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| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, | 00:20:57 | |
| indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:21:03 | |
| Good morning and welcome everybody to today's regularly scheduled Board Accounting Commissioners meeting. Today is Monday, | 00:21:14 | |
| December 16. Roll call please. Freeman, Scott, James, Lori Thayne, 4 livers carry bus here, Kevin Ross here. Let the record | 00:21:21 | |
| reflect, 5 out of five commissioners are here today. Minutes approval of minutes for December 2nd, 2024. | 00:21:27 | |
| Second motion by Commissioner above for approval of December 2nd Minutes. Second by Commissioner James. Any discussion? | 00:21:35 | |
| Alright, any further discussion? | 00:21:42 | |
| Hearing none. Roll call Bill, please. | 00:21:45 | |
| Yes, yes, let the record reflect April or excuse me, December 2nd, minutes past four to zero with Commissioner Stain abstaining. | 00:21:47 | |
| Uh, re ordinance by audio, Read code ordinance 20/24/18 by audio under read code ordinance 2024, dash 18 by audio. OK, motion by | 00:21:56 | |
| Commissioner James Recode, ordinance IN24-18 by audio, second by Commissioner Fox. Any discussion? | 00:22:05 | |
| Hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye aye all opposed. Same sign Code Ordinance 2024 Dash 18 will be read by audio | 00:22:15 | |
| that passes 5 to 5 certifications. A Hearing Chairs conducted on December 2nd of 2024 Item number one annual meeting in 2025. | 00:22:23 | |
| Budget hearing Will County BB draw law enforcement authority Item number two annual meeting in 2025. Budget hearing Wells County | 00:22:30 | |
| Pioneer Community Law Enforcement Authority Item number three annual meeting in 2025. | 00:22:38 | |
| Budget hearing Southwestern Wells county Law enforcement authority item number 42025 Final budget for Wells County, Colorado | 00:22:45 | |
| second. | 00:22:50 | |
| Motion by Commissioner Freeman to certify hearings. Second by Commissioner Fox's earnings discussion. | 00:22:55 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye aye. All opposed. Same sign and hearings are certified 5 to 0. Houston, do | 00:23:01 | |
| we have any amendments to today's agenda? No. | 00:23:07 | |
| All right. I'd look for approval of consent agenda of the approved consent agenda. | 00:23:13 | |
| Motion by Commissioner James to approve consent agenda second by Commissioner Freeman. Is there any discussion? | 00:23:17 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. All opposed. Same sign. Agenda passes 5 to 0. | 00:23:23 | |
| Now This is why everybody is here. This is the fun part. | 00:23:30 | |
| Presentations. First off, we're gonna start with Fisher Freeman's cookie recipes. | 00:23:34 | |
| Oh, I can. You don't have one. Who are you? I'll make one up. | 00:23:41 | |
| Item number one, recognition of Services Clerk to the Board for Cheryl Hoffman. | 00:23:48 | |
| Cheryl and Esther, come on up. | 00:23:53 | |
| While you're coming up, I'll go ahead and read the certificate this. | 00:23:58 | |
| And congratulations. | 00:24:31 | |
| Hello, good morning everyone. Umm, I can't think of a more appropriate way to honor this woman than like a room passed out with | 00:24:40 | |
| people who, whether they know it or not, been impacted by her in one way or another. Whether it's getting them things they need, | 00:24:47 | |
| answering questions, umm, hoping you get to them, whatever the case may be. Umm, she has just been. | 00:24:55 | |
| An absolute godsend. And so 10 years ago. | 00:25:04 | |
| Umm, I had someone leave my office to mess the world to me. It still does. And yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of her | 00:25:08 | |
| leaving my office. | 00:25:13 | |
| Behind the Cheryl came in and she said I promise to give you 10 minutes and. | 00:25:20 | |
| He fulfilled that comment and I am so very grateful. Umm. | 00:25:26 | |
| During that time, I also want to say strict because he was partying this woman high school come out here in Colorado to join us. | 00:25:32 | |
| And uh, I appreciate you for sharing your life with us during that time. Amy, thank you for sharing your mom with us because you | 00:25:39 | |
| very much has been the den mother of our team. And you know, I know it was all part of a bigger plan. Cheryl and I share a face | 00:25:47 | |
| mutually. | 00:25:54 | |
| Just adore each other each other in and I know that this season of things divide to her in the work office. Umm. | 00:26:02 | |
| I will be deficit and putting 40 hours a week to minimum. | 00:26:10 | |
| Will be -40 hours of time I get to send with her. So I'm going to be in a bit of transition. But umm, I know that there is more. | 00:26:14 | |
| So for those of you who haven't got to work directly with on those call, you need to see She's vibrant, puzzling time. And somehow | 00:26:23 | |
| they say that God was the best passage in the person's biggest blessing in all of Texas. | 00:26:32 | |
| Eden and since that heels on, he's got heels on. So umm, yeah, I, I can't even come in until even that before all the work that | 00:26:43 | |
| you have planned out in the last 10 years, umm. | 00:26:51 | |
| Our friendships have grown during that time and we will never do the dream. We will never do the same. So this is your penny, OK? | 00:27:01 | |
| Because you have to. | 00:27:07 | |
| And the chair in the board also has the retirement. So you have two pieces of jewelry today. | 00:27:16 | |
| Thank you so much for. | 00:27:24 | |
| Cheryl, do you have anything you'd like to say? | 00:27:32 | |
| Settle in. | 00:27:38 | |
| I wrote something because I know that I'm using all over. | 00:27:40 | |
| So. | 00:27:44 | |
| In September 2014, I sold my home in Indiana, quit my job with the Coco Bell Police Department as Chief Secretary, and moved with | 00:27:48 | |
| my fiance, Rick Johnstown Co. | 00:27:55 | |
| In October 2014, I located the possibility. | 00:28:05 | |
| And finally figured out all the updates my ancient Dell computer. | 00:28:12 | |
| I needed to apply for a deputy court position with Loan County. | 00:28:18 | |
| Within a very short time I interviewed and was tired to begin work with the board office in November 17, uh, 2020 first. So I said | 00:28:25 | |
| 2024 and 22. I think my husband for the chance to live here in Denver, Co and my God, we're orchestrating all the stuff that took. | 00:28:38 | |
| The land, that's not the job and the procedure later. I have learned so much. | 00:28:52 | |
| And it's not so many people who have become lifelong friends here in London. I have also had the pleasure of working as far as | 00:29:00 | |
| backup to the commitment. | 00:29:07 | |
| Working here for Wells County has been a true blessing and the countless friends I have made here will never be forgotten. | 00:29:16 | |
| Jeremiah, 2911. | 00:29:29 | |
| For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not harm you, plans to give me hope. | 00:29:33 | |
| God bless Wallace County. I don't know. | 00:29:46 | |
| Not often. I'm less speechless. Uh, so, uh, thank you for your very kind comments. Before I make comments on the next two agenda | 00:29:58 | |
| items, I must ask the County Attorney, is it looking our authority to reject the retirement? | 00:30:04 | |
| Not OK. OK, so that's unfortunate because I might reject 1. Umm. The good news is I get to keep you in Johnstown. The bad news is | 00:30:11 | |
| you won't be right down the hall. Uh, we will miss you. Your everything that Esther described. | 00:30:16 | |
| Uh, is, uh, you are everything and more. Uh, you are that kind face when I think all of us sometimes need to see a kind face | 00:30:23 | |
| continue to be that continue to be that blessing to people. We'll miss you. Sure, I'll congratulations. | 00:30:28 | |
| The board puts people in our hearts. | 00:30:37 | |
| Move on. But you've always stayed in my heart. There's not a day that I don't see you, that I don't break into the file because | 00:30:42 | |
| you bring it. You've always been so wonderful, so faithful to this job. I want to miss you immensely. | 00:30:48 | |
| And thank you so much for you and your family for these wonderful universities to put in the whole thing. | 00:30:56 | |
| It's recruited. | 00:31:03 | |
| Umm. | 00:31:05 | |
| Yeah, so Cheryl, you know, you were always kind of my go to 1st and I don't know how many times you were in my office or I would | 00:31:07 | |
| come in and visit with you on whatever was going on and you were tremendously gonna be missed here. Umm, you did a you did a | 00:31:13 | |
| fantastic job. That's just gonna have a really hard time with us with all of the things that you were able to bring to outside, | 00:31:18 | |
| not only your smile and taste every day, no matter what, you were always in a great mood. So, umm, enjoy your retirement. We can | 00:31:24 | |
| just ride off into the sunset. | 00:31:29 | |
| Thank you. | 00:31:35 | |
| And thank you for serving so safely. You put the most wonderful picture sometimes on these emails to cheers up. I really | 00:31:38 | |
| appreciate that about you. And, uh, when we work together, we're a family for better or worse, since, umm, and we don't, uh, treat | 00:31:44 | |
| each other as we treat ourselves at all falls apart. And thank you for sharing both and safely. | 00:31:50 | |
| Well, we said we're missing all my life. Uh-huh. I'm going to try to see what retirement's all about, for one thing. And then, | 00:32:27 | |
| umm, my husband and I left bike and snow, too, and. | 00:32:34 | |
| So we'll probably be doing a lot of that and traveling even. Good, good. I hope you have some great trips. You stay safe here | 00:32:41 | |
| right now. So thank you for your service. You did a great job. Thank you very much. With that, we have a little certificate in | 00:32:47 | |
| your retirement and we'd love to see that for you. See the picture with you, if that's OK. | 00:32:53 | |
| Have you ever come up with your life? | 00:33:00 | |
| Yeah. | 00:33:06 | |
| Let's see it. | 00:33:15 | |
| Definitely let me down there. | 00:33:18 | |
| Are you ready, 123? | 00:33:48 | |
| Yeah. | 00:33:58 | |
| Yeah, I love it. I love it. | 00:34:01 | |
| OK, perfect. I'm ready. | 00:34:14 | |
| OK. Thank you. | 00:34:19 | |
| Hopefully we make your dream come true with that stool. | 00:35:04 | |
| Our next uh, uh, recognition is recognition of services for Department of Human Resources for Michelle Raymer. So Michelle with | 00:35:12 | |
| you gonna come on up. | 00:35:17 | |
| Coming up, I'll go ahead and read this. This, UH, is for Michelle Rayner, Wells County Department of Human Resources. | 00:35:26 | |
| WHEREAS, Michelle Raymer has served the Well County Department of Human Resources from February 12th of 1993 to March 1st of 2025. | 00:35:32 | |
| And WHEREAS Affordable County Commissioner wishes to recognize your dedicated service to Well County and its citizens. Now | 00:35:38 | |
| therefore, let it be known that the Board of Welsh County Commissioners wishes to express its gratitude to Michelle Raymond for | 00:35:44 | |
| your outstanding dedication to Oak County and its citizens signed by Alpine Chemical Research. Congratulations. | 00:35:51 | |
| OK, well that was. | 00:36:02 | |
| Hard, uh, performance, but we're gonna give it a shot here. Umm, when I started back in 2022, Michelle told me from the very first | 00:36:03 | |
| day of my retirement date on the calendar and she was helpful. She does not make her one bit. Umm, I just really wanna take this | 00:36:10 | |
| off 1st, so I'm gonna have a retransition into my role. Umm, she's been an amazing member of our team. Umm, pretty much everybody | 00:36:17 | |
| in the room had the pleasure of working with the show on some capacity. Good and blessed, right? | 00:36:24 | |
| It's very sometimes umm, but she has just an amazing person. I wish her methods of the absolute best of her time. Is umm trying to | 00:36:32 | |
| talk to Mary? I kind of still play on their kind of celebrities around the area. Everybody knows with them one of the areas. Thank | 00:36:37 | |
| you Michelle for yourself and. | 00:36:42 | |
| Michelle. | 00:36:50 | |
| Hard to follow Cheryl up but I do have a couple of words. I just wanted to say that spending 30 plus years working for Wells has | 00:36:52 | |
| been a neat trip with occasional intimidating excursions and lack of central court. I sincerely appreciate everyone's kind emails, | 00:37:01 | |
| phone calls, business cards, well wishes, and especially grateful for the lifelong relationship and the pension. | 00:37:10 | |
| Forward to new addressable tours and hope to run across everybody along my New Jersey. | 00:37:24 | |
| I also want to thank my family because I would not have been able to do 30 past years had it not been so much before. UMM put this | 00:37:31 | |
| in perspective. When I started, I was UMM. | 00:37:36 | |
| Under the leadership of the grateful, the great umm, Commissioner Bill Webster. And now I get to be underneath the father. So it | 00:37:43 | |
| has been a wonderful You're gonna make her cry, Michelle. You're gonna make her have to do something. | 00:37:52 | |
| Thanks everybody if I get to visit you. | 00:38:04 | |
| Michelle. | 00:38:08 | |
| James No, I should have been answering some Cheryl. I asked it of you as well because you're a similar personality from people to | 00:38:14 | |
| me. Are you ever clapping? Are I mean, are you ever in a bad mood? Where's your husband? I I, I, I have ever in a bad mood. I I, | 00:38:21 | |
| I'm scheduled to be in a bad mood. You're about 10 minutes. I don't. I don't think I've ever seen you. A few people haven't seen | 00:38:28 | |
| yet. You know, I'm not my happiest, but, umm, HR is a career in which you do have to. | 00:38:34 | |
| I do my best show that demeanor, that kind that says that willingness to serve will certainly be mentioned in this county. I did | 00:38:43 | |
| not go until I attended your your little event here the other day of of your previous service with the United States Air Force. So | 00:38:49 | |
| obviously services at the very center of who you are and that is appreciated. That will be missed in this county. Thank you for | 00:38:54 | |
| your service and congratulations. You're welcome. | 00:38:59 | |
| Awesome. I would not have. I would not change it anymore. | 00:39:05 | |
| Anyway, I just want to thank you so much to see the joy on your face, whether it was in the halls or outside hitting your walk, | 00:39:14 | |
| and you are my inspiration. | 00:39:20 | |
| You think it is music while you're enjoying your next venture in life, but you have been such about this for me and I know my | 00:39:27 | |
| father. Thank you. | 00:39:31 | |
| Mr. Krim Michelle, thank you for what you've been serving the positions for 31 years. That's a really long time. And in in a | 00:39:38 | |
| difficult position, HR HR can not be fun at times, which is difficult. | 00:39:44 | |
| Difficult thing, umm, because people's lives are hanging in the balance of of, you know, what decisions come out of that, umm, uh, | 00:39:50 | |
| always making the right one. But sometimes it's not the answer that they want to hear or we want to hear. So, umm, but thank you | 00:39:57 | |
| so much for everything. I hope you've got some fun things you're planning on your retirement. Oh yeah. | 00:40:04 | |
| Good. Everything. Thank you. | 00:40:13 | |
| How much I've heard you described in two different, uh, categories. 1 is the glue and that kind of keeps everything together and | 00:40:15 | |
| the other is the engine oil. It keeps everything running. I don't know how you reconcile those two, but somehow you're able to do | 00:40:21 | |
| it for everybody. Everybody, Umm, throughout the 30 years coming in, coming out, you're always there. So thank you so much. | 00:40:27 | |
| And I thank you for your service to the country. Have fun in your, uh, island adventures. | 00:41:03 | |
| Thank you. With that, we'd love to take a picture with you and whoever you'd like us to, OK. | 00:41:08 | |
| All right now on to a very special uh presentation here for, for all of us, uh, item number 32024 employee services award for our | 00:42:30 | |
| 1020 and 30 year employees. Uh, this is extremely exciting moment for us. The dedication we have here at Weld county from all of | 00:42:36 | |
| our team is second to none. Uh. | 00:42:43 | |
| Out of all of our employees, but when we get to see tenure like we're about to see here, uh, it's quite overwhelming. So we'll | 00:42:50 | |
| start this off, uh, first and foremost, uh, assessor Brenda Donas, you get to go first have yourself too. | 00:42:56 | |
| Thank you. | 00:43:07 | |
| You can revise. | 00:43:10 | |
| Your microphone. | 00:43:13 | |
| Thank you. | 00:43:16 | |
| Umm. | 00:43:19 | |
| All right, it is always my privilege to pick this event off. Sometimes I get so 1st and sometimes not, but it's always a thrill | 00:43:20 | |
| when I do get so first because I'm such a believer in Wells County and I'm a believer and our employees. I'm a believer that Well | 00:43:28 | |
| County has a very special trait about it. And no matter how many parents elected officials talk about it or department has talked | 00:43:35 | |
| about it, what I know is that the employees that embody it and it's you that make it happen each and every day so. | 00:43:42 | |
| To get to recognize all of the employees in this fashion. So I appreciate the commissioners for giving us this opportunity to | 00:43:51 | |
| recognize each and everyone of you. Umm, I got directed at three employees even though I've only got one up here with, umm, I've | 00:43:58 | |
| got two 10s and A and a 30. So 50 years round of yours. Here's a service on this team right now. And so some of us get nervous | 00:44:05 | |
| about public speaking and some people get nervous about public recognition. I've actually owed about one employer. | 00:44:12 | |
| Now that you're a little bit nervous about public questions, I wanna start with those things. Uh, our first of the week, you know, | 00:44:20 | |
| you've been with us for 10 years. He's been an appraiser that entire time. He has worked in our business with the property | 00:44:27 | |
| department as well as our residential agriculture team and he's got a really challenging job. You know, it's a tough area of | 00:44:33 | |
| property to value because of a lot of Old Town area and the city has a lot of multi family. | 00:44:39 | |
| But he always strives to make those values the best he can do. He always was working for the taxpayers. And I'm so appreciative of | 00:44:47 | |
| the workings of. So he's not here, not like the public recognition, but I want to recognize him anywhere anyway. So thank you, | 00:44:52 | |
| Luis Munoz for 10 years of service. | 00:44:57 | |
| OK. | 00:45:03 | |
| Something employee, this is Stephanie Hilton. Stephanie also getting a 10 year 10 today, but she has been with us longer than 10 | 00:45:08 | |
| years. She started with us back in 2001 if I remember right. Work starts for many years, then left to be with her family and then | 00:45:15 | |
| came back to us ten years ago. So we have been so lucky to have Stephanie not only be with us as her work family, but have time | 00:45:22 | |
| for her, for her own family and then come back for her work family. She's an analyst in our office. | 00:45:29 | |
| And she has this ability to take on every trade project we come up with because we'll always say we need to do the same project. | 00:45:37 | |
| We need to figure it out, we make it, We don't have to find it well, and then we just throw it on there and she picks up, figures | 00:45:43 | |
| out what questions we have to answer, figures out how we can make it happen. And she has such an amazing personality that she can | 00:45:49 | |
| work with all different personalities and figure out how to make it work. So we are very lucky enough. | 00:45:55 | |
| To do that. So this is Stephanie Hamilton for her 10 continuous experience. | 00:46:02 | |
| Umm in the left. | 00:46:13 | |
| Ask person, it's still an talk so. | 00:46:16 | |
| Big one, big one. | 00:46:23 | |
| Spend with us 30 years, it's a really long time and you see so much change. | 00:46:26 | |
| Lots of employees, different softwares, different procedures. | 00:46:35 | |
| And just study reliable employees. One thing you should know about CNN is that she looks part she was directly with CIA as such as | 00:46:41 | |
| doctor. The CIS work about 25 years ago to convert all of our paper map to what you know today is the property portal. So we're | 00:46:50 | |
| responsible for all the personal results, all the ownership, all the information and surrounds work tirelessly. | 00:46:59 | |
| To transfer all of the kids and apps 4000 per mile to Parcel and get them onto the electronic system that you know and use today. | 00:47:09 | |
| Person is. | 00:47:21 | |
| Consistency, reliability. She's always prepared. | 00:47:23 | |
| On top of it, she's always friendly, so helpful. Whenever I know a taxpayer or someone from the public is working with them, I | 00:47:26 | |
| always know she's listening and doing everything she can to take care of their needs. So we are so appreciative and so thankful | 00:47:33 | |
| that he spent 30 years with us two years ago. So thank you. | 00:47:39 | |
| Thank you very much, Britta. Thanks to Anne. Uh, Next up. This one's cool. I'm gonna do this one. | 00:47:56 | |
| Thank you very much. Congratulations. | 00:48:34 | |
| Morning ladies. | 00:48:50 | |
| OK. | 00:48:53 | |
| OK, wonderful. | 00:48:55 | |
| Thank you. Uh, so I'm just gonna say Ditto to, uh, Brandon and then, uh, he always is so articulating. So I, I completely agree | 00:49:02 | |
| with what she says. We are so fortunate, so lucky to have the team that we have here in Wells County. And I feel very fortunate | 00:49:09 | |
| and lucky that I have the team that I have in the first reporter's office. I have two ladies up here with me this morning | 00:49:15 | |
| representing 10 and 30 years, a few others as well, uh, that we have in the office. | 00:49:22 | |
| Not an easy department to work in. Uh, there's a lot of complexity into it. And I have to say I'm very thankful that we have such | 00:50:29 | |
| a strong person in Fort Lupton to be able to handle that growing area in that community. And so congratulations, Megan on 10 | 00:50:33 | |
| years. | 00:50:37 | |
| That we have, that she's currently on vacation. She decided, hey, I'm 10 years, I'm taking a break. I'm gonna take some days off. | 00:50:48 | |
| Uh, Cafe isn't our Greeley office. He's also worked for the department for seniors in Greeley. Uh, and it's also another one that | 00:50:53 | |
| he was always just happy to be there. She's always very steady. She's always one that is going to not only help the customers, but | 00:50:58 | |
| also every single upper coworkers as well. | 00:51:03 | |
| And then my two other 20 year old, uh, that we've been in is Julie Sapini. She actually decided to retire as well. She's like, | 00:51:10 | |
| hey, 20 years, I'm tapping out on good. Uh, and she also was in the motor vehicle department for 20 years and she was the one that | 00:51:16 | |
| was extremely always able to. | 00:51:22 | |
| And so he is still back there holding down on the board. Obviously, we made it through the 2024 election. Uh, we, it was a | 00:51:58 | |
| slugger, uh, for us to make it through. And he always is very appreciated advice and municipalities that he works with, in | 00:52:04 | |
| coordinates with. And so we greatly appreciate that and resolve 20 years in lessons as well. | 00:52:10 | |
| And then last but not least, we got carried. Uh, this is Carrie Weber. He has served Wells County for 30 years, 30 years. And you | 00:52:18 | |
| wanna talk about technology changes in motor vehicles. Terry can tell you some stories. Uh, and she's been through all of them. | 00:52:24 | |
| She started when we were based registrations that had to be written by hand, helped with the C star system, and then even made it | 00:52:31 | |
| through the transition into the new drive system. | 00:52:38 | |
| Perry was also our trainer for a long, long time, so she was the first person. | 00:52:45 | |
| That introduced our new employees to the motor vehicle world. Uh, a lot of people are where they're at in their career due to | 00:52:49 | |
| careers. Uh, she's always been someone who no matter what is continuing to be resilient, to continue to fight for motor vehicles. | 00:52:56 | |
| She always is there to help the public and there's just so many things that can be said about her. She loves teddy bears. It's one | 00:53:04 | |
| of my favorite things about that fairy. Uh, and she is, uh, also the person who, uh, has a lots of flower and. | 00:53:11 | |
| Knows about plans and one thing is if she shares that love and passion with her office. And again, Carrie has just been a staple | 00:53:19 | |
| in our office for so many years and we are so appreciative and I personally appreciative that you stuck it out for everything. | 00:53:26 | |
| You've helped go through everything. You continue to rise above it all. You continue to show exactly what a steady strong employee | 00:53:32 | |
| is. Terry and I just greatly appreciate your 30 years. | 00:53:38 | |
| Thank you, Bernie. | 00:53:54 | |
| Uh, Next up is uh, our assessor or excuse me, attorney Michael Rory. | 00:53:56 | |
| District District Attorney, I apologize. | 00:54:02 | |
| I knew I screwed something up, Michael. I apologize. I do. | 00:54:07 | |
| To result in that. | 00:54:11 | |
| Alright, so you all get comfortable. | 00:54:15 | |
| There's now the alternative stand up. First of all, I wanna, I wanna say a couple of things. First of all, I know Caryl hadn't | 00:54:17 | |
| popped out, but I wanted to congratulate Cheryl on her retirement and most certainly so I never go forward. So thank you so much. | 00:54:23 | |
| Umm, they don't teach us how to do these many of these HR type things in law school. And you have guided you through a lot of | 00:54:29 | |
| different challenges over the course of my career as well. I wanted to attend. | 00:54:35 | |
| Umm, first I wanna start with this umm, it's the holiday season. Happy holidays to you all and there is a very underrated. | 00:54:43 | |
| Holiday does not recognize your plan. | 00:54:51 | |
| All set. | 00:54:53 | |
| Many of you know what the service is. | 00:54:57 | |
| If you don't, what time? But one of the hallmarks of the HO holiday festivals is an airing of grievances. | 00:54:59 | |
| So I wanna start with an area of region. | 00:55:07 | |
| Thursday is gonna die when I. | 00:55:11 | |
| Social media comes up. | 00:55:14 | |
| In 2016, I was fortunate enough to be appointed by governor. | 00:55:17 | |
| And it also would have been 10 years. | 00:55:24 | |
| Of service to county, because I served in 2005, there is only one commissioner who was on the board at the time. | 00:55:27 | |
| And I pointed out that. | 00:55:38 | |
| I would qualify the commissioners that elected officials don't get recognized for services. | 00:55:44 | |
| Carly, congratulations. | 00:55:52 | |
| When you do this, that will be coming up now, that will conclude my airing agreement. | 00:56:00 | |
| I have the opportunity today to present pre 10 year service teams umm to three phenomenal employees. And, and let me start with | 00:56:08 | |
| this, I believe in the business of working kids before. I believe that the most fundamental role of local academic government is | 00:56:14 | |
| to ensure the public safety in a number of different ways, but ensure the safety of our own investors. We can do that in a number | 00:56:20 | |
| of districts. These three employees are as exclusive. | 00:56:26 | |
| For publication. | 00:56:36 | |
| Uh, Brooke, I'm gonna start with you, Brooke. Uh, stroke Snyder, umm, has, has been with our office for 10 years. We were able to | 00:56:37 | |
| lure her away from the 5% back in 24. | 00:56:41 | |
| Started with the opposite again. | 00:56:46 | |
| And she was there about 3 months because our supervisors recognized the talent that broke the rest of the office and so she was | 00:56:48 | |
| throwing into. | 00:56:52 | |
| Place. | 00:57:00 | |
| So that will retire all of our viewers. | 00:57:02 | |
| We're about six months and then again. | 00:57:10 | |
| And for those of you not familiar with the different sports, umm, that's where we thought so. | 00:57:15 | |
| Alongside of our returns on gift report selling teams. | 00:57:26 | |
| I'm not supposed to place a. | 00:57:57 | |
| Adriana Jameson is one of my favorite employees that we have never had. | 00:58:00 | |
| I did I. | 00:58:05 | |
| And she was the last who I ever did. | 00:58:09 | |
| Whereas neglected to ask your question. | 00:58:15 | |
| Our recession has a good sense of humor because they are oftentimes either. | 00:58:19 | |
| HR plug in the bottom of my bill or I hope that, umm, I have spent a lot of time over the last 10 years trying to meet up on | 00:58:24 | |
| Adriana and I realized there may be some health risks involved to do that. Umm, but Adriana has worked. Umm, not a way to do | 00:58:31 | |
| essentially with a fantastic space in voice of our office. Uh, then the standard position that she held along with a lot of other | 00:58:38 | |
| collateral responsibility and a number of different years in the last year, somebody just promoted. | 00:58:45 | |
| Separation for. | 00:58:54 | |
| She was terrified this morning, said. You want me to say nice things about you? Yes, I do. You didn't bring. | 00:58:58 | |
| So I asked her to send it to me. | 00:59:06 | |
| Are you ready? | 00:59:09 | |
| Frame time for the two of us, but this is the last group of employees that we can recognize with 102035. | 00:59:25 | |
| Misfortune. | 00:59:35 | |
| Umm, but Patrick has been with our office for more than 10 years now, started first as an interest and then got promoted after we | 00:59:38 | |
| just reported turning across from the things that I described the growth works on. | 00:59:46 | |
| Work for the work on the side is. | 00:59:55 | |
| Uh persons prime umm, big COVID cases. Uh, organized crime cases. | 00:59:58 | |
| And then we saw that the wisdom in promoting efforts to headquarters. | 01:00:03 | |
| Umm, as my kind of course mentioned supervisors, 8 employees, UH-8 attorneys and however many. | 01:00:08 | |
| Bit higher, Is that the 4th? | 01:00:14 | |
| But right now I think it's a little bit nervous because we've been here for about 45 minutes and 10, of course, attorneys are back | 01:00:18 | |
| at my office and catching things on fire and scissors. | 01:00:22 | |
| Extraordinarily talented trial for increasing leader. He does a phenomenal job at teaching those brand new job. | 01:00:29 | |
| Discussing companies rather than you already so. | 01:00:40 | |
| Easy airing of the grievances there, Mr. District Attorney. | 01:00:48 | |
| I'll California. I'll call you later. Mr. Sounds good. | 01:01:00 | |
| You know, in, in the spirit of Christmas, I forgot to announce this, but uh, along with our pins this year, uh, well, county | 01:01:04 | |
| decided to step up, give a little extra. So we got some gift cards that everyone will be receiving with their pins. So at 10 | 01:01:09 | |
| years, you're gonna get a $50.00 gift card. At 20 years, you're gonna get 131. Fifty 40 is 200 and the retirees is $250 gift | 01:01:15 | |
| cards. So this is another token of our appreciation and great, uh, folks here. Well, county, I should have, uh, let everybody know | 01:01:20 | |
| that so. | 01:01:26 | |
| Umm. | 01:01:33 | |
| Next up is our our sheriff is the Sheriff Steve Rings here. | 01:01:33 | |
| Or Mr. Patch. Or Mr. Elby. | 01:01:38 | |
| OK, sounds good. | 01:01:42 | |
| And I hate to do this now, but I've been informed by the 1st office we've never grabbed that microphone will let you do that. Is | 01:01:48 | |
| that OK, Captain? I'll do that, alright. | 01:01:52 | |
| They can't hear you on online. You can stand up here and just grab it as it's portable whenever you'd like to do, Yeah. | 01:01:56 | |
| OK, so you ready? Umm, we got the quite a stack of folks, so we'll. | 01:02:03 | |
| Move through this relatively quickly, but my name is Matt Elbe represents the Sheriff's Office with captain of the jail, uh, quite | 01:02:08 | |
| a few folks here from the jail to receive their pins today and if you can imagine. | 01:02:14 | |
| You have your, uh, funny. | 01:02:20 | |
| Funny and interesting place and the the folks who we employ, especially those who have stuck it out for some reason something I | 01:02:23 | |
| was 24 years, but especially those who have stuck it out for some reason are are also. | 01:02:30 | |
| 2012 SO. | 01:02:37 | |
| Sale, uh, coming up and I'll. | 01:02:42 | |
| Umm, caller 20 years. We've got budget concert Sergeant Lewis. | 01:02:47 | |
| Engelhardt, PayPal and Manuel Mendez receiving 10 year pins as well. | 01:02:58 | |
| Uh, speak first to the Sergeant group, Thompson Lewis from Billington. Uh, these folks are charged with supervising all the | 01:03:04 | |
| deputies that we have on ships every day in varies capacity, not only with the work that has to be done, but also with their | 01:03:10 | |
| personal lives and juggling, uh, a, a really stressful career choice with what they have going on at home. Uh, I think what I'm | 01:03:17 | |
| blown away with most of all is you guys compassion. | 01:03:23 | |
| Do that knowing that good employees aren't good people at home, and we want folks to be good people at home so they can come to | 01:03:29 | |
| work. | 01:03:34 | |
| Umm, the gel is, uh, sort of that forgotten sometimes. And I think there's a piece of that, that that maybe we sort of like, uh, | 01:03:39 | |
| we'd like to sort of do our work and we try to keep the deal out of the line. So, uh, customers, you guys in your tenure here. | 01:03:49 | |
| Umm, you can use it. | 01:04:00 | |
| Uh, hey, Tapia and Manuel Mendez. Uh, you know, I think the jail, as I said, approved that forgotten law enforcement. | 01:04:08 | |
| Now we normally talk about this phone personal, uh. | 01:04:16 | |
| We also have a lot of ancillary folks who work through jail to make sure that all those services are provided. | 01:04:24 | |
| Services, our booking tech, uh, booking supervisors, contact staff, all those folks sort of make the jail run and they eventually | 01:04:33 | |
| that, uh, we have, they include the supervisors we have main amended. | 01:04:40 | |
| Guys are offered. We have to move together for a while. | 01:04:52 | |
| Umm, we kind of more forwarded, umm, so much here within the agency. Uh, he's one of three lieutenants in the sale right now. | 01:05:17 | |
| As leadership, not only to our target. | 01:05:25 | |
| Umm, we've sort of been spread out across the agency in various worlds, drafted out in the jail, uh, comes to us with, uh, | 01:05:33 | |
| experience with Stephanie starting in the jail. | 01:05:37 | |
| I think that's. | 01:05:45 | |
| Captain, if you actually want to grab the microphone and send it off the podium, it'll come with you as portable. And stand over | 01:06:02 | |
| here in the clerk's office is lighting me up right now because I can't see your faces on TV because we got the cameras going. The | 01:06:08 | |
| camera is right below that clock up there, believe it or not. | 01:06:13 | |
| Hey, listen up Commissioners, thank you for this opportunity to, uh, recognize. | 01:06:24 | |
| Umm, our employees, if I get patrol and the civilian side of patrol's 10 year UMM to come up with your cohorts, Umm, so we're | 01:06:29 | |
| recognizing. | 01:06:35 | |
| A number of people, umm. | 01:06:43 | |
| Miguel David Arena, Tiffany Moore, Brian Ammon, Nikolai Kovis and Anderson. Uh, Jeremy Loughlin and Erica. | 01:06:46 | |
| Umm, you know, we said this before about one year. It can be a very challenging job at times. We're trying, umm. | 01:06:58 | |
| No. Typical. | 01:07:08 | |
| Confrontational job, but the guide and girls up here that do this job represent the best of what we have. | 01:07:11 | |
| Umm, having done this for a little bit myself, I understand the dedication that it takes to want to come do this every day. | 01:07:21 | |
| To want to get in those conversations with. | 01:07:28 | |
| People you're trying to serve every day. | 01:07:31 | |
| And these guys do it faithfully. They do it to the best of our ability, and they do it day after day after day. Umm. | 01:07:33 | |
| It's that kind of dedication, that kind of latitude, that kind of pick wickedness that that I think really serves everybody in | 01:07:43 | |
| this room well. Umm serves the citizens of Well County extremely well and really makes this place. | 01:07:50 | |
| The only place that I would ever want to hold. | 01:07:59 | |
| And I would ever want to work, umm, or and be associated with it. Umm, I've done a lot in my lifetime in, you know, all of my 31 | 01:08:02 | |
| years on this, on this plan. | 01:08:07 | |
| Wow. | 01:08:15 | |
| But associated with everybody in this year has been the greatest honor of my life, and I just wanted to thank you guys, umm, for | 01:08:17 | |
| their 10. | 01:08:22 | |
| And the 20 year guys and the 30 year guys aren't you, but, uh. | 01:08:28 | |
| Just for the service that they provide. Umm. | 01:08:32 | |
| Truly representing the best what we have to offer as a county. So thank you guys. | 01:08:36 | |
| Little round Robin today, Umm, my name is Matt and I'm another one of the captains with the Sheriff's Office and I think one of my | 01:08:49 | |
| employees here today. Shane, would you come up? | 01:08:53 | |
| So we have so many areas of the Sheriff's Office. Umm, you got to hear about patrol, about the jail. We have an admin team as | 01:09:02 | |
| well. | 01:09:05 | |
| Shane is one of my trainings at me. | 01:09:10 | |
| And we're still going to use it, which is off. | 01:09:12 | |
| Thank you so much, my training unit does so much. | 01:09:16 | |
| Umm, But one thing I think is amazing is the amount of pressure put on our division to make sure that everyone else in the in the | 01:09:19 | |
| jail and the patrol is properly trained according to what the state wants us to do. But more so, more so importantly with | 01:09:25 | |
| SharePoint. | 01:09:30 | |
| Umm share? France has invested so much in our agencies and our division would not exist. | 01:09:37 | |
| It wasn't. | 01:09:43 | |
| They they didn't know what the confession is. | 01:09:44 | |
| So I wanna put in perspective some of the some of the stuff we do. The state requires 24 hours of training for every sworn person | 01:09:47 | |
| in the jail and in control. | 01:09:52 | |
| 24 hours for post certified people. | 01:09:57 | |
| When I started with the share price, I worked in the gym. I think you could do right. | 01:10:00 | |
| Great. OK, got you. Umm. | 01:10:06 | |
| But in the jail, we didn't get trained. In the jail, we didn't get annual training. That happened on a monthly basis. | 01:10:09 | |
| And share frames made that happen, but it doesn't happen without garbage. | 01:10:17 | |
| So every month. | 01:10:21 | |
| We do TR2 training days, at least a month is free and Shane is responsible for for conducting that to the control position. Umm. | 01:10:24 | |
| It's not easy scheduling nightmare. | 01:10:34 | |
| But you, you do it everywhere and I really appreciate you. Thank you for 20 years and, uh, you're not quitting any questions now? | 01:10:39 | |
| Good because I don't know how to do it so. | 01:10:48 | |
| Jane, thank you very much. | 01:10:52 | |
| All right. Thank you, everybody Good. | 01:11:01 | |
| All right. | 01:11:10 | |
| Uh up next is uh, first to the board, Esther. | 01:11:12 | |
| Johnny Ditchers. Alright, we've got human resources. Jill Scott. | 01:11:15 | |
| OK, we just have 1 Brandy Crawford, umm, not her thing to be here today, but she is working very hard in the background preparing | 01:11:29 | |
| for year end and making sure you all get paid and all your benefits transferred into the new year. So that's pretty important. But | 01:11:34 | |
| Randy's been here for 10 years. She started out the front counter, uh, worked her way throughout the, our department, umm, and | 01:11:39 | |
| currently, uh. | 01:11:45 | |
| Our HRS team, our, our workplace support team and she does all the hygiene for us. So she was an intricate partner in the making | 01:11:50 | |
| sure what they want and where we are in the UH currently and they can be constant improvements in the system. So Randy is a great | 01:11:55 | |
| part of our team and. | 01:12:01 | |
| So I will take her to. Alright, thank you too. | 01:12:09 | |
| Do you have anyone to recognize with the accounting attorney's office? | 01:12:17 | |
| Uh, just Monica Cuera. Monica is not here today, I don't think she's one of our paralegals, member of TH. She does a great job | 01:12:21 | |
| with IKWA, which is the Indian Child Welfare Act. A lot of notices, a lot of orders we need to put out on that. She does a great | 01:12:29 | |
| job. So, uh, she's been here 10 years for a good ten years. | 01:12:37 | |
| Uh, Next up is uh, yeah. | 01:12:47 | |
| So Oh yeah. Jason, Max, come on up. | 01:12:51 | |
| Hello, we're following the list and you guys went out of order on me. | 01:13:10 | |
| Thank you, Commissioners. I appreciate the opportunity to be able to recognize a great team member here in Stephanie Frederick. | 01:13:13 | |
| Umm, as the outgoing director for the Oil and Gas Energy Department, I'm pleased to present Destiny with our 10 year pin. | 01:13:22 | |
| Stephanie, you are truly a joy to have in our office. | 01:13:27 | |
| Umm, contrary to what Esther might tell you where Esterville Right in front, uh, I did not steal her from you. | 01:13:32 | |
| With great advancement opportunities come up the county as less to have good people, umm, uh, stay with the county by providing | 01:13:42 | |
| additional career opportunities and advancements. And Stephanie is one of those people who took advantage of that. And I was happy | 01:13:49 | |
| when she applied for the new position at the oil and gas department when we were formed in mid 2019. Uh, Stephanie is patient. | 01:13:56 | |
| She's humble, she's a joy to be around, she's curious, she's always willing to learn. | 01:14:04 | |
| And volunteer and raise their hand. The county and the oil and gas department are blessed to have you as part of our team and I | 01:14:09 | |
| hope you stay with us a lot longer. Thank you. | 01:14:13 | |
| Our next step is public and environmental health. | 01:14:27 | |
| Coming up. So you're going to be right here. Come on, don't be shot. We can hide in the corner. | 01:14:50 | |
| OK, So I I think Dan is going to recognize this to employees, but Bob McDonald our. | 01:14:56 | |
| Division Director for Health, Education and. | 01:15:03 | |
| Health education and community planning is not here. So I'm gonna recognize COVID. Gonzales Oga is getting a 10 year pin today. | 01:15:06 | |
| Umm, and you know, I, I tell my daughter, uh, she's 23 and still on the payroll by the way, so OK. | 01:15:13 | |
| Yeah, I tell her that there's really 3 keys to getting ahead. Number one is is showing up on time #2 is showing up with a good | 01:15:21 | |
| attitude. And the three is doing the job. They'll sound really easy. | 01:15:27 | |
| These days they are not as common as you would like them to be over shows up with a positive attitude every day. She's fluent in | 01:15:33 | |
| Spanish. She has a passion to help the public, to serve the public, and she is particularly helpful, umm, for our outreach to the | 01:15:41 | |
| Spanish speaking community. Many of our customers are Spanish being on their their primary. So OPA is indispensable when it comes | 01:15:48 | |
| to providing materials so well, thank you for the 10 years and. | 01:15:55 | |
| G for Gabriel Katie here. Uh, so, uh, as my kids would remind me, 30 years, umm, that was back in the 1900s, uh. | 01:16:10 | |
| Yes, the 1900s, umm, and uh, but Gabriel's been a Star Wars for us over these years, umm, 30 years, especially in our department | 01:16:21 | |
| and people from a lot of different states. Umm, so she works on what goes in your mouth and what comes out of you as well, umm, on | 01:16:29 | |
| those kind of things. So some fun, exciting parts there. Uh, she embodies our values of the health department. Just teamwork. Uh, | 01:16:36 | |
| she is always willing to pitch in. She's there for us. Umm, she's a calming influence on our department and we'd love to have her. | 01:16:43 | |
| So we totally appreciate you being here for this. And you have to say you can't retire like because we're doing. Thank you. | 01:16:51 | |
| So thank all his busy applications. She first came into the interview. | 01:17:04 | |
| He said we're happy. We would like to have you 130. | 01:17:11 | |
| And I'd like to say, would you hear about the Wizard of Oz and who's behind the curtain? It's a she'll tell you. I don't see it. | 01:17:16 | |
| It's almost like we're just. | 01:17:21 | |
| Same person. She taught me everything about acceptance. She's in our water quality specialist. She's the type of employee that | 01:17:27 | |
| everything she does behind the scenes is for the citizens to the county who wants to have her. I can't imagine not handing her | 01:17:33 | |
| around. | 01:17:39 | |
| One employee who is not present with a deep knocking or she is one of our nurse practitioners. So I wanted to recognize the. | 01:17:55 | |
| And I wanna say two things to you all. I hope that you'll take time to reflect. | 01:18:05 | |
| That you'll have a positive impact on the line of thousands as well, coming with Gabriel, your patients. And so thank you for | 01:18:11 | |
| that, umm #2. | 01:18:17 | |
| There are a lot of employers in this area that would love to have. | 01:18:23 | |
| You have a choice where you work. Thank you for choosing work at work. | 01:18:29 | |
| Alright, Next up is it. But uh, Mr. Rose, you're gonna come up here first. | 01:18:40 | |
| So, umm, I've said it once and I've said it probably 100 times. Political is we kind of come and go. | 01:18:47 | |
| But the people that have made well counting blocks are all these people that were recognizing the 10, the 20, the 30 years. That's | 01:18:54 | |
| what's made Wells County walk the way it does. And it's just an honor to serve with each and everyone of you. But the one that I | 01:19:01 | |
| think sits on the top of this, uh, this group of, of individuals is, uh, Mr. Ryan Rose, you have been incredible, your due | 01:19:08 | |
| diligence and your job, your proactiveness from trying to get ahead of any of those hackers. | 01:19:15 | |
| All that you're doing with AI, it's just, uh, it's just. | 01:19:24 | |
| Wonderful that you're here, Sir, and I'm gonna give you your 10 year period with him, but please don't ever leave because I don't | 01:19:28 | |
| know what we would do with that. You, you have been incredible and it's been an absolute honest of services. | 01:19:33 | |
| And you can't have more than 10 year pins because we've only had a department. | 01:19:47 | |
| I'm sure you guys have lots to get to. Uh, as you looked at the uh, it list of folks, there's 38 and I have about 3 to 5 minutes | 01:19:53 | |
| prepared for each employee, so. | 01:19:57 | |
| I like to write my things down, so good morning, everyone. First and foremost, thank you to the, uh, the Board of County | 01:20:06 | |
| Commissioners for this opportunity to recognize our team members. | 01:20:11 | |
| And for your support over the last 10 to 11 years? | 01:20:16 | |
| Uh, today I am so proud and humbled to be here and, and participate in this recognition ceremony. | 01:20:20 | |
| Everybody from it, come on up. | 01:20:26 | |
| We have quite a few folks. | 01:20:29 | |
| This represents well over half the department here. | 01:20:35 | |
| Gotta get to the middle everybody wants to see online. | 01:20:46 | |
| So you get me that wide angle view there, Sam? | 01:20:50 | |
| OK, anybody need a computer fixed? | 01:20:59 | |
| Which are melting all over. | 01:21:03 | |
| So as you can see, we have a significant number of IT team members share with us this morning. A little quick background. | 01:21:08 | |
| In 2014, the Board of County Commissioners made the strategic decision to bring IT services quote in house. | 01:21:14 | |
| For the 21 years prior, IT services were outsourced and at the risk of sounding somewhat selfish, I truly believe that that | 01:21:21 | |
| decision has proven every year since as one of the best decisions the county could have made. And because there was a transition | 01:21:27 | |
| from outsource to in source. However, less are standing here in front of you today. Uh, have nearly the same hire date, uh, and | 01:21:33 | |
| are celebrating 10 years of service together. | 01:21:38 | |
| To the IT team, UH, each of you have dedicated a significant portion of your professional lives to Well County. Your commitment, | 01:21:46 | |
| hard work and invaluable contributions have positively shaped the IT department and how technology is utilized here at Weld | 01:21:52 | |
| County. | 01:21:57 | |
| Over the past decade, you've witnessed countless changes, overcome challenges, and celebrated many successes. Your experiences and | 01:22:04 | |
| expertise has been instrumental. | 01:22:09 | |
| And guiding work county through home waters and it's sometimes from stormy seas. | 01:22:14 | |
| Your dedication and knowledge and commitment to Work County inspires me to attempt to be better every single day. | 01:22:19 | |
| We've not only been dedicated IT members, but you've also, uh, valued colleagues, mentors, and friends. | 01:22:27 | |
| You've you've shared your knowledge, offered support and fostered a positive work environment in which I considered to be a very | 01:22:36 | |
| stressful profession. | 01:22:40 | |
| Your impact to Wells County extends far beyond your daily job earnings. | 01:22:46 | |
| As we look to the future, I'm grateful for your continued commitment to the employees and the citizens of Wells County. Your | 01:22:51 | |
| insights, expertise, experiences, and unwavering commitment will be crucial as we continue to face the challenges that our job and | 01:22:56 | |
| duties require of us. | 01:23:00 | |
| Thank you again for your again for your incredible dedication, your hard work, and your unwavering loyalty to IT family and to | 01:23:06 | |
| Wells County. | 01:23:10 | |
| Your impact is immeasurable. Thank you. | 01:23:15 | |
| Since we have quite a few folks here. | 01:23:24 | |
| If I call your name, umm, please just step up, maybe right to the crowd and wait for the post online. Umm, and then we'll, uh, | 01:23:26 | |
| we'll make sure we get you again. | 01:23:30 | |
| Absolutely. | 01:23:36 | |
| We're gonna go alphabetically. So Alexi sure. | 01:23:39 | |
| Like the Cherokee? | 01:23:43 | |
| Technical Operations, Brian Hayes Applications and Database. | 01:23:45 | |
| Brian Martinez, Public Safety. | 01:23:51 | |
| OK, Project management and business projects. | 01:23:56 | |
| Charlie Simon, Technical Operations. | 01:24:01 | |
| Geddes GIS. | 01:24:06 | |
| Underworld GIS. | 01:24:10 | |
| Uh, Gary Hicks, Applications and Database. | 01:24:16 | |
| Six months applications and database. | 01:24:23 | |
| Copper Gonzalez. Business Intelligence. | 01:24:27 | |
| Daily travel Technical Support center. | 01:24:32 | |
| Earlier, that is accounting a long time, you know, varying voice. | 01:24:36 | |
| Voice of Technical Support John Jenkins. Information security and data privacy. | 01:24:39 | |
| South Indian public safety. | 01:24:46 | |
| Uh, he is not here today, but he might be watching online celebrating another chief victory. | 01:24:52 | |
| With T-shirt Rodriguez, office administrator. | 01:25:00 | |
| This is Selena Technical Support. | 01:25:05 | |
| Provo ERP budget manager, workate guru. | 01:25:10 | |
| Michelle Wong while Websteam. | 01:25:14 | |
| I understand public safety. | 01:25:19 | |
| Controlling applications in the database. | 01:25:23 | |
| And libel. Technical operations. | 01:25:28 | |
| Somebody said earlier the wizard behind the wall and the man behind the curtain that's. | 01:25:31 | |
| Make sure that you guys plug in every day for the network. | 01:25:34 | |
| Ripley Kashdor's web team. | 01:25:38 | |
| Robert and West. | 01:25:43 | |
| Remove the IS. | 01:25:47 | |
| Sam Sam, 10 Technical Support Center. | 01:25:52 | |
| Public safety. | 01:25:57 | |
| She is not here, she's on maternity leave. How sexy. She's watching online project management and business process. | 01:26:01 | |
| Stan Sadowski, Applications and Database. | 01:26:09 | |
| We're heading for operations. | 01:26:15 | |
| Here today is in India. I don't know if it's watching. | 01:26:17 | |
| I don't know what time it is. | 01:26:21 | |
| Uh, Terry Rogers. | 01:26:23 | |
| Tom Morgan. | 01:26:28 | |
| OK. I do not hear today's technical operations. | 01:26:29 | |
| OK, safety, public safety. | 01:26:36 | |
| So let's put on public safety. | 01:26:40 | |
| Dan Herder and Perry Rogers come over here real quick on the middle. Real quick. | 01:26:45 | |
| So as I mentioned earlier, it's a little bit unique. Uh, it, uh, came on board in 2014. We were outsourced, uh, in 1993. We were | 01:26:53 | |
| then brought on as a county department in 2014. Umm, but I did want to point out a couple of these, uh, huge milestones. I've | 01:27:00 | |
| heard 30 year, uh, commitment to the county here this morning, which is awesome. | 01:27:07 | |
| But I would like to point out that in 1982, Dan Herder joined the county, uh, which is equal to about 42 years of service to the | 01:27:15 | |
| county. So a lot of changes over the years, umm, from technology. Uh, Dan is one of our gifts. Senior analyst and I thought of | 01:27:21 | |
| your miss, if I just included that in the normal 10 year, I wanted to make sure I pointed that out to the group. So thank you, Dan | 01:27:28 | |
| for over 40 years. | 01:27:34 | |
| Of service. | 01:27:41 | |
| Harry Rogers, uh, over, uh, 1981. What's your higher date? Umm, so she's been with the county for a very long time. Terry and I | 01:27:45 | |
| were chatting last week, umm, and she was giving me the historical overview of her tenure here. Wow. What a career. What an | 01:27:51 | |
| amazing, uh, commitment to an organization. I thank you for, for what you have done for Wells County and, uh, appreciate | 01:27:57 | |
| everything you do for it. | 01:28:03 | |
| Just quickly, two other people who did retire in July, uh, that also had, uh, uh, over 30 years of experience with the county just | 01:28:16 | |
| happened. And I doubt Jeff is watching. He's in Arizona, probably sitting by the pool. And Evan Johnson, uh, also, uh, from | 01:28:22 | |
| retired in July. They were both critical components of the IT family. So commissioners, thank you for giving us the grace and time | 01:28:28 | |
| today to recognize us. | 01:28:34 | |
| We appreciate it. | 01:28:40 | |
| Thank you it appreciate it very much. | 01:28:48 | |
| Next up, I have Justice Services. Doug Erler. | 01:28:54 | |
| Your football team. | 01:29:10 | |
| I'm talking about they had a football team, IT business. | 01:29:21 | |
| Thank you so much. Yeah. | 01:29:27 | |
| I hope not. | 01:29:30 | |
| I'd like you to be here this morning. | 01:29:33 | |
| Department forward and to recognize some great folks in our department we have 3 folks that we recognize today one couldn't be | 01:29:39 | |
| here today. Sandra Gomez, uh, she. | 01:29:44 | |
| Supervisor in our pre child services program. | 01:29:50 | |
| The day off today and she's on mom duty. She's a great employee. Uh, well respected, well like by everyone in our department. | 01:29:54 | |
| We'll make sure that we recognize that we'll get back to work. We'll jump out here today that umm, real pleased to recognize umm, | 01:30:02 | |
| they are total rock stars, umm. | 01:30:08 | |
| Candy cooling is our. | 01:30:14 | |
| Manager of our pre children program, She's, uh, technically been with the county of 12 years. She was part time, went full time | 01:30:17 | |
| and then she went to the dark side towards the state as a probation officer. We kept in touch and one thing led to another and the | 01:30:25 | |
| great fortune of her coming back to work for T Mile. She's a fantastic person. Umm. | 01:30:33 | |
| Got to know her really well and her family. | 01:30:42 | |
| Breakdown. Thank you. Congratulations. Uh, being part of our team. Well, I think everything is. | 01:30:45 | |
| Our next person is umm, Diana Campbell. | 01:30:53 | |
| We learned her from the private sector. | 01:30:58 | |
| Started in leading our free jobs with this program. | 01:31:01 | |
| And then she moved over and LED our work release and electronic home monitoring programs. Now she's our deputy director for our | 01:31:04 | |
| depart. I literally could not do anything without Diane Campbell. | 01:31:10 | |
| She her work ethic is amazing. | 01:31:16 | |
| Umm, just a real honor and privilege working with both. | 01:31:20 | |
| Fantastic people, so thank you. Congratulations for your time with Team Wild and hope for another 10 years. | 01:31:24 | |
| All right, Next up is public safety and communications. | 01:31:32 | |
| Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Umm, I actually thought about giving threatening this recognition and I thought about. | 01:32:03 | |
| Celebrating the He said that it's not been a job, it's been a life. And I feel the same as really true of publicity. It is a life | 01:32:12 | |
| and you sacrifice a lot, you get a lot back, but it takes. | 01:32:19 | |
| In 10 years in public safety communications is quite in a couple and I think the person with a special heart. | 01:32:27 | |
| Oncoming risk with feedback and so I feel very confused to recognize three of our employees who have served the 2410 years at | 01:32:35 | |
| Total computers. So Crystal Pratt is our office technician. She is amazing. She is a Jack of all place and works with an uncommon | 01:32:43 | |
| efficiency that is just unparalleled and makes the entire edges of the house brunch bakery. | 01:32:52 | |
| Stacey Mitchell is one of our emergency communication specialists where she has been working phones in the radios, they're being | 01:33:00 | |
| welcomed citizens and responders and she's also one of our CPLS. Our dreamers are greeners, so in that way she goes above and | 01:33:05 | |
| beyond every day. | 01:33:10 | |
| I do have a fee for Yang. | 01:33:17 | |
| So Brittany started as we were just seeking a future specialist, uh, working on the bones, the radio, umm, after a bit she got | 01:33:20 | |
| promoted to, uh, the training division, to her training specialist, which she helped between our new hires. | 01:33:26 | |
| Uh, training for our dispatchers of Flora. | 01:33:34 | |
| You guys might not know this, but to see an emergency communication. | 01:33:38 | |
| Hundreds of hours of training before you're ever able to work on time or the radio, and then there's hundreds of hours of | 01:33:42 | |
| communication to keep those skills sharp. And Brittany has been a part of that growth. | 01:33:48 | |
| Uh, over a year ago she was promoted to our learning and development manager and now all of that responsibility. | 01:33:56 | |
| She gets to be responsible for all the paintings and all of our verses communication specialist go through to make the commitment. | 01:34:03 | |
| They are able to answer the call, umm, and make an impact in those moments. Whatever, uh, she does so with. | 01:34:10 | |
| Ingenious creativity because a unique opportunity, training that makes fun, makes it sick, uh, sometimes you're not training, uh, | 01:34:18 | |
| topic. | 01:34:23 | |
| So umm, I definitely appreciate everything contributing over the test. | 01:34:29 | |
| Next up, facilities. Patrick Omar. | 01:34:44 | |
| OK, go back. | 01:34:51 | |
| Thank you, commissioners and on behalf of facilities, it's my pleasure to recognize 220 year employees. First up, community | 01:34:54 | |
| desire. He's ahead of our security department and uh, again, one thing through and through that I'm very much. | 01:35:03 | |
| Over the last 20 years we've been together very dedicated to journey through every nights are out protecting our access to 1000 | 01:35:17 | |
| Second doors checking building. | 01:35:22 | |
| The same time before another time. | 01:35:29 | |
| Going through the IR dedicated. | 01:35:37 | |
| OK. | 01:35:40 | |
| Elder employees for facilities that I want to recognize, James, I mean. | 01:35:49 | |
| John Rayburn, New Year master electrician, and he's extremely dedicated employee, highly skilled and it's also demonstrated by | 01:35:54 | |
| what he did today. He said he couldn't come. | 01:36:00 | |
| We have a temporary power outage at the jail. | 01:36:07 | |
| My pleasure. | 01:36:18 | |
| A quick comment. So, umm, your security team is on top of it. I was down here on Saturday morning and I wasn't here 15 minutes | 01:36:25 | |
| before somebody's in security was over in the building seeing what was going on. | 01:36:31 | |
| Uh, Next up, planning David Eisenbrunn. | 01:36:39 | |
| Here you go, David. | 01:36:53 | |
| Good morning everybody. My name is David Brown. Now, unfortunately, I can't take a lot of credit to hiring these folks, umm, | 01:36:58 | |
| because we've got a 10 year and 2:30 years and I'm going on a little over one month. | 01:37:03 | |
| So that they're still here working and excited to receive this. Well, and uh, and that is not a retirement ceremony. So I really | 01:37:08 | |
| appreciate that. Uh, first up, is he, uh, he's one of our building inspectors and he's been here for 10 years as that building | 01:37:14 | |
| inspector grew through. | 01:37:20 | |
| Uh, there's probably not many folks or departments that touch literally every single residence in our communities. Uh, being one | 01:37:26 | |
| of the fastest growing counties in Colorado, every house we live in has a business, new patron, uh, is all things that these folks | 01:37:31 | |
| making sure it's safe, uh, that it's excessive. | 01:37:37 | |
| More and as they're doing their job through. So Keith, I just want to say thank you again for everything and you're getting to the | 01:37:42 | |
| county, uh, and hopefully you get at least another tenure that. | 01:37:46 | |
| Thank you. | 01:37:52 | |
| And then the other 230 year spins are really kind of the glues in the office of the. | 01:37:58 | |
| Xiaomi has been greatly appreciated uh. I know that I'm a huge recipient for the benefit of that uh Michelle, your dedication to | 01:38:32 | |
| just the staff in general is so you know thanks uh not only by me, but recognized by all of your peers. Thank you. | 01:38:39 | |
| But not least is when light wind low. She's also celebrating 30 years but was unable to join us. She's helped us hold down the | 01:38:52 | |
| board, uh, back over the planning department. She truly is the glue that holds all the different pieces of parts We have planning, | 01:38:58 | |
| uh, engineering building and she's kind of our admin. She's really making sure that everything is run smoothly. Uh, similar to | 01:39:05 | |
| Michelle, She makes sure that my life has been great coming on board this first month and I cannot do what I. | 01:39:11 | |
| Every day without her and her resources. So I just wanted to, uh, honor and say thank you to. | 01:39:17 | |
| So with that, that's my great. Appreciate it. | 01:39:23 | |
| Very much planning. | 01:39:29 | |
| Uh, next dot public works. | 01:39:31 | |
| Thank you, Commissioner. This is truly one of those days every year. I've, I've been through quite a few of them that we're going | 01:39:50 | |
| to recognize the employees. I thank you for doing that. Umm. | 01:39:55 | |
| If we could have the public works employees that appear that it's getting up and come up, I appreciate it. | 01:40:01 | |
| Umm yeah, this. | 01:40:08 | |
| Citizens of Wells County get to interact with UMM. | 01:40:11 | |
| Public Works, whether they like it or not, if they're out there driving around any day in Wells County, it's a great team we have | 01:40:16 | |
| at UH Public Works and. | 01:40:21 | |
| You know, we're one of the larger departments. | 01:40:26 | |
| In the county and it's always a pleasure for me to get to see the early year folks and the 20 year and the 10 year. | 01:40:30 | |
| Uh, it's just, it's an amazing group we've got here. Umm, I was gonna have some of the, uh, supervisors for the division talk a | 01:40:39 | |
| little bit about some of the employees. I'm gonna start out with jokes and his supervisor is down in more like Alan Roach, uh, | 01:40:48 | |
| this morning and he hardly talked. So, uh, Joe, he got to start at the county at the seasonal many in public works get to do. | 01:40:57 | |
| He was a seasonal for three years before he got his CDL and then. | 01:41:06 | |
| Uh, started working in the, on the paving crew and, and doing the paving out there so you guys could drive on nice smooth roads, | 01:41:11 | |
| not have any wear and tear on your equipment out there. Umm, and currently he's been in, uh, working with the, uh, spray injection | 01:41:18 | |
| patch truck, which basically goes around the entire county to travel all of the paved roads and any of the smaller potholes that | 01:41:26 | |
| don't need to have huge patches done to them. He then takes care of that. | 01:41:33 | |
| All on his own, doing that each and every day. | 01:41:41 | |
| We did have several 10 year people that aren't able to join join us. | 01:41:49 | |
| Uh, Cindy Wright, an engineer with the county cameras, Paris, another engineer with the county, They're trying to get, uh, some | 01:41:56 | |
| designs on roads put together and couldn't make it from here today. Uh, Brad Jack, he's on the, uh, road and bridge department. He | 01:42:02 | |
| was, he didn't want to come up there today. Public works. We were behind the scenes quite a bit. He was one that didn't, didn't | 01:42:08 | |
| want to come up here. | 01:42:14 | |
| Uh, Elio Volco, another one. He's in the parking division. Umm. | 01:42:22 | |
| 011 and uh. | 01:42:32 | |
| Sure. His last name, uh. | 01:42:37 | |
| Both on the. | 01:42:41 | |
| Sign groups. They're, uh, they're in classes. | 01:42:47 | |
| So then I'm gonna turn it over to a couple of others. | 01:42:50 | |
| Morning Commissioners. | 01:43:08 | |
| Thank you. | 01:43:10 | |
| Haven't you? | 01:43:13 | |
| It's, it's my pleasure to uh. | 01:43:14 | |
| And that's a 10 year pin for Kevin Henderson. | 01:43:16 | |
| Kevin came to work with Will County in May of 2014 and when Suite Division was. | 01:43:20 | |
| Change my voice it went full time instructions Mind Vision in October of 2014. He was promoted Elite Workers in 2015 and then | 01:43:25 | |
| Mobis Performance in 2018. | 01:43:31 | |
| UH 2021 he was promoted to UH Supervisor and the Maintenance Support Division. | 01:43:38 | |
| And uh, Kevin, thank you for your leadership and dedication to welcome. | 01:43:45 | |
| One thing else on my dad, uh, he came here in 2014, shipped by the 2021. Took me 22 years to become supervised. I guess I'm a slow | 01:43:50 | |
| one. Thank you Kevin. | 01:43:56 | |
| UH-20 year. | 01:44:10 | |
| Recipient maybe once a year. Umm, just incredible. Started, started here, you know, counting traffic out there. Work, work your | 01:44:11 | |
| way all the way up through the supervisor of the inspection division. Umm, she's one from a lot of folks up here. Count on each | 01:44:18 | |
| and every day to make sure that what other people are doing in our right of way is done the right way and doesn't impact what | 01:44:25 | |
| we're doing. | 01:44:32 | |
| I lean on her very heavily. Umm, she knows this county inside and out. Umm, she has. | 01:44:39 | |
| The best interest of the county in everything that she puts forth in every every day that she wants around here and I greatly. | 01:44:45 | |
| Appreciate all the work that Amy has done for 20 years. Thank you. | 01:44:54 | |
| Well, it's my privilege today to present this 30 year awards of hands on film. Ham has been in our office, uh. | 01:45:10 | |
| From pretty much the beginning of what we were doing and the Public Works division, we talked about the technology changes that | 01:45:17 | |
| everyone mentioned. | 01:45:21 | |
| Hyphen Resessimist. | 01:45:25 | |
| To share computers, shared desk, let's see how many. I think they have their own desk and their own computer. So that is good | 01:45:28 | |
| news. She is someone who is behind the scenes hard worker. The voice is going so easy on the phone. We have so many people coming | 01:45:35 | |
| public works every day and some of them are truly misramous with a lot of the conditions that can be a road or something that they | 01:45:41 | |
| thought that. | 01:45:48 | |
| Expenses like them. | 01:45:57 | |
| You handle them with with such an effortless manner that is sometimes is even common to me as your supervisor and I just truly | 01:45:58 | |
| enjoy you as a person. You are also as someone else. People come from you, try to they strike you and you enjoy you. Umm, it's | 01:46:07 | |
| it's my special to work with you. I did a little bit of digging in your end. I think it was amazing to me. | 01:46:15 | |
| Over the years and probably we have a lot of longevity. | 01:46:26 | |
| The true value of the time. | 01:46:31 | |
| And so, uh, we have 230 year people between. | 01:46:34 | |
| One of them, and that you're not. | 01:46:39 | |
| Asking. | 01:46:46 | |
| I have the pleasure of uh. | 01:46:53 | |
| According to 1030 Years of JC Dickens, JC started out as a seasonal. | 01:46:57 | |
| Like Dwayne Curtis said, 90% of public works. | 01:47:02 | |
| Operation staff starts out as seasonal and JT started out seasonal in the maintenance support division. And, uh, as a seasonal | 01:47:07 | |
| employee, he was told when he applied to the job, you're not gonna get it yet. You haven't been through 2-3 years before you get | 01:47:13 | |
| it. But somehow he beat out the competition, uh. | 01:47:19 | |
| Was hired on pretty quickly and uh. | 01:47:26 | |
| Spent 30 years in the division. So JC, uh, there's not a, a road, I can guarantee there's not a road in this county that JC hasn't | 01:47:30 | |
| been on multiple times. Uh, and maintenance support when he started, he's in charge of cattle guard over and over signage and he | 01:47:36 | |
| started out in bridge sales, uh, of that facility. Umm, but over the years the division has changed. He's been still plowing and | 01:47:43 | |
| uh. | 01:47:50 | |
| The the piece that. | 01:47:58 | |
| I attached to the most. | 01:48:00 | |
| With his wife here, Kim for 30 years. Maintenance support division. | 01:48:03 | |
| Is on call and JT has been on call, volunteered to cover other people's on call. Uh, so I, I can't even imagine the amount of | 01:48:08 | |
| emergency calls from dispatch that we've had request for us to go out and, and do some sort of service holidays, weekend night. | 01:48:17 | |
| Early morning, potentially Thursday, anything JC has stepped up and done that. But over the 30 years then he's also been an | 01:48:28 | |
| integral part of leading the organization, training people, bring them on, always, uh, willing to teach, help and, uh, get the | 01:48:34 | |
| institutional knowledge and change he represents. | 01:48:41 | |
| Thank you, Katie. | 01:48:49 | |
| I told Curtis I wanted to be last. | 01:48:56 | |
| And This is why. Uh-huh. | 01:49:00 | |
| When I came to work here in 94, I started with Sal as an hourly. | 01:49:04 | |
| Were 759 an hour. | 01:49:08 | |
| And, uh, anyways. | 01:49:11 | |
| It was a miracle that I got the job and my first day with, with the rain night hour, uh, September 20th of that year 904. But the | 01:49:14 | |
| reason I wanted the mic is because. | 01:49:20 | |
| First of all, I wanna thank my wife. | 01:49:30 | |
| We weren't married when I started there and I got married about 3 weeks before I got the job in. | 01:49:33 | |
| However, uh, my wife is good by me with the phone ringing in the middle of the night rolled out, there was multiple visitors that | 01:49:39 | |
| wouldn't be about 16/17/18 hours a day and my wife took care of all our livestock, all our took all our cabinets. | 01:49:50 | |
| Anyways, that's why I want to come forward, right? | 01:50:02 | |
| Also I wanna mention that the changes I've seen. | 01:50:06 | |
| When I started, there's a commissioner for George Baxter and Bill Webster and Barbara, and they came out in the field through our | 01:50:11 | |
| projects to our job. They saw what was going on in they were approached and that that right there is something I really | 01:50:18 | |
| appreciated. | 01:50:24 | |
| But the other thing. | 01:50:30 | |
| Is I want to thank all my supervisors and. | 01:50:33 | |
| It was still understanding of my. | 01:50:38 | |
| Different there's any unique that I tried to do well down and I appreciate that how they work. | 01:50:41 | |
| There was a patient they had. | 01:50:51 | |
| But also. | 01:50:53 | |
| Tommy and Hank step forward. | 01:50:56 | |
| TuneIn, stand up Hank thanks Pete and Tommy Rosales back there they stood by me through lizards flood control single accident | 01:50:59 | |
| closing roads in the middle of the night. And there's a reason that I can still stand here today because it's it's not safe out | 01:51:06 | |
| there and you gotta have fellow employees that stand behind you and keep you safe and stand beside you and warn you of oncoming | 01:51:14 | |
| housing and I. | 01:51:21 | |
| Got it. It's like 10 feet in time. He goes out. And I just wanna paint them publicly. | 01:51:29 | |
| The other thing I wanna mention is. | 01:51:35 | |
| I want to thank Wells County here recognizing as employees for our town group, but I wanna thank Will County. | 01:51:40 | |
| I want to thank World County because when I started the work here, I drove back from the Astrodome in Houston and decided I didn't | 01:51:48 | |
| get married and I had to do something different. | 01:51:53 | |
| I seem to work here with nothing. | 01:51:58 | |
| Today I have a comfortable life. I have a comfortable retirement to look forward to. All of that is because the well down in the | 01:52:01 | |
| commissioners and something I went to reiterate is the Republican value that this county has withhold of entire through everything | 01:52:09 | |
| that we've been through is the reason Bell County is so financially secure today. | 01:52:18 | |
| And I just went. I just want you to appreciate it. | 01:52:28 | |
| And one thing that really bothers me is don't curse Bell County to me. Don't curse my county that says when God needs Christ. God | 01:52:31 | |
| bless both counties and thank you for everything. | 01:52:38 | |
| Next up, Human Services team. | 01:52:53 | |
| All right, look, a lot of Human Services, we, if we can do really great things in Human Services and a couple of those things | 01:53:02 | |
| where we can be really efficient, we can follow directions and we can get this done. So 10/20/30. | 01:53:09 | |
| Actually take charge I do. I do know, umm, we only have 17 this year. Typically we have the most ITV this out because of their, | 01:53:22 | |
| uh, standing up, umm, 10 years ago. But this is kind of a smaller group for us this year. But it's a small but mighty group and a | 01:53:29 | |
| group that I'm really, really proud of. The other thing about Human Services that you all probably know by now is that we really | 01:53:35 | |
| love the parties. | 01:53:42 | |
| So this is not the end of the recognition for you all. Umm, I am going to briefly and efficiently go through and recognize you, | 01:53:48 | |
| but there is much more celebration to happen when we have our cheers for your, uh, celebration this week. And we will get a lot of | 01:53:56 | |
| lot more details regarding your career as we recognize you at that time. So we're gonna start with our ten years, Sala Martinez on | 01:54:03 | |
| the very end there. Sala is an eligibility technician in our South county UMM office. | 01:54:11 | |
| Been in South county the entire time. Umm, anybody knows anything about eligibility? It is. It takes a lot of dedication, a lot of | 01:54:18 | |
| uh, patients who work within the system. Umm, and thank you for sticking out for seniors. | 01:54:26 | |
| All right, Next up we have Elisa Arnell. Elisa is a customer service, uh, support specialist, umm, in our building, Steve. She's | 01:54:36 | |
| one of the front lines when they walk in the door and they reach, umm, uh, Elisa when, when they walk in. Elisa is truly dedicated | 01:54:43 | |
| to the citizens we serve is really a a friendly face for people and really starts to do her best every day. So thank you very | 01:54:50 | |
| much, Elisa, and congratulations on. | 01:54:56 | |
| Yes to the Orlando is our administrative support unit manager, uh, through overseas, our employment, uh, support division as well | 01:55:06 | |
| as our contract team. Umm, Sue is so dedicated to the work that we do at department. Really, really passionate about supporting | 01:55:13 | |
| employees, making sure that we are in compliance with all those contracts. And one thing about steel is for work ethic is top | 01:55:20 | |
| notch. We really appreciate you, Sue. Congratulations on. | 01:55:26 | |
| Tapia Damien is a crisis service case worker in our family resources division. Jamie has been around a little bit. I, I didn't | 01:55:37 | |
| know this, but you start as an eligibility technician. Yeah, umm moved over the hotline specialist. I think you did some time and | 01:55:44 | |
| intake and used services and now umm really help support our kinship families and the family resource division. I love watching | 01:55:50 | |
| Damien advocate for families. Umm, he is very, very passionate about that. | 01:55:57 | |
| And really appreciate the work you do. So congratulations on 10 years. | 01:56:03 | |
| Except Shauna Wilson Shawna is currently an adoption caseworker, so she gets to have the pleasure of facilitating those adoptions | 01:56:10 | |
| that we celebrate all year round, but especially in National Adoption Day in November. But Shauna started as a caseworker, I | 01:56:17 | |
| believe in permanency, umm, and has moved over to adoption and really just puts her heart and soul into the work, uh, that she | 01:56:24 | |
| does to help get permanency for the kiddos that, that. | 01:56:31 | |
| So congratulations, Sean. I really appreciate you. | 01:56:38 | |
| Got it. | 01:56:43 | |
| Moving into 20, yeah, Kelly is 20. Umm, one person that's not here that we wanna celebrate for 10 years is Lindsey Holmes. Lindsay | 01:56:46 | |
| is our family engagement practitioner. Umm, she started her career here in Wall County as a Youth Services worker. Uh, Lindsay is | 01:56:53 | |
| a great professional, again, advocating very, very strongly for the families that, that she's able to touch and able to serve and | 01:57:00 | |
| just wanna congratulate Lindsay on her ten years. So congratulations to you all in your 10 years. | 01:57:07 | |
| Alright, let's move into our 20 year Kelly Madden. Kelly currently is a kinship care coordinator, but just in time and permanent | 01:57:16 | |
| CMU services did some time is a bad way to say it. I shouldn't say it like that, but that I mean it really speaks for the | 01:57:23 | |
| dedication you have in child welfare services. Umm Kelly is just such a calming influence in the office. He does an amazing job | 01:57:30 | |
| with the kinship families he serves and Kelly is just so you know, well respected by his peers. | 01:57:38 | |
| He's won two awards back-to-back for, you know, umm, recognition. And I, I think he's really uncomfortable getting all this | 01:57:45 | |
| recognition, but he deserves it. He does a great job, good job. | 01:57:51 | |
| Claudia Claudia Santos is currently a case reviewer in our assistance Payments division. Started as an eligibility type of mission | 01:58:00 | |
| as well. Claudia umm I've known Claudia for a really long time. We're very, very closely with Claudia and assistance payment. It | 01:58:06 | |
| takes a true dedication to stick with it all these years. You've been through all the ups and downs with CBMS and the system | 01:58:12 | |
| changes and Claudia is. | 01:58:18 | |
| As dedicated as Tammy and I are to hitting our locks in and we see her out there, rain, snow, sunshine, whatever. | 01:58:25 | |
| Really proud of you, Claudia. Thank you. Congratulations. | 01:58:34 | |
| All right, Scott Brandy Scott started an employment services and did some work as a child support legal technician currently, uh, | 01:58:39 | |
| child support, uh, customer service specialist, umm, and that is just such a breath of fresh air in the office. That is always | 01:58:46 | |
| positive. He does an amazing job, umm, manning those customer service lines. As you can imagine, people don't always call in when | 01:58:53 | |
| they're happy with. | 01:59:00 | |
| As support enforcement and Scott does a really good job of de escalating situations and if there's ever any, uh, any opportunity | 01:59:07 | |
| that we ask for, how can we improve things? How can we do things better? Scott's always looking for those areas of improvement. So | 01:59:13 | |
| congratulations on your 20 year, Scott, really appreciate it. | 01:59:20 | |
| Uh, family resource supervisor John also started in permanency during his time, I guess I've been saying umm, and moved over to | 01:59:30 | |
| Kinchel care coordinator is now in family resource division as uh, a supervisor overseeing the prevention team and the posted | 01:59:36 | |
| option team. Umm, John really utilizes his, uh, child welfare background and the work that he's done with families to translate | 01:59:43 | |
| that into positive outcomes for. | 01:59:50 | |
| And post adoption, uh, families and really just your dedication shows through every day. John, we really, really appreciate the | 01:59:57 | |
| work you're doing. Congratulations. | 02:00:01 | |
| If you divorce, Stacy is our current resource manager. Stacy has been in a couple of different positions, uh, intake, Permanency | 02:00:09 | |
| care team supervisor and an intake supervisor has been the response manager for about 6 years. Umm, that is a big job and Stacy | 02:00:17 | |
| does it really, really well. Stacy for up until about a year ago was the only manager on duty. | 02:00:24 | |
| Umm, after hours. So any time a supervisor got stuck after hours. | 02:00:33 | |
| Stacy was the one that they called vacation time off holidays, no matter what. We decided to give her a break. We decided to | 02:00:38 | |
| spread that out and she, you know, she was like, I thank you, but I also like doing it. So Stacy's dedication is the second to | 02:00:45 | |
| none. Stacy always has, uh, also has the best recommendations for books and Netflix shows and anything, anything to do to unwind. | 02:00:53 | |
| I really appreciate the work you're doing, Stacy. Congratulations. | 02:01:00 | |
| Hi, Elisa. Oh, moving on to 30. This is 30 years long time moving on to Kelly is currently our foster care supervisor. She turns | 02:01:10 | |
| in screening, right and then emergency duty and then, umm, really learned about the IDD population and the chirp waiver, which is | 02:01:19 | |
| such an important part of the work that we do in child welfare, became our expert in the IDD ensure, uh, area and. | 02:01:29 | |
| Still is with you, uh, in many ways in those areas. Umm, Kelly is just such a fantastic supporter of the work that we do, an | 02:01:38 | |
| amazing, amazing supporter of foster families and your foster care team and 30 years. Kelly, thank you so much for all of that and | 02:01:44 | |
| congratulations. | 02:01:50 | |
| Last but certainly less, not least Charlotte de Vrock. Charlotte was one of the first people I ever met when I started here 30 | 02:01:59 | |
| years. Charlotte, I know umm, Charlotte and I were eligibility workers together, we were lead workers together and assistance | 02:02:05 | |
| payment. Umm went through all of the changes that happened over the years and then Charlotte moved over to employment services. | 02:02:11 | |
| Your current. | 02:02:17 | |
| Title is employment and training supervisor, umm, and really your, you know, dedication to helping people get employment umm, and | 02:02:24 | |
| really show through in the passion and the work that you've used so. | 02:02:29 | |
| Congratulations on 30 years Charlotte, really proud of you. | 02:02:35 | |
| So again, a lot more detail, a lot more making you uncomfortable standing in front of our staff when we celebrate for years. But | 02:02:42 | |
| commissioners, thank you so much for allowing us to be here. We really appreciate it. We've got an amazing team and we've always | 02:02:47 | |
| loved to recognize them. Thank you. | 02:02:52 | |
| That concludes our employee recognition services. Uh, again, we just wanna say thank you so much for everybody at Teamwell for all | 02:03:05 | |
| of, uh, your hard work, your efforts and, uh, your fortitude speaking with the county to make the people of Elk County, uh, very | 02:03:12 | |
| proud. So thank you very much. I'll give a second here why it clears out before we move on. | 02:03:18 | |
| Thank you. Bye. Yeah, we'll do a 3 minute recess here for uh, purposes. | 02:03:29 | |
| Of the unknown. | 02:03:35 | |
| Can, uh, reconvene here? Uh, Next up is warrants by #1 General warrants for December 11th and 13th of 2024. | 02:07:22 | |
| Second motion by Commissioner Buck to approve general awards for the September 11th and 13th. 2nd by Commissioner James. Any | 02:07:31 | |
| discussion? | 02:07:34 | |
| Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying aye aye. All opposed. Same sign. General warrants for December 11th and 13th | 02:07:39 | |
| passed 5 to 0 and #2 Commissioner Warrens for Kevin D Ross, December 13th, 2024. Move approved. Second motion by Commissioner | 02:07:45 | |
| James to approve Kevin Ross. Is Warren second by Commissioner Buck. Any discussion? | 02:07:52 | |
| Roll call vote please. Mike Freeman, yes. | 02:07:59 | |
| 8 bucks? Yep, 79. I'll let the record reflect those warrants pass 4 to 0. Commissioner Ross's statement. | 02:08:05 | |
| That concludes warrants and brings us to new business item number one considered contract ID 8932 contract for the 2025 Victim | 02:08:12 | |
| Assistance and law environment bail grant for law enforcement victim services and authorized tier design. Good morning, Tom, good | 02:08:20 | |
| morning Board of Commissioners. For the reference on your program finance management, I'm presenting to you contract 8932, the | 02:08:27 | |
| award for the 2025 victim assistance law enforcement plan in the amount of. | 02:08:35 | |
| $2485 and I'm requesting approval to accept the funding and have the chair sign the award letter. The grand period covers the 1st | 02:08:42 | |
| of January through the 31st of December 2025 and the amount will be used to fund a portion of one FTE in the Victims Assistance | 02:08:52 | |
| Unit in the Sheriff's Office. This covers approximately 41% of the positions salary costs overall the victims Assistant. | 02:09:02 | |
| Is staffed with two Ftes, victim advocates, and it's funded through the Veil and Vulgar Brands and general funds. | 02:09:12 | |
| The agreement has been reviewed by the County Attorney and the path around the approved and signed on the 9th of December by all 5 | 02:09:21 | |
| commissioners. | 02:09:25 | |
| Motion by twins I think for approval of contract ID 8932 things I commissioned for buck in this discussion hearing none all in | 02:09:32 | |
| favor signify by saying aye aye all opposed same time. Uh contract ID and Anchorage 2 passes by two. Thank you so much. Item | 02:09:38 | |
| number two consider contract ID 8935 three master service agreement for various public safety systems and authorized period of | 02:09:43 | |
| time. | 02:09:49 | |
| Motorola Solutions. Good morning. Good morning. | 02:09:55 | |
| Uh, Cornera Blue Sales, Public safety Wireless. I'm seeking to approve that agreement for various publications. | 02:09:59 | |
| This item was approved via pass around to be added to the agenda November seventh final by commissioners. Materials agreements | 02:10:06 | |
| provide my department just that we see. | 02:10:10 | |
| With software in terms of coordinates, high reliability, security with individuals. | 02:10:15 | |
| Also, uh, the best price? | 02:10:21 | |
| Excuse me. Combined pricing for the contract for the next 5 years will be $55,255.59. | 02:10:25 | |
| OK, $59,542 and 4600. | 02:10:34 | |
| $73,435 in 1770 Seven $78,312.00 In Ransom 3028 Eighty $3487.70. | 02:10:39 | |
| Good question of the approved contract. ID, 8935. | 02:10:53 | |
| Ocean, Mike. Venture, James approved contract. ID 8935, second by Commissioner Freeman. Any further discussion? | 02:10:58 | |
| Very now all in favor signify by saying aye aye I will close the same sign. Contract ID 8935 passes 5 #3 consider contract ID 8936 | 02:11:05 | |
| Memorandum of Understanding for Front Range Communications and source GMFRCC radio interoperability channel steering for well | 02:11:11 | |
| County Regional Communications Center, WR, WCRCC and Authorized Chair and Department of Public Safety Communications and Science, | 02:11:17 | |
| City of Brighton Police Department. | 02:11:23 | |
| Thank you umm Cuero Vista Public Safety Wireless. I'm seeking approval of the memorandum bonus cabinets between Brighton schools, | 02:11:30 | |
| Department of Oak County. | 02:11:34 | |
| This channel sharing MOU was approved by the board and the work session in AO 2023. The MOU will uh, brighten school's department | 02:11:38 | |
| Direct access will be on the launch working department. There is no cost in county. I'm right tools department will be able to | 02:11:43 | |
| assist the county and local law firm directly while responding to this system for the well counting increasing opportunities. | 02:11:48 | |
| Great questions. | 02:11:56 | |
| Welcome by Commissioner Freeman's approved contract. ID, 8936. | 02:11:58 | |
| Hang on all those in favor signify by say aye aye. All opposed same sign contract ID 936 passes 5 to 0. | 02:12:03 | |
| And before we consider contract. ID 8937 Memorandum of Understanding for Front Range Communications Consortium, FRCC Radio | 02:12:13 | |
| interoperability, channel sharing for Well County Regional Communications Center, WCRCC, and Authorized Chair and Department of | 02:12:19 | |
| Public Safety Communications Design Greater Brighton Fire Protection District. | 02:12:24 | |
| Thank you uh Quiro Bustos public safety Wireless. IM seeking approval of the memorandum of understanding between the Greater | 02:12:30 | |
| Brighton Fire Protection district and Will County. The channel sharing mou was approved by the board in the work session in May of | 02:12:36 | |
| 2023. The MOU will allow the Greater Brighton fire police district the protection district. Excuse me. | 02:12:41 | |
| Direct access to webcam fireground talkers. There is no cost of accounting and Brighton Fire will be able to work directly within | 02:12:47 | |
| Wells County UH with well responding to injuries and accidents. | 02:12:52 | |
| All right. Thank you. Any questions? | 02:12:57 | |
| Pushing by Commissioner Bucks approved contract. ID 8937. Second by Commissioner James and discussion. | 02:13:00 | |
| Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Contract ID 8937. Fastest 5 and 0. | 02:13:06 | |
| And #5 Consider contract ID 8938 and Morano's understanding for Front Range Communications Consortium FRCC radio interoperability | 02:13:15 | |
| channel sharing for Wells County Regional Communications Center. WCRCC authorized chair and Department of Public Safety | 02:13:20 | |
| Communications Design N Color Revenue Growth Task force. | 02:13:25 | |
| Thank you, Sir. I was seeking approval our mid quarter of this associated wireless seeking approval of the memorandum of | 02:13:32 | |
| understanding between the Northern Colorado Drug Passport at Lowell County. This channel sharing MOU was approved by the board in | 02:13:38 | |
| the work session and May of 2023 the LEU will allow the task force direct access to Wells County law enforcement workers. | 02:13:44 | |
| There is no cost of accounting and the task force will be able to assist counting and will for law enforcement directly | 02:13:50 | |
| correspondence investigations and apprehensions of the Bluff County also increasing officer speaking. | 02:13:54 | |
| Any questions? | 02:14:00 | |
| Not your register payments Approved contract. ID 8938. Second by Commissioner 5. Any discussion? | 02:14:02 | |
| I'm doing no thank you so. | 02:14:08 | |
| Here is kind of all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Thanks aye. Contract ID 8938 passes 5 to 0. Thank you, | 02:14:10 | |
| Sir. I'm number six. Consider directing first of the board to have published emergency ordinance #260C supplemental appropriation | 02:14:17 | |
| for 2024. Good morning, commissioners. Jennifer Osterley, budget manager. Uh, as you are aware, uh. | 02:14:25 | |
| Ordinance 260 was done as an emergency ordinance and part of that requirement when we do any kind of supplemental for the budget | 02:14:33 | |
| is to ask the board for permission for the, the clerk to the board to post the notice of the the supplemental that's gonna be | 02:14:39 | |
| presented. So that's all we're asking for today is to post that notice and then we'll bring the supplemental to you on December | 02:14:45 | |
| 30th. | 02:14:51 | |
| Questions. Virginia Second motion Mike Michener, Buck to approve the UH emergency ordinance Publishing second by Commissioner | 02:14:58 | |
| James. Any discussion? | 02:15:03 | |
| Hearing none all those in favor signify by saying aye, aye, all opposed. Thanks aye and that resolution Patrick's side is here. I | 02:15:09 | |
| thank you Jim. Uh that concludes new business. That brings us to planning first meeting of code earnest 2024 dash 18 in the matter | 02:15:17 | |
| of repealing and re enacting with amendments Chapter 23 zoning of the well county code state licensed natural medicine facilities. | 02:15:24 | |
| Next. | 02:15:34 | |
| OK. | 02:15:44 | |
| Former commissioners next to native prime plant services, uh, in front of you today is ordinance. | 02:15:46 | |
| In the 20/24/18, the purpose of assurance is at natural medicine facilities. In Chapter 23 of the Well County Code in 2022 called | 02:15:51 | |
| our voters approved Proposition 122 to decriminalize and regulate certain psychedelic plants and fungi for people 21 and older. | 02:16:00 | |
| This does not include synthetic drugs. Additionally, this will not include the establishment of retail stores, the color | 02:16:09 | |
| Department of Revenue, natural medicine division, or licensed natural medicine facilities beginning early 2025. | 02:16:16 | |
| These facilities must meet local government zoning by the local government cannot prohibit a facilitator from providing natural | 02:16:23 | |
| medicine services within its boundaries if the individual is a licensed facilitator and cannot adopt ordinances, regulations that | 02:16:29 | |
| are unreasonable or in conflict with state regulations. | 02:16:34 | |
| The natural medical facilities include the following four establishment healing centers were regulated. Natural medicine may be | 02:16:43 | |
| consumed by participants who are at least 21 years old and under the supervision of the licensed facilitator. Cultivation, which | 02:16:49 | |
| is cultivation, growing facilities. Uh, three manufacturing, process and extraction facilities and for testing facilities. | 02:16:54 | |
| Additionally, these facilities must be at least 1000 feet from schools and daycare facilities, including licensed and home | 02:17:00 | |
| daycare. | 02:17:05 | |
| Again, so the purpose of Ordinance 20/24/18 is to create a definition for license, for instance pursuant to the Cara Natural | 02:17:14 | |
| Medicine Code. | 02:17:18 | |
| Read it all, but it's up there on the screen. Second, allows such facilities of properties and industrial planning development | 02:17:23 | |
| with industrial uses only. | 02:17:27 | |
| Three years of states for admission on such facilities within 1000 feet of schools and daycare facilities, and four complies with | 02:17:32 | |
| state law. | 02:17:36 | |
| The planning commission's, uh, the planning commission's forward recommendation approval to the board of County Commissioners on | 02:17:43 | |
| December 3rd, 2024. Planning staff also recommends approval of first reading. Thank you and I'm happy to answer any questions or | 02:17:48 | |
| do any questions from there. | 02:17:52 | |
| OK, hearing none. This is a public hearing. I'll go ahead and open it up to the public. If anybody wishes to make comments towards | 02:17:59 | |
| Code Ordinance 2024 Action 18 as your opportunity to come to podium, state your name and address for the record. Keep your | 02:18:03 | |
| comment. | 02:18:08 | |
| We'll see how we're coming forward. I'll bring it back to the board for further discussion and concerns. | 02:18:15 | |
| This continued. | 02:18:20 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. Just for the record, I think it is abhorrent when the state legislature tries to exert their authority by | 02:18:22 | |
| forcing local governments on what they must put in their planning code, especially when it stands in the complete phase, the | 02:18:27 | |
| opposite of of that wish Arsenal's belief. | 02:18:32 | |
| But we're hands. Our hands are tied. But say Legislature. | 02:18:38 | |
| And, uh, we regrettably must, uh, follow this law. So therefore, Mr. Chair, and we will approve on first reading Code Ordinance | 02:18:41 | |
| 2024, Dash 18. | 02:18:45 | |
| 32nd. | 02:18:50 | |
| I'll second it for purpose of discussion. And uh, Commissioner James, I was fully, uh, agree with your statements. It's, uh, | 02:18:53 | |
| falling to, uh, have to bring this forward. I think applies in the Facebook well, county, well, county values, but uh, | 02:18:58 | |
| nonetheless, we have to follow up state law. That's one of those moments when we put it in and I think incorporated it in to the | 02:19:04 | |
| wealth county way in the best possible manner. So. | 02:19:10 | |
| Uh, any discussion from the board, Mr. Freeman? | 02:19:17 | |
| Outlook to what keeps today does in fact, umm, I had that conversation with plan that there's two possible way to get around this | 02:19:20 | |
| and I would So no, you cannot. | 02:19:24 | |
| All we can do is limit it to where. | 02:19:30 | |
| I couldn't get only industrial sites. That means there's not a whole bunch of a lot of industry. | 02:19:33 | |
| Questions next remind me what our policy is on. | 02:19:48 | |
| Would you not allow marijuana facilities on in the county? But this legislation from my understanding I'm a maybe deferred first | 02:19:53 | |
| on this is written differently and the fact that we cannot handle it like we did marijuana facilities we have to they were they | 02:19:59 | |
| wrote it as such that we are required to. I'm not gonna argue with you. So if you remember when marijuana passed, you could opt | 02:20:05 | |
| out of everything. | 02:20:11 | |
| Have one ounce of marijuana, we were able to opt out of the growth facilities and manufacturing all that this one does not allow | 02:20:18 | |
| assurance. | 02:20:22 | |
| Any other discussion about growth? | 02:20:27 | |
| All right, with that being said, I'll go ahead and call the call. Let's do a roll call open. | 02:20:30 | |
| My payment? Grudgingly, yes. | 02:20:35 | |
| No, no Kevin Ross, yes, I don't let the record reflect uh, code ordinance 2024 Dash 18 passes three to two with commissioners same | 02:20:41 | |
| and boxing. No votes on that. That concludes planning umm, and brings us to public comment. Now is the opportunity which is to | 02:20:48 | |
| address the board for public comment. Just come forward to the podium station being the address for the record. Those comments 3 | 02:20:55 | |
| minutes. We can't be here today. You can always e-mail the public comment weld.eversctp@weld.gov. | 02:21:03 | |
| And if you need to, you can do old fashioned snail mail at Wells County Clerk to the Board, PO Box 75811, Fifty 033, Colorado | 02:21:11 | |
| 80632. Good morning, Sir. Good morning commissioners. First of all, hope you had a happy Thanksgiving and I hope you have a nice | 02:21:19 | |
| Christmas and Happy New Year to come up. Umm, couple of items came up from the federal government address for the record, 2411 | 02:21:26 | |
| 27th Ave. Place. Thanks, Evan. I always wanted to thank court because I was at 1314 23rd Ave. Court. | 02:21:33 | |
| Years anyway, uh, interesting, uh, thing from the feds came out, uh, since I last talked to you and the national debt was a mere | 02:21:41 | |
| $32 trillion. It's now up to 36 trillion. Isn't that, you know, and you were mentioning about this last thing we had on the | 02:21:47 | |
| Planning Commission, how the state bongs you on the head with the two before. | 02:21:54 | |
| Umm, hey, that's doing some states. The states do it to the counties and counties do it to the cities. Umm, it's kind of getting | 02:22:01 | |
| to be a very ground and a Ferris wheel out there. Uh, I had a couple of questions for you. We had all of these things. You were | 02:22:07 | |
| saying it for me. It is a book written by Stephen King and I finally got, you know, information technology. I was curious, how | 02:22:13 | |
| many departments does the county have and how many employees does the county have? Thank you. | 02:22:19 | |
| Thank you, Mr. Grant. Uh, we are just over 1900 employees in department lines. Is it? | 02:22:26 | |
| Our five major and then, you know, division, yeah, I can't give you a number. It's uh. | 02:22:34 | |
| Just right in 20. So sorry, I'll give you an exact number here in just a moment. I gotta look at my list. | 02:22:42 | |
| Uh, any other public comments today? | 02:22:48 | |
| Seeing no public comment, it's, uh, 1102. Appreciate everyone, uh, watching today for the celebration of our employees and we are | 02:22:50 | |
| in June. | 02:22:54 |