Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to Making Bip County Commission special call meeting.

Today is uh Tuesday, March the twenty-fourth, and a time is approximately four thirty.

I'd like to welcome everyone here today and call this meeting to order.

Uh, we do have everyone in attendance uh in person and on the telephone.

Uh we have two board members that are at Pension uh training, uh Mr.

Paul Bronson and our mayor pro Tim Vower Wynne, and they're with us by telephone.

So uh like to fishly call this meeting to order, and then we'll begin with the approval of the minutes.

The approval of the minutes is the minutes from March the eighteenth, two thousand twenty-six pre-commission meeting uh and commission meeting second motion to approve.

Got a motion by Commissioner Stewart, got a second.

Second by Commissioner Bailey.

All those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

Opposed, nay.

That motion carries unanimously.

Gonna move on to new business.

We have two items, new business tonight.

The uh first is a resolution of Making Bibb County Commission authorizing the acceptance of discretionary grant from the Peyton Anderson Foundation in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars with no local match to be used for the Bibb County Sheriff's Office to implement a community program for emotional wellness and conflict management.

Uh, I think that's the props program.

We appreciate the sheriff others being here tonight.

Uh that is a no match, and that's for uh several seminars, and you've got the items attached to you by the company that will be doing that, and that's for conflict and anger uh management.

Mr.

Stewart, do you have a question, sir?

Sure, we'll add to Coach Monster.

Uh so this time I entertain a motion to approve.

Got a motion by Cato, second by Bailey or vice versa.

Uh all and all those in motion.

Oh that's you, Protestant.

You got the third there, buddy.

So we have a motion and second.

All those in favor of the motion, please say aye.

Opposed, nay.

That motion carries.

Thank you very much.

So we're gonna move on to the next item of business.

This is a resolution of Making Bibb County Commission requesting the Making Bible County Board of Elections issue a call for a special election to be held on May nineteenth, two thousand twenty-six to fill the balance on the unexpired term of office for the vacant district two seat on the Making War Authority Board to set the qualifying fees thereof.

Uh, Commissioner Stewart, you have a question, sir.

I did.

I wanted to find out uh, you know, first and foremost, uh the first thing, the very first thing is I know we have to take care of business, even though we don't have district five at this at the table right now.

Uh, but I would love to this is the second time in a row.

We had code enforcement last time and now uh the situation with a special election.

I would love to have the people of district five to be able to be at the table for that.

But I uh I want to go on to say this also.

I want to find out the legality of this.

I guess I have to ask Michael that, but I want to ask first of all uh from uh Commissioner Wynn and Commissioner Howell since you all serve on that on that board, and you report back to us.

We appreciate you all doing that.

Uh, have you all voted on this?

And in other words, has it been uh put out there as a motion?

Has it been second and passed as a board before it comes to us?

But I don't think commissioners gonna answer that question as a legal question.

I asked you directly to the attorney.

So uh I don't think there's a relevant of that, but I don't you have to excuse, excuse me.

Yeah, we'll let the charge reasonably and you can have a follow-up if you want.

I'd like to have the legal advice, please.

Uh thank you, uh Commissioner Stewart.

So this came to us um by a request from Chairman uh Gary Bechtel of the Water Authority.

Um we had a conversation last week when he sent this request with uh myself, the law, the lawyer for the water authority, Jay Strickland, as well as the lawyer for the board of elections, William Nolan.

Um the charter for the water authority, the governing document that was passed in 1992 by the state law says um, and it's it's in the resolution, but I'll go ahead, I'll read the language.

It says, um, should a vacancy occur among the elected members of the authority with respect to a term having more than 120 days to run, which this term has two years left in it, so that that covers this.

The remaining members of the authority shall forthwith notify the judge of the probate court who shall appoint a qualified person to serve until the next general election, which the next general election is the May 19th, uh general nonpartisan election, at which time a successor shall be elected for the unexpired term.

And so that language in the water authority charter is um self-executing, it's automatic.