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and Ruby 241 of Macler.

Like note the supervisor present include the supervisor and Malice and Whitehall District.

Supervisor Night Galloway of Rio District, Supervisor Anthony Keel from the Jack Drew District, Supervisor Dew with Mr.

Curtin, the Red Dennis District, and Supervisor Mike Prudel.

Scott Fillter's myself, Jim Andrews representing the Samuel Miller district forum is present.

We're also joined here by our county executive, Mr.

Jeff Richardson, and County Attorney and Mr.

Steve Rosenberg and our clerk, Ms.

Clark Orgerson.

Obviously, uh, we uh also have many staff as we go.

Uh please let me also welcome Almond County police officers present, uh serving Lieutenant Angela Jamerson and Master Police uh Officer Dana Reeves.

Uh we thank you for your service today and every day on the Africa community, thinking that's safe.

Um before I begin, before we begin, let me remind people to uh staff and guests to please introduce yourselves prior to speaking and uh to let everyone know that the microphones are in the ceiling, so speak up literally.

Um at this point, uh we'll turn the meeting over to uh the ready woman, our assistant chief financial officer.

Thank you to the chair for the introduction and uh good afternoon to the board.

Uh today is budget work session number three on the county executives recommended fiscal year 25 budget.

Uh we will continue today with some items in the general fund and then uh start the CIP and vet chapters.

Um anything we're not able to finish today, we'll pick up on Monday for I'm sorry, Monday, the 25th.

Um, and then uh the work session of the 27th is when the board will be asked to take action to propose a budget and tax rates or advertisement.

To take a closer look at the agenda today.

Uh the board of supervisors has uh requested some additional time to discuss the sheriff's office request.

We're gonna follow that up to finish the non-departmental chapters that we were not able to get to on Monday, including some uh discussion around the tax relief of the elderly and disabled programs.

That's a discussion that really started on December 13th, and we'll continue today, leading to eventual board action and the public hearing on that item.

Uh, we'll then continue with a discussion of the biorescue system.

Um, Deputy Chief David Bucket here will walk through some data.

And uh he's that's what the uh maps are related to that item.

And then we'll uh come back to kind of recap the general fund.

Uh that may be a good time for the break if the board desires, and then we'll come back and start on the CIP.

But certainly that break, depending on the timing of how things are adjusted, we can move that.

So uh I'm going to kick off things uh very briefly on the sheriff's office item.

Uh Sheriff Bryant is here today, and we'll be doing the bulk of this presentation, but just to uh provide a recap for the board.

There were two unfunded requests that were uh not included in the county executive's recommended budget.

Uh the court's complex security.

This was a request initially submitted by the sheriff, and it's this is not about the merit of the request, it's just about the timing of the request.

There's a sequencing of events that will happen as the courthouse opens, and we expect these positions will be needed, just not in fiscal year 25.

So we would expect those will come back at another.

Uh the second request was uh 4.5 FTEs for uh temporary detention orders.

Uh this would be uh these are the amounts not included in the fiscal year 25 recommended budget.

There's a portion of one time for the vehicles and the other outfits, um, outfitting of those officers, and then the ongoing portion we can see in fiscal year 25 and 26 in the total.

Uh so at this point, uh, I will turn it over to Sheriff Bryant for uh her presentation.

Uh I'll say Sheriff Bryant, you're welcome to either stand or join us at the seat next to us, and I do have a clicker for you in the slides, or if you would give me a sign, that would do in the presentation.

So click that button, that will advance the slides for you.

Well, Eric Ray.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, board members, for giving me the opportunity to come to present um our request for positions for TDO and to answer any questions that you have.

So the very first thing, in case some of you don't know your E to the board, you might not know what we do at the sheriff's office.

So the first thing I want to bring your attention to is actually the code of Virginia that actually is the transport of TDO patients rely on the primary law enforcement agency, which is the county PD.

We are in an MOU with the county PD that we provide those transport form to keep their police officers in the county to anti-fossal service.

And that's the same for juveniles and adults.

So what I did for the last three years is I collected collected data from our actual transports that we performed over the last three years.

We admitted 19 and 20 because of COVID, and the numbers weren't realistic because everybody's shutting down and staying at home.

So and this was the information that was gathered.

The issue time of the TDO, the time that we responded and the return time, the location of where we started, and where we ended up the hospital with throughout the Congress of Virginia, and the cost of mileage and the deputy's cost.

So each transport requires two deputies to respond to take a mental patient from the hospital to the receiving facility.

So out of all that data collected over the last three years, this is the breakdown of TDOs that happened during the day or during the day of the week.

So you can see the breakdown of the percentages.

The majority of the TDOs happen during the weekday is during our operation time, Monday through Friday.

And that's just a little chart to show you when the most come in.

Tuesdays for some reason is a high call volume for TDOs to be transported, as well as Fridays.