Meeting of May 6, 2025

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We can flag and welcome to Bullet County and then you just know Well, good morning. Welcome to the Bullet County Fiscal Court. It's um 9:30 uh at on May the 6th, 2025. At at this time, Brian, would you mind leading us in an invocation, please, sir, and pledge? Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and

justice for all. Thank you, Brian. Thank you, Keith. I got it. Yeah. At this time, Sam, if you would call the role to bring the court to order, please. Sarah Sanders, present. John Logston here. Karen Johnson here. Brian Leel, yes. Judge Summers, yes. All present. Thank you. Uh the treasure, the approval of the minutes for the April 15th, 2025 Bull County fiscal court meeting. Make a motion we approve the minutes of April 15, 2025. I'll second. I have a motion by fourth district magistrate blamel, a second by third district magistrate Johnson to approve the bullet county fiscal court meeting minutes of April 15, 2025 as presented. Sam, call the roll, please. Logen, yes. Johnson, yes. Leel, yes. Judge Summers, yes. Sanders. Yes. Motion carry. Thank you. The treasur's transfer report. Cananan. I'll make a motion that we accept the

treasures transfer report as presented. Second. I have a motion by second district magistrate Logen, a second by first district magistrate uh Sanders to approve the treasures transfer report as presented. Sam, call the role, please. Johnson, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. the presentation approval of all bills. I make a motion to accept the approve. I'll second the motion. And I do have a comment on that. We have another one in the packet that came in late yesterday. Um the in November of 2022 uh Bull County Fiscal Court uh approved the purchase of two dump trucks internationals. Uh one of them is here. The original price was and it's all in your packet uh for 433,000 9322 but due to inflation the prices

went up to 449 902.80 and that's for two trucks. So, it's a difference of $15,999 58. I'd like to add that to the bills. The the motion at that time was to cut the check when they arrived, but because it's over $13,000 or the addition of it. You want to redo the motion? Yeah, I'd like to redo the motion to include the purchase of the triacle dump truck for the approval of bills for Uh 598 918.36 with the addition of the uh perhaps dump trucks. question. Um, would it benefit us any to

That's a good question. We had that discussion once. I think we talked about that when we ordered that one and I think it was they couldn't lock in the price or something based on Okay. So, uh, so Vera had the motion, but she just wants to add in addition to the cutting the check for the dump trucks, right? And that's per Okay, get that thing. Okay. Okay. I'll second that motion once again to approve all bills in addition to the additional amount required for the purchase of the pre-done cup. Right. Okay. Got a motion by first district magister Sanders, a second by second

district logen to approve all bills plus the additional cost of the dump truck. Sam, call roll, please. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Uh we have no guest speakers. Um presentations. KYM had had an emergency and they couldn't get here. But speaking of emergencies, uh we have Justin Warren, our emergency management director, who's going to give us an update on the flooding and that we recently occurred from April 2nd to April 6th. We just want to give a quick update on

the recent what we've done, what we're doing, and what is expected to happen over the next few months. So, prior to the weather events of April, there's a lot of things that take behind the scenes development of an IEP which is an incident action plan. This was developed by the fire department and we were a support to them several briefings with the weather service as much information as we can push to the public and then briefings with the American Red Cross on supplies and equipment that would supply shelters. So we had So we had two different weather events in April. We had the tornado and then we had the flooding. So for the tornado event, we had five shelters throughout the county for the flood. We had North Bullet, Roby, Nicholls, Leon Junction to get everyone back into school. We were able to utilize St. Alawishious for a week which supplied them with food, showers, and all the essentials while they were displaced from their homes. We have now completed surveys. It's a individual assess individual