WEBVTT 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:11.860 - I'll call this special meeting of the Emergency Management Advisory Council to order on September 14, 00:00:11.860 --> 00:00:23.297 - 2026 at 10.03 a.m. Do we have any old business from staff? Not necessarily an old business type meeting 00:00:23.297 --> 00:00:29.566 - today. Okay. Is there any old business from the council? 00:00:30.882 --> 00:00:40.162 - carried on, then how about new business? So we do have the public assistance policy that has been emailed 00:00:40.162 --> 00:00:49.005 - out. Now we just need to review and approve if it pleases the group today. Very good. Do we have any 00:00:49.005 --> 00:00:58.110 - questions or discussion from anyone on council concerning the public assistance policy that was shared? 00:00:59.298 --> 00:01:07.219 - This is just a procedural thing so we can better line out how we move this through the different departments 00:01:07.219 --> 00:01:14.849 - and get those paid out more efficiently. And I know that a lot of counties don't have a policy for this. 00:01:14.849 --> 00:01:22.334 - We are trying to take it to a higher level. Have you spoken to some counties that do have a policy and 00:01:23.106 --> 00:01:31.914 - and enjoy it. I'm sorry. Most don't. It's very hard to find. I have yet to find one that actually has 00:01:31.914 --> 00:01:40.808 - a policy for that. This is basically for reimbursement situation from a declared disaster. Yes. Public 00:01:40.808 --> 00:01:49.961 - assistance. Any other questions or discussion? Can I get a motion to approve the public assistance policy 00:01:49.961 --> 00:01:52.638 - as written? So moved. Perfect. 00:01:53.218 --> 00:02:01.217 - It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. And those opposed? That motion carries. 00:02:01.217 --> 00:02:09.628 - Thank you. Then we have a discussion on EMAC meeting dates and times. So we've had kind of a struggle 00:02:09.628 --> 00:02:17.875 - trying to get a quorum just because life. So I just wanted to bring it up to discuss maybe changing 00:02:17.875 --> 00:02:23.070 - the date and or time to make it a little bit easier to manage. 00:02:23.330 --> 00:02:33.316 - I know schedules change, so we want to be able to change with everybody's times. We want to move it 00:02:33.316 --> 00:02:43.502 - to Monday. October 20th is what day? Tuesday. Just as a reminder, we've been on Tuesdays at 10. So if 00:02:43.502 --> 00:02:52.190 - we want to move to Mondays, we can do that. Wednesdays are the commissioners meetings. 00:02:52.354 --> 00:03:01.698 - I think we probably want to do Wednesdays just from a county perspective, but we're not beholden to. 00:03:01.698 --> 00:03:10.949 - I. Have a conflict until the at least the end of the year with a teaching position at IU. Goes from 00:03:10.949 --> 00:03:20.478 - 935 to about 11 o'clock in the morning on Tuesdays and Thursdays so. If your goal is to ensure quorum, 00:03:20.642 --> 00:03:29.771 - then probably we need to find a new date, at least for me, so that I can be here to conduct the meetings 00:03:29.771 --> 00:03:38.987 - for you. We can do afternoons too if that's better. Yeah. Not on Tuesdays. Okay. Not married to Tuesdays? 00:03:38.987 --> 00:03:47.681 - It's a bad day. Does anybody have any preference for another day and time of the week? Kevin Batten 00:03:47.681 --> 00:03:49.246 - cannot do Monday. 00:03:50.274 --> 00:03:59.133 - minutes. We have to provide these on any more insect. I suggest Wednesdays. Wednesdays? We would probably 00:03:59.133 --> 00:04:07.658 - have to push that to the afternoon. Tony, I know you had some issues with Wednesdays. What time would 00:04:07.658 --> 00:04:16.099 - it be? Unless you get my napkin. Like 1 31 o'clock. So he would need an afternoon time on Wednesdays 00:04:16.099 --> 00:04:17.854 - because of football. 00:04:17.954 --> 00:04:27.854 - I like to do virtual on the afternoons or. Sorry, I think I do most of the mornings. Just not. How to 00:04:27.854 --> 00:04:37.851 - be Wednesday morning. How morning? What time of the day did I hear? We're looking at Wednesdays at the 00:04:37.851 --> 00:04:46.974 - moment, but you've got conflicts on Wednesday. We'll be cleared up by the time. OK, November. 00:04:47.522 --> 00:04:56.978 - I'm flexible. My time is the commissioner's meetings. It's actually our first. Oh, it's just our department 00:04:56.978 --> 00:05:05.995 - head meetings. I get that straight in my mind. It's just the department head meetings, but that starts 00:05:05.995 --> 00:05:14.926 - at nine, so that'll be able to attend. Some meetings really last. I can make Wednesday mornings work. 00:05:14.926 --> 00:05:16.414 - Wednesday at 10. 00:05:18.146 --> 00:05:26.404 - Well, maybe. Maybe. Maybe we'll make some lunch. Wednesday at lunch? No, like, no, like, except it's 00:05:26.404 --> 00:05:34.663 - 10 to 11. Well, I guess you pick it at lunch. 10-30. 10-30? Then you go to lunch. I do 10-30. 10-30. 00:05:34.663 --> 00:05:42.349 - I'm already out in the office. Yeah. We could do 10-30. Give us a little cushion. Yeah. Yeah. 00:05:42.349 --> 00:05:46.110 - So in October, we had a conflict with the FAC 00:05:46.946 --> 00:05:57.631 - AC exercise on the 12th. That's in the morning, I believe. The family system center exercise. Is that 00:05:57.631 --> 00:06:08.526 - a save the date or is that a? So we had to save the dates. I don't remember which one. The 14th is open 00:06:08.526 --> 00:06:12.926 - from my go. We could believe before 22nd. 00:06:14.434 --> 00:06:29.983 - Okay. I got both days. I just noticed both days, but yeah, I didn't take the other one off. Okay. So 00:06:29.983 --> 00:06:40.606 - the next meeting will be Wednesday, October 21 at 30 in the morning. 00:06:47.170 --> 00:06:56.438 - sense. We have council comments. Hearing none. Is there, ya-ha, there's always some comments. He looked 00:06:56.438 --> 00:07:05.706 - at me and said he always has something to say. Yes, sir. I began coming to these meetings in 1982. Most 00:07:05.706 --> 00:07:14.974 - of you weren't even born yet. Look at that guy down there, he's laughing at me. I was born. I was born. 00:07:15.266 --> 00:07:21.785 - I will, on my next birthday, I'll be 84 years old. I like coming to these meetings. I'm interested in 00:07:21.785 --> 00:07:28.304 - what's going on and all these things matter to me. But you guys might look over and go, we got to get 00:07:28.304 --> 00:07:34.759 - somebody younger than that guy. So I want you to think about for just a moment, should I continue or 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:41.278 - should I say I've had a nice time? I'll see you later. That's solely your choice to make. It is. Yes. 00:07:42.274 --> 00:07:49.499 - He usually tells me that there are no decisions that he doesn't make. So trying to be careful to not 00:07:49.499 --> 00:07:56.653 - offend our attorney, you know. Anyway, if you guys think I should leave, if you'd like me to go out 00:07:56.653 --> 00:08:03.807 - of the room while you talk about it, whatever you want, but I wanted to make sure that you all know 00:08:03.807 --> 00:08:10.174 - that this is not my fault. Charlotte Zittler did this to me. Besides, I like seeing her. 00:08:11.202 --> 00:08:18.168 - By the way, I like seeing him too. Any other comments? One more comment. One more comment. 00:08:18.168 --> 00:08:26.512 - I got to say this. Having been here for more than 40 years, I've seen various people lead this organization. 00:08:26.512 --> 00:08:34.397 - When I first got involved with it, the guy that led it didn't lead it at all. He saw his role as going 00:08:34.397 --> 00:08:40.062 - from one fire department or police department or whatever else every day, 00:08:40.546 --> 00:08:48.239 - to do political things. Nothing to do with safety for our community. He was lazy and he was silly. And 00:08:48.239 --> 00:08:55.783 - his dad had been in charge of something in the county. Anyway, to make a long story short, I've seen 00:08:55.783 --> 00:09:02.206 - a lot of lousy, really lousy leaders here. And I want to say this with real strength. 00:09:02.818 --> 00:09:09.488 - These two have changed this place so dramatically that you never have thoughts like you did back in 00:09:09.488 --> 00:09:16.292 - the days with all those lousy leaders. We rarely had anybody who was any good. If we did, they didn't 00:09:16.292 --> 00:09:23.029 - stay but a few months and they were gone, who knows why or where. But the point is we really have an 00:09:23.029 --> 00:09:28.766 - outstanding crew running this department. They're outstanding. Let me say that again. 00:09:29.410 --> 00:09:36.905 - y'all could sleep well at night because you don't have to worry about what you got here, I'll tell you 00:09:36.905 --> 00:09:44.182 - that. Thank you, Don. Any other comments from council? Any public? I don't see any. Got any public? 00:09:44.182 --> 00:09:51.604 - No public comment. All right. Well, our next meeting is October 21st at 10.30 AM. There being nothing 00:09:51.604 --> 00:09:59.390 - further for the good of the cause, I will adjourn the meeting. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. Thank you.