The SPLOST Resident Review Committee met on August 28, 2026, to review spending in Category A (Public Safety) under the SPLOST I and II programs. The meeting featured presentations from the Director of Public Safety, Police Chief, Interim Fire Chief, and Animal Services Director, followed by committee questions and public comments. The committee also conducted routine business including agenda adoption, minutes approval, and adoption of the annual report outline.
Good evening, fellow committee members, residents joining us here in online county staff. It's my pleasure to call our August meeting to order. Today's meeting is all about spending category A public safety. Um today we're joined by director of public safety Daryl Fulton, Chief of Police Gregory Paddock, uh interim fire chief melvin Carter, Animal Services Director Natasha Walton. Um today's presentation will focus on how public safety category uh spendings have been allocated, um, mainly on end-of-life facilities, um updating older buildings and plannings for future expansion. Um, followed by the presentation, we'll hold a committee QA where presenters uh will answer questions uh from the committee members, and then we'll have a public comment section where we really want to keep our comments focused on spending category A uh SPLOSS II initiatives. Um again, we can't thank the public enough for coming out and and ready to be being ready to share their their voices. Um with that being said, uh we do have some uh initiatives as our uh August wraps up. We've been working towards our yearly report. Um, and there are some other um business actions that we will have. So with that being said, we will um take a roll call starting from right, and we'll go this way. Uh Rebecca Perkins, district one, Stephen Benny, uh CEO. Pam Middleton, District Five. Gerald Austin, CEO. James Coch, District Six. We have a quorum. So our first order James. I don't know if you can hear me. This is Jamie Dutrow, District 2. Hey. We hear you loud and clear. I've had to join uh virtually. Thank you very much. Larry's gonna be back to shape. Uh Larry Lowe is also going to be trying to check in and uh uh yeah, so we have a quorum. Um our first order of business today is to adopt the August meeting agenda. Um does everybody have the copy in front of them? Yeah. Are there any proposed amendments? Seeing none, are there motions to adopt the agenda? Yes, sir. Which agenda are we using today? Uh we are using the August agenda that was uh provided to us. That goes until eight, or that goes until 8 30. So um Gerald mentioned that we do reserve the right to extend the meeting if we need to go over. Um again, we can use this like timeline um loosely um we really want to cover the full 45 minutes of presentation. We have 30 minutes of business. Uh if we get through the business earlier, the meeting, the presentation starts earlier, public comment starts earlier, we're out by eight. So subjectively, we can get out here. All of our meetings have been going to about 8 15. So however you want to come. It is the it is in the zone of nebulousness. I think that's fair. As a point of clarity, it's not that we can arbitrarily extend. We have to uh really uh as a committee, we have to really decide whether or not we want to do that and then go through the process. So basically, the stated time is from 6 uh 30 to 8 p.m. And we can't just arbitrarily do that. So the stated time actually in the preliminary uh layout, it was actually stated 8:30, but that was incorrect. So it has been corrected, and we'll go by the standing order. I would just like to make one further statement, and I think that anybody from the public who has taken the time to come here should have the right to speak on any subject that they desire.