226^th ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING

Monday, January 6, 2025

GARRISON, CLERK OF THE BOARD: Good morning and welcome. I would like to call this 226^th organizational session to order. Please stand for the salute to the flag. Thank you. I will now call the roll for the 2025 Board of Supervisors.

PRESENT: Clayton Barber - Town of Chesterfield

Charles Harrington - Town of Crown Point - EXCUSED

Cathleen Reusser - Town of Elizabethtown

Kenneth Hughes - Town of Essex

Matthew Stanley - Town of Jay

Joe Pete Wilson - Town of Keene

James Monty - Town of Lewis

Stephen McNally - Town of Minerva

Matthew Brassard - Town of Moriah

Robin DeLoria - Town of Newcomb

Derek Doty - Town of North Elba

Chris Clark - Town of North Hudson

Margaret Wood - Town of Schroon

Davina Thurston - Town of St. Armand

Mark Wright - Town of Ticonderoga

Michael Tyler - Town of Westport

Shaun Gillilland - Town of Willsboro

Favor Smith - Town of Wilmington

Department Heads in attendance: Laura Carson, James Dougan, Judith Garrison, Krissy Leerkes, Mary McGowan, Dan Manning, Jennifer Mascarenas, Michael Mascarenas, Chelsea Merrihew, Jack Mouton, David Reynolds, Heather Sheehan and Matt Watts.

Also in attendance: Josh Favro, Dina Garvey, Stacey Hayes, William Tansey, Jennifer Fifield, Krista Moran, Linda Gillilland, Michael Langey and Nicole Justice-Green.

News Media: None present.

GARRISON: I will now call for nominations for the 2025 temporary Chairman of the Board.

HUGHES: Madam Clerk, I would to move the name of Steven McNally from the Town of Minerva, as temporary Chairman for 2025.

GARRISON: Thank you. Do we have a second?

DOTY: I will second that.

GARRISON: Mr. Hughes moves the name of Mr. McNally, seconded by Mr. Doty. Are there other nominations?

WOOD: I move that the nominations be closed and the Clerk cast one ballot for Mr. McNally as Temporary Chairman.

BRASSARD: I second that.

GARRISON: All those in favor, opposed – carried.

Would Mr. Hughes and Mr. Doty please escort Mr. McNally to the County Clerk to be sworn in and then to the dais.

MCNALLY: The first order of business is to adopt the rules and regulations that will govern this board for 2025.

RESOLUTION #1 – ADOPTING RULES AND REGULATIONS OF PROCEEDINGS OF THE ESSEX COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Smith, seconded by Mr. Brassard and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

MCNALLY: We will now call for nominations of the 2025 Chair and I would like to nominate and move the name of Supervisor Shaun Gillilland for the 2025 Chairman of the Essex County Board of Supervisors.

This is with great honor I make this nomination. Shaun and I joined this body eleven years ago when landing here we were in a fiscal crisis looking at a 25% tax increase. We got our taste of politics very quickly. There was a lot of opinionated people on the board at that time but we worked it out, we came up with a good solution and followed through. Shaun has been a respected member of this body since day one. As a Chairperson, Shaun has dealt with a pandemic and he kept everybody in Essex County as safe as possible and he also kept the Government moving which is very, very critical. After the pandemic he has been working with housing crisis, employee crisis and Albany politics. As you know the other crisis will probably work themselves out, Albany politics I’m not so sure but he’s done a good job representing us in Albany.

Shaun has been in civil servant his entire life with a military career and then as Supervisor for the Town of Willsboro. As a ranking Democrat on this body not one time has Shaun used a partisan approach to any decision to be made which is something to be said for. He has a loving wife and loving family which means a lot in today’s world and again, I’m very, very proud and honored to nominate Shaun Gillilland.

WILSON: I will second that motion.

MCNALLY: I move Mr. Gillilland’s name in nomination, seconded by Mr. Wilson. Are there other nominations?

TYLER: I move the nominations be closed and the Clerk cast one ballot for Mr. Gillilland as the 2025 Chair of the Board.

CLARK: I will second that.

MCNALLY: All in favor, opposed – carried.

Would Mr. Wilson and Mr. Tyler escort Mr. Gillilland to the front of the room where he can take his oath of office and then escort him to the dais.

GILLILLAND: Can I have my lovely bride Linda come and hold the bible for my swearing in.

Thank you for the kind words Steve. I appreciate that. We will now call for nominations for the 2025 Vice-Chairman of the Essex County Board of Supervisors.

TYLER: Alright, this time I will move Mr. Monty in nomination for the 2025 Vice-Chairman.

DELORIA: I will second Mr. Monty for the nomination for the 2025 Vice-Chairman.

GILLILLAND: Are there any other nominations?

BARBER: I move that the nominations be closed for the 2025 Vice-Chairman of the Board.

REUSSER: I will second that.

GILLILLAND: All in favor, unanimous. Thank you. Congratulations. Would you come forward and take your oath. Thank you.

A couple short remarks I just want to say thank you to everyone for your support. I’m truly humbled and I appreciate the confidence that you’ve given me for another year. It is truly an honor to serve with each and every one of you. I don’t think I’ve ever served with more professional and more dedicated group of individuals’ men and women who truly believe in what is good for our county and good for our towns and all of our constituents. Sometimes everybody agrees, sometimes we don’t agree but the beautiful thing about this particular body and the members that are here now is at the end of the day we walk away colleagues with no hard feelings and we let the democratic process prevail in all situations and with that we have done so much over the years. I know some of you are new to the board somewhat and some of you like Mr. McNally, Mr. Harrington have been here the entire time I have been here so I want to say an old navy term, Bravo Zulu means well done to this board and I also want to say that the employees and staff of Essex County are the most dedicated and professional group that I ever had the pleasure of serving with whether in civil service or military they are truly a blessing to the 38,000 – 39,000 citizens of Essex County. I’ve seen cleaners risk their lives at the time whether it is arguable as whether they were actually risking their lives or not but at the time we thought they were going in and cleaning things and stuff like that during the height of the pandemic all the way to our largest departments working hard through national disasters constantly there the phone is always picked up when they are needed no matter if the request is from the Chairman or the County Manager or the request is from any humble citizen out there I will always, always for the rest of my life cherish and be thankful for having the opportunity to serve with the board and with the employees and department heads of Essex County and I truly appreciate it.

When I was first on the board within a couple years, a year or two we were having debate and the contentiousness of the board at that time nine, ten years ago as Steve had said was a lot more than it is today but as dedicated and a lot of very strong feelings but I heard somebody say and I’m not sure exactly what the debate was about I suspect it was about when we were starting the whole EMS program and I heard one supervisor say and I can’t remember who it was but they said, why is Essex County always need to lead? Why don’t we just step back let somebody else do it? I was shocked at that time because that’s just against my inner core and we thankfully didn’t follow that and that everything we’ve done since that time the idea of it’s a great idea, we need to do that, we need to move forward oh, by the way we are probably the first ones in the state to do that and as you know the EMS system right now that we built is probably the preeminent system and seems to be working at a somewhat affordable level not without problems because it’s very difficult problem to solve but I think with this board and our staff we are persevering and we are leading and we are being copied by other counties. In almost every situation where we have to go forward with a new idea or a new initiative or to solve a problem we lead and I can tell you that you, this board have courage, you’ve done things that can be completely dangerous because you knew it was the right thing to do and I commend you all for that and I know it will go forward into the future with that same attitude. We are a very large geographical rural county with a very economically diverse population for us to survive we’ve got to lead because we certainly don’t get help from the state. I know that many counties over the years throughout the state don’t have that same idea. If it wasn’t for that, if it wasn’t for this attitude, if it wasn’t for this philosophy we would not have come out of the pandemic as fiscally strong as we did. Many counties were crippled financially we weren’t. We remained strong and we survived. This is just an example and it’s the proof in the pudding. I mean I can go forward with things we’ve done as you mentioned before the pandemic our public health initiatives lead the state, EMS our space and building plan we are moving forward with and actually going to put concrete and mortar together on that this year. We have a new and modernized personnel policy thank you Mr. Monty. Every problem we touch we go to solve. Some of them are more difficult than others but it seems to work.

So what’s the year before us look like? The only thing I would say is we have to remain steadfast with the state. We cannot allow them to slough off their fiscal issues onto our taxpayers and we have to stand up and fight and it’s going to be a tough fight. I think we’ve gotten pieces of it in the past but we have an issue with what we are going to do with our fish hatchery, they are over a million dollars short in paying us for our solid waste, they have shorted us in Medicaid and numerous, numerous issues that go forward and we just simply we are going to have to stand up and say as George Bush said, “this shall not stand” and it’s going to be difficult I can tell you but we have to do it to protect the people of Essex County. I want the state to know that Essex County is difficult to negotiate with. That’s what I want to move forward with. So we have to go forward to make sure we reinforce the hard work and the successes in the past and also within this board I believe we have to develop and need to develop and it has been incumbent upon myself and Mr. Monty to develop our leadership more so we’ll be looking at that and any members of this board moving forward from here are interested in leadership positions going forward just let us know because as I always told Mr. Mascarenas if we don’t have a good farm team out there ready to take office so that when I drop or Mr. Monty drops and particularly us two old birds have been having some problems as you know and you’ve stood with us but I want to make sure that we move forward with good leadership because one of the major, major initiatives that we are going to do is here as you know is develop sustainable and legacy of government policy in relationships between towns and the county so that all the initiatives that we have done over the last few years will carry on when many of us are no longer serving. Thank you so much. I am again humbled and it is massively appreciative and it is truly my pleasure to serve with you and I see each of you as colleagues and as true friends. Thank you so much. We will move onto resolutions.

RESOLUTION #2 – AUTHORIZING COMPENSATION FOR THE SUPERVISORS OF ESSEX COUNTY.

This resolution was moved by Mr. DeLoria, seconded by Mr. Doty and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

RESOLUTION #3 – DESIGNATING OFFICIAL NEWSPAPERS FOR 2025.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Wright, seconded by Mr. Monty and duly adopted.

RESOLUTION #4 – ORDERING THE CONFINEMENT OF DOGS TO PROTECT THE DEER HERD.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Monty, seconded by Ms. Reusser and duly adopted.

GILLILLAND: Discussion?

DOTY: Does this also have to take place at each of our town board meetings?

MANNING: No.

DOTY: Okay thank you.

GILLILLAND: Further discussion? Being none, all in favor, opposed – carries.

RESOLUTION #5 – ADOPTING AN INVESTMENT POLICY AND DESIGNATING DEPOSITORIES FOR COUNTY FUNDS.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Wilson, seconded by Mr. Clark and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

RESOLUTION #6 – PURSUANT TO REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW §554 AND §556 DELEGATING TO THE ESSEX COUNTY AUDITOR THE AUTHORITY TO APPROVE CORRECTIONS TO THE TAX ROLLS OF NOT MORE THAN $2,500.00, AND THE PAYMENT OF REFUNDS DUE AS A RESULT OF SUCH CORRECTIONS.

This resolution was moved by Ms. Thurston, seconded by Mr. Barber and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

GILLILLAND: Discussion?

MCNALLY: We’ve had some of these issues brought up at the board in the past and some of them I believe are under $2500.00, is this something new?

MANNING: No, we’ve done this probably for decades.

MCNALLY: You’ve had things come up on getting rid of payments and interest and things like that in the last year.

MANNING: These are just corrections to the tax rolls. These are not – we’ve waived penalties and interest in the past I think is what you’re talking about.

MCNALLY: This is not that?

MANNING: No there can be clerical corrections and there are other corrections under section five hundred and something of the tax law that this would be related to.

GILLILLAND: Further discussion? Being none, roll call please.

RESOLUTION #7 – OF ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE ESSEX COUNTY PURCHASING POLICY AND ALL PROCEDURES RELATED THERETO AND AUTHORIZATION OF THE CONTINUED USE THEREOF.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Tyler, seconded by Mr. Wilson and duly adopted.

GILLILLAND: Discussion?

MONTY: Mr. Chairman is this a group led by Mr. McNally that is going to review this the purchasing policy?

GILLILLAND: We’ll set that.

MONTY: Thank you.

GILLILLAND: Further discussion? Being none all in favor, opposed – carries.

RESOLUTION #8 – OF ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE ESSEX COUNTY PERSONNEL POLICY AND ALL PROCEDURES RELATED THERETO AND AUTHORIZATION OF THE CONTINUED USE THEREOF.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Monty, seconded by Mr. Hughes and duly adopted.

RESOLUTION #9 – APPOINTING AN ESSEX COUNTY MANAGER.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Monty, seconded unanimously and duly adopted.

MONTY: I would just like to say offering Mr. Mascarenas as County Manager is to me a no brainer. Michael has done a phenomenal job since he took over for Mr. Palmer. He works well with each and every one of us here. Works well with Shaun. Has the best interest of the constituents of Essex County by making sure that we are doing everything that we should be to direct the finances where they should go. Mike, congratulations. I think there is no better choice.

STANLEY: I would like to just add everything Mr. Monty said but also adding forward thinking, really thinking down the road and making the decisions now so we don’t have to think about it five years down the road. Thank you.

DELORIA: I’m going to go out on a limb here and ask for a unanimous second for Mike’s appointment.

GILLILLAND: Unanimous second? Thank you. Congratulations.

MASCARENAS: Thank you.

GILLILLAND: You may go up and take your oath. So, I second all the remarks. Working with Mike I think almost every day, five days a week some days seven days a week I speak with Mike. He calls me or I call him and from my point of view I think we make a great team. I don’t know if he believes that or not but he is the best that I’ve seen and I think any civil servant that I have ever worked with so I see here he has a few remarks. I’m going to give the courtesy of the floor over to Mike for a few minutes.

MASCARENAS: I really don’t have any remarks. This is a resolution that needs to come from the floor because it is really about the work and the business quite frankly but just to say quickly, I appreciate the support not only from this board but from the department heads that we work with daily. I will say a decade ago I don’t know if I even would have wanted this job. It was very contentious. You all make it worthwhile and your wiliness to listen and wiliness to take chances and work with one another in a way that is respectful means a heck of a lot to me so I do appreciate it and the next two years we’ve got a lot of work to do and we’ll continue moving forward so thank you. I appreciate your support.

RESOLUTION #10 – APPOINTING MARY MCGOWAN AS ESSEX COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS DEMOCRATIC COMMISSIONER.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Stanley, seconded by Mr. Wilson and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

GILLILLAND: Discussion?

MANNING: I just would like to educate you on the process and many of you probably know the process but every time we do this it gets a little, there are questions. As you probably know each of the parties, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party submit recommendations for each of these positions. The recommendations once submitted and I think the Republican certificate was submitted on November 21^st, the Democratic certificate was submitted on October 1^st once these certificates are submitted this board has 30 days to act on them up or down in appointing the person that was recommended. Since we passed that 30 day period the next step in the process is that the members of the board of each of the political parties so it is no longer the entire board that would appoint it would be the members of the each political parties Democratic members would appoint the Democratic if they shall so desire the recommended the Republicans would give either a thumbs up or thumbs down on the Republican recommended and the parties each have until January 21^st basically for the Republicans it’s a 60 day period, it looks as though even the Democratic period has expired so for the Democrats basically it would be the province of the Democratic members of the board to appoint but I think as a belt and suspenders the whole board if you are unanimous you could just do that so you cover both bases. Now, so I might not have made this clear 60 days of the filing of the certificate of recommendation the members of the party have the ability to do that if they don’t do that then the process starts all over again with each of the respective parties submitting a certificate of recommendation and then this board has 30 days if the board misses the 30 days or the board fails to act then the party does so you have two rounds of that this probably isn’t going to happen and then after those two rounds then it falls back upon the party and then finally if the party doesn’t appoint the constitution says it gets bounced back to the full board that’s probably like alphabet soup what I just stated in this situation though with the Democratic Board of Election Commissioner if there’s unanimous approval and unanimous approval from the party then that should suffice. If not, then you still have the Republicans would have until January 21^st and the Democrats would have to act today so that’s where we are at. So to make it easy I’d ask the full board vote on the Democratic Board of Election Commissioner and within that are the Democratic members of the board.

GILLILLAND: So we are going for a full board vote?

MANNING: Yes.

GILLILLAND: Any further discussion? Being none, roll call please.

MANNING: The record should reflect all members of the board that are Democrats voted in favor so that is sort of a belt and suspenders just in case. The second resolution appointing the Republican Board of Election Commissioner so same process. Certificates were filed. This board did not make a determination within 30 days of the filing of the certificates. The Republican certificates were filed on November 21^st you would then make a decision before December 21^st so then what happens is it devolves back to the members of the Republican Party on the board, they have 60 days from the filing of that certificate and 60 days of the filing of that certificate ends on January 21^st which has not occurred so the ball is now in the court of the Republican members of this board. It’s my understanding that the Republican members have met in caucus and at this time did not make a decision on the recommended Republican Election Commissioner in a caucus so at this point this resolution would be premature so you can either table it or we can –

GILLILLAND: Does it need a table because there is no action. It would just be withdrawn right?

MANNING: Yes, withdraw.

GILLILLAND: We don’t need a resolution to withdraw right? Okay. Would the Democratic Commissioner come forward to be sworn in?

RESOLUTION #11 – AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A SUBRECIPIENT AGREEMENT WITH NORTH COUNTRY RURAL DEVELOPMENT TO ACT AS SUBRECIPIENT OF ESSEX COUNTY’S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT (CDBG) UNDER THE HOUSING TRUST FUND, (PROJECT #382-HR327-24) FOR HOUSING REHABILITATION PROGRAM.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Wright, seconded by Mr. Stanley and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

GILLILLAND: Discussion?

MASCARENAS: Just a quick change the initial contract that was going through late Friday afternoon and the contract from CDBG was incorrect the amount that is listed $367,500.00 is not correct in the resolution it should be $700,000.00 it wasn’t an error on Mr. Manning or an error on the Clerk of the Board that’s the way the State sent it, it was wrong they revised it we got it this morning so the amount should read $700,000.00 there.

GILLILLAND: Thank you.

MCNALLY: Just wondering on these grants how do we select who is going to administer these grants for us?

MASCARENAS: Initially you did a resolution I want to say several months ago now that authorized the applicant which did the application work for us and were successful in receiving that grant. It doesn’t mean you have to it means that once received you go through that process again if something has changed but it typically means that you would award it to those who did the application work for you.

GILLILLAND: Further discussion? Being none, roll call please.

RESOLUTION #12 – AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASING AGENT TO AWARD BID/RFP TO VENESKY TRAINING & SUPPORT SERVICES, LLC, FOR INDIRECT COST REPORT FOR YEARS 2024, 2025 AND 2026.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Brassard, seconded by Ms. Reusser and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

GILLILLAND: Discussion?

DOTY: Just an explanation?

MASCARENAS: Yeah so basically we do an indirect cost report on an annual basis. We use this as a claiming mechanism for New York State. A large part of our county complex is eaten up by DSS employees is a really good example of that we are doing work on behalf of the State of New York. We are then able to take that indirect cost report that Venesky supplies us and seek reimbursement from the State on space allocations so it’s those costs that we are able to put numbers to that don’t necessarily always have numbers and their methodology is recognized by the State of New York and accepted as a good process to claim those funds.

DOTY: Is it a mandated report?

MASCARENAS: It’s not but if we didn’t do it we would lose out on a lot of funding the Public Health, DSS those agencies that have space in our building there’s a recommendation process that allows us to use.

GILLILLAND: It’s very powerful data if we didn’t have it we would not been able to execute or get the State Police in the Public Safety Building because that was the data that was used.

DOTY: Thank you.

MCNALLY: Looking down the road now that the jail is being removed is this the same company that would possibly deal with to get money for a new social services building?

MASCARENAS: Yes, they are the ones did the maintenance report for us several years ago when we were looking at potentially building a new DSS facility and again, they are very well versed with doing these things with the laws that we are forced to comply with the State of New York so they did do that for us, those numbers would need to be updated because costs have changed but we could certainly ask them to do that.

MCNALLY: I think we should be seriously looking at a program for the future of that building. One, the DSS building is an old building, it’s not the optimal spot for employees or to attract employees to have them work in a basement for an entire thirty year career.

MASCARENAS: Yeah, I’ll share the old report with the board and see if that’s what you are kind of looking at and are interested in and we can move on from there.

MCNALLY: Thank you.

GILLILLAND: Thank you. Further discussion? Being none, roll call please.

RESOLUTION #13 – RECOGNIZING LONG-TERM EMPLOYEES OF ESSEX COUNTY.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Gillilland, seconded unanimously and duly adopted.

GILLILLAND: Is there any motions or business from the board?

BRASSARD: I’d just like to make a motion of condolences to the family of Kenneth Bobbie. Kenny worked for the Town of Moriah retired as Water and Sewer Superintendent for years and then after that worked seasonal at our campground. He just passed away last week.

RESOLUTION #14 - OF CONDOLENCE TO THE FAMILY OF KENNETH J. BOBBIE.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Brassard, seconded unanimously and duly adopted.

GILLILLAND: Thank you.

TYLER: I would like to offer a resolution of congratulations to Arthur Donaldson in Westport. He is turning 100 years old. We are having a celebration for him this Saturday.

RESOLUTION #15 - OF CONGRATULATIONS TO ARTHUR DONALDSON, SR. ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 100^TH BIRTHDAY.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Tyler, seconded unanimously and duly adopted.

GILLILLAND: Anything further?

MASCARENAS: I have one Mr. Gillilland. A resolution authorizing a contract amendment with JFP Enterprises in an amount not to exceed $25,795.00, for new carpet, paint throughout the Essex County Judge’s Chambers with funds to come from New York State Court System and further authorizing the County Manager or County Manager to sign the contract amendment.

RESOLUTION #16 - AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT AMENDMENT WITH JFP ENTERPRISES IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,795.00, TO COME FROM NEW YORK STATE COURT SYSTEM AND BUDGETED FUNDS.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Clark, seconded by Ms. Reusser and adopted upon a roll-call vote as follows:

AYES: 2689 votes

NOES: 0 votes

ABSENT: 164 votes (Harrington)

GILLILLAND: Discussion? Being none, roll call please. Any further business from the board? I would like to request an executive session to discuss results of the jury panel deliberations ongoing and some legal advice therein. Moved by Mr. Wright, second by Mr. Brassard. We are now in executive session. Thank you.

THE BOARD MOVED INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 10:45 A.M. TO DISCUSS

RESULTS OF THE JURY PANEL DELIBERATIONS AND LEGAL ADVICE

AND MOVED BACK INTO OPEN SESSION AT 11:04 A.M.

GILLILLAND: I note the time is 11:04 a.m. we are out of executive session at this time. No particular decisions were made. I would like to go ahead and offer a resolution concerning portraiture policy for the courthouse and that this board result in delegating the authority for the administration of portraiture policy in the courthouse to preside with Judges with permanent chambers in the courthouse.

RESOLUTION DELEGATING TO THE SITTING COUNTY COURT JUDGE AND SITTING SUPREME COURT JUDGE, AS THE CASE MAY BE, THE AUTHORITY TO DETERMINE WHERE PORTRAITS OF PREVIOUS COUNTY OR SUPREME COURT JUDGES ARE TO BE HUNG.

This resolution was moved by Mr. Monty, seconded by Ms. Wood and duly adopted.

GILLILLAND: Discussion? All in favor, opposed – carries. That is all the business I have. Is there anything more to come before the board? Thank you very much ladies and gentlemen. Happy New Year.

As there was no further discussion to come before this organizational meeting it was adjourned at 11:05 a.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Judith Garrison, Clerk

Board of Supervisors