It's May 19th at 1.30, one of the most important meetings for the county, at least, because we get to hear from all our elected officials, constitutional officers, and certainly appreciate all of them very, very, very much. We've got Mary Alford, who is on Zoom, and I know that we've got Anna, I believe, attending soon. We don't have a quorum. We don't need a quorum to listen, and we're here to listen. So we're going to go ahead and start the meeting. We'll follow the agenda once I get a quorum in person, then we'll go ahead and adopt it, if that's okay. That way we don't keep you all waiting while we move on. And so, all right, Mr. Clerk, the first item is, I guess, the fiscal year 27, budget development, judicial and constitutional officers. We have a list here. So court administration, guardian at light, and public defender, state attorney. Then we'll do regional conflict counsel, clerk of the court, property appraiser, supervisor, sheriff, and tax collector. Do we want to switch that order for any of my colleagues? Let the record not reflect that John Power said he wanted to go first. Yeah, sheriff, are you okay with that? Okay, all right. And with that, then, we'll go ahead and call it court administration. And I think, so there's a couple of ways we can do this. Normally, we ask you to come up and just sit with us, or we have a podium, whatever you prefer. Whatever you prefer. Why don't you come sit with us? Yeah, we'd love to. Where would you like me? Yeah, right there. That's great. Good afternoon, commissioners. Michael Reeves, court administrator here on behalf of Chief Judge Davis. I will be very brief. I know y'all have a very heavy agenda in front of you today. I want to begin by thanking you. And so first up this year, I'll be pretty easy. We are essentially a continuation budget, except for two personnel-related items I wanted to flag for you. So the first one, we currently have two part-time probate case managers in our self-help center and law library. I've been very fortunate. I have two amazing people in those roles right now. Unfortunately, I'm going to be losing them both at the end of the summer. So we are requesting that those two part-time positions be converted into one full-time position. So we're really just asking for the cost of those benefits. The second one, we have another position. It's 50% of it is funded through the general fund. The other 50% of it is funded through our Innovative Court Program Fund. We are requesting that it be funded entirely through the general fund moving forward. The only other thing on our list is if you do approve across-the-board raises for county employees, we would ask that our county-funded court employees also receive those raises. And then I also just want to take a moment to thank your staff. Y'all have a wonderful team, especially in your budget office. I know that our folks work really well with you. I know they are appreciative of the relationship and the partnership that we have. So thank y'all for all that you do. And with that, I'd be happy to take any questions if you haven't. All right. Thank you, Mr. Grease. Got any questions? All right. No questions for me either. We appreciate your time. Thanks for being here. Thank y'all so much. Yes, sir. All right. Next up, we've got guardian ad litem. And there will be, I presume, across-the-board raises. I don't really have been here 12 years, and that's not going to be something we stopped on. I welcome. Well, thank you so much. Hi, Mo. Hi, Tom. How are you? Nothing has changed in our budget this year, except I think a 10% increase on the RICO printer contract that's coming up. We thank you so much for providing two county-funded employees for us. One is the child advocate manager. The other one is the administrative specialist, too. So I'm happy with what y'all provide us. I know it's a small budget, but we appreciate all that you do for me. Okay. Any questions? Any questions? All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. Appreciate you. All right. Next up, we have public defender and state attorney. You want to do it together, or you want to do it separate? I'll see how I did that and you told the answer, correct? I just got to get all the money in that area right now. Ms. Scott, thank you for being here. Good afternoon, commissioners. Everyone, again, thank you always for supporting us and our mission. It's crucial to our system of justice that we have the support of Alachua County, and you guys have been so great to us. Every day when we walk in, our building that's now paid off, and that's now over 10 years old, hard to believe. I just think about the generosity and the commitment to our agency that you all made all those years ago, and so thank you. We're not asking for any new funding. We have a continuation budget. However, as with everything, there's some increase due to just increasing costs, but no new projects, no new programs that we're asking for. We do have one county-funded FTE, and we would ask, of course, that, as you always do, that that position be included in any across-the-board increase. That's it. So I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Ms. Scott. Any questions for the commissioners? Okay. Thank you. All right, hold on one second, Brian, so I'll take a motion to adopt the agenda. So moved. Is the agenda approval? Second. I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda. Any discussion? Anyone from the public? This is your time to change its order, Mr. Power. Okay, no comments. Back to the board. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. And if both, we have an adopted agenda now. All right, thank you. All right, Mr. Kramer, welcome. Thank you. Thank you guys for having us. I want to start by saying thank you to you guys and to your facilities staff, because they have been really, really wonderful with us in the last couple of months. We have been undergoing, we have been, we have been, we have a couple of different projects in various stages at the state attorney's office that I wanted to give you a bit of an update on and tell you that they've really been doing a wonderful job working with everybody who works in the building. The building has to obviously stay open and functioning while that's happening. The project that is almost near completion is the hardening of our lobby with bulletproof walls and bulletproof glass for our receptionists and reception area and also bullet resistant doors for the doors that lead to other areas of the building. That is almost completed. And we're just waiting on sort of some touch up items and some electronics work to finish that. We are also in the process of revising, we're waiting for you guys to finish an RFP for, it's like a countywide RFP for security cameras that they're working on, because we're going to be upgrading the security cameras that are in and around the building and the parking lot, which we hope, and then also along with that, we're working on another project to have some kind of gate and entry access in and out of the parking lot to have that be more controllable by the county or by my staff or to work in cooperation, because that has turned out to be, and I think the other, your attorneys could speak more to it, but it's a high liability area for the county. We've had incidents in the parking lot where there's been potential liability for the county, so we're working with the county now to try and come up with some measures to control who is there when we're closed. And so that is in progress now, and we hope to have all of those things hopefully completed the next, certainly before we see you again, and you all know these things take time, but your staff has been wonderful in helping us, and as far as our budget is concerned, which I'm sure you're much more interested in, is we're not asking for anything other than a continuation budget, so with that, I see a hand. I just had a question about the parking lot access. I know that the CRA, with the work that they're doing on the streetery, successfully used your parking lot for an event a while ago, so with that, they would just coordinate through our facilities department for that sort of thing in the future, if they wanted to continue to do those sorts of activities? Well, it's your parking lot, and I should have been more clear. There really are two parking lots for the state attorney's office. The one I think you're referring to is the one that's on the south side of the university. That one has not been as much of an issue. That's really where most of our employees park during the day. It's not really been much of an issue at night, as the one that surrounds our building has been. And we're not seeking, really, to add anything to that parking lot, the one you're referring to, as far as cameras or access control. That one's not really been a problem. It's ours. Yeah, and of course, one of the problems, and Ms. Scott is giving me the evil eye right now, because one of the problems we have is that that parking lot from the time we close until probably 9 o'clock or 10 o'clock at night is a very nice place for people to park or coming down to, especially to go to the top or go to the dinner or something like that. And we would love for people to be able to do that. I get the frequent texts from Ms. Scott saying, your parking lot is closed again and I can't go to the top. We all love the top. We have to figure out how to make that work. And I'm hoping that having an electronically controlled access to the parking lot would give you all and us the ability to work together to decide when that parking lot needs to be open and closed. So that's really what we're working on. Any other questions? If you all don't mind, I'm going to take off. Thank you so much. Yeah. We appreciate you very, very much. All right. Next up, we have the Regional Conflict Council. Very good. Yes. So, Mary, if you want to ask a question, if you'll just bust in as soon as the constitutional officer is done, then you can go first on everybody if that's okay. Can you hear us, Mary? She's on mute. We can't hear her. We can't hear her. Oh. I can see the little thing around. Yeah. She's talking. I think you're on mute, Mary. We can't hear you. You want me to press? We had to turn the volume down because we were hearing this. I can hear you, Commissioner. Did we just? Okay. I'm glad somebody can. There we go. Okay. We got you now, Mary. Go ahead. I just wanted to say thank you. It's all good. I don't have any questions so far. Okay. Mary, go ahead and push, raise your hand. Let me see if I can see that up on the screen. Let's see. Where are you seeing? Yeah. Okay. All right. So if you want to speak or if you have a comment other than thank you, just raise your hand and then I'll recognize you. How about that? That works for me. All right. All right. Regional Conflict Council? I don't think they're here. Nothing. Okay. All right. Next up, we have our Clerk of the Court. And I see Irving in the back. Come on up. The guy that watches all our money. He keeps spending it. The way we want to spend it. He says, no. Can't do that. Can't do that. Which is great. Good to see everybody. Yes, Jess Irving, Alaska County's Clerk of the Court and Comptroller. So basically just a continuation budget as we like to try to do. Just trying to match what the county is doing for their employees with the 5% COLA merit increase as well as the increase for the health insurance and then to follow whatever the updated FRS contribution rates will be. The one thing you'll notice a little bit different, are looking to get $7,000. That goes towards, we implemented some new BAB software. And so that's looking to cover the cost. And it created a much better portal for the citizens to use when they want to submit a petition to challenge our property appraisers' findings. All right. All right. And then same with the Chapter 29, which are county funded positions within the Clerk's Office that mostly are courier positions based continuation there with just the increases on the personnel and operating side matching what the county is doing. And then as I have had to do all these years is just make a request as the county recorder those fines, or not fines, but the fees that are set in that department, any that we collect over what it actually costs us to operate that to retain those to utilize to pay for health insurance for our court employees, which are not funded by the county. So that's all we got. Any questions for our clerk? Go ahead. I know that there's been a lot of conversations at the PSCC of late about sort of our data analytics and kind of how we're coordinating with the Sheriff's Office and the jail population reports and the reports that your team has been doing. And I was just wondering, I don't know that we're there yet, but I do feel like there's something coming down the pipe about how we coordinate better to have sort of a database and somebody who's coordinating that effort. Does that come on your radar screen at all from those meetings? No, I did hear a little something. And usually when it comes to analyzing the court, you know, basically the clerk serves as your record keeper. How people want to utilize that. Typically court administration does a lot of analysis. Okay. I think maybe court services or somebody like that could also maybe dig into it. But the clerk, we don't really, we just, we maintain and make it available. How people want to get into it though is up to them. Okay. Great. Thank you. Okay. And I just want to make a comment that, you know, we are self-insured. All the constitutionals participate in that. Our clerk serves as the chair for our self-insurance and has done an amazing job. And a thankless, that's a thankless chairmanship job, but you've done it the last couple years that I've been on. It's really, really great. So thank you. Jess, did you have something else to add? Oh yeah. I just wanted to add one other thing. I know we've been on a literacy, you know, push for some time as you all know, like across the county in partnership with the children's trust. And I think one of the things that we've come across, and this is something I planned to bring up at the meeting, but I thought I'd bring it up with all the constitutionals here so they could hear it as well. I mean, feedback from a lot of our organizations is that many of our government forms and data is really difficult for people who have very basic education to read. We use fancy language. We use a lot of acronyms. We use a lot of big words. And so if there is an, it could be an effort across our constitutionals and the government to take a look at the forms that are public facing and think about the ways in which we might be able to bring those down to at least an eighth grade reading level, if not a fifth grade reading level. And there's a lot of like tools on Word and some basic processing softwares that'll help you with that. But if we could all like make an effort on that front, I know that's been a request from a number of social services organizations in particular that work with people having trouble with some of our forms and being able to kind of follow along and read them and read the directions and things like that. Yeah. I mean, open-time literacy is not just a child issue. It's the whole family issue. Yeah. So however we can help. Well. That wasn't for you in particular. I just thought of it because you have a lot of forms. We do. Yeah. We're going to run into a problem there is the majority, nearly all of ours are for Supreme Court approved forms. Got it. And so those are coming down to us. Yeah. You're not reading them. And it goes through a whole process. And so that's where you're going to run into a bit of a problem. Thankfully, you know, with court administration we do, you know, they run the self-help center up on the fourth floor. So if a person is having a hard time grasping kind of what it is asking for, hopefully they can provide a little assistance with, you know, comprehension of what can be a very challenging legalese form. Great. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate you very much. Our budget is just a continuation. First of all, I just want to thank you all for the relationship that we have. It's easy and it's very supportive. And I just want to start off by thanking you and your team who was very resourceful for our office. So I want to start with that. Again, our budget is a continuation. I would make an effort for Commissioner Prezia to make sure that our forms are understandable, you know, for the majority of the people who are filling out those forms. I also have a one request. Again, I just, it is a continuation, but we do have a monument sign outside of our office. And I think the supervisor of elections office can speak to that, that the sun has beat it up to the point where it's not even legible on one side of it. And if we could look into either replacing it or either, I don't know, fixing it, yes, in some way, shape or form. But yeah. Travis is here. Yep. Got Travis here. So he heard me loud and clear. That's all I have. Okay. Y'all have any questions for us? Questions, Commissioner. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. Okay. Appreciate it. Okay. Next up we have our supervisor, who I have had the pleasure of interacting with a lot this straight out. And I appreciate all of the help. Thank you. Welcome, Ms. Barton. Thank you all. I have with me my chief deputy, Carl DeLester Neer. Say it again. DeLester Neer. Carl. And Robin Kernan, who helps me with all my fiscal. Before I start, I just want to thank the commission for all the support that you always give my office. I mean, I think all the constitutionals can pretty much say that. And I know I can. I really appreciate the support. And just the ease of being able to talk to you all when I have concerns. I also want to thank OMB, the staff of OMB as well. And I definitely cannot leave here today without thanking Todd Hutchinson and his staff, who's always there to help me, no matter what my questions are. And so I really, really do appreciate it. So I'll be able to say something for the very first time. The very first time. I have no request. And the crowd goes wild. I have no request. And the crowd. I just, oh, I feel good saying that. But anyway. We feel good hearing it. But I'm not done yet. But this budget is, has been prepared based on one election. That's the general election. And we, which will support the 63 precincts that we have, which also the eight early voting sites for the general election. And we'll do the full cycle of early voting for 14 days. So for the general election. So I just want to get that out there as well. Also, of course, just like others have requested the Kohler and the merit raises. And also the state minimum wage increase. Now, as I said, we have no increase in funding this year. We have no new requests. We are maintaining our current level of service and operations. Now, every year I do mention to you all, I don't include recount in this. We did have a recount in 2024, but we were able to absorb that with that budget that we have. So if we see that we need to come back to you, we will. But other than that, I think everything's pretty straightforward. And we just really appreciate the opportunity to serve the voters and the citizens of Alachua County. We appreciate the work that you do. Thank you. Any questions? And I do want to mention something. Yep. Before I forget, Commissioner Prizio, you mentioned the level, the forms. That's one of the things that we always, when I meet with my team, you know, they'll see a paper, I've redlined everything. Find another word. Find another word. That needs to be simpler. Because, you know, we serve people of all spectrums, different level of education. So we have to make sure that whatever we put out there, it's plain and simple, that it's at a certain level that anyone can understand. So I thank you for saying that because they can tell you that's one of my big, big things there. You know, know your audience and who you're serving. And so I just wanted to say that. But that sign that the property appraiser mentioned, it needs, something needs to be done with it. Sometimes you can just pass it and miss it, you know, and it does need some work. Maybe a new sign or something needs to be done. But thank you all so much for us, allowing us to come and speak to you all today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. All right. Next up, let's do Mr. Power. And then we'll end on a high note of the sheriff. Yeah, he's standing over there. Mr. Sheriff, I think he may be here a little while longer. He's banging his foot over there and I've worked with him long enough to know we want to get him out of the room. So tell us about the money you're going to collect. Plus, I have to hurry up and get out of here. I still have things to work through the transfer portal. Just kidding. Just kidding. That was wrong. That was wrong. I apologize. I apologize for that one. Good afternoon. John Power, Tax Collector, and I have my Chief Deputy John Costable with me, the numbers man. So I want to thank the board for supporting our employees countywide. I think you've always done a good job and we ride along with you in supporting our staff. We have a low turnover rate and one of them is because we have great benefits and a competitive salary structure. So we support the up to 5% that you've allocated. We're using the same insurance rates, FRS rates. We have a continuation budget. No new asks this year. We do have a couple of software enhancements. One is security related and then the other is ADA federal compliance related. And John was just telling me that we're hopeful that our new software has some AI components where the user may be able to say simplify that for me and it may simplify it. So we're looking forward to those tools. Nothing new in our budget. Excuse me. We, as all of you know, we're a fee office. But through our operational efficiencies, we hope to generate more than we use. And next year we're looking at returning another million dollars back to the taxing authorities. So we're proud of that. Very proud of our staff. And next week we'll be traveling to Orlando to pick up our second Governor Sterling award. Unbelievable. Really great. So hats off to the staff. We were dedicated to serving the public in an efficient way and they get that. And I think it shows and I love joining my fellow constitutional officers and this county. I think we do a very good job for our citizens and look forward to continuing that. I'm open for any questions you might have. Questions? Go ahead. I just have one. I know we had had, thank you so much especially for the, I don't remember what it's called, the driver's license initiative that you all collaborated with us on this year. It's been a big success already. We're already seeing it really make an impact. So thank you for dedicating your team to that. I know that there was some conversation about the possibility of some equipment being available either at the jail or adjacent and there was some needs for that. And I just want to check in if that's something since it's budget time that we would need to include in the budget. So the under sheriff and I and the sheriff just had a short brief conversation. We've assigned a team on our side of the fence on the tax collector's office. We're looking into the possibility of a mobile unit where we can go to the citizens who can't come to us. Maybe they're incarcerated. Maybe they're in a nursing home or other medical conditions that they can't come in and physically get their ID. So we're hoping that we can secure a mobile piece of equipment where we can go to them and be able to provide those services. That's fantastic. That would be unbelievable. Well, as you keep that going, let us know. We can certainly connect you with our mobile outreach clinic, which goes to a lot of our rural areas and maybe co-pairing with them would be a great way to reach some of those folks that are transportation limited and already are out for a doctor's appointment and could do some of those services as well as well as the jail. So thank you very much for continuing to think about accessibility. Thank you. John, thank you. You know, it's hard to follow Yvonne Frazier, but you have continued to raise the bar and just the collaboration of all the constitutionals, not just the tax collector and property appraisers, really the way that all of our constitutionals collaborate with the county. I know we kind of take that for granted, but when you travel around the state, it's not like that everywhere. It is not like that everywhere and really appreciate the work you do and how you set the bar for serving our citizens. And I agree with you along with the other constitutionals. And back to Mr. Frazier, John and I worked with him for 15 years and he was really big on being a friendly constitutional officer with other officers and with the public. You know, so we went to that school and after 15 years, it was somewhat ingrained in us. So it's a big compliment that John and I take. We want to get a little better each year, but the way our constitutionals get along and the way that the county cooperates, you're right. It's rare, but it's a blessing. It really benefits all of us and it definitely benefits our citizens. I know you're in your 14th year. Yes. Yeah. And it just, I just want to make a comment. It doesn't go unnoticed. Thank you very much. Thank you, John. Okay. Okay. Sheriff, you are up. Thanks. Sheriff. Do I need to be a clerk in the back there? Oh, you're good. Sheriff, welcome. Welcome. First, I just want to say it's an honor to be here today. Just want to kind of piggyback off what was just said. It's awesome for us to collaborate and work together the way we do. I think fighting doesn't get the job done. You know, we have to not agree to disagree, but we always come together for the right thing. And I think that's very important. And I appreciate that. I want to introduce to Leo. John. He was trying to decide if he was going to say undersheriff or Josh. He forgot me. I was reading your name, but I didn't know what he was going to do. Undersheriff or Josh. I wanted to say Josh or undersheriff because I've coached him in football and everything, so I know him by all his names. Thank you guys. Okay, first, I want to say, first, stand on track with the salary increase plan we discussed on February 25th, 2025. The budget includes a 4.35 increase for non-ranking deputy sheriffs, resulting in the beginning pay going from $57,500 to $60,000, and $62,000 in fiscal year 27-28. This is an effort to stay competitive with surrounding agencies. GPD is already at $60,000, just for an example. We have also included a request to add two new FTEs, which the first one would be in IT. As technological capabilities continue to advance with the increase in FDLE, Criminal Justice Information System requirements, the Information Technology Bureau needs, in addition, additional FTE, which we have not had an increase in this area in a decade. So, with all the requests, things are growing, so we need to increase there. The second would be the Building Access Siege Specialist, which is in records. With increasing Federal Bureau of Investigation and Sieges security requirements, we need a dedicated position as primary liaison for these mandated standards that work with volunteers and contract vendors. Florida Retirement System. FRS, Reployed Contribution Rates, as mandated by the State of Florida, are included in the budget. However, due to delayed legislative session, we use rates provided to us by the Office of Management and Budget. Once the final FRS rates are available, we will work with OMB to update the cost. However, it is important to note that over 60% of our positions fall under the Special Risk category. Health Insurance, which we all know still stands. The increased rates are going to be included, which is 4%. The Florida Risk Management Fund. The Florida Sheriff participated in the Florida Risk Management Fund for liability, auto and workers' compensation insurance. For fiscal year 26-27, the rates have decreased. It never happens. Yeah. Inmate medical, mental health, and food contracts. At the Department of the Jail, the inmate medical, mental health, and food contracts alone represent 70% of the Jail's total operating expenses. Fiscal year 26-27 represents our final renewal period with WellPath for medical and mental health services, with negotiated cost increase of 3%. Fiscal year 26-27 is our final renewal period with Trinity Services Group Incorporated for food contract, which includes a negotiated cost increase of 8%. Commissioner President. It should be noted that our staff has been enrolling inmates in the Universal Comprehensive Healthcare Services, and so far this year, they have saved the county $1,051,879.59. That's amazing. That's really great work. Commissioner Pizzio. Yeah, that's fantastic. That's awesome. I did also want to ask, with those contracts coming up, last time we did that, we were lucky enough to be sort of at the table for those dialogues and conversations with those contract renewals. Can I request that that happen again? One of the things, I mean, one, we went to three hots, which thank you all very much. I've been getting positive feedback about that from inmates' families. And I know there's been a lot of conversations with the PSCC around mental health services and supports and MAT and some of the other things at the jail, as well as our food systems economic development team has been working really hard on infrastructure to support our local farmers being able to provide foods to institutional food service. And so we'd love the opportunity to sort of engage with the jail on that, given that you guys are our biggest food spend. So I just hope that we can be a part of that conversation as you go into those contract negotiations. Absolutely. Commissioner Alford. Yes, thank you. I'd like to echo everything that Commissioner Pizzio just said and also add that anything that we can do to relieve the burden on families. Can I address that? I would also also talk to the folks, Trinity, I believe it is, that are providing the concession services. I'm getting a lot of reports of really predatory fees and costs again. And I know that a local agency just released a report on that and have asked for us to pay particular attention to that and do anything that we can to relieve the burden on families. Can I address that? Yeah, go ahead. I just want to say on behalf of the, I mean, you all can fill in the gaps, but I will say, Mary, I have been in conversations with Under Sheriff Cruz on that, and I know he's been looking into and having his staff look into renegotiating some of those commissary rates and contracts so that they, or I don't know if it's a full renegotiation, but looking into those potentially predatory prices and making sure that we're charging fairly. And so I'll let him address that if he wants to as well. Under Sheriff. So we, we've already addressed pricing, making adjustments with, with the pricing, met to the table, met with, with a key for our vendor at the table about the pricing. And, uh, basically the ones that are purchased the most, all of them were dropped substantially. Um, so I think I have a meeting coming up with you where we're going to give you a copy of the list and what it was and what it is now. So. Yeah. And I can bring that back to the board. Okay. There's been substantial progress on, on some of that there. I just wanted to bring that up. Go ahead, Mary. It's also not just the pricing in the commissary. It is the cost of families depositing money into the commissary accounts. Is that also being looked at? I can look at it. I was told that it was, uh, uh, somebody tried to deposit. I think it was 20 or $30 and it was a $7 fee for that. That sounds like they may have gotten scammed. We're looking into it. They're going to look in Mary. They're going to look into it. Okay. All right. I just wanted to make sure that that's part of the conversation. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. And Sheriff, I want to repeat the fact that, um, you saved the taxpayers $1,051,879. Uh, that's a real cost, healthcare costs, uh, that the taxpayers are paying if we had, if you all had not really implemented that. So thank you for that. That's a big number. Yeah. Yeah. I want to give that, um, praise to, uh, Major Keith at the jail. Yeah. Yeah, Major. Looking very closely at that. Yeah. Excellent work, Major. Thank you, Major. And that's also providing families with continual care when they get out, right? When they get out. Right. It's not a one time thing. And it's, it's a, it's a, I remember coming up a fact. I think Mario was presented to us a couple of years ago that, you know, this is something where if your sheriff's on board, you can really help your citizens and their families. So thank you for taking that. I don't want you. You're welcome. All right. Vehicles. Vehicle replacement. The law enforcement certified budget and jail certified budget also includes the route, routine request for replacement of our vehicle fleet, um, fleet vehicles that exceeded their useful life. Uh, our fiscal year 26, 27 rotation schedules resulted in a slight increase compared to last year. Other increases include increased calls for hardware and software agreements, uh, to include compliance with federal requirements related to law enforcement agencies and other items affected by inflation. As you know, we've been talking a lot about, um, a new, uh, body worn camera, which is with a contract with Axon. Our con, our current contract with utility, um, is expiring with final payment forthcoming. Uh, we have, we have successfully negotiated an agreement with our new vendor. Um, a new vendor, which is Axon. Uh, this certified budget reflects the first year of 10, of a 10 year contractual agreement with the, with the new vendor. They gave you a good price for that long of a contract. That's a long deal. It, it, it, it was a lot of work put into that by Captain Chris Sims. So. And sheriff real quick. Go ahead. And if you have any advancements they make, um, by being locked into that 10 year contract, we get them. So it won't be something where, Oh, we made an advancement. So we got to increase your contract in order for you to have it. We wrote it into the contract. If they make an advancement in technology over those 10 years, it comes to us. So. Thank you. Captain Sims. The, uh, real time crime center, which we've, we've been talking about. Um, um, we continue to bring to fruition. The real time crime center, which is going to take over the space that you guys are going to be vacating with. Um, moving on to eighth Avenue. Um, while the certified budget does not include a request for personnel operation. The need as planning progresses, we believe it is important to remain engaged in ongoing discussion as we work to bring this vital resource to life. Uh, moving along to speed enforcement schools on, uh, just to talk about the schools on cameras. Um, this will go active next Tuesday. Next Tuesday. Next week. Next week. Capital improvement project. We're committed to continuing conversations and collaborating closely with the county staff regarding upcoming and ongoing facility needs via the county's annual CIP process, uh, which includes the newly acquired property to the south of the combined communication center, and the acquisition of the second former work release building, which is going to be housed by the new animal services unit. We've had a number of questions from residents and constituents about the cameras that are going up with regards to sort of the data ownership that all stays in our ownership, right? That data is not going to be going to those companies, private companies that are contracted with us that they could sell that data or they can use that data. It's all hours and house in house public record. Yes, but not. Yes. And I believe it has to be destroyed within 30 days. 30 days. Okay. That's a very short retention rate. Right. Unless it's, unless it's part of a crime. Right. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. And finally, a significant portion of this budget request is dedicated to employer wages and related benefits. A majority of the increases in this budget request are due to mandated contractual items and increased costs beyond our control. As the sheriff, I want to always thank you for your time. And we look forward to working with the commission and the manager and county staff throughout this year's budget. Thank you for considering the fiscal year 2026 certified budget request. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Commissioner, any questions? Just a thank you for continuing to be collaborative and communicating and keeping the channels open so that when we get to this point, it's easy. It's not so challenging and feels like it's a collaboration. So thank you very much. Thank you. Mr. Mayor, you have anything for our sheriff before we wrap up? No, thank you. I really appreciate the transparency and the relationship that we've developed with you, Sheriff Scott. And thank you so much for your continued support from your end. Yeah. And, Sheriff, what I'll, I guess what I'll add is I'll kind of reiterate what I said to Mr. Power. You know, around the state, it is not common for a sheriff and a county commission to have this working relationship, not only financial, but just on issues that come up throughout the year. We feel very honored and grateful that we have that with you and really your entire command staff, Major, Major, Patty, the whole group. It's there. They're really wonderful. They're great to work with. You know, we made that hard decision in February of 25 and you bought into that. You helped us get through that mid-year and we're going to continue to try to make wages competitive. And if anyone doesn't know how busy the sheriff is, just head over to the parking lot. On any given day, the space needs are great. You could have very easily said, I need more space, but you're working with us on the space that you have and we're working to improve it. I know you spend a lot of time with our facilities group, not just at the sheriff's office, but at the jail. Of course, I know Travis very well. Yes. Yes. And he appreciates the – well, I won't speak for him, but we appreciate that you and he have that collaborative working relationship. It's public safety. We've been doing our joint meetings with the small cities and, you know, one of the things that's just really evident when we have those meetings is we're talking about, you know, the ad valorem property tax reform that may or may not happen. And time and time again, we're able to say, you know, 56% of our general fund is for public safety. And it's always been a high priority of this commission. And it's wonderful to have a sheriff that works with us when we have those challenges. And so just thank you for the work you do to keep our community safe. Yeah. And I just want to say thank you to my team. Those guys work very, very hard. I mean, you know, and we want to be physically – fiscally responsible for our citizens' dollars. Yeah. We appreciate that. Yeah. Tommy. Mr. Chair, with the sheriff here, but also all of the constitutional's officers and judicial, you've heard them reflect. Also, we like working with them. We have built a good relationship with all of the financial teams and we appreciate that. We are able to talk out the needs and make sure we get to the crux of what is needed and where the money is needed so we can focus our attention on that. And while we are big, accountable, we also want to make sure we meet everybody's needs. And all of the team, including the sheriff's team, have always, as of recently, have been very cooperative and easy to work with and through the issues to get a common goal. So, a lot of people have said some nice comments about us, but I do want to reflect it back that it has worked both ways and a lot of their teams we've worked with for many years. So, we have built some rapport with that. So, I just thought I needed to put that on the record. Kudos. All right. You heard it direct from the horse's mouth, our own big guy. Thank you, Tommy. Yes, sir. Since they were funding and everything, I just said I appreciate it. You're not getting any more money. You're not getting any more money. We just like working with you. All right. Kudos. All right. Thank you. I was just saying the same thing. It really has been a pleasure working with your team, your staff. The manager and the assistant managers are very responsive and that's important. And we try to be responsive to you guys as well. So, I think communication is key to every relationship and we have great communication across all of our commissioners and our team here. So, we'll continue to do that. That's amazing. Thank you. Okay. Manager, do you have anything? Are you good? All right. Okay. Sheriff. Ditto Tommy. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. That leads us to our closing comments. And so, every meeting, we give an opportunity for the public to come and address anything to this board that's happening that they'd like to hear us. Anyone from the public who should address this board. Go once, go twice. All right. We'll close the public comment. Commission comment. Mary, you have anything? Can you hear me? Yep. I got you. Okay. No, thank you. I don't have anything. It's been a good meeting. Okay. Thank you, Mary. Thanks for dialing in. Do you have anything? Anna, you got anything? Okay. You guys, you good? Good? Okay. All right. Well, we are done, I think, in record time for our first budget meeting with the Constitutionals. We stand adjourned. Thank you. All right.