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Good morning, everyone.

And welcome to the December ninth, twenty twenty-five Board of Commissioners meeting.

I am Joanne Burrell, your district three commissioner, but today acting as vice chair this year.

Um, I will be presiding over the meeting in the chairwoman Cupid's absence.

So welcome.

I'd like to ask um Pastor Godbold to come up and give us an invitation.

And followed by Ranger Higgins, I believe is in the back to lead us in the pledge.

If you will please stand.

Good morning, and thank you for having me here.

It is a joy and an honor to be with you and to open this session in prayer.

Um, I want to begin with a brief reading from the prophet Isaiah in the Old Testament.

There shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch from his roots shall bear fruit.

The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord.

And his delight shall be in the fear of the Lord.

He shall not judge by what his eyes see or decide disputes by what his ears hear, but with righteousness he shall judge the poor and decide with equity for the meek of the earth, and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.

Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist and faithfulness the belt of his loins.

The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat, and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together, and a little child shall lead them.

The cow and the bear shall graze, their young shall lie down together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

The nursing child shall play over the whole of the cobra, and the winged child shall put his hand on the adder's den.

They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain, for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

And in that day, the root of Jesse, who shall stand as a signal for the peoples, of him shall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.

Let's pray.

Father, we thank you for this day.

We thank you for this opportunity to be together and to work together.

And Lord, we pray for your wisdom and your direction.

We pray for a spirit of counsel and might and for the pursuit of justice and the pursuit of peace and the pursuit of righteousness to be found throughout our community, but especially in our leaders.

And so, Lord, we pray your blessings on them.

We pray your blessings on this hour and this gathering together, and Lord, we pray that you would direct and guide that you would watch over our community.

We thank you so much for it.

We thank you for the opportunity to live in community together and work toward the common good together and work in love toward our neighbor as we love ourselves.

And so, Lord, we pray that you would be with us, that you would watch over these that uh that have work to do.

We pray your blessings and wisdom on them, and we pray in the name of Jesus.

Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty, justice for all.

Thank you, Pastor Godbold.

We appreciate you being here, and of course, Ranger Higgins, thank you.

So, our first uh presentation is to make a wish, Georgia, and that will be presented by Commissioner Gamble.

Anyone with the Make a Wish Foundation, please come up and would all of our volunteers also join us, or if you participated in the race, Cassie.

Melissa, the volunteer Kate, Kate, all of the E nine one volunteers E911 volunteers.

Yes, Major Buller.

Major Bullock, thank you.

Great.

Thank you.

For 20 years, Cobb County Department of Public Safety has hosted a Make a Wish 5K to raise funds for Cobb children battling critical illnesses.

DPS partners with Make a Wish, Georgia, to help bring life-changing wishes to local kids.

This year's race was held Saturday, October 4th, with 1,053 participants lacing up for the cause.

Research has shown that a wish can renew hope, live spirits, and give children the strength to fight and everc overcome a critical illness.

And the total raised this year was fifty-three thousand dollars.

And it is my understanding this is the most that we have ever raised for your organization.

And with that, I'd like to ask Director Register to say a few words.

Thank you, Commissioner.

I just want to say uh to Lindsay in Make a Wish, Georgia, what a great uh impact you have in a lot of lives throughout the year.

And thank you for the opportunity of letting us partner with you.

And thank all the other people that were involved the last couple of years in the race, you know, the public safety uh personnel.

But one person I really want to uh recognize is Dra Watts.

She is really stepped up to the plate last year and spearheaded the race, but she made it 10 times better this year, and without her, I don't think it it would have been as successful.

So Didra, I'm gonna give you the mic.

Thank you guys.

Before I make my comments, I want to introduce the people that make this possible for us, not only our volunteers, but our sponsors and Mr.