pleasure. All right. Let us pray. Dear Gracious Eternal Father, we thank you for another opportunity to come together and to conduct the business that has been laid before us. We want to thank you for all the men and women who serve in our public safety services. We just ask you to lead, guide, and protect them as they go about doing the statutes and doing the work that has been given and put into their hands.

and we ask this in Jesus name and all agree. Approval of tonight's agenda. I make a motion to approve. I'll second that.

Move by Ms. Hayes, second by Mr. Whaler. Mr. Whaler. Any questions? All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. Review approval of meeting minutes from January 6, 2026 meeting.

I'll second that. Seconded by Ms. Hayes. Any questions? All in favor. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye.

So moved to a full.

Been moved by Mr. Newt.

I'll second that.

Seconded by Mr. Wheeler.

Any questions?

All in favor.

Aye.

All opposed.

Be sure you sign those, please.

Public comment.

Got a standard room with no I say or nothing.

Okay.

All right.

Report to committee.

Sheriff Depots.

Mine will be short.

We have the four NAFTO program with two at school that will graduate in April.

The prime suppression unit stats were put out and we are often running in February.

You're going to love next week or Sunday.

That's all I have for my report.

Now, do you want me to go right into your new business?

Do you want me to wait?

Oh, you can wait.

Okay.

You can wait.

I'll tell you what, since you got blown away, I'm not going to do the coroner's report.

Okay.

Okay. So the coroner's report is for January, 58 total deaths, 49 were natural, two lost their lives to a fire in Cedarville, and seven are pending. Now, at your request from the last meeting, I was able to get some 24, 25 stats. So I will do a stat that Montana gave me.

in 2024 we had 263 medical and I'll tell you what that is in a second medical deaths in 2025 we had 288 a medical death versus a corner death means a doctor signed off on the death certificate the corner signed off on 285 in 2024 and 248 in 2025 the comparison for natural deaths in 24 were 511. In 2025, we're 485. In 2024, we had 30 accidental deaths. In 2025, we had 17. In 2024, we had two suicides. In 2025, we had nine suicides. In 2024, we had three homicides. In 2025, we had one homicide.

In 2024, we have two undetermined, and in 2025, we have two undetermined.

So there's the comparisons from 2024 and 2025.

Any questions?

Thank you.

Okay.

Emergency Management Agency.

Thank you.

Good evening, everybody.

I'll be brief also.

So, we are having two classes again we talked about last month.

First one is the Homeland Security Exercise Evaluation Program.

That's going to be held April 1st and 2nd at the County Courthouse.

Right now, I think I've got nine people lined up for that by the time that April date comes around.

I also have scheduled the NIMS Overview for Senior Officials, Executives, Electors, Appointed Class.

That is scheduled tentatively right now for March 7th, Saturday morning.

I want to speak with Carl Arson a little bit about my concerns getting the county board together and the Open Meetings Act and all that stuff I want to make sure that what I need to do I want to make sure I need to post an agenda there is a clause in the Open Meetings Act for training which is what this is but we want to make sure that we have all of our cheese cross Liesin.

That is same.

Okay.

Our office is continuing to work on our credentialing and our emergency operation plan review.

It's due this year, but we still have no final date as when it's due.

We had a region two meeting coming up at the end of the month.

I hope to get some more guidance upon that meeting, but as it stands right now, there is no set date, but we're moving forward as it's going to be probably later this fall.

I had some good news today.

I received a final check.

I received a check earlier in January 2nd for $18,114, and then today I received the additional $4,200 for the Emergency Management Preparedness Grant.

That's the outstanding grant that I was worried about getting paid.

We got paid in full as of today, so I'll be dropping that off tomorrow.

At this point, I still have not applied, and we are not allowed to apply for fiscal year 2025-2026. Hopefully that will come. Okay, but I'm not real positive right now.

Let me thank anyone else. I think that's about it. Any questions for me? Any questions?

Thank you, good job Okay, we'll move on nothing for old business but go to the new business Very simple, this is, it looks worse than it is So the first order of business that was mistakenly left out of the contract that was signed was the declaration that the PDPA, which was the union representation for our union, was removed and the FOP was put into that spot. Apparently, what I was told by the attorney is that you have to declare that in all the contracts, which they didn't. Both sides missed that. So that's what the first part is. That will be added to all three contracts. Article 5, not accrue for time off and not getting paid. That is for all three contracts also. This is for the person that has an injury off duty. They've used up all of their FMLA. They've used all of their sick time, all of their vacation, all benefit time whatsoever. And now they're actually going to George's office and paying their own portion of the insurance. What I suggested to the union, which they agreed with me, which is unheard of. As I said, why would they accumulate seniority if they're not really working at all?

Both sides agreed to that. That's all that provision is, and that will be in all three contracts.

Any questions with that, Ronnie? You're looking at me.

No, go ahead.

Article 14.1, that was a provision for people that had X number of service years. Deputy Aaron Corey was mistakenly put in that. She had two less years than she was supposed to. Her final year or her final wage increase is this year. This was her 21st year. That was mistaken. We thought she was at 23 years or at least ripped it at the time. So this is her last year. So it's actually a cost savings because she didn't get moved up to the top of the line. She actually went with what the contract says for or only 26 at 21 years old. That'll be only in the LE contract. And then the last section, 23.4, the emergency response team verbiage was inaccurate and mistakenly left out for the training. This would give members the ability to receive cash for overtime for training. We've never done that. It was time and a half, competence only. They do not get cash for training.

so that was left out. The way you actually read it is they could take either. Thank goodness we had a couple people of the old timers that were like, hey, can we pay cash for this? I said, absolutely not. And then we looked at it. So I immediately contacted our attorney and he contacted the FOP and they knew what we had meant. It was just mistakenly taken out. So there's absolutely no wages. There's no cash.

there's none of that in any of this contract updates.

There's more wording than anything else.

That was left out, correct.

Good.

And all of this stuff was done from day one.

We knew about it.

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

Any questions?

I got a few.

What's an example of a person who might be living in apartments and not working?

That would be one.

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

saying every pregnancy. So you have somebody that gets hired. They just get out of PTI. They're on in the agency for two months. They're pregnant and they have complications. Well, being there less than a year or somewhere around a year, you're only going to have about 40 hours of a comp time. And at that time, you didn't have vacation at all. So they ran out of their time right away. They're on FMLA. Their job is still secure for the 12 weeks.

but then you stopped getting paid so now you're stopped getting paid I have four new recruits coming in why would that person still be getting seniority and really the only thing that seniority gets you is bumping rights so now you've been working this whole time and that person's not and you want to bid for that day shift they haven't been on they can bid for that day shift before they even came back to work so now I have an open day shift.

So that's how that whole thing happened. If we wouldn't have saw that firsthand, I probably would have never thought of it, but that's not right.

I don't know if a woman can be penalized.

No, no, no, no, no. Don't take it as a penalty for women. Okay. You're on for the exact same scenario and you break your leg skateboarding on your off time. Same thing.

Same thing. That I understand. But pregnancy is not an accident. It is a life experience. It's a life event.

Well, but if you're not getting paid, if you put yourself in that predicament, and you're not, you don't have the time, you're not getting paid. And that's not us. I mean, that's all of us. You don't have any time. So you're not getting paid.

The lawyers looked at that?

Mm-hmm.

Just looked at that.

And we agreed to this.

This is it.

You said you and Dan agreed to it.

Yeah, that's it.

They've already said this.

So why are we trying to go and get it?

Just to me, it just seems like...

I shouldn't ever use the pregnancy.

Use the broken leg.

No, you shouldn't.

The broken leg's important.

I agree with you.

But to be perfectly transparent, that's what happened is you're not working.

You're back.

You're on two months, and now you're gone.

it's not fair that you can actually be off for however long you're going to be and then there's a day shift open and you can bid on it which locked everybody else that you haven't even been there and now you have to go back to an FTO program because you haven't been there long and that's how this whole thing came up I said that's not fair and the same thing goes if you have 20 years of if you have 20 years on and you run out of time you're the you're the person that's using all of your sick and every time you get a day you take two you should not get seniority you should have planned for that So hopefully this is going to curb some of that loophole used sick times.

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

Zero.

But we wanted to make sure it's covered.

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

I'm not saying anything.

You got to, you got to.

No, I just.

This is kind of, yeah, okay.

But the union agreed to it.

Yeah, I agree.

And, I mean, they're supposed to be looking out for the best interest of their employees, then, and if this is legal to do, I just I would say don't use this as an everyday job. This is law enforcement or fire somebody that you have to have there, and I can't have anybody extra. So if I have five females that just happen to be pregnant at the same time, what's that do to my office?

Jackie, you're not going to get anything done.

That's correct.

And it's not picking on that.

If I have five males that all break their legs skateboarding, what am I going to do?

Yeah, no, I won't.

So I have to do some of that.

No, I understand.

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

But that's what actually happened.

So I use Monique.

Well, actually happened.

Okay.

So it says it's approval.

So we have to vote on this next?

It has to go do the board, I think it has to go forward To follow the code, because that's an actual agreement Approved by Mr. Whelan, all three?

Yes, sir, all at once Second by Mr. Newton, any questions?

Any, any, any, any questions?

No, I'm taking them all three at once, so who knows?

All in favor?

All right, all of those As I have, any time that's on committee members, if none, we're still doing it.

I'll second.

Then move a second.

Good night.

One reminder, finance is spreading.

Yeah, we'll stop.

Okay.