Welcome to our County Commission Board of Meeting on February 17th. Okay, I'll start all over. Welcome to our February 17th Board of County Commission. It's now 9 o'clock and we will commence with the invocation by Chaplain Henley. And then please stay standing for the pledge. Good morning. I would invite you all to pray with me. Heavenly Father, your word declares that the steps of the righteous are established by you. So we pray this morning that you would indeed establish our steps and direct our course. We place this meeting in your hands. We place our hearts and our minds in your hands so that you may indeed direct us. I pray that as we seek you for advice, that we would not lean on our own understanding, but act based upon your wisdom. And I ask this prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. Good morning, Commissioners, staff, and visitors. I'm Caitlin Hoverkamp, Public and Media Relations Officer for Polk County Government. Today we are recognizing three employees for their service to Polk County. I'd like to invite the employees to come to the front as their names are called. And then if the honorees will remain at the front while the commission return to the dais behind them, we will take a group photo at the end. Tim Bearden has worked for Polk County for 20 years. He began his career working for the Polk County Roads and Drainage Division as a Construction and Testing Inspector 1. After serving in the role of Construction Testing Inspector for nearly a year, Tim moved into a new position working as a Land Development Inspector 1 for the Polk County Land Development Division. Throughout his time working for that division, he has served in different positions, including Land Development Inspector 2 and 3, and as Lead Construction and Testing Inspector before receiving a promotion to his current role as a Land Development Inspections Manager. Throughout his career, Tim has obtained several certifications in Land Development Inspection, including site grading, utilities, and stormwater compliance, and he is currently in the process of completing the Certified Public Manager Program. Tim is a member of the Fort Meade Future Farmers of America Alumni Board, where he has served as the board vice president for more than 10 years. He's a member of the Fort Meade Chamber of Commerce and a member of NextGen Outdoors Incorporated, a faith-based group that helps guide boys and young men towards Jesus and strong values through outdoor experiences. In his spare time, Tim enjoys fishing, hunting, playing guitar and singing, traveling, traveling, and spending time with his wife, Melissa, and their sons, TC and Jasper. In the future, he looks forward to continuing to focus on his family, raising his kids with his wife, creating memories together with them as they travel and experience life, continuing to live every step of his life rooted in service, faith, and the desire to make a positive impact on the next generation. Dave Harris has worked for the Polk County Roads and Drainage Division as a roadway maintenance service worker for 25 years. He currently works in the Dundee Roadway Maintenance Unit. Throughout his career, Dave has been dedicated to ensuring roadway maintenance crew safety and the safety of the residents and visitors of Polk County by obtaining training certifications, such as his intermediate maintenance of traffic to set up work zones and traffic safety equipment throughout the county. In his spare time, Dave enjoys fishing, watching sports, and spending time with his family, including his two daughters, Ashley and Joan. In the future, he looks forward to traveling, fishing more, and having fun. Chrissy Irons has worked for Polk County for 30 years. Prior to starting her full-time career with the county, Chrissy worked as an intern in the county manager's office and served as a GIS technician with the Polk County Land Development Division. In 1996, Chrissy joined the county full-time as an engineering service aide, too, with the Polk County Land Development Division. Throughout her career, she has served in a wide range of roles, including data and mapping technician for the Polk County Utilities Division and as a permit technician for the Polk County Building Division before receiving a promotion to her current position as Development Coordinator, too, for the Polk County Land Development Division. Chrissy has an associate's in science degree in computer systems and business analysis and an associate's in science degree in design and drafting technology. In 2018, she was selected as the employee of the year for the Polk County Land Development Division. Chrissy is a member of Abundant Life Ministries International. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, cruising, hunting, camping, fishing, photography, going to the beach with the top down on her Jeep, crafting, reading, and spending time with her family. In the future, she looks forward to continuing to travel the world, enjoy life with her family and friends, and create long-lasting minimaries. Madam Chair, while you're getting up here, 75 collective years of experience in three people. 75 years to the citizens of Polk County. Congratulations to all. I'll give it just a few seconds so that we could have the people leave, and then we'll continue. Okay, next we have public comments concerning agenda items. Ms. Amber, do we have any? Okay, thank you. We will continue to Ms. Stacey Butterfield. It's your turn. Thank you. Good morning. We have today for you to approve and ratify payroll checks number 044-07-440-4418 in the amount of $18,379.82. We have 2,979 direct deposits in the amount of $4,767,233.24. Those are dated February 6th of 2026. We have wire and electronic funds transfers of $24,779,797.56, dated February 3rd through February 16th of 2026. And lastly, invoice checks number 499-017 through 49924, totaling $16,182,874.82, dated February 3rd, 2026, through February 16th of 2026. For you to approve and ratify, please. Madam Chair, motion for approval. I have a motion and a second. Any questions? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. We also request the approval of your minutes of your regular board meeting that was held on February the 3rd of 2026, please. I have a motion and a second. Any questions? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Anything else, Ms. Butterfield? Yes. I just want to say last Saturday, the sweetest day of the year, we had our group Valentine's Day wedding. I just want to say thank you. Here's a picture of the couples from Saturday. We had a tremendous turnout, not only from the couples, but their family and friends. And I want to say thank you to Commissioner Troutman for opening up the ceremony, and to all of you for the beautiful History Center. That historic courthouse makes the perfect backdrop for the wedding, and then we use the room upstairs for a little quick reception. So, thank you again, and to the county staff. Madam Chair, may I? Yes. I just want to say, Stacey, you know, obviously that was a special day for these individuals, but I want to thank you for making sure that there were interpreters there. That was something that I didn't expect, and so for our residents to provide that service so they could understand their vows and their native language was good to see. You're welcome. Thank you. Anything else? That's it. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. County Attorney Randy Meeks. I'm sure you'll have the consent agenda. Oh, let's do the consent agenda first. Good idea. Second. Okay, I have a motion. Second. Second. Any questions? Discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now, let's go to Mr. Meek. Okay. Mr. County Manager, Bill Beasley. Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the board, members of the viewing audience. The manager's office will have two items for board consideration this morning. Item number G1 is to request the board to approve a consultant services authorization with Wright-Pierce Incorporated in connection with the lift station 302 replacement project. Board action today will reflect a professional services agreement not to exceed $593,097. Polk County provides wastewater services to the Northeast Region Utility Service Area with lift stations number 302 and 321 located in close proximity to each other, both sited along the Ronald Reagan Parkway County Road 54 corridor. In an earlier task authorization, Wright-Pierce studied lift stations 302 and 321 site conditions to determine potential improvements and developed three conceptual optional layouts for a combined site. The study's resultant technical memorandum addressed fats, oils, and grease accumulation, site accessing, as well as wet well isolation, and improved maintenance and bypass pumping operations. The proposed decommissioning of lift station 302 and lift station 321 and the construction of a newly configured lift station 302 will ensure that the Polk County Utility Division can provide efficient and reliable services at and through a newly configured master lift station. This consultant services authorization includes project management and related services, preliminary and final design efforts, permitting, cost estimating efforts, as well as the construction phase services in support of the project. Funding for this utility improvement initiative is included in the utilities operating fund, and this is an approved project within the utilities community investment program. So, Madam Chair, members of the Board, I think in keeping with the Board's commitment to utility system-wide capital improvements, especially serving Polk's fast-growing northeast sector, I would request that the Board approve the proposed consultant services authorization number 2024-019-05 with Wright-Pierce Incorporated in connection with the proposed lift station 302 replacement project at a professional services cost not to exceed $593,097. I have a motion and a second. Any questions? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item number G2, Madam Chair, members of the Board, is a good news item this morning. Item G2 is to request the Board to approve the Ninth Amendment to an existing three-way encroachment management agreement between the United States Department of Defense, Conservation Florida, and Polk County to provide $1.3 million of Air Force readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Funds towards conservation acquisitions within the designated Sentinel Landscape Area. Polk County has previously partnered with the Department of Defense to acquire conservation lands and protect wildlife corridors, such as the South Lake Walk and Water Conservation Easements. The Department of Defense provides funding for conservation land acquisitions to local governments or nonprofits that are approved as eligible entities. In August of 2025, Polk County, the Department of Defense, and Conservation Florida entered into the Eighth Amendment to the existing encroachment management agreement, which officially designated Polk County as an eligible entity, whereby qualifying for Air Force protection funding. The partnership between the Department of Defense, the Conservation Florida organization, and Polk County is beneficial to all parties. It allows for the purchase of less-than-fee properties with willing landowners for conservation purposes and assists the military in management of the military-influenced planning areas within the Sentinel Landscape. The Sentinel Landscape is a coalition of federal agencies, state and local governments, and non-government organizations that work with willing landowners and land managers to advance sustainable land-use practices around military installations. This partnership assists Polk County in establishing wilderness and wildlife corridors that protect Polk's waters, working landscapes, as well as wilderness areas. In 2025, the Department of Defense requested, on behalf of the partnership, readiness, environmental protection, and integration funding from the United States Air Force designated for the acquisition of lands within the Polk's Sentinel Landscape Area. Approval of the Ninth Amendment of this encroachment management agreement will ensure that this partnership funding remains available. Polk County is now an eligible entity that will be able to utilize these approved funds for future land acquisitions. Upon board approval of the proposed amendment, funding from the Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration Program in the amount of $1.3 million will be available for acquisition within Polk for conservation lands. So, Madam Chair, members of the board, I think in keeping with the board's commitment to environmental stewardship and support of the United States Air Force military training missions within Polk County, I would request that the board approve the proposed Ninth Amendment to the existing three-way encroachment management agreement between the United States Department of Defense, Conservation Florida, and Polk County that will provide $1.3 million of Air Force Environmental Protection funds available for conservation acquisitions within Polk's Sentinel Landscape Boundaries. Motion for approval. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions? Discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That's it, Madam Chair. Thank you. Commissioner Troutman? Yeah, just good news going along with some of the stuff that Mr. Beasley just said. For those that are unaware, it has been announced that Moffitt Cancer Center will be coming to Polk County. And just wanted to publicly thank Ashley and Wesley Barnett for their support of that, as well as the Rogers family for the donation of land. But that is a significant game changer for health care in Polk County. Thank you. Anything else? Okay. Commissioner Wilson? Yes. I have an appointee. I appoint Mr. T. Chad Bearing to the Comprehensive Planning Advisory Committee. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any questions? Discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And I also would like to remind everybody, it's been put out there, but on February 24th, we're having a town hall meeting at the Stewart Center here in Bartow on the Ag Center. We've worked, you know, something I've worked very hard on and everybody up here has to make this happen. But we finally got to a point where we can show what it's going to look like, how things are going to come together. And it's been something that's been worked on for a long time, and we are there. And so I just invite everybody to come out, see what we got, talk about it, and go from there. So thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Commissioner Braswell? Don't have anything. Commissioner Scott? Yes, ma'am. Tonight we do have the community meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kathleen Baptist Church, and that is to invite all of the, really anybody who lives in Polk County, but specifically in the Kathleen area, for the North Lakeland Government Center property purchase that was done about a week and a half ago, to seek community input and to offer some clarification on some of the social topics that have been out there that probably aren't accurate, but we are doing our best as a county to be forthcoming with information and also to seek the input of the community. So that's 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the Kathleen Baptist Church. That's all. That's it. That's it. Yes, ma'am. Mr. Nervouson again? Yes, and I did say the Stewart Center, but I don't know if I said the time. It's 6 o'clock. 6 o'clock. Yeah. Thank you, ma'am. And I'm sure Ms. Amber will have all the information available for everybody. Okay. Good. And I don't have anything, so let's just go right into the expedited hearings. Thank you, Madam Chair. Before we start the hearings, I'll go over the public hearing general procedures. I'll remind everyone, if you wish to speak on any of the public hearing items, you need to fill out a spirit card in the back and give that card to a member of the communication staff. We ask that you please turn off your cell phones or other devices that may distract from the public hearings. Please adjust the microphone and state your full name and address for the record before you begin speaking on the topic. Individuals during the public comment section of a matter will be strictly limited to three minutes. The board is experienced in these matters and able to discern what is legally relevant to an issue and what is not. Information that is relevant or repetitive only serves to frustrate and necessarily prolong the day's business. The commission expects civility at all times during all public hearings. Speaking out of turn, shouting out from the audience. Disrespectful sounds or utterances while another is speaking are unstoppable and you will be asked to leave the chambers for the remainder of the day. If any person decides to appeal any decision made by the board with respect to any matter considered here today, you will need a record of the proceedings and that for such purpose you may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony or evidence upon which the appeal is based, which you must gather at your own expense. Anyone in the audience who wishes to speak or present testimony today must be sworn in. All testimony given during public hearings shall be deemed to be sworn. At this time, if you're going to address the commission or speak on any case today, please stand and raise your right hand and answer out loud to the following question. And this is only for the public hearings land use cases. Do you swear or affirm that testimony or evidence you provide to the commission today is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Thank you. At this time, we'll go over expedited hearing procedures. Expedited hearings are held pursuant to resolution number 2022-089. Expedited hearings are used when no opposition was present. At the planned commission hearing, the applicant agrees to the expedited hearing and recommendation of the Development Review Committee is for approval. Expedited procedures are the following. After staff briefly introduces the case, the hearing will be open for public comment. If anyone speaks during public comment, the applicant will be given an opportunity to respond. At the public comment, the board will consider the land use case. At any time, full presentation from staff can be requested from the commissioner, the applicant, or a member of the public. All documents attached to the agenda are deemed part of the record of the land use case. Unless removed from the list of experts by motion of the board, all individuals on the list of experts attached to the agenda are deemed experts for the purpose of the land use case. At this time, I'll turn over to Mr. Zisco for presentation of the expedited hearings. Thank you, Mr. Mink. Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the commission. My name is Ben Zisco. I'm the Land Development Division Director. There are four items on today's expedited public hearing agenda. The first two are related cases, so I will present them together and then ask for two separate motions. Item number N1 is an expedited public hearing for case LDC-PAL 2025-8, Northridge Selected Area Plan PICS, Text Change CPA. This is a request to change the text of the comprehensive plan as it relates to the professional institutional land use districts within the Northridge Selected Area Plan. That is a very limited scope of applicability as there are just five parcels that would be subject to this change. The request is to change the text of the comprehensive plan to allow up to 30% of those properties to be used for retail or commercial uses. And anything in excess of 30% would require planning commission approval. The current cap is 25%, so it's a change from 25% to 30%, anything above that requiring planning commission approval. And then item number N2 is the companion item within the Land Development Code. So the similar text exists in the Land Development Code. It also is specific to gas stations, and that is limited to 20%. So we're amending both documents, the comprehensive plan and Land Development Code, to allow up to 30% and providing consistency among those two documents. Both of these items did appear before the planning commission and received unanimous approval, and staff is recommending approval and adoption of both items. Any questions for staff? Okay, we're going to go ahead and take a vote and each one, approve each one of them. Right, first we'll open up public. Amber, we have anybody for public speaking at this point? This is for both N1 and N2 for the record. None for either one. Okay. So we'll start with N1. Move to approve N1. I have a motion and a second. Any questions? Discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Motion for approval on N2. N2, I have a motion and a second. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Item number N3 is an expedited public hearing for case LDCPAS 2025-34, County Road 546, Map Correction CPA, to change the future land use designation on a parcel of land, approximately 9.7 acres, from agricultural, residential, rural to residential, suburban. The subject site is directly adjacent to Tenorock High School. As you can see on the screen here, Tenorock High School, in the turquoise, has a land use designation of Institutional 2. And our subject site has the Agricultural Residential Rural designation. Everything around the site, north, east, and south, already has the residential suburban designation. Staff found that this ARR designation was really a mapping error, and we're requesting a county-initiated amendment to change the designation to residential suburban to match the adjacent properties. This did appear before the Planning Commission and received unanimous recommendation of approval, and following any questions or comments today from the commission or the public, staff recommends approval. Any questions for staff? Hearing none. Any public note? No. Okay. So, let's bring it back to the board. We did open public comment. We got confirmation there is no one to speak, right? Yeah, that's what she... Yeah, just make sure we... Well, you're right. She did shake her head, but I saw it. Okay, thank you. Bring it to the board. Motion. Have a motion. Second. Second. All in... Any questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. And item number N4 is an expedited public hearing for case LDC-PAS 2025-32, Kathleen and Duff NAC-CPA, to consider the expansion of a neighborhood activity center located on Kathleen Road, just south of Duff Road. You can see on the screen here, the existing neighborhood activity center includes a Publix, a Burger King, and Ace Hardware, 7-Eleven, as well as a dental office and Dollar General on the east side of Kathleen Road. The request is to expand that neighborhood activity center by including the yellow subject site, which is due south of the 7-Eleven. The neighborhood activity center requires at least 80% build-out in order to be expanded. And as you can see with this development, this particular NAC is at 100% build-out. The subject site currently contains two parcels that have existing residential structures on them. And the intent is to purchase and demolish those sites and replace those with a commercial establishment. This item appeared before your planning commission and received unanimous recommendation of approval. And as following any questions or comments, staff also recommends approval. Any questions for staff? Madam Chair, if I may. Ben, just because this may come up at the community meeting that we have this evening, with this approval of the NAC, are there future approvals that this site has to go through to get its full commercial build-out capacity? Or what's the kind of just, if you could, just explain for those that maybe are watching or later watching what this means on the steps from this going from residential now to a commercially developed property just for their benefit on the future path? So this is the first step, is getting the land use designation on the property. To answer your question about additional approvals, it really depends on ultimately what is proposed. So as you know, within the different commercial land use designations, there are permitted uses, which would be allowed by right and would just have to go through an administrative site plan approval. Or there are special exceptions or level three conditional uses, which could require planning commission approval. Depending on how the site is designed, if there are any waivers or deviations that may be necessary, those could require public hearings. So this is the first step of putting the land use in place so that they can seek out engineering design and seek out a tenant to build them. Thank you, sir. Any other questions? Okay. Amanda, do we have anybody signed up to speak at this moment? Thank you. Then we'll bring it back to the board. Motion. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any other questions or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. That concludes the public hearings. Thank you. At this time, we have no public hearings, so we'll go to the request from general public audience. And Amanda, I'm sure you have some. To Amanda. For you, yeah. Thank you. Okay. Okay. We will begin with David Butler. My name's David Butler. My address is exempt. Yes. We've got that on the chart. Thank you. Thank you. None of you accidentally got in the position you're in. You worked hard to get here. Raised a lot of money. You didn't accidentally get here. You probably don't get paid what you deserve for the job you do, and I mean that sincerely. However, when you limit public speaking to 15 people per meeting, that is dirty. It's wrong. And you wonder why people don't like you. That being said, our taxes continue to go up. But once again, y'all took our plane to Tallahassee, didn't you? You got mad last time I said that. You cut me off and pointed your finger at me last time. Told me you didn't let my attitude. I don't like y'all wasting our taxpayer money for that. It's a whole lot cheaper to drive. That plane's roughly $1,000 an hour to fly, and it takes away from a public safety aspect six to ten hours to go up there and come back, that that plane could be doing patrols. Stop wasting our money, please. Again, none of you accidentally got here, so if you don't like my attitude, y'all can quit. There's a couple of you timing out this year anyway, right? Or very soon. For the freshmen, you got to listen to your people. You can't stop public comment. It's wrong. Now, Mr. Braswell, I read your bio on the county website, and you said water issues are a big priority to you, right? And I believe you. I believe you're a farmer. You have to regulate the water. We're in a water ban right now, right? Rationing water, as a matter of fact. But y'all approved a data center that's going to use millions of gallons of water a day. Why? What's it going to be? Plus, I read that it has a 10-year tax-free status. Is that right? Am I wrong about that? The data centers only last 15 to 20 years. So we're going to give them free 10 years, and then maybe get 5 to 10 years of taxes out of them. I can't make that make sense. Can y'all? How? I understand you can't speak to me right now. During this cold tonight, we were asked to limit our electricity use, so we wouldn't call brownouts or blackouts. That data center's not going to stop their electricity use. And also, the last time I was here, during one of the animal control things, I had nothing to do with animal control, or the people there. I just happened to be here that day. And Mr. Braswell, you opined that you had no control over the sheriff's budget. I think 129.03 says you absolutely have control over the sheriff's budget. From what I understand, he gave about 20% of his animal control budget back this year. Is that right? Where'd that 20% go? Why couldn't you tell the sheriff, hey, listen, we got a bunch of constituents here that have a problem with how you're running animal control. Keep this 20% and fix the problems they're talking about. When I worked at the sheriff's office, I was in K9, we wouldn't take our dogs to that veterinarian, because it was bad. We wouldn't take our canines to the own veterinarian. Thank you, Mr. Butler. Next, we have Debbie Hicks. Good morning. Publicly, I want... Oh, Debbie Hicks, 236 Alderman Road, Lakeland. Publicly, I want to thank Commissioner Troutman for taking her time at the last meeting to let me know that additional steps have been taken to get these dogs and cats warm during our multiple 20-degree weather. I myself try to stay warm. Also, I want to point out that I believe animal control, being that it's owned by the county, is infrastructure. And I know you like to keep your infrastructure strong and current. So I'm asking for a new animal control facility. And I had heard about the 15-limit thing. I don't have a problem, because I'll be here whatever meeting I come in line for. It doesn't matter to me when I show up. But if you tell me I can only talk about the same thing so many times, now that I have an issue with, because every time I get up here, I'm going to mention the facility at animal control. Thank you. And I do appreciate everything you do. Thank you. Madam Chair, I just want to say, Ms. Hicks, thank you. I did receive your letter. So I appreciate that. And I think you're a testament to, I mean, during my time up here, there's never been 15 people in the general public comments. So, you know, it's always something that we can address as a board if we see any issues that need to be addressed. Yeah, that's what I've seen, too. But anyway, I don't have a problem. I'll be here every time. Thank you. Madam Chair, if I may. Yes. So, Ms. Hicks, you don't have to come back up, but just to let you know your insight for me as a commissioner on incremental improvements. And I know you're asking for an entirely new facility, and I respect your opinion on that. But I will say giving the ideas of incremental improvements has helped me in a lot of different ways. But on animal control, they're in the process of installing a larger dog run area for the bigger breed of dogs. So you're not just in that small area with them. So, again, just small things. It's not a new facility, but please keep coming and presenting those because it gives us the benefit of having those to move forward with. So, thank you. Anything else? No, ma'am. Mr. Abercrombie. Good morning. James Abercrombie. 2737 Gibson on Galloway Road. Folks, I'm here again for the Constitution. We have a federal constitution. We have a state constitution. It states there that we have a government for the people by the people. I won't go into a whole lot more detail on that, but the point being is that states are given a right in the Constitution. They have their rights. I've never seen a constitution where a municipality, a county, a city, or anything else has that right in the Constitution. They derive that right from the governor of the state of Florida. Excuse me. The problem I'm having here, folks, once again, is everything's government. There's supposed to be limited government in the Constitution, limited government. An HOA is a government, folks. I don't care how you look at it because you have no jurisdiction over that HOA. The courts do not have any jurisdiction over that HOA. Same thing with the state. They have no jurisdiction over this board. Did you know that? Attorney General in Tallahassee, he'll tell you that exactly. He has no jurisdiction over Polk County. That probably goes along with the rest of it. It's the Commission on Ethics, all that stuff. They have no jurisdiction. You have to murder or kill or rape or something for them to come after you. That's it. Now, it gets down to this point here, and now we have an attorney, again, that thinks that he can run this show. He can shut Mr. Scott up just to let his friend demeanor the people, the citizens. He grabs the staff to have them, once again, support him and his decisions. Find out he also has a part in making a decision, making up the rules for that decisions. How does all this work? He does not have the right. He answers to you. You are the ones that are supposed to be taking care of this. Not me. I'm bringing it to your attention. I brought it to your attention a lot. A lot. The county manager is supposed to be the one giving us due process. It's supposed to be in the process. We're supposed to have a reason. We can file a grievance against any employee in this building. We have to take it to him first. He's supposed to set it up with you guys if we can't talk it out. If we can't settle this thing, it comes to you. You make the final decision on everything in this county. Everything. Including the county attorney or county sheriff, everybody. You still make all the rules that they have to abide by. So if I have a complaint against the Polk County Sheriff, I should be able to bring it to first and foremost the manager. And then we'll go from there. Thank you, Mr. Abercombie. We're going to get it straight. Ms. Amber, do we have anybody else? So then I close the public meeting. Madam Chair, can I just mention one thing? Keep Ryan Taylor's family in your prayers. I'm sorry? Keep Ryan Taylor's family in your prayers. Definitely. Thank you. Anything else? We're adjourned.