The Infrastructure and Regulation (INR) Committee met on March 11, 2025, to discuss personnel changes, routine road acceptance, and several ordinances including board term alignment, conveyance of the former Cochrane School to the American Legion, removal of a portion of the Highway 544 overlay, and standardized airport storage permits. The meeting opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance.
Everyone, time for us to start our INR meeting for the month of March. We appreciate everyone coming at this time. If you could all stand, we're gonna have indication and pledge. Let us pray. Praise God. Heavenly Father, we're so thankful to have the opportunity to come together here today. Help us and encourage our hearts. Help us, dear Lord, to be so thankful for all of your safety upon all of these folks who have worked so hard over the past fires that we have had, Lord, their safety. Encourage them and uplift them. Continue to keep thy hands upon each and every one and each and every household represented here, all of our county employees and our citizens. Help us so that we might be able to help each other. And we'll praise you and honor you for we ask it all in the name of Christ our Savior. Amen. Attention to the flag. And to the Republic, which is a nation. Thank you very much. And as we go down, we do not have any public input this morning, so we need a motion for the approval of the agenda contents, any questions, addictions, etc. So move. Seconded. All in favor. And approval of the minutes from our last February 11th meeting. So move. Seconded. All in favor. Under discussion items, we're going to ask Mr. David Gilworth, our Ciscent County Administrator. We're going to yield to him a few minutes because he won't explain the email that he sent out to us reference structure. New structure. Mr. Gillard. Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to take this opportunity to uh speak about what I emailed you earlier last week. We have changed the structure of the infrastructure regulation division just a touch and added a position that will take some load off of me. It will allow me to focus more on the infrastructure because y'all, as y'all know, we have a little bit of infrastructure coming up. And so we created a position called the regulatory services director, which will be responsible obviously for the regulation part of our division, which is uh we have chosen Tom Broth to fill that role. You all know Tom, he is a well-seasoned, well-worn, uh known quantity, and has been a great leader in our in our group since 2006, I believe. Um so Tom's going to be running, not running, but uh overseeing the planning and zoning department, the code enforcement department of storm and uh fleet services as the cherry on top. Um so I appreciate him doing that. Uh like I said in the email, you I'm always here. Uh, if you have something that's pertaining mostly to those uh departments, welcome and encouraged to reach out directly to Tom. Uh but never hesitate to get in touch with me. Uh I will still be involved in most of all the major initiatives there, but the day-to-day parts of it, I need to pull myself out of a little bit. Since Tom has moved up, uh we have uh selected Brandon Wagner, who is a was the deputy stormwater manager to become the stormwater manager for uh Brandon has been with us for about four years now. Uh he is one of the sharpest folks I know and knows the regulations top and bottom and is respected in his industry uh by his peers statewide. Uh has a lot of experience before he came to us uh being a stormwater manager as a consultant, I think, uh, for a couple of municipalities. So this is nothing new to him. Uh we appreciate him doing that. And on the sadder side, uh this is the last meeting.