Meeting of April 17, 2025

[Music] [Applause] [Music] kick us off with prayer real quick. Let

me make a suggestion. Mhm. We have a new pastor in our community, Brother Chris Walker. He serves Abundant Life Church and currently they're meeting on the third floor of the courthouse Sunday afternoon. Okay. Let's invite him. Yeah, you're all supposed to be getting u a building facility built. I think we've talked to I can't remember what her name was. Sarah. Sarah. There you go. Yes. Okay. So, yes, that's that's a great thing. We're getting ready for that and we're excited to move forward. Good. Good deal. We appreciate we'd be honored if you'd lead us in prayer before we get started. We stand, sit in this bod. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for your infinite grace and mercy. Father, we thank you for working within this commonwealth, within this state, within this city, and within this county. Lord, I pray that we all will speak the same thing with no divisions among us, regardless of the differences that we have between political party and personal agendas. Father God, I pray that our meetings and our notions here, Father God, are all for the good of this county. Lord, we present ourselves to you, Father, and we give you glory and honor. I thank you for this board. I thank you for this committee. I speak health and healing over them in their lives. I speak an abundance of

prosperity into this county and over each and every person presented today. Lord, we give you glory and honor for you are a good good father and we thank you and praise you for who you are and for what you have done in Jesus mighty name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. We appreciate it. We're going to do the pledge now. 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, with liberty and justice for all. All right, we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. And first thing on the agenda, I'm going to we're going to sign this proclamation for National Day of Prayer. And then that way because we've got a executive session scheduled so it might take us a little bit. So I'm going to move those up to the top of the uh top of the order. So that's good cuz I got a service at 6. Okay, good deal. Is is do y'all know if Chester's coming? Is Chester supposed to be here? He said he was. Well, we wait a little bit. Yeah, we'll just you you want to go go let us go ahead and run through this and just wait right before we go into

executive session. Yeah, I'll step out and call it see where it is. Okay, that sounds good. That sounds good. All right, first thing we got on the agenda is approve the minutes from the previous meeting. Motion by Neil, second by Ben. All in favor? All right, next we've got approve the payment of the bills. Motion by Darren. Second by Brian. All in favor? No. All right. Next, we've got approve the treasurer's budget transfers as presented. Motion. Motion by Ben, second by Brenda. All in favor? All right. Next, we've got approve the treasures monthly settlement. Motion. Motion by Darren. Second by Jason. All in favor? I. Next, we've got approve the treasures quarterly settlement. Motion by Brenda. Second. Second by Brian. All in favor? And now we submit Grayson County's proposed budget for the 2025 2026 fiscal court, which is you all got a copy that I emailed it this afternoon. Um, total balance. I'm still waiting on some. That's not going to be exactly what May's first reading is going to be,

but I that's the best I could do with what I've got. But BLG makes me send it to you all by May 1st. So, you all have the is opposed as of right now. So, some of that's going to change, but she went ahead and sent you the majority of it. So, that way you could look over and see what's been added or taken away from the budget. So, motion. Well, I don't know. We don't really have a vote on just as long as y'all got it. Look, be sure look in your email, make sure y'all got it. Uh, let's see. We want to uh we want to approve the Jabber's payment of bills. Make motion by Neil. Second. Second by Darren. All in favor? Then we've got approved jailer's budget trans uh transfers as presented. There's none. There is none. So let's we'll skip that one as well. And uh then we'll do approve the sheriff's monthly settlement. Motion. Motion by Darren. Second. Second by Ben. All in favor? And then we need to approve the sheriff's first quarter budget. And there any questions? Any Norman's here if there's any questions? None. Need a motion. Motion. Motion by Jason, second by who was it to second that? Darren. All in favor? I.

All right. Then we need to approve the county road aid cooperative agreement and resolution for year 2026. Got a copy of that. Any questions? Make a motion. Motion by Neil. Second. Second by Brian. All in favor? I. Then we've got the busing grant contract for St. Paul and resolution. We need to approve that second. Motion by Jason and the second by Brenda. All in favor? Then we've got the accept the Grayson County Board of Health's minutes from March 24th, 2025 meeting. We need to accept that. Motion by Ben and second by Brian. And all in favor? Then we need to go ahead and accept the Grayson County Extension Office's 2025 2026 budget which you had sent to you also. Motion. Motion by Darren. Second. Second by Brian. All in favor? And then you've got a list in your packets. I think that was sent to you that's got a lot of surplus property on it that we need to get rid of through the road department and different things. And we just need to go ahead and approve that list to declare that property surplus so we can sell it on gov deals.

Motion by Brenda and second by Brian. All in favor? All right. And now we're going to do uh Did you get in touch with him? Yeah. He's he got something coming up. Okay. He won't be here. If you want to, we'll go ahead and sign this. Do you all want to do like the photo like we normally do? Yep. Y'all said if y'all want to come on back and we'll sign this uh proclamation day of prayerful picture, man. Yeah. Make me look. No, I can't cuz it doesn't make me look right. All right. Nobody else want to take the picture. I thought he taking a good picture, boys. You going to get one, too? She going to get one. I know. I'm trying to be there. Okay. Ready? I'm ready, guys. One, two, three. Good. Good. Thank you. All right,

gentlemen. Thank you all. And I'm sure we'll see you on May the 1st. I'll be in Zimbabwe. Okay. Well, maybe we won't. I will get here. Okay. Yeah. We're going to give these to Chester said he's wanting to pick these up cuz Harold couldn't be here. He had somewhere he needed to be. So, and uh he said he couldn't be here tonight. So, we'll give we'll give all them to Chester. And but that's them and let Harold get them signed. Thank you. All right. Thank you all. It was nice meeting you. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Y'all take care. on that. Uh we're going to go ahead and go to National Public Safety Tele Telecommunicator Week resolution, which this is actually not a proclamation. It's a resolution. So, we're going to