, {'start': '3148.359', 'end': '3152.000', 'text': "Brand. Without further ado, I'd ask the"}, {'start': '3150.559', 'end': '3155.119', 'text': 'clerk to call the role. Commissioner'}, {'start': '3152.000', 'end': '3157.119', 'text': 'Fast I. Commissioner Myers. Myers. I.'}, {'start': '3155.119', 'end': '3159.119', 'text': 'Commissioner Brewer. Brewer. I.'}, {'start': '3157.119', 'end': '3161.200', 'text': 'Commissioner Hansick. Hanslick. I.'}, {'start': '3159.119', 'end': '3164.319', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft. Yes. Commissioner'}, {'start': '3161.200', 'end': '3165.680', 'text': 'Alenbr. Alen Brand. I And Chairman Kelly'}, {'start': '3164.319', 'end': '3166.880', 'text': 'I. So, we have seven in favor, none'}, {'start': '3165.680', 'end': '3168.319', 'text': 'against. Is that consistent with your'}, {'start': '3166.880', 'end': '3169.760', 'text': 'count? That is correct. Very good.'}, {'start': '3168.319', 'end': '3172.839', 'text': 'Thanks, Miss Linger. Thank you. All'}, {'start': '3169.760', 'end': '3175.160', 'text': "right. At this time, we'll look at the"}, {'start': '3172.839', 'end': '3178.400', 'text': 'resolution, which is numbered'}, {'start': '3175.160', 'end': '3181.599', 'text': "043-25. It's adopting the AI policy in"}, {'start': '3178.400', 'end': '3184.800', 'text': 'the form and substance reflected uh in'}, {'start': '3181.599', 'end': '3188.240', 'text': 'the attachment to your agenda item to be'}, {'start': '3184.800', 'end': '3189.920', 'text': 'effective immediately. Mr. Nixon, um,'}, {'start': '3188.240', 'end': '3191.440', 'text': 'thank you for your presentation on this'}, {'start': '3189.920', 'end': '3193.680', 'text': 'during a gender review and also during'}, {'start': '3191.440', 'end': '3195.359', 'text': 'the study session that we had as a'}, {'start': '3193.680', 'end': '3197.280', 'text': 'board. Is there anything further you'}, {'start': '3195.359', 'end': '3199.839', 'text': 'wanted to provide at this time regarding'}, {'start': '3197.280', 'end': '3201.280', 'text': 'the policy? Uh, nothing further. uh like'}, {'start': '3199.839', 'end': '3203.200', 'text': "uh it's mentioned in the briefing sheet"}, {'start': '3201.280', 'end': '3204.800', 'text': 'in the policy, we have six key'}, {'start': '3203.200', 'end': '3207.200', 'text': 'principles that we want to implement as'}, {'start': '3204.800', 'end': '3209.520', 'text': 'we implement AI across the county to'}, {'start': '3207.200', 'end': '3212.160', 'text': 'ensure that we use it safely, securely,'}, {'start': '3209.520', 'end': '3214.720', 'text': 'and also get the efficiency out of it uh'}, {'start': '3212.160', 'end': '3216.559', 'text': 'that uh we believe it will help with the'}, {'start': '3214.720', 'end': '3217.920', 'text': 'uh delivering government services. Thank'}, {'start': '3216.559', 'end': '3220.240', 'text': "you very much, sir. I'm going to ask you"}, {'start': '3217.920', 'end': '3221.920', 'text': 'to step aside uh and we have one'}, {'start': '3220.240', 'end': '3224.920', 'text': 'registered public commenter, Charlotte'}, {'start': '3221.920', 'end': '3224.920', 'text': "O'Hara."}, {'start': '3229.359', 'end': '3235.280', 'text': "Thank you, Charlotte O'Hara Johnson"}, {'start': '3231.280', 'end': '3239.680', 'text': 'County. I I just wanted to share a story'}, {'start': '3235.280', 'end': '3243.440', 'text': 'that one of my uh friends who is a CEO'}, {'start': '3239.680', 'end': '3248.319', 'text': 'of an energy um uh company, a smaller'}, {'start': '3243.440', 'end': '3251.520', 'text': 'one, and he was telling me uh how AI is'}, {'start': '3248.319', 'end': '3254.480', 'text': 'impacting their company and they always'}, {'start': '3251.520', 'end': '3258.000', 'text': 'have openings and for employee for'}, {'start': '3254.480', 'end': '3261.040', 'text': 'employment. And under one position, they'}, {'start': '3258.000', 'end': '3265.240', 'text': 'they got two applications with a with'}, {'start': '3261.040', 'end': '3268.880', 'text': 'cover letters that were exactly the'}, {'start': '3265.240', 'end': '3268.880', 'text': 'same. Welcome to'}, {'start': '3270.760', 'end': '3277.119', 'text': 'AI. Okay. Thanks. Now, uh, Mr. Nixon,'}, {'start': '3274.960', 'end': '3279.520', 'text': 'back to consider the Johnson County'}, {'start': '3277.119', 'end': '3283.280', 'text': 'policy. Commissioner Ashcraft. Uh, thank'}, {'start': '3279.520', 'end': '3285.040', 'text': 'you, Mr. Chairman. Uh, Mr. Nixon. Um I'}, {'start': '3283.280', 'end': '3288.000', 'text': 'echo what the chair said. I very much'}, {'start': '3285.040', 'end': '3291.359', 'text': 'appreciated the study session. Uh at the'}, {'start': '3288.000', 'end': '3292.960', 'text': 'study session, I asked uh uh a couple of'}, {'start': '3291.359', 'end': '3295.680', 'text': 'questions and I wanted to ask him in'}, {'start': '3292.960', 'end': '3300.720', 'text': 'open session. What will be the review'}, {'start': '3295.680', 'end': '3305.040', 'text': 'process? Because a uh has commonly been'}, {'start': '3300.720', 'end': '3308.319', 'text': 'reported AI is a dynamic uh environment.'}, {'start': '3305.040', 'end': '3310.640', 'text': 'Now, uh, how will we be a how will we'}, {'start': '3308.319', 'end': '3314.480', 'text': 'attempt to stay on top of or at least'}, {'start': '3310.640', 'end': '3316.960', 'text': 'stay up with um the changes in in that'}, {'start': '3314.480', 'end': '3319.359', 'text': 'new realm? So, review process of the'}, {'start': '3316.960', 'end': '3322.480', 'text': 'policy or review process of the tools'}, {'start': '3319.359', 'end': '3324.880', 'text': 'being used. Well, actually both, but in'}, {'start': '3322.480', 'end': '3328.319', 'text': 'the sense of how does the policy keep up'}, {'start': '3324.880', 'end': '3330.400', 'text': 'with those changes? So the policy'}, {'start': '3328.319', 'end': '3332.559', 'text': "hopefully the way we've implemented the"}, {'start': '3330.400', 'end': '3334.160', 'text': 'policy around the principles is'}, {'start': '3332.559', 'end': '3336.960', 'text': "hopefully the policy won't need to"}, {'start': '3334.160', 'end': '3340.240', 'text': 'change much as the technology changes.'}, {'start': '3336.960', 'end': '3342.559', 'text': 'Um so we try to anticipate changes that'}, {'start': '3340.240', 'end': '3344.559', 'text': 'may happen with technology and these'}, {'start': '3342.559', 'end': '3347.280', 'text': "principles shouldn't change. There may"}, {'start': '3344.559', 'end': '3349.520', 'text': 'be some steps within the procedures and'}, {'start': '3347.280', 'end': '3352.640', 'text': 'the implementation of the policy that'}, {'start': '3349.520', 'end': '3355.760', 'text': 'may change as technology changes. Um but'}, {'start': '3352.640', 'end': '3359.760', 'text': 'we believe that um policy like most'}, {'start': '3355.760', 'end': '3363.599', 'text': 'other policies are um pretty static.'}, {'start': '3359.760', 'end': '3367.280', 'text': 'Okay. Then one one follow on uh in the'}, {'start': '3363.599', 'end': '3370.000', 'text': 'draft policy under ethics you have the'}, {'start': '3367.280', 'end': '3372.880', 'text': 'statement to uphold the highest ethical'}, {'start': '3370.000', 'end': '3377.160', 'text': 'standards. H how how will you set that'}, {'start': '3372.880', 'end': '3379.359', 'text': 'bar? So um there are both professional'}, {'start': '3377.160', 'end': '3382.480', 'text': 'sta prof professional standards of'}, {'start': '3379.359', 'end': '3384.559', 'text': 'ethics uh that for example a a lawyer or'}, {'start': '3382.480', 'end': '3386.720', 'text': 'a member of law enforcement will need to'}, {'start': '3384.559', 'end': '3389.440', 'text': "do. We're not getting involved in that."}, {'start': '3386.720', 'end': '3392.319', 'text': 'These ethics talk about the uh ethics of'}, {'start': '3389.440', 'end': '3393.920', 'text': 'using a AI tool. So uh part of the'}, {'start': '3392.319', 'end': '3397.680', 'text': 'governance process that we have with'}, {'start': '3393.920', 'end': '3400.640', 'text': 'legal finance um and procurement um and'}, {'start': '3397.680', 'end': '3402.559', 'text': 'technology involved will help ensure'}, {'start': '3400.640', 'end': '3405.599', 'text': 'those ethics with our current governance'}, {'start': '3402.559', 'end': '3407.680', 'text': 'processes. Uh in addition, we plan to'}, {'start': '3405.599', 'end': '3409.760', 'text': 'have AI ambassadors that will receive'}, {'start': '3407.680', 'end': '3411.839', 'text': 'some training that will be embedded in'}, {'start': '3409.760', 'end': '3414.160', 'text': 'each of the different departments to'}, {'start': '3411.839', 'end': '3416.480', 'text': 'help with that communication of this is'}, {'start': '3414.160', 'end': '3418.319', 'text': 'an ethical use, this is a unethical use'}, {'start': '3416.480', 'end': '3420.720', 'text': "or if there's a question about that,"}, {'start': '3418.319', 'end': '3423.359', 'text': 'bring it to the appropriate uh people'}, {'start': '3420.720', 'end': '3425.680', 'text': 'such as technology or legal or finance'}, {'start': '3423.359', 'end': '3427.760', 'text': 'to figure out what makes sense. So will'}, {'start': '3425.680', 'end': '3430.400', 'text': 'there be public interaction or'}, {'start': '3427.760', 'end': '3432.799', 'text': 'commission interaction on those issues?'}, {'start': '3430.400', 'end': '3434.079', 'text': 'Uh depending on the actual use case. So'}, {'start': '3432.799', 'end': '3436.400', 'text': "if it's something that is going to be"}, {'start': '3434.079', 'end': '3439.119', 'text': 'public facing more than likely uh'}, {'start': '3436.400', 'end': '3441.200', 'text': "similar to the bell's AI uh that mental"}, {'start': '3439.119', 'end': '3443.200', 'text': 'health is using that came before the'}, {'start': '3441.200', 'end': '3445.359', 'text': 'board for discussion and if you recall I'}, {'start': '3443.200', 'end': '3447.280', 'text': 'think that was in September there was a'}, {'start': '3445.359', 'end': '3450.559', 'text': "bunch of discussion about how that's"}, {'start': '3447.280', 'end': '3452.480', 'text': 'going to be used in a uh proper manner.'}, {'start': '3450.559', 'end': '3454.319', 'text': 'So for those procurements that are large'}, {'start': '3452.480', 'end': '3456.319', 'text': "enough the board's definitely going to"}, {'start': '3454.319', 'end': '3458.799', 'text': 'be involved. The other thing is based on'}, {'start': '3456.319', 'end': '3461.520', 'text': 'our transparency principle here is if'}, {'start': '3458.799', 'end': '3464.400', 'text': 'there is AI being implemented that is uh'}, {'start': '3461.520', 'end': '3467.280', 'text': 'going to affect decisions of public'}, {'start': '3464.400', 'end': '3469.839', 'text': 'decisions we we would want to uh'}, {'start': '3467.280', 'end': '3472.640', 'text': 'transparently disclose that likely that'}, {'start': '3469.839', 'end': '3477.280', 'text': 'would be coming back here to talk about'}, {'start': '3472.640', 'end': '3479.680', 'text': 'that. Thank you Burr.'}, {'start': '3477.280', 'end': '3482.160', 'text': 'First of all, I just want to commend you'}, {'start': '3479.680', 'end': '3484.319', 'text': 'and your department because I recognize'}, {'start': '3482.160', 'end': '3487.599', 'text': 'I have to I have to tell you not a huge'}, {'start': '3484.319', 'end': '3492.079', 'text': "fan of AI, but I recognize it's here and"}, {'start': '3487.599', 'end': '3495.280', 'text': 'and being intentional in putting out a a'}, {'start': '3492.079', 'end': '3498.880', 'text': "the kind of the guidelines of how we're"}, {'start': '3495.280', 'end': '3502.000', 'text': 'going to uh you utilize that tool in'}, {'start': '3498.880', 'end': '3505.280', 'text': "county business is key because it's it's"}, {'start': '3502.000', 'end': '3507.920', 'text': 'here. Um, two things. One, I appreciated'}, {'start': '3505.280', 'end': '3511.119', 'text': 'in the agenda review last week the'}, {'start': '3507.920', 'end': '3513.280', 'text': 'question from Commissioner Fast about um'}, {'start': '3511.119', 'end': '3515.200', 'text': 'using AI and case management and what'}, {'start': '3513.280', 'end': '3516.880', 'text': 'that looks like. I concur with you'}, {'start': '3515.200', 'end': '3519.359', 'text': "studies that we've seen and things that"}, {'start': '3516.880', 'end': '3522.040', 'text': "we've read that can be a slippery slope."}, {'start': '3519.359', 'end': '3525.359', 'text': 'Um I appreciate in the policy the'}, {'start': '3522.040', 'end': '3528.640', 'text': 'intentionality that this is to be a tool'}, {'start': '3525.359', 'end': '3531.599', 'text': 'to aid staff not replace staff and'}, {'start': '3528.640', 'end': '3533.599', 'text': 'having human oversight is key. The other'}, {'start': '3531.599', 'end': '3536.000', 'text': 'thing in the public study session that'}, {'start': '3533.599', 'end': '3538.079', 'text': 'was held a few weeks ago on this, I'}, {'start': '3536.000', 'end': '3541.520', 'text': 'appreciate it when you were sharing with'}, {'start': '3538.079', 'end': '3543.280', 'text': 'us because the next iteration of AI is'}, {'start': '3541.520', 'end': '3546.079', 'text': "and I'm not going to use the appropriate"}, {'start': '3543.280', 'end': '3549.839', 'text': 'technical term so I apologize is that is'}, {'start': '3546.079', 'end': '3553.359', 'text': 'that self-learning AI which is is is you'}, {'start': '3549.839', 'end': '3556.799', 'text': 'know is is the next brave new world but'}, {'start': '3553.359', 'end': '3559.040', 'text': 'also has a lot of cautionary concerns'}, {'start': '3556.799', 'end': '3561.760', 'text': 'about it. Can you just share a little'}, {'start': '3559.040', 'end': '3563.520', 'text': 'bit how you shared at that study session'}, {'start': '3561.760', 'end': '3566.799', 'text': 'how you are approaching the different'}, {'start': '3563.520', 'end': '3568.960', 'text': 'types of AI and and some of those newer'}, {'start': '3566.799', 'end': '3571.839', 'text': "iterations the cautiousness that you're"}, {'start': '3568.960', 'end': '3575.440', 'text': 'using in that in that arena? Yes. Um'}, {'start': '3571.839', 'end': '3577.040', 'text': "some of the newer AI it's agenic AI is I"}, {'start': '3575.440', 'end': '3579.119', 'text': "believe how that was the term I couldn't"}, {'start': '3577.040', 'end': '3580.880', 'text': "remember how it said. Um and it's AI"}, {'start': '3579.119', 'end': '3583.920', 'text': "that's basically taking actions on"}, {'start': '3580.880', 'end': '3586.799', 'text': "behalf of what it's learning. Uh and"}, {'start': '3583.920', 'end': '3589.839', 'text': 'again as part of the the policy and the'}, {'start': '3586.799', 'end': '3591.680', 'text': 'procedure we have, we would be very'}, {'start': '3589.839', 'end': '3592.880', 'text': 'hesitant to implement those types of'}, {'start': '3591.680', 'end': '3595.280', 'text': 'things because we want to have that'}, {'start': '3592.880', 'end': '3598.319', 'text': "human decision-m that's involved."}, {'start': '3595.280', 'end': '3601.760', 'text': 'However, there are examples of that type'}, {'start': '3598.319', 'end': '3603.440', 'text': 'of AI that does have value. If anybody'}, {'start': '3601.760', 'end': '3605.440', 'text': 'has adaptive cruise control, for'}, {'start': '3603.440', 'end': '3607.920', 'text': 'example, right, that could be thought of'}, {'start': '3605.440', 'end': '3609.760', 'text': 'as a slow you down if the car in front'}, {'start': '3607.920', 'end': '3611.200', 'text': "of you slows you down. That's probably a"}, {'start': '3609.760', 'end': '3613.200', 'text': "good use case that there there doesn't"}, {'start': '3611.200', 'end': '3614.559', 'text': 'need to be that type of human oversight,'}, {'start': '3613.200', 'end': '3616.640', 'text': "but there's still when you're driving"}, {'start': '3614.559', 'end': '3618.880', 'text': 'your car, you still can control the'}, {'start': '3616.640', 'end': '3620.720', 'text': 'brake and the gas even if cruise'}, {'start': '3618.880', 'end': '3622.799', 'text': "controls on. So, I'm trying to use that"}, {'start': '3620.720', 'end': '3625.359', 'text': 'as an analogy for what we would do'}, {'start': '3622.799', 'end': '3627.599', 'text': 'internally um as we implement those'}, {'start': '3625.359', 'end': '3629.119', 'text': 'types of tools. And I appreciate it when'}, {'start': '3627.599', 'end': '3631.280', 'text': 'you use that analogy because it'}, {'start': '3629.119', 'end': '3633.720', 'text': 'immediately made me think back when we'}, {'start': '3631.280', 'end': '3636.160', 'text': 'had that study session that yeah, a lot'}, {'start': '3633.720', 'end': '3638.559', 'text': "of many cars have what's called lane"}, {'start': '3636.160', 'end': '3639.599', 'text': "assist now. and and when you're going"}, {'start': '3638.559', 'end': '3641.920', 'text': 'through things that are under'}, {'start': '3639.599', 'end': '3644.640', 'text': 'construction and lane lines have been'}, {'start': '3641.920', 'end': '3647.040', 'text': 'temporarily temporarily changed, your'}, {'start': '3644.640', 'end': '3648.799', 'text': 'lane assist still wants to take you into'}, {'start': '3647.040', 'end': '3651.200', 'text': 'those lines that were previously there.'}, {'start': '3648.799', 'end': '3654.240', 'text': "So, you're right, that type of AI is in"}, {'start': '3651.200', 'end': '3656.640', 'text': "use now and and um where it's widely"}, {'start': '3654.240', 'end': '3659.440', 'text': 'adapted. That looks different than going'}, {'start': '3656.640', 'end': '3661.680', 'text': 'into under some unknown territory. So,'}, {'start': '3659.440', 'end': '3663.680', 'text': 'thank you very much. Just one quick'}, {'start': '3661.680', 'end': '3665.119', 'text': 'clarification. So um although the'}, {'start': '3663.680', 'end': '3667.040', 'text': 'technology department was involved in'}, {'start': '3665.119', 'end': '3669.839', 'text': 'this, this is really the work of the AI'}, {'start': '3667.040', 'end': '3671.200', 'text': 'committee and that includes about 35'}, {'start': '3669.839', 'end': '3673.280', 'text': 'people from across 20 different'}, {'start': '3671.200', 'end': '3674.799', 'text': 'departments. So I want to be clear, this'}, {'start': '3673.280', 'end': '3677.200', 'text': "isn't just the work of the technology"}, {'start': '3674.799', 'end': '3679.040', 'text': "department, it's the work across many"}, {'start': '3677.200', 'end': '3680.880', 'text': 'county departments and I appreciate that'}, {'start': '3679.040', 'end': '3682.559', 'text': 'reminder because that was a key part of'}, {'start': '3680.880', 'end': '3684.480', 'text': 'the presentation. So thank you for'}, {'start': '3682.559', 'end': '3686.640', 'text': 'reminding us.'}, {'start': '3684.480', 'end': '3688.640', 'text': 'Commissioner uh Alen Brand, thank you.'}, {'start': '3686.640', 'end': '3690.079', 'text': 'Thank you, Chair. And um I have a'}, {'start': '3688.640', 'end': '3691.680', 'text': "comment and then I'll be more than happy"}, {'start': '3690.079', 'end': '3694.559', 'text': "to make a motion when you're ready."}, {'start': '3691.680', 'end': '3696.640', 'text': "Thank you. Um, Mr. Nixon, you're"}, {'start': '3694.559', 'end': '3698.480', 'text': 'correct. It takes a team to do anything.'}, {'start': '3696.640', 'end': '3700.720', 'text': "Correct. Correct. That's a sign of good"}, {'start': '3698.480', 'end': '3703.599', 'text': 'leadership. So, I really appreciate your'}, {'start': '3700.720', 'end': '3705.200', 'text': 'work and keeping us in compliance. Um,'}, {'start': '3703.599', 'end': '3708.480', 'text': "I'm just going to tell a little brief"}, {'start': '3705.200', 'end': '3712.079', 'text': 'story. I uh was in Iowa this past week'}, {'start': '3708.480', 'end': '3713.839', 'text': 'and my grandson um is 14 and in South'}, {'start': '3712.079', 'end': '3717.119', 'text': "Carolina, they live there. They can't"}, {'start': '3713.839', 'end': '3718.799', 'text': 'drive yet. So I always thought his mom'}, {'start': '3717.119', 'end': '3720.799', 'text': 'was I always thought my daughter-in-law'}, {'start': '3718.799', 'end': '3724.160', 'text': 'was kind of overprotective like a'}, {'start': '3720.799', 'end': '3726.079', 'text': 'helicopter mom. So anytime they went to'}, {'start': '3724.160', 'end': '3727.920', 'text': 'the she always, you know, what books do'}, {'start': '3726.079', 'end': '3729.839', 'text': 'you read? That was something we do'}, {'start': '3727.920', 'end': '3732.319', 'text': 'together. And if you get an email or a'}, {'start': '3729.839', 'end': '3734.000', 'text': "text and it's out of the ordinary, you"}, {'start': '3732.319', 'end': '3735.520', 'text': 'need to let me know. So periodically she'}, {'start': '3734.000', 'end': '3738.480', 'text': 'goes and checks their phone. Well, he'}, {'start': '3735.520', 'end': '3741.640', 'text': "got an email or a text, I'm sorry, that"}, {'start': '3738.480', 'end': '3745.119', 'text': 'he need to pay his pass due toll.'}, {'start': '3741.640', 'end': '3746.640', 'text': "um since he's not driving yet, I did ask"}, {'start': '3745.119', 'end': '3749.520', 'text': 'him, "Is there something that you need'}, {'start': '3746.640', 'end': '3752.000', 'text': 'to tell us?" But anyway, it just it\'s'}, {'start': '3749.520', 'end': '3754.480', 'text': "amazing um our young kids how they're"}, {'start': '3752.000', 'end': '3755.680', 'text': 'already trolling them. Um but anyway,'}, {'start': '3754.480', 'end': '3759.680', 'text': "thank you for that. And when you're"}, {'start': '3755.680', 'end': '3763.119', 'text': 'ready, chair, I do have a motion.'}, {'start': '3759.680', 'end': '3765.280', 'text': "Why don't you I'm sorry. I think to say"}, {'start': '3763.119', 'end': '3768.640', 'text': "commission fast I I didn't say I'm"}, {'start': '3765.280', 'end': '3771.359', 'text': 'sorry. Please go ahead. Yeah, I um this'}, {'start': '3768.640', 'end': '3773.839', 'text': "is a topic that I just think it's"}, {'start': '3771.359', 'end': '3776.640', 'text': "really, you know, it's innovative on the"}, {'start': '3773.839', 'end': '3779.520', 'text': 'front range, but the oversight, the'}, {'start': '3776.640', 'end': '3781.119', 'text': 'support, the education. And so, I mean,'}, {'start': '3779.520', 'end': '3784.000', 'text': 'I think our employees need to'}, {'start': '3781.119', 'end': '3786.480', 'text': 'understand, do we have an AI person they'}, {'start': '3784.000', 'end': '3789.680', 'text': 'can go to like, oh, here I could do AI'}, {'start': '3786.480', 'end': '3792.079', 'text': 'for billing and and just go to AI. This'}, {'start': '3789.680', 'end': '3795.039', 'text': 'person is manic depressive, anxiety.'}, {'start': '3792.079', 'end': '3797.119', 'text': "Let's put use chat GP. let's submit it"}, {'start': '3795.039', 'end': '3799.039', 'text': "to a billing code and then there's"}, {'start': '3797.119', 'end': '3801.839', 'text': "saying and this person isn't manic"}, {'start': '3799.039', 'end': '3805.280', 'text': 'depressive they have anxiety and so that'}, {'start': '3801.839', 'end': '3807.680', 'text': 'there is a overstrike govern you know I'}, {'start': '3805.280', 'end': '3811.920', 'text': 'know you have this committee but where'}, {'start': '3807.680', 'end': '3814.240', 'text': 'do people go you know for advice um you'}, {'start': '3811.920', 'end': '3816.480', 'text': 'know to ask you know what you know'}, {'start': '3814.240', 'end': '3819.680', 'text': "because there's constantly be going to"}, {'start': '3816.480', 'end': '3822.480', 'text': 'move the borders of it now you can get'}, {'start': '3819.680', 'end': '3824.240', 'text': 'on all these mental health apps with no'}, {'start': '3822.480', 'end': '3827.119', 'text': 'trained therapists'}, {'start': '3824.240', 'end': '3829.760', 'text': 'Um, and so, you know, practitioners'}, {'start': '3827.119', 'end': '3832.799', 'text': 'could just refer them to a AI mental'}, {'start': '3829.760', 'end': '3835.039', 'text': 'health app for support. And so, you'}, {'start': '3832.799', 'end': '3836.960', 'text': "know, it's such a new I mean, you"}, {'start': '3835.039', 'end': '3839.039', 'text': 'identified the values, but I just feel'}, {'start': '3836.960', 'end': '3842.119', 'text': 'like there also needs, you know, a'}, {'start': '3839.039', 'end': '3845.119', 'text': 'governance structure here and a support'}, {'start': '3842.119', 'end': '3847.440', 'text': 'structure that needs to be the SE next'}, {'start': '3845.119', 'end': '3849.920', 'text': 'steps is my thoughts and what are your'}, {'start': '3847.440', 'end': '3851.520', 'text': 'thoughts on that? Yeah, so we have a um'}, {'start': '3849.920', 'end': '3853.680', 'text': 'very strong governance structure today'}, {'start': '3851.520', 'end': '3855.680', 'text': 'to implement technology. So we have uh'}, {'start': '3853.680', 'end': '3857.440', 'text': "the technology review, there's a finance"}, {'start': '3855.680', 'end': '3859.680', 'text': 'review that includes procurement,'}, {'start': '3857.440', 'end': '3862.280', 'text': "there's a legal review in in most of"}, {'start': '3859.680', 'end': '3864.880', 'text': 'those cases and we plan to reuse those'}, {'start': '3862.280', 'end': '3866.640', 'text': 'processes. In addition, we have um the'}, {'start': '3864.880', 'end': '3868.799', 'text': 'AI ambassadors that I mentioned that'}, {'start': '3866.640', 'end': '3871.359', 'text': 'will be embedded in in departments that'}, {'start': '3868.799', 'end': '3874.720', 'text': 'will assist in in making sure that um'}, {'start': '3871.359', 'end': '3877.119', 'text': 'proper use of AI. And then um finally we'}, {'start': '3874.720', 'end': '3880.480', 'text': 'will be um doing some additional'}, {'start': '3877.119', 'end': '3882.880', 'text': 'training to users uh employees within'}, {'start': '3880.480', 'end': '3886.160', 'text': "the county to ensure they're properly"}, {'start': '3882.880', 'end': '3888.559', 'text': 'using AI. So we already have very strong'}, {'start': '3886.160', 'end': '3891.920', 'text': 'governance processes in place and we'}, {'start': '3888.559', 'end': '3896.000', 'text': 'plan to enhance those with uh AI as part'}, {'start': '3891.920', 'end': '3897.520', 'text': 'of those ambassadors. Okay. Thank you.'}, {'start': '3896.000', 'end': '3899.440', 'text': 'Commissioner Alen Brand. How about your'}, {'start': '3897.520', 'end': '3902.280', 'text': 'motion? Thank you chair. I move that the'}, {'start': '3899.440', 'end': '3906.480', 'text': 'board approve resolution number'}, {'start': '3902.280', 'end': '3909.440', 'text': '043-25 adopting the AL policy in the'}, {'start': '3906.480', 'end': '3911.280', 'text': 'form and substance reflected in the'}, {'start': '3909.440', 'end': '3913.200', 'text': 'attached policy to be effective'}, {'start': '3911.280', 'end': '3915.359', 'text': 'immediately.'}, {'start': '3913.200', 'end': '3916.960', 'text': "I'm sorry. AI."}, {'start': '3915.359', 'end': '3918.880', 'text': 'Thank you very much. Is there a second?'}, {'start': '3916.960', 'end': '3921.599', 'text': 'Meer second. Moved by Commissioner Alen'}, {'start': '3918.880', 'end': '3923.520', 'text': 'Brand, seconded by Commissioner Meyers.'}, {'start': '3921.599', 'end': '3925.760', 'text': 'Yes. Thank you to Mr. to Nixon but also'}, {'start': '3923.520', 'end': '3928.319', 'text': 'to everybody who participated in'}, {'start': '3925.760', 'end': '3930.280', 'text': "creating this this policy that's an"}, {'start': '3928.319', 'end': '3932.119', 'text': 'iterative policy'}, {'start': '3930.280', 'end': '3934.559', 'text': 'uh much'}, {'start': '3932.119', 'end': '3936.960', 'text': 'as it was during the advent of the'}, {'start': '3934.559', 'end': '3939.599', 'text': 'internet there were skeptics but there'}, {'start': '3936.960', 'end': '3942.799', 'text': 'was much possibility'}, {'start': '3939.599', 'end': '3945.599', 'text': 'um AI has the potential to not replace'}, {'start': '3942.799', 'end': '3948.960', 'text': 'but enhance the ability of those who'}, {'start': '3945.599', 'end': '3951.760', 'text': 'work in public service and therefore'}, {'start': '3948.960', 'end': '3954.319', 'text': 'enhance the effectiveness uh and the'}, {'start': '3951.760', 'end': '3956.799', 'text': 'outcomes that are received by the'}, {'start': '3954.319', 'end': '3959.520', 'text': "ultimate end users and that's the public"}, {'start': '3956.799', 'end': '3962.079', 'text': "that we serve. I'm I believe it's"}, {'start': '3959.520', 'end': '3964.720', 'text': "incumbent upon us to be proactive. I'm"}, {'start': '3962.079', 'end': '3966.960', 'text': "glad we're being proactive in utilizing"}, {'start': '3964.720', 'end': '3970.400', 'text': 'the tools that could best serve the'}, {'start': '3966.960', 'end': '3974.640', 'text': 'public and that we express and really'}, {'start': '3970.400', 'end': '3978.160', 'text': 'stick to our commitment to compliance,'}, {'start': '3974.640', 'end': '3980.319', 'text': 'transparency, and accountability and be'}, {'start': '3978.160', 'end': '3984.559', 'text': 'nimble, which is a word I like to use.'}, {'start': '3980.319', 'end': '3988.640', 'text': 'Forgive me. uh in in uh changing or'}, {'start': '3984.559', 'end': '3991.440', 'text': 'enhancing uh our use of AI when either'}, {'start': '3988.640', 'end': '3993.520', 'text': 'new technology comes available or we'}, {'start': '3991.440', 'end': '3996.160', 'text': 'better understand the implications of'}, {'start': '3993.520', 'end': '3998.119', 'text': 'utilizing AI in different various'}, {'start': '3996.160', 'end': '4000.640', 'text': "departments. But I'm excited about the"}, {'start': '3998.119', 'end': '4003.480', 'text': 'possibilities. Uh look forward to the'}, {'start': '4000.640', 'end': '4006.400', 'text': 'innovations ahead. Thank'}, {'start': '4003.480', 'end': '4008.160', 'text': "you. Uh at this time we'll uh ask the"}, {'start': '4006.400', 'end': '4010.880', 'text': 'clerk to call the role. Commissioner'}, {'start': '4008.160', 'end': '4013.359', 'text': 'Fast. Hi. Commissioner Myers. Myers'}, {'start': '4010.880', 'end': '4015.359', 'text': 'height. Commissioner Brewer. Brewer. I.'}, {'start': '4013.359', 'end': '4017.599', 'text': 'Commissioner Hansick. Hanslick. I.'}, {'start': '4015.359', 'end': '4020.079', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft. Yes. Commissioner'}, {'start': '4017.599', 'end': '4021.599', 'text': 'Alenbrand. Alen Brand. I. And Chairman'}, {'start': '4020.079', 'end': '4023.359', 'text': 'Kelly.'}, {'start': '4021.599', 'end': '4024.880', 'text': 'I. We have seven in favor. None against.'}, {'start': '4023.359', 'end': '4026.480', 'text': 'Is that consistent with your count? That'}, {'start': '4024.880', 'end': '4028.400', 'text': 'is correct. Very good. Thank you.'}, {'start': '4026.480', 'end': '4030.480', 'text': "Thanks, Mr. Nixon. At this time, we'll"}, {'start': '4028.400', 'end': '4033.039', 'text': 'move to a report from our county'}, {'start': '4030.480', 'end': '4034.720', 'text': 'manager, Miss Postto Ferguson. Chairman'}, {'start': '4033.039', 'end': '4036.240', 'text': 'and commissioners. Good morning. I have'}, {'start': '4034.720', 'end': '4038.000', 'text': "two items this morning. First, I'd like"}, {'start': '4036.240', 'end': '4040.000', 'text': 'to ask Dan Robersonson to come forward'}, {'start': '4038.000', 'end': '4042.240', 'text': 'to talk about severe weather'}, {'start': '4040.000', 'end': '4044.319', 'text': 'preparedness and some new partners in'}, {'start': '4042.240', 'end': '4045.920', 'text': 'preparedness program that we have. Dan'}, {'start': '4044.319', 'end': '4047.440', 'text': 'is the deputy director of emergency'}, {'start': '4045.920', 'end': '4049.520', 'text': 'management.'}, {'start': '4047.440', 'end': '4050.799', 'text': 'Dan, thank you. Good morning, uh,'}, {'start': '4049.520', 'end': '4052.000', 'text': 'chairman, commissioners. Dan'}, {'start': '4050.799', 'end': '4054.880', 'text': 'Robersonson, emergency management'}, {'start': '4052.000', 'end': '4057.359', 'text': "division. Um, as we're entering our peak"}, {'start': '4054.880', 'end': '4060.160', 'text': "u severe weather season, we're uh"}, {'start': '4057.359', 'end': '4062.319', 'text': 'reminding everybody of safe steps that'}, {'start': '4060.160', 'end': '4064.160', 'text': 'they can they can take to make sure that'}, {'start': '4062.319', 'end': '4067.200', 'text': "they're ready for the severe weather"}, {'start': '4064.160', 'end': '4070.160', 'text': "that's u ahead of us here. And that is"}, {'start': '4067.200', 'end': '4071.760', 'text': "always we're focusing on having uh"}, {'start': '4070.160', 'end': '4074.240', 'text': 'everybody understand how to stay'}, {'start': '4071.760', 'end': '4077.280', 'text': 'informed, gather supplies, and to have a'}, {'start': '4074.240', 'end': '4079.760', 'text': "plan. And um we're promoting through"}, {'start': '4077.280', 'end': '4082.720', 'text': 'that uh the use of Noah weather radios'}, {'start': '4079.760', 'end': '4085.280', 'text': 'and also uh Notify Jooko, Johnson'}, {'start': '4082.720', 'end': '4087.280', 'text': "County's emergency uh mass notification"}, {'start': '4085.280', 'end': '4089.839', 'text': 'system. So now is a great time for'}, {'start': '4087.280', 'end': '4091.280', 'text': 'people to go to notifyjoko.org and'}, {'start': '4089.839', 'end': '4093.039', 'text': 'create an account or update their'}, {'start': '4091.280', 'end': '4094.319', 'text': 'information in that account to make sure'}, {'start': '4093.039', 'end': '4096.239', 'text': "that they're ready to get that"}, {'start': '4094.319', 'end': '4099.040', 'text': 'information. We also recommend people to'}, {'start': '4096.239', 'end': '4101.839', 'text': 'go to ready.gov for additional planning'}, {'start': '4099.040', 'end': '4103.679', 'text': 'information. Also excited to mention to'}, {'start': '4101.839', 'end': '4106.000', 'text': "you that we've rolled out a new"}, {'start': '4103.679', 'end': '4108.759', 'text': 'initiative uh partners in preparedness'}, {'start': '4106.000', 'end': '4111.359', 'text': 'to engage organizations in emergency'}, {'start': '4108.759', 'end': '4113.920', 'text': 'preparedness. This is a voluntary'}, {'start': '4111.359', 'end': '4115.520', 'text': "program that's focused on recognizing"}, {'start': '4113.920', 'end': '4117.839', 'text': 'preparedness efforts of local'}, {'start': '4115.520', 'end': '4120.400', 'text': 'businesses, nonprofits, schools, other'}, {'start': '4117.839', 'end': '4122.759', 'text': 'organizations in Johnson County and to'}, {'start': '4120.400', 'end': '4126.319', 'text': 'connect with them on preparedness'}, {'start': '4122.759', 'end': '4128.960', 'text': 'intentionally. Um the participation is'}, {'start': '4126.319', 'end': '4131.600', 'text': 'simple. Uh organizations can go to our'}, {'start': '4128.960', 'end': '4131.600', 'text': 'website at'}, {'start': '4131.640', 'end': '4135.759', 'text': 'jookogv.orgpip for partners in'}, {'start': '4133.480', 'end': '4137.679', 'text': 'preparedness and on that site they can'}, {'start': '4135.759', 'end': '4140.400', 'text': 'review suggested preparedness actions'}, {'start': '4137.679', 'end': '4142.080', 'text': 'and then identify five specific'}, {'start': '4140.400', 'end': '4144.000', 'text': "preparedness activities that they've"}, {'start': '4142.080', 'end': '4146.159', 'text': 'taken one in each of the five categories'}, {'start': '4144.000', 'end': '4148.480', 'text': "that we've identified and then we review"}, {'start': '4146.159', 'end': '4150.080', 'text': "what they've submitted and then formally"}, {'start': '4148.480', 'end': '4152.319', 'text': 'recognize them as a partner in'}, {'start': '4150.080', 'end': '4154.880', 'text': 'preparedness. So that effort not only'}, {'start': '4152.319', 'end': '4157.120', 'text': 'helps build their internal capabilities'}, {'start': '4154.880', 'end': '4159.920', 'text': 'but also expands our network of our'}, {'start': '4157.120', 'end': '4161.600', 'text': 'informed and prepared community partners'}, {'start': '4159.920', 'end': '4164.799', 'text': 'which strengthens our community'}, {'start': '4161.600', 'end': '4166.880', 'text': 'resilience. So excited to share with you'}, {'start': '4164.799', 'end': '4169.520', 'text': 'about that program today and appreciate'}, {'start': '4166.880', 'end': '4172.080', 'text': 'the opportunity. Thank you very much Mr.'}, {'start': '4169.520', 'end': '4174.880', 'text': 'Robersonson. Questions, comments?'}, {'start': '4172.080', 'end': '4177.359', 'text': 'Commissioner Hanick. Uh thank you. Uh'}, {'start': '4174.880', 'end': '4180.880', 'text': "I'm I appreciate the information about"}, {'start': '4177.359', 'end': '4183.600', 'text': 'the new uh program Mr. Roberson and I'}, {'start': '4180.880', 'end': '4185.839', 'text': 'know that you have uh you and I have'}, {'start': '4183.600', 'end': '4189.679', 'text': 'worked together to address some of the'}, {'start': '4185.839', 'end': '4191.679', 'text': 'the issues in uh the communities that'}, {'start': '4189.679', 'end': '4194.320', 'text': 'have uh different needs, different'}, {'start': '4191.679', 'end': '4197.760', 'text': 'abilities. So, uh, I wanted to ask,'}, {'start': '4194.320', 'end': '4201.199', 'text': 'would this program be appropriate for,'}, {'start': '4197.760', 'end': '4204.159', 'text': 'uh, organizations that work with, uh,'}, {'start': '4201.199', 'end': '4207.679', 'text': 'uh, people who have other abilities, uh,'}, {'start': '4204.159', 'end': '4211.520', 'text': 'and help them with their special needs'}, {'start': '4207.679', 'end': '4213.679', 'text': 'for notification of of severe weather?'}, {'start': '4211.520', 'end': '4217.520', 'text': 'Absolutely. Great question. This has'}, {'start': '4213.679', 'end': '4220.719', 'text': 'been designed to really uh, benefit um,'}, {'start': '4217.520', 'end': '4223.440', 'text': 'any organization in Johnson County. So,'}, {'start': '4220.719', 'end': '4226.000', 'text': "uh, we hope that, uh, over time we're"}, {'start': '4223.440', 'end': '4227.600', 'text': 'able to connect with a wide variety of'}, {'start': '4226.000', 'end': '4230.159', 'text': 'different groups and and through that'}, {'start': '4227.600', 'end': '4232.159', 'text': 'connection, we hope to hear more about'}, {'start': '4230.159', 'end': '4234.000', 'text': 'what organizations are doing in'}, {'start': '4232.159', 'end': '4235.600', 'text': 'preparedness and share that with others'}, {'start': '4234.000', 'end': '4237.280', 'text': 'so that we can build that culture of'}, {'start': '4235.600', 'end': '4239.199', 'text': 'preparedness together. Great. Well,'}, {'start': '4237.280', 'end': '4242.080', 'text': 'thank you. Thanks for your leadership on'}, {'start': '4239.199', 'end': '4244.719', 'text': 'this. Certainly. Yes, very much. Thank'}, {'start': '4242.080', 'end': '4246.480', 'text': 'you very Thank you, sir. Um, Miss Postto'}, {'start': '4244.719', 'end': '4248.400', 'text': 'Ferguson. Yes, Dan. At first I thought'}, {'start': '4246.480', 'end': '4250.560', 'text': 'that was uh tornado sirens going off and'}, {'start': '4248.400', 'end': '4254.000', 'text': 'I thought that what timing that you were'}, {'start': '4250.560', 'end': '4256.000', 'text': 'making adding some flare. Thank you. Um'}, {'start': '4254.000', 'end': '4258.800', 'text': 'next Tim Dodridge our web content'}, {'start': '4256.000', 'end': '4261.760', 'text': 'coordinator wanted wants to highlight um'}, {'start': '4258.800', 'end': '4264.719', 'text': 'a new website. Um Tim if you want to'}, {'start': '4261.760', 'end': '4267.199', 'text': 'come forward. And this this really adds'}, {'start': '4264.719', 'end': '4269.760', 'text': 'kind of another step in coordination'}, {'start': '4267.199', 'end': '4271.480', 'text': 'with permits and licensing and and kind'}, {'start': '4269.760', 'end': '4274.560', 'text': 'of helps the'}, {'start': '4271.480', 'end': '4276.080', 'text': 'the building community on how to access'}, {'start': '4274.560', 'end': '4277.679', 'text': 'our services. So Tim, you want to'}, {'start': '4276.080', 'end': '4279.679', 'text': 'highlight that please? Yeah, for sure.'}, {'start': '4277.679', 'end': '4281.440', 'text': 'Good morning. Tim Doage, web content'}, {'start': '4279.679', 'end': '4284.320', 'text': 'specialist with uh Johnson County'}, {'start': '4281.440', 'end': '4286.239', 'text': 'Communications and Engagement. Um, so'}, {'start': '4284.320', 'end': '4288.320', 'text': 'the permits and licensing guide was'}, {'start': '4286.239', 'end': '4291.360', 'text': 'essentially an effort to bring all of'}, {'start': '4288.320', 'end': '4294.880', 'text': 'the different permits and licenses that'}, {'start': '4291.360', 'end': '4297.360', 'text': 'members of the public uh contractors and'}, {'start': '4294.880', 'end': '4299.360', 'text': 'and other people that are doing work in'}, {'start': '4297.360', 'end': '4302.800', 'text': 'the county can apply for all in one'}, {'start': '4299.360', 'end': '4304.320', 'text': 'place uh because they are located on a'}, {'start': '4302.800', 'end': '4306.640', 'text': 'lot of different web pages and use a'}, {'start': '4304.320', 'end': '4308.400', 'text': 'variety of different web applications.'}, {'start': '4306.640', 'end': '4311.040', 'text': 'So this is one part of a project to kind'}, {'start': '4308.400', 'end': '4314.080', 'text': 'of improve efficiency and make it easier'}, {'start': '4311.040', 'end': '4316.000', 'text': 'for them to find that information. So'}, {'start': '4314.080', 'end': '4318.960', 'text': 'they can find that on the homepage now'}, {'start': '4316.000', 'end': '4321.040', 'text': 'under our guide section and also hoping'}, {'start': '4318.960', 'end': '4323.120', 'text': 'this acts as sort of a landing page for'}, {'start': '4321.040', 'end': '4325.679', 'text': 'them. So, if they do a Google search for'}, {'start': '4323.120', 'end': '4328.159', 'text': 'I need a permit for, you know, a'}, {'start': '4325.679', 'end': '4330.239', 'text': 'building permit or I need a wastewater'}, {'start': '4328.159', 'end': '4331.920', 'text': "permit, they'll easily be able to get to"}, {'start': '4330.239', 'end': '4333.600', 'text': "this page and then it'll funnel them"}, {'start': '4331.920', 'end': '4335.760', 'text': 'through to find the type of permit they'}, {'start': '4333.600', 'end': '4337.840', 'text': 'need to apply for as well as some'}, {'start': '4335.760', 'end': '4339.679', 'text': 'instructional information to kind of'}, {'start': '4337.840', 'end': '4341.120', 'text': 'explain, hey, this is what you need a'}, {'start': '4339.679', 'end': '4343.760', 'text': 'contractor license before you get a'}, {'start': '4341.120', 'end': '4345.440', 'text': 'building permit or uh you need to go'}, {'start': '4343.760', 'end': '4348.000', 'text': 'through the county for this type of'}, {'start': '4345.440', 'end': '4349.920', 'text': 'permit, but like for instance, fishing'}, {'start': '4348.000', 'end': '4352.239', 'text': 'license is now through the state. So'}, {'start': '4349.920', 'end': '4354.239', 'text': 'providing that information for them so'}, {'start': '4352.239', 'end': '4356.480', 'text': 'they have clear direction and uh can get'}, {'start': '4354.239', 'end': '4358.640', 'text': 'it done as quickly and painlessly as'}, {'start': '4356.480', 'end': '4360.560', 'text': 'possible. And Tim, thank you. I know'}, {'start': '4358.640', 'end': '4362.560', 'text': 'there was a a team of folks working on'}, {'start': '4360.560', 'end': '4365.920', 'text': 'this along with Adam Norris in our'}, {'start': '4362.560', 'end': '4367.679', 'text': 'office and um this is part of our desire'}, {'start': '4365.920', 'end': '4370.960', 'text': 'to continuously improve. So thank you'}, {'start': '4367.679', 'end': '4372.800', 'text': 'for that effort. Yeah, Mr. Doitch, thank'}, {'start': '4370.960', 'end': '4374.239', 'text': 'I think this is an important thing'}, {'start': '4372.800', 'end': '4377.760', 'text': 'especially as our county continues to'}, {'start': '4374.239', 'end': '4380.239', 'text': 'grow as we want to be uh responsive to'}, {'start': '4377.760', 'end': '4382.239', 'text': 'the needs not only of those who choose'}, {'start': '4380.239', 'end': '4384.800', 'text': 'to live in Johnson County but those who'}, {'start': '4382.239', 'end': '4388.000', 'text': 'choose to build or to grow a business in'}, {'start': '4384.800', 'end': '4390.880', 'text': 'Johnson County. Making things simple for'}, {'start': '4388.000', 'end': '4394.679', 'text': 'them um while going through the'}, {'start': '4390.880', 'end': '4397.679', 'text': 'processes and being u adherent to those'}, {'start': '4394.679', 'end': '4399.360', 'text': 'processes um being a partner in'}, {'start': '4397.679', 'end': '4400.960', 'text': 'development I think goes a long way.'}, {'start': '4399.360', 'end': '4403.280', 'text': 'this is another step in that direction.'}, {'start': '4400.960', 'end': '4405.520', 'text': 'So, I thank you very much for for doing'}, {'start': '4403.280', 'end': '4408.560', 'text': 'so, Commissioner Ashcraft. Uh, thank'}, {'start': '4405.520', 'end': '4411.199', 'text': 'you, Mr. Chairman. Um, well, Mr. Donner,'}, {'start': '4408.560', 'end': '4412.560', 'text': 'is this your first time before us? Uh,'}, {'start': '4411.199', 'end': '4414.800', 'text': "I've been here one other time to talk"}, {'start': '4412.560', 'end': '4417.199', 'text': 'about a web project. Well, glad to have'}, {'start': '4414.800', 'end': '4419.920', 'text': 'you back. Um, and thank you for your'}, {'start': '4417.199', 'end': '4422.080', 'text': 'presentation and I I think this is a'}, {'start': '4419.920', 'end': '4425.199', 'text': 'valuable addition as the chairman has'}, {'start': '4422.080', 'end': '4429.440', 'text': 'said. Question though, will it provide'}, {'start': '4425.199', 'end': '4432.480', 'text': 'will it provide links to uh other local'}, {'start': '4429.440', 'end': '4434.880', 'text': 'governments that have permitting'}, {'start': '4432.480', 'end': '4437.360', 'text': 'expectations if someone moves into the'}, {'start': '4434.880', 'end': '4440.400', 'text': "county? U so that there's kind of a"}, {'start': '4437.360', 'end': '4442.159', 'text': 'one-stop portal uh for that kind of'}, {'start': '4440.400', 'end': '4444.400', 'text': 'contact or is this solely just for'}, {'start': '4442.159', 'end': '4447.199', 'text': "Johnson County permit? It's mostly for"}, {'start': '4444.400', 'end': '4449.679', 'text': 'the county. We do clarify in instances'}, {'start': '4447.199', 'end': '4451.840', 'text': 'for example for for treasury taxation of'}, {'start': '4449.679', 'end': '4454.719', 'text': 'vehicles. We explained that, you know,'}, {'start': '4451.840', 'end': '4456.320', 'text': 'you need to get your your uh vehicle tag'}, {'start': '4454.719', 'end': '4458.000', 'text': 'registration through the county, but if'}, {'start': '4456.320', 'end': '4459.840', 'text': "you need to get uh your driver's"}, {'start': '4458.000', 'end': '4461.520', 'text': "license, that's through the state. So"}, {'start': '4459.840', 'end': '4463.600', 'text': 'clarifying things where somebody might'}, {'start': '4461.520', 'end': '4466.080', 'text': "not be sure if it's county or city,"}, {'start': '4463.600', 'end': '4468.719', 'text': 'county or state, things like that, we do'}, {'start': '4466.080', 'end': '4470.560', 'text': 'clarify. Okay. Thank you, Commissioner'}, {'start': '4468.719', 'end': '4473.520', 'text': 'Hansick. Uh thank you. I appreciate'}, {'start': '4470.560', 'end': '4476.000', 'text': "Commissioner Ashcraft's question. And"}, {'start': '4473.520', 'end': '4478.159', 'text': "I'm I'm I don't know whose brainchild"}, {'start': '4476.000', 'end': '4481.280', 'text': "this was, but it's terrific because I"}, {'start': '4478.159', 'end': '4483.679', 'text': 'know I often get questions uh from'}, {'start': '4481.280', 'end': '4486.159', 'text': "constituents who aren't sure, do I go to"}, {'start': '4483.679', 'end': '4489.040', 'text': 'the county, do I go to the city, and'}, {'start': '4486.159', 'end': '4492.320', 'text': 'this will allow me to easily refer them'}, {'start': '4489.040', 'end': '4495.040', 'text': 'to a a website uh that can help them'}, {'start': '4492.320', 'end': '4498.080', 'text': 'with with all things county. So, thank'}, {'start': '4495.040', 'end': '4500.080', 'text': 'you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Very'}, {'start': '4498.080', 'end': '4501.679', 'text': 'good. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.'}, {'start': '4500.080', 'end': '4503.679', 'text': 'That concludes my report. Thank you.'}, {'start': '4501.679', 'end': '4505.440', 'text': "Very good. At this time, we'll move to"}, {'start': '4503.679', 'end': '4507.600', 'text': 'our commissioner comments starting today'}, {'start': '4505.440', 'end': '4510.960', 'text': 'with Commissioner Ashcraft.'}, {'start': '4507.600', 'end': '4513.600', 'text': 'Oh, well, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um,'}, {'start': '4510.960', 'end': '4516.080', 'text': 'well, Mr. Chairman, um, Commissioner'}, {'start': '4513.600', 'end': '4518.719', 'text': "Alabbrand has been out. Uh so I didn't"}, {'start': '4516.080', 'end': '4522.960', 'text': "don't want to steal her thunder but I"}, {'start': '4518.719', 'end': '4526.080', 'text': 'wanted to recognize that uh for the last'}, {'start': '4522.960', 'end': '4529.600', 'text': 'couple of years at least she has been'}, {'start': '4526.080', 'end': '4533.600', 'text': 'working diligently tirelessly'}, {'start': '4529.600', 'end': '4536.320', 'text': 'um and courageously to uh bring together'}, {'start': '4533.600', 'end': '4540.400', 'text': 'a consolidation of fire districts one'}, {'start': '4536.320', 'end': '4543.199', 'text': 'and two and I believe um that uh while'}, {'start': '4540.400', 'end': '4547.120', 'text': 'you were gone and we missed you uh that'}, {'start': '4543.199', 'end': '4549.520', 'text': 'did finally occuric officially uh and I'}, {'start': '4547.120', 'end': '4551.679', 'text': 'know it takes a team uh but it also'}, {'start': '4549.520', 'end': '4555.280', 'text': 'takes uh the right kind of leadership'}, {'start': '4551.679', 'end': '4557.440', 'text': 'and um I I know you sweated some some'}, {'start': '4555.280', 'end': '4559.679', 'text': 'beads a few times but you you work'}, {'start': '4557.440', 'end': '4562.800', 'text': 'through that and I wanted to commend you'}, {'start': '4559.679', 'end': '4564.000', 'text': "for that. Uh and I I don't want to steal"}, {'start': '4562.800', 'end': '4566.000', 'text': 'your thunder. So if you want to'}, {'start': '4564.000', 'end': '4568.960', 'text': 'elaborate please please feel free when'}, {'start': '4566.000', 'end': '4570.640', 'text': "it's your turn. Um secondly, Mr."}, {'start': '4568.960', 'end': '4573.120', 'text': 'Chairman, I just wanted to offer a brief'}, {'start': '4570.640', 'end': '4575.560', 'text': 'report. The public safety committee met'}, {'start': '4573.120', 'end': '4579.679', 'text': "uh yesterday. That's the 911"}, {'start': '4575.560', 'end': '4581.840', 'text': 'committee. Um it was a fairly uh'}, {'start': '4579.679', 'end': '4583.679', 'text': 'straightforward meeting. They did talk'}, {'start': '4581.840', 'end': '4585.679', 'text': 'about their reserves are now at 12'}, {'start': '4583.679', 'end': '4588.000', 'text': 'months. Uh I have brought this issue'}, {'start': '4585.679', 'end': '4591.040', 'text': 'before the commission before. They are'}, {'start': '4588.000', 'end': '4592.880', 'text': "shooting for 12 to 15 months. Uh it's"}, {'start': '4591.040', 'end': '4595.520', 'text': 'been increasing for the last year and'}, {'start': '4592.880', 'end': '4597.920', 'text': 'will continue to increase. Um the one'}, {'start': '4595.520', 'end': '4600.080', 'text': 'item that I thought uh Mr. chairman, you'}, {'start': '4597.920', 'end': '4602.480', 'text': 'might find of particular interest is'}, {'start': '4600.080', 'end': '4605.320', 'text': 'that uh the committee is moving forward'}, {'start': '4602.480', 'end': '4608.080', 'text': 'with with what is called rapid SOS'}, {'start': '4605.320', 'end': '4611.920', 'text': 'enhancements and that is the ability to'}, {'start': '4608.080', 'end': '4615.120', 'text': 'link in uh texting and emailing and'}, {'start': '4611.920', 'end': '4617.520', 'text': 'phone calling. uh in preparation, the'}, {'start': '4615.120', 'end': '4621.360', 'text': 'discussion was being focused primarily'}, {'start': '4617.520', 'end': '4627.120', 'text': 'on trying to be prepared for uh the the'}, {'start': '4621.360', 'end': '4630.000', 'text': 'FIFA FIFA FIFA FIFA the the FIFA um uh'}, {'start': '4627.120', 'end': '4632.719', 'text': "events uh coming here and I I've lost"}, {'start': '4630.000', 'end': '4635.840', 'text': "the day count but I'm sure you'll you'll"}, {'start': '4632.719', 'end': '4637.199', 'text': 'remember what it is. Um and then'}, {'start': '4635.840', 'end': '4640.000', 'text': 'finally, Mr. Mr. Chairman, on a more'}, {'start': '4637.199', 'end': '4643.920', 'text': 'somber note, I just wanted to recognize'}, {'start': '4640.000', 'end': '4646.480', 'text': 'that um um yesterday was the 50th'}, {'start': '4643.920', 'end': '4649.920', 'text': 'anniversary of the fall of Saigon. And'}, {'start': '4646.480', 'end': '4654.239', 'text': "for some of us, um it is a is it's a"}, {'start': '4649.920', 'end': '4657.760', 'text': "memory. It's a it's a sad memory. Um and"}, {'start': '4654.239', 'end': '4660.080', 'text': 'respectful memory. Uh a lot of uh young'}, {'start': '4657.760', 'end': '4662.800', 'text': 'men and women came back to less than a'}, {'start': '4660.080', 'end': '4666.640', 'text': "hero's welcome. Uh but they served their"}, {'start': '4662.800', 'end': '4668.880', 'text': "country well. And uh I'm I'm glad we've"}, {'start': '4666.640', 'end': '4670.800', 'text': 'moved on from that era and I I salute'}, {'start': '4668.880', 'end': '4673.440', 'text': 'the the men and women of our armed'}, {'start': '4670.800', 'end': '4675.520', 'text': 'forces past and present.'}, {'start': '4673.440', 'end': '4677.360', 'text': 'Thank you, sir. Commissioner Alenbrand.'}, {'start': '4675.520', 'end': '4680.159', 'text': 'Thank you, Chair. Um well, thank you,'}, {'start': '4677.360', 'end': '4682.320', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft, that it has been'}, {'start': '4680.159', 'end': '4684.960', 'text': "um something that's been in put into"}, {'start': '4682.320', 'end': '4686.880', 'text': "place and it's not always fun um when"}, {'start': '4684.960', 'end': '4688.800', 'text': 'you have to work to get that done. But'}, {'start': '4686.880', 'end': '4692.080', 'text': 'the good thing is it does take a team to'}, {'start': '4688.800', 'end': '4695.840', 'text': "get things done. And I'll be excited"}, {'start': '4692.080', 'end': '4698.960', 'text': 'once um we start seeing the spreadsheet'}, {'start': '4695.840', 'end': '4701.760', 'text': 'um with having um more employees and'}, {'start': '4698.960', 'end': '4704.880', 'text': "some of the benefits of of what that's"}, {'start': '4701.760', 'end': '4707.440', 'text': 'going to look like. Um so I appreciate'}, {'start': '4704.880', 'end': '4711.040', 'text': 'all the uh work that was done by the'}, {'start': '4707.440', 'end': '4715.199', 'text': 'fire um board and also staff as well.'}, {'start': '4711.040', 'end': '4718.400', 'text': "Um, last week I had uh I'm part of the"}, {'start': '4715.199', 'end': '4721.040', 'text': 'Johnson County Rotary Group and H&TB'}, {'start': '4718.400', 'end': '4723.400', 'text': 'came and spoke at that group um about'}, {'start': '4721.040', 'end': '4727.719', 'text': 'the study that was just completed on Tim'}, {'start': '4723.400', 'end': '4732.320', 'text': 'Highway. Um I really appreciate the uh'}, {'start': '4727.719', 'end': '4735.600', 'text': 'H&TB and um and KOT. Um the community'}, {'start': '4732.320', 'end': '4738.159', 'text': 'involvement um it affects my district'}, {'start': '4735.600', 'end': '4740.960', 'text': 'mostly on 10 highway but also kind of'}, {'start': '4738.159', 'end': '4743.080', 'text': 'wraps into other places as well. um'}, {'start': '4740.960', 'end': '4745.679', 'text': 'Commissioner Meyers, um Commissioner'}, {'start': '4743.080', 'end': '4747.600', 'text': 'Ashcraft. Um so we should be having the'}, {'start': '4745.679', 'end': '4749.920', 'text': 'Southwest Corridor plan coming out this'}, {'start': '4747.600', 'end': '4751.840', 'text': 'month, which will be um good to hear as'}, {'start': '4749.920', 'end': '4754.640', 'text': 'well. So I really appreciate them doing'}, {'start': '4751.840', 'end': '4757.760', 'text': 'that. Um also, I went to the city of'}, {'start': '4754.640', 'end': '4759.199', 'text': 'Gardener um the mayor address, which'}, {'start': '4757.760', 'end': '4762.560', 'text': 'other commissioners went and that might'}, {'start': '4759.199', 'end': '4764.960', 'text': 'have been spoke last week about that. I'}, {'start': '4762.560', 'end': '4767.840', 'text': "do want to say I, you know, I'm sorry to"}, {'start': '4764.960', 'end': '4770.719', 'text': 'miss I did lose my son-in-law last week'}, {'start': '4767.840', 'end': '4773.520', 'text': 'and uh I have forgot um all the lives'}, {'start': '4770.719', 'end': '4776.159', 'text': 'that he touched in his short time. Um'}, {'start': '4773.520', 'end': '4778.560', 'text': 'from chambers to legislative'}, {'start': '4776.159', 'end': '4781.679', 'text': 'um the outreach was overwhelming and'}, {'start': '4778.560', 'end': '4783.520', 'text': 'just reminders of great um great things'}, {'start': '4781.679', 'end': '4785.840', 'text': 'that he accomplished in his short'}, {'start': '4783.520', 'end': '4788.719', 'text': 'lifetime. But I just want to share three'}, {'start': '4785.840', 'end': '4790.000', 'text': 'things that he lived by um whenever he'}, {'start': '4788.719', 'end': '4792.000', 'text': "did something and it's something that"}, {'start': '4790.000', 'end': '4793.280', 'text': "I've tried to do as well and he always"}, {'start': '4792.000', 'end': '4794.719', 'text': "felt like whenever you're doing"}, {'start': '4793.280', 'end': '4796.800', 'text': 'something you have to have a secret'}, {'start': '4794.719', 'end': '4799.360', 'text': 'sauce. So that secret sauce is your'}, {'start': '4796.800', 'end': '4801.480', 'text': 'plan. You have to have a plan in place.'}, {'start': '4799.360', 'end': '4804.640', 'text': 'Um communication, communication,'}, {'start': '4801.480', 'end': '4806.400', 'text': 'communication. And thirdly, I think that'}, {'start': '4804.640', 'end': '4808.640', 'text': 'we all need to learn from this. Just be'}, {'start': '4806.400', 'end': '4811.040', 'text': 'nice. You might not agree with somebody,'}, {'start': '4808.640', 'end': '4813.520', 'text': 'but you can be nice about it. So anyway,'}, {'start': '4811.040', 'end': '4816.000', 'text': 'I just wanted to share that. And again,'}, {'start': '4813.520', 'end': '4819.280', 'text': 'thank you for um the comments that I'}, {'start': '4816.000', 'end': '4821.920', 'text': "received. And then last um I've received"}, {'start': '4819.280', 'end': '4825.920', 'text': 'a lot of calls and emails and texts on'}, {'start': '4821.920', 'end': '4828.320', 'text': "the um tax bill and um I'll be returning"}, {'start': '4825.920', 'end': '4830.320', 'text': 'those calls with emails, but the county'}, {'start': '4828.320', 'end': '4833.280', 'text': 'I think is putting something together to'}, {'start': '4830.320', 'end': '4836.239', 'text': 'explain the cost savings of what changes'}, {'start': '4833.280', 'end': '4838.400', 'text': 'we made. So sometimes when we take a'}, {'start': '4836.239', 'end': '4840.239', 'text': "look at um you there's a lot of work"}, {'start': '4838.400', 'end': '4842.239', 'text': 'that goes on behind the scenes because'}, {'start': '4840.239', 'end': '4844.239', 'text': "it's not one person. It involves a lot"}, {'start': '4842.239', 'end': '4846.560', 'text': 'of departments and you may not hear'}, {'start': '4844.239', 'end': '4848.159', 'text': 'about it until later, but that uh'}, {'start': '4846.560', 'end': '4850.960', 'text': 'because of those changes we made was'}, {'start': '4848.159', 'end': '4853.520', 'text': 'also a cost savings um to the county.'}, {'start': '4850.960', 'end': '4856.400', 'text': "So, um I'll be getting back to you um"}, {'start': '4853.520', 'end': '4858.960', 'text': 'with those news. So, thank you.'}, {'start': '4856.400', 'end': '4861.600', 'text': 'Thank you very much, Commissioner Fast.'}, {'start': '4858.960', 'end': '4864.719', 'text': 'Yeah. Um last week I went to Cottonwood'}, {'start': '4861.600', 'end': '4867.040', 'text': "Springs open house. Um they're here in"}, {'start': '4864.719', 'end': '4870.239', 'text': 'tha. 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So, how do we get that word'}, {'start': '4951.520', 'end': '4956.639', 'text': 'out? How do we get the word out about'}, {'start': '4953.520', 'end': '4958.880', 'text': 'our senior care act or meals and so that'}, {'start': '4956.639', 'end': '4960.800', 'text': 'was really one of the things people'}, {'start': '4958.880', 'end': '4963.440', 'text': "talked about that they often don't know"}, {'start': '4960.800', 'end': '4965.199', 'text': 'what our services are and the magazine'}, {'start': '4963.440', 'end': '4967.280', 'text': "doesn't, you know, there's not a lot of"}, {'start': '4965.199', 'end': '4971.280', 'text': 'room in the magazine. So, where are the'}, {'start': '4967.280', 'end': '4974.320', 'text': 'options to find out about the services?'}, {'start': '4971.280', 'end': '4976.800', 'text': 'Thank you, Commissioner Meyers.'}, {'start': '4974.320', 'end': '4978.960', 'text': 'Thank you, Chair. Uh, this week I went'}, {'start': '4976.800', 'end': '4981.920', 'text': 'to the uh Johnson County Education'}, {'start': '4978.960', 'end': '4985.120', 'text': 'Research Triangle uh committee meeting.'}, {'start': '4981.920', 'end': '4987.920', 'text': 'Um, Commissioner Fast came and and uh'}, {'start': '4985.120', 'end': '4991.199', 'text': 'observed and and I walked away with the'}, {'start': '4987.920', 'end': '4993.840', 'text': 'wow factor again of the great work that'}, {'start': '4991.199', 'end': '4996.159', 'text': 'our higher education institutions and'}, {'start': '4993.840', 'end': '5000.159', 'text': "the work that they're doing. Uh when you"}, {'start': '4996.159', 'end': '5003.080', 'text': 'have uh KU Edwards, uh you got KU Cancer'}, {'start': '5000.159', 'end': '5006.159', 'text': 'Center, uh Kansas'}, {'start': '5003.080', 'end': '5008.960', 'text': 'State campus and uh Johnson County'}, {'start': '5006.159', 'end': '5011.360', 'text': 'Community College and the great work and'}, {'start': '5008.960', 'end': '5015.280', 'text': "the economic impact that they're having"}, {'start': '5011.360', 'end': '5018.480', 'text': 'on Johnson County is just um unreal. And'}, {'start': '5015.280', 'end': '5021.199', 'text': 'so uh very impressed uh with how that'}, {'start': '5018.480', 'end': '5023.760', 'text': 'meeting went and um the things that are'}, {'start': '5021.199', 'end': '5026.560', 'text': 'going on with our higher education'}, {'start': '5023.760', 'end': '5030.960', 'text': 'institutions. I will say this, there is'}, {'start': '5026.560', 'end': '5034.080', 'text': "some real worry um again just like we've"}, {'start': '5030.960', 'end': '5037.040', 'text': "had with what's going on uh with the"}, {'start': '5034.080', 'end': '5040.400', 'text': "federal administration and um there's"}, {'start': '5037.040', 'end': '5044.960', 'text': 'some real concern um that some things'}, {'start': '5040.400', 'end': '5047.840', 'text': 'could happen that would not uh be um'}, {'start': '5044.960', 'end': '5050.800', 'text': 'good at all for for these institutions'}, {'start': '5047.840', 'end': '5055.120', 'text': "and hoping that doesn't happen. But uh"}, {'start': '5050.800', 'end': '5057.600', 'text': "again, there's some real concern. Um I"}, {'start': '5055.120', 'end': '5059.920', 'text': 'also wanted to report on Johnson County'}, {'start': '5057.600', 'end': '5063.679', 'text': 'Parks and Recreation. A great'}, {'start': '5059.920', 'end': '5067.760', 'text': 'announcement. Uh JCPRD has been named'}, {'start': '5063.679', 'end': '5070.400', 'text': 'the 2025 National Gold Medal finalists.'}, {'start': '5067.760', 'end': '5073.360', 'text': 'As you know, the gold medal recognizes'}, {'start': '5070.400', 'end': '5074.679', 'text': 'the best park and recreation agency in'}, {'start': '5073.360', 'end': '5077.360', 'text': 'the country.'}, {'start': '5074.679', 'end': '5080.239', 'text': 'JCPRD was recognized on the national'}, {'start': '5077.360', 'end': '5083.120', 'text': 'stage along with friends from San'}, {'start': '5080.239', 'end': '5085.600', 'text': 'Antonio Parks and Recreation Texas,'}, {'start': '5083.120', 'end': '5087.840', 'text': 'Maryland National Capital Park and'}, {'start': '5085.600', 'end': '5090.239', 'text': 'Planning Commission in Maryland and'}, {'start': '5087.840', 'end': '5093.520', 'text': 'Lowden County Parks Recreation and'}, {'start': '5090.239', 'end': '5096.000', 'text': 'Community Services in Virginia. So, all'}, {'start': '5093.520', 'end': '5098.239', 'text': 'four finalists will be recognized and'}, {'start': '5096.000', 'end': '5101.520', 'text': 'the winner of the grand plaque will be'}, {'start': '5098.239', 'end': '5106.600', 'text': 'announced at the NRPA conference in'}, {'start': '5101.520', 'end': '5106.600', 'text': 'Orlando, Florida this fall. Yay.'}, {'start': '5108.320', 'end': '5114.320', 'text': 'Thanks very much, Commissioner Brewer.'}, {'start': '5110.800', 'end': '5117.760', 'text': "Thank you. I'll begin by uh plugging"}, {'start': '5114.320', 'end': '5120.480', 'text': 'that the Safe Kids Safe Kids Johnson'}, {'start': '5117.760', 'end': '5123.679', 'text': 'County kicks off Safe Kids Month with a'}, {'start': '5120.480', 'end': '5125.920', 'text': 'free buckle up event uh coming up on May'}, {'start': '5123.679', 'end': '5127.280', 'text': 'the 3. Save Kids Johnson County in'}, {'start': '5125.920', 'end': '5129.280', 'text': 'partnership with State Farms and'}, {'start': '5127.280', 'end': '5131.520', 'text': 'McCarthy Chevrolet invites family,'}, {'start': '5129.280', 'end': '5134.000', 'text': 'caregivers, parents, grandparents, and'}, {'start': '5131.520', 'end': '5136.880', 'text': 'anyone who transports children to a'}, {'start': '5134.000', 'end': '5138.880', 'text': 'community buckle up event from 9 on the'}, {'start': '5136.880', 'end': '5141.760', 'text': 'Saturday, this Saturday, May 3rd, from 9'}, {'start': '5138.880', 'end': '5145.600', 'text': 'to uh a.m. to 12:30 at the McCarthy'}, {'start': '5141.760', 'end': '5147.199', 'text': 'Chevrolet uh location in THA. And I'}, {'start': '5145.600', 'end': '5150.320', 'text': "believe there's a a news release going"}, {'start': '5147.199', 'end': '5153.040', 'text': 'out today about that. As a grandparent'}, {'start': '5150.320', 'end': '5157.440', 'text': 'who does from from time to time'}, {'start': '5153.040', 'end': '5159.440', 'text': 'transport uh my grandkids, first of all,'}, {'start': '5157.440', 'end': '5162.080', 'text': 'all I can say is car seats get more'}, {'start': '5159.440', 'end': '5164.400', 'text': 'complicated every day. And when your'}, {'start': '5162.080', 'end': '5166.400', 'text': 'when your three-year-old grandson has to'}, {'start': '5164.400', 'end': '5167.920', 'text': 'help you find the buckle to where you'}, {'start': '5166.400', 'end': '5170.400', 'text': 'have to plug things in, you know that'}, {'start': '5167.920', 'end': '5172.000', 'text': 'maybe you need a refresher course. Um'}, {'start': '5170.400', 'end': '5174.239', 'text': 'but anyway, so just wanted to plug the'}, {'start': '5172.000', 'end': '5177.760', 'text': 'buckle up event. I had the opportunity'}, {'start': '5174.239', 'end': '5180.480', 'text': 'to participate in a call around zero KC'}, {'start': '5177.760', 'end': '5184.239', 'text': 'plan uh ending homelessness. That'}, {'start': '5180.480', 'end': '5187.280', 'text': 'regional uh endeavor is uh bringing in'}, {'start': '5184.239', 'end': '5189.840', 'text': 'uh folks out of Milwaukee and Houston to'}, {'start': '5187.280', 'end': '5191.800', 'text': 'talk about some of their successes and'}, {'start': '5189.840', 'end': '5196.719', 'text': 'best practices. So I was happy to'}, {'start': '5191.800', 'end': '5199.840', 'text': 'participate in that call and um want to'}, {'start': '5196.719', 'end': '5202.880', 'text': 'also give an early nod to uh tomorrow is'}, {'start': '5199.840', 'end': '5206.719', 'text': 'a sh is a graduation for basic academy'}, {'start': '5202.880', 'end': '5208.080', 'text': "graduation uh for uh sheriffs. Uh I'm"}, {'start': '5206.719', 'end': '5209.840', 'text': 'thinking those are folks who are going'}, {'start': '5208.080', 'end': '5212.560', 'text': "through the process to become sheriff's"}, {'start': '5209.840', 'end': '5214.800', 'text': 'deputies. uh was happy to participate in'}, {'start': '5212.560', 'end': '5217.520', 'text': 'the friends of Johnson County uh'}, {'start': '5214.800', 'end': '5220.159', 'text': 'developmental supports uh fundraising'}, {'start': '5217.520', 'end': '5223.120', 'text': 'event last week and recognition event.'}, {'start': '5220.159', 'end': '5226.239', 'text': 'And just two other just uh as we think'}, {'start': '5223.120', 'end': '5230.239', 'text': 'about civics and we think about how we'}, {'start': '5226.239', 'end': '5232.560', 'text': 'can make f folks um uh access to'}, {'start': '5230.239', 'end': '5235.040', 'text': 'participating in productive meetings and'}, {'start': '5232.560', 'end': '5238.159', 'text': 'productive conversations. Um I do'}, {'start': '5235.040', 'end': '5240.400', 'text': 'encourage folks that every day each week'}, {'start': '5238.159', 'end': '5242.080', 'text': 'uh when we do our business meeting'}, {'start': '5240.400', 'end': '5244.560', 'text': 'subsequent to the business meeting we'}, {'start': '5242.080', 'end': '5246.960', 'text': "also do our agenda review and that's"}, {'start': '5244.560', 'end': '5249.440', 'text': 'where a lot of in-depth conversation'}, {'start': '5246.960', 'end': '5251.920', 'text': 'occurs. That agenda review is all about'}, {'start': '5249.440', 'end': '5254.719', 'text': 'discussing agenda items that will be up'}, {'start': '5251.920', 'end': '5256.880', 'text': 'for action the following week. And uh'}, {'start': '5254.719', 'end': '5259.199', 'text': 'those are public meetings and a lot of'}, {'start': '5256.880', 'end': '5261.199', 'text': 'times the questions that folks come to'}, {'start': '5259.199', 'end': '5262.960', 'text': 'the action meeting are the questions'}, {'start': '5261.199', 'end': '5265.360', 'text': 'that are being asked at that agenda'}, {'start': '5262.960', 'end': '5268.320', 'text': 'review meeting and I invite people to'}, {'start': '5265.360', 'end': '5270.880', 'text': 'either attend in person or tune in uh to'}, {'start': '5268.320', 'end': '5272.880', 'text': 'that. It gives you that look ahead for'}, {'start': '5270.880', 'end': '5275.840', 'text': "the agenda and I appreciate that that's"}, {'start': '5272.880', 'end': '5278.080', 'text': 'the format that we use uh at Johnson'}, {'start': '5275.840', 'end': '5280.400', 'text': 'County in preparing not only us as'}, {'start': '5278.080', 'end': '5283.679', 'text': 'commissioners but the general public on'}, {'start': '5280.400', 'end': '5286.400', 'text': 'what is coming up for action. And then'}, {'start': '5283.679', 'end': '5287.760', 'text': 'also uh just appreciate the opportunity'}, {'start': '5286.400', 'end': '5291.280', 'text': "I've had over the last week and a half"}, {'start': '5287.760', 'end': '5293.679', 'text': 'to meet with um my congresswoman, one of'}, {'start': '5291.280', 'end': '5295.360', 'text': 'our state reps, and some of our local'}, {'start': '5293.679', 'end': '5297.840', 'text': "government officials. I think it's"}, {'start': '5295.360', 'end': '5300.400', 'text': 'important to remind folks too that no'}, {'start': '5297.840', 'end': '5303.199', 'text': 'government happens in isolation and'}, {'start': '5300.400', 'end': '5305.120', 'text': 'working hard to have open communication'}, {'start': '5303.199', 'end': '5307.600', 'text': 'and open doors with the different levels'}, {'start': '5305.120', 'end': '5310.480', 'text': 'of government helps us as a county be'}, {'start': '5307.600', 'end': '5313.679', 'text': 'more effective and efficient and I am'}, {'start': '5310.480', 'end': '5316.159', 'text': 'grateful that I have state and federal'}, {'start': '5313.679', 'end': '5318.880', 'text': 'uh elected officials who believe in that'}, {'start': '5316.159', 'end': '5321.440', 'text': 'philosophy as well. So, thank you.'}, {'start': '5318.880', 'end': '5324.719', 'text': 'Commissioner Hans. Thank you, Mr. Chair.'}, {'start': '5321.440', 'end': '5327.199', 'text': 'I want to uh uh follow up on uh'}, {'start': '5324.719', 'end': '5330.080', 'text': "Commissioner Fast's comments about our"}, {'start': '5327.199', 'end': '5332.800', 'text': 'aging services. As the liaison to the'}, {'start': '5330.080', 'end': '5337.280', 'text': 'commission on aging, I have the'}, {'start': '5332.800', 'end': '5341.199', 'text': 'privilege of seeing those services in'}, {'start': '5337.280', 'end': '5343.600', 'text': 'action. And I I I think that uh the more'}, {'start': '5341.199', 'end': '5346.960', 'text': 'we can get the word out about what is'}, {'start': '5343.600', 'end': '5349.159', 'text': 'available is is really important. Uh'}, {'start': '5346.960', 'end': '5352.719', 'text': 'just a couple things about that. Number'}, {'start': '5349.159', 'end': '5355.159', 'text': 'one, the the Aging and Human Services'}, {'start': '5352.719', 'end': '5359.120', 'text': 'Department budget is about $12'}, {'start': '5355.159', 'end': '5362.840', 'text': 'million. And of that, about $6 million'}, {'start': '5359.120', 'end': '5365.920', 'text': 'comes from counties count the county'}, {'start': '5362.840', 'end': '5368.400', 'text': 'funding. Uh much of the rest of that'}, {'start': '5365.920', 'end': '5372.239', 'text': 'comes from Older Americans Act, Senior'}, {'start': '5368.400', 'end': '5377.760', 'text': 'Care Act. Uh, and the Older Americans'}, {'start': '5372.239', 'end': '5380.520', 'text': 'Act is uh in real uh danger right now of'}, {'start': '5377.760', 'end': '5384.000', 'text': 'not being reauthorized and not being'}, {'start': '5380.520', 'end': '5387.840', 'text': 'funded. And uh we have funding from the'}, {'start': '5384.000', 'end': '5389.360', 'text': 'OA through the end of September. 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But as as an'}, {'start': '5403.600', 'end': '5409.040', 'text': 'example of some of the many services'}, {'start': '5406.239', 'end': '5411.440', 'text': 'that uh our a that the county provides'}, {'start': '5409.040', 'end': '5415.440', 'text': 'for seniors, it includes homed delivered'}, {'start': '5411.440', 'end': '5418.159', 'text': 'meals, uh Champs meals, which which are'}, {'start': '5415.440', 'end': '5420.719', 'text': 'meals you can get through HIV ve uh'}, {'start': '5418.159', 'end': '5424.320', 'text': 'dining meals at neighborhood centers,'}, {'start': '5420.719', 'end': '5428.360', 'text': 'options, uh counseling about inhome'}, {'start': '5424.320', 'end': '5432.639', 'text': 'services and long tterm care options, uh'}, {'start': '5428.360', 'end': '5435.760', 'text': 'inho uh homemaker assistance for things'}, {'start': '5432.639', 'end': '5438.560', 'text': 'uh with things like bathing, dressing,'}, {'start': '5435.760', 'end': '5441.520', 'text': 'uh cleaning and chores, caregiver'}, {'start': '5438.560', 'end': '5444.159', 'text': 'support, respit care,'}, {'start': '5441.520', 'end': '5447.360', 'text': 'uh food pantries. Our multi-service'}, {'start': '5444.159', 'end': '5450.719', 'text': 'centers have food pantries and those are'}, {'start': '5447.360', 'end': '5452.639', 'text': 'uh available to our seniors. Our parks'}, {'start': '5450.719', 'end': '5456.400', 'text': 'and recreck department has a special'}, {'start': '5452.639', 'end': '5459.920', 'text': 'program for seniors uh to keep them uh'}, {'start': '5456.400', 'end': '5464.960', 'text': 'healthy and I should say keep us healthy'}, {'start': '5459.920', 'end': '5467.400', 'text': 'and uh uh active. Uh our housing uh'}, {'start': '5464.960', 'end': '5469.760', 'text': 'department helps uh with finding'}, {'start': '5467.400', 'end': '5473.120', 'text': 'housing. Uh there are just so many'}, {'start': '5469.760', 'end': '5475.840', 'text': 'things. uh KState re extension provides'}, {'start': '5473.120', 'end': '5479.679', 'text': 'the volunteers in tax assistance, the'}, {'start': '5475.840', 'end': '5483.679', 'text': 'VITA program, and then we also have the'}, {'start': '5479.679', 'end': '5487.080', 'text': 'uh county uh property tax rebate program'}, {'start': '5483.679', 'end': '5489.840', 'text': 'for lowincome seniors and disabled'}, {'start': '5487.080', 'end': '5492.159', 'text': 'veterans. And all of that is available'}, {'start': '5489.840', 'end': '5495.520', 'text': 'through what I call the magic phone'}, {'start': '5492.159', 'end': '5497.840', 'text': 'number. Aging information specialists'}, {'start': '5495.520', 'end': '5501.360', 'text': 'are available Monday through Friday'}, {'start': '5497.840', 'end': '5501.360', 'text': 'during business hours at'}, {'start': '5503.000', 'end': '5508.239', 'text': '913715'}, {'start': '5505.080', 'end': '5511.040', 'text': '88861. So if you have questions or need'}, {'start': '5508.239', 'end': '5514.400', 'text': 'help with any of those things or other'}, {'start': '5511.040', 'end': '5517.440', 'text': 'other questions uh to assist with senior'}, {'start': '5514.400', 'end': '5519.840', 'text': 'services uh please reach out to that'}, {'start': '5517.440', 'end': '5522.719', 'text': 'number or go to the aging and human'}, {'start': '5519.840', 'end': '5525.760', 'text': 'services website. Thank you. Thank you'}, {'start': '5522.719', 'end': '5527.120', 'text': 'very much. I I thought our uh mental'}, {'start': '5525.760', 'end': '5530.320', 'text': 'health department put a really great'}, {'start': '5527.120', 'end': '5532.159', 'text': 'graphic earlier this week on Instagram,'}, {'start': '5530.320', 'end': '5535.840', 'text': 'Facebook, our other social media of all'}, {'start': '5532.159', 'end': '5538.239', 'text': 'the various numbers to call in Johnson'}, {'start': '5535.840', 'end': '5540.320', 'text': 'County and the aging uh and human'}, {'start': '5538.239', 'end': '5542.719', 'text': 'services number was on there as well.'}, {'start': '5540.320', 'end': '5544.320', 'text': 'Also 988 911 and gave some folks some'}, {'start': '5542.719', 'end': '5546.880', 'text': 'recommendations on which number to use'}, {'start': '5544.320', 'end': '5548.480', 'text': 'in which circumstances. So take a take a'}, {'start': '5546.880', 'end': '5550.320', 'text': 'look at that. I thought that was good.'}, {'start': '5548.480', 'end': '5552.960', 'text': 'Um great comments from everybody. I'}, {'start': '5550.320', 'end': '5556.960', 'text': 'wanted to kind of pivot uh to just one'}, {'start': '5552.960', 'end': '5558.239', 'text': 'topic today uh and that is a recognition'}, {'start': '5556.960', 'end': '5564.400', 'text': "that we're the board of public health"}, {'start': '5558.239', 'end': '5566.239', 'text': 'for Johnson County. And when uh we um'}, {'start': '5564.400', 'end': '5568.800', 'text': "think of that role, it it's an important"}, {'start': '5566.239', 'end': '5573.600', 'text': "role, one we shouldn't take lightly. Um"}, {'start': '5568.800', 'end': '5575.520', 'text': 'and right now there is a u series of'}, {'start': '5573.600', 'end': '5579.360', 'text': 'measles outbreaks throughout the United'}, {'start': '5575.520', 'end': '5582.239', 'text': 'States and increasing cases in Kansas.'}, {'start': '5579.360', 'end': '5585.719', 'text': 'just another nine cases uh this week'}, {'start': '5582.239', 'end': '5589.840', 'text': 'mostly in southwest Kansas, southwest'}, {'start': '5585.719', 'end': '5593.840', 'text': 'Kansas, but um it uh complements more'}, {'start': '5589.840', 'end': '5596.159', 'text': 'than 900 cases now across America in 20'}, {'start': '5593.840', 'end': '5598.960', 'text': 'different states as three times as many'}, {'start': '5596.159', 'end': '5600.960', 'text': 'cases in all of 2024. And so because'}, {'start': '5598.960', 'end': '5604.320', 'text': "we're the board of public health and we"}, {'start': '5600.960', 'end': '5606.000', 'text': 'rely upon doctors and scientists and'}, {'start': '5604.320', 'end': '5609.679', 'text': 'getting recommendations and providing'}, {'start': '5606.000', 'end': '5612.159', 'text': 'those recommendations, the KDH, Kansas'}, {'start': '5609.679', 'end': '5614.560', 'text': 'Department of Health and Environment has'}, {'start': '5612.159', 'end': '5617.400', 'text': 'uh put out a news alert to local health'}, {'start': '5614.560', 'end': '5620.239', 'text': 'departments to first of all share'}, {'start': '5617.400', 'end': '5621.760', 'text': 'notifications about the alert. There are'}, {'start': '5620.239', 'end': '5624.239', 'text': 'specific recommendations for health'}, {'start': '5621.760', 'end': '5628.480', 'text': 'providers including stocking up on'}, {'start': '5624.239', 'end': '5630.880', 'text': 'supply kits uh but also uh to as the'}, {'start': '5628.480', 'end': '5634.040', 'text': 'board of public health provide proactive'}, {'start': '5630.880', 'end': '5639.600', 'text': 'information to the community. Uh and the'}, {'start': '5634.040', 'end': '5644.159', 'text': 'KDH and the CDC still uh uh recognizes'}, {'start': '5639.600', 'end': '5646.639', 'text': 'that the best way to prevent uh measles'}, {'start': '5644.159', 'end': '5648.880', 'text': 'is through vaccination.'}, {'start': '5646.639', 'end': '5651.560', 'text': 'There are uh recommendations for'}, {'start': '5648.880', 'end': '5655.120', 'text': 'vaccinations based on your age on the'}, {'start': '5651.560', 'end': '5658.480', 'text': 'KDH website and I would encourage'}, {'start': '5655.120', 'end': '5663.800', 'text': 'anybody to go and look at those. In a'}, {'start': '5658.480', 'end': '5667.400', 'text': 'time where science and medicine has been'}, {'start': '5663.800', 'end': '5670.120', 'text': 'um really unfortunately'}, {'start': '5667.400', 'end': '5672.080', 'text': 'demonized and the amount of'}, {'start': '5670.120', 'end': '5674.440', 'text': 'misinformation regarding the'}, {'start': '5672.080', 'end': '5679.199', 'text': 'effectiveness and the safety of vaccines'}, {'start': '5674.440', 'end': '5682.000', 'text': 'continues to be challenged. Um uh I I'}, {'start': '5679.199', 'end': '5683.600', 'text': 'encourage folks to listen to medical'}, {'start': '5682.000', 'end': '5687.040', 'text': 'professionals'}, {'start': '5683.600', 'end': '5689.679', 'text': 'uh on this and I I recognize also that'}, {'start': '5687.040', 'end': '5693.199', 'text': "there's been no known deaths that have"}, {'start': '5689.679', 'end': '5694.560', 'text': 'been reported for MMR vaccines given to'}, {'start': '5693.199', 'end': '5697.760', 'text': "healthy people and that's from the"}, {'start': '5694.560', 'end': '5700.239', 'text': 'Infectious Diseases Society of America.'}, {'start': '5697.760', 'end': '5702.800', 'text': 'Um, I encourage everybody to do their'}, {'start': '5700.239', 'end': '5706.480', 'text': 'part in keeping the community safe uh'}, {'start': '5702.800', 'end': '5709.280', 'text': 'and to um I personally recommend that'}, {'start': '5706.480', 'end': '5714.440', 'text': 'you get vaccinated uh for measles if you'}, {'start': '5709.280', 'end': '5718.960', 'text': 'are not already vaccinated. Um and uh'}, {'start': '5714.440', 'end': '5720.719', 'text': 'I again uh look to the KDHE and the'}, {'start': '5718.960', 'end': '5722.560', 'text': 'Johns County Department of Health and'}, {'start': '5720.719', 'end': '5724.080', 'text': 'Environment for some good'}, {'start': '5722.560', 'end': '5726.000', 'text': 'recommendations there and encourage'}, {'start': '5724.080', 'end': '5728.159', 'text': "folks to to do that. We're we're not"}, {'start': '5726.000', 'end': '5732.400', 'text': 'going to open up discussion on this. Uh'}, {'start': '5728.159', 'end': '5735.600', 'text': "I appreciate everyone's um uh"}, {'start': '5732.400', 'end': '5739.440', 'text': 'encouragement. Uh and they can do so uh'}, {'start': '5735.600', 'end': '5742.719', 'text': "in their own fashion. Um we don't have"}, {'start': '5739.440', 'end': '5745.440', 'text': 'any further agenda items today. We do'}, {'start': '5742.719', 'end': '5748.400', 'text': 'have a fiscal health committee at the'}, {'start': '5745.440', 'end': '5751.920', 'text': "whole that'll take place at 1:00 here."}, {'start': '5748.400', 'end': '5753.440', 'text': 'Uh I also recognize that we have an'}, {'start': '5751.920', 'end': '5756.000', 'text': "agenda review. We're going to give the"}, {'start': '5753.440', 'end': '5758.159', 'text': 'clerk a little bit of a break. Uh allow'}, {'start': '5756.000', 'end': '5761.440', 'text': 'her to switch the technology and absent'}, {'start': '5758.159', 'end': '5764.400', 'text': 'objection at this time. Mr. Chairman,'}, {'start': '5761.440', 'end': '5766.000', 'text': 'before you order. Yes, sir. I was just'}, {'start': '5764.400', 'end': '5768.239', 'text': 'wondering if there was an introduction'}, {'start': '5766.000', 'end': '5770.560', 'text': 'that the county attorney was wanting to'}, {'start': '5768.239', 'end': '5776.199', 'text': 'make this morning. Uh yes, if you'}, {'start': '5770.560', 'end': '5776.199', 'text': "wouldn't mind, Miss uh Trent."}, {'start': '5776.400', 'end': '5779.920', 'text': 'All right. Thank you very much, chair'}, {'start': '5778.080', 'end': '5781.760', 'text': 'and commissioners. Um I wanted to'}, {'start': '5779.920', 'end': '5784.080', 'text': 'introduce to you some of you may have'}, {'start': '5781.760', 'end': '5786.159', 'text': 'noticed in our audience today is an'}, {'start': '5784.080', 'end': '5790.320', 'text': 'individual that comes from us from um'}, {'start': '5786.159', 'end': '5793.679', 'text': 'the city of tha Chris uh Grunwald and he'}, {'start': '5790.320', 'end': '5796.719', 'text': 'is our new deputy county um assistant'}, {'start': '5793.679', 'end': '5798.480', 'text': 'county director of the uh department'}, {'start': '5796.719', 'end': '5800.239', 'text': 'legal department. So I just want to'}, {'start': '5798.480', 'end': '5802.080', 'text': 'messing that up completely because you'}, {'start': '5800.239', 'end': '5804.480', 'text': 'caught me off guard. I know his title.'}, {'start': '5802.080', 'end': '5806.960', 'text': 'So, I just wanted to introduce him and'}, {'start': '5804.480', 'end': '5808.800', 'text': 'let you know that we are very happy to'}, {'start': '5806.960', 'end': '5811.199', 'text': "have him in our office and we're looking"}, {'start': '5808.800', 'end': '5812.880', 'text': 'forward to his assistance. He was great'}, {'start': '5811.199', 'end': '5815.199', 'text': "in the city of La and we're very"}, {'start': '5812.880', 'end': '5816.520', 'text': 'fortunate for him to join our team.'}, {'start': '5815.199', 'end': '5818.159', 'text': 'Welcome,'}, {'start': '5816.520', 'end': '5819.560', 'text': 'council. All right. Thank you,'}, {'start': '5818.159', 'end': '5822.639', 'text': 'Commissioner Ashcraft. Thank you, Mr.'}, {'start': '5819.560', 'end': '5825.280', 'text': 'Chair. With that, we will adjourn this'}, {'start': '5822.639', 'end': '5828.679', 'text': 'meeting and restart at 11:15. Thank you'}, {'start': '5825.280', 'end': '5828.679', 'text': 'all very much.'}]