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580 Live 10-08-2024 · The Dave Allen Show

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  Speaker 2: The country, the United States of America, the state West Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: Bulon Dave Allen, Hey, folks on Wednesday morning. Can you
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  Speaker 3: dot com. All right, so special session wrapped up late
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  Speaker 3: last night's but the debate continues on that. Coming up
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  Speaker 3: a little bit later on, We're going to get the
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  Speaker 3: low down for Sidney Finance Chair Eric Tarr. He was
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  Speaker 3: he and the others all at the Capitol late last night,
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  Speaker 3: but he's already up making the rounds this morning. Senator
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  Speaker 3: Tar will join us a little bit later on in
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  Speaker 3: the show. We can tell you, of course, from the
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  Speaker 3: top that the Senate passed compromise between the governor and
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  Speaker 3: the legislative body. It'll be two percent. We know that
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  Speaker 3: since now instead of five the build out officially has
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  Speaker 3: to be signed off on by the governor. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: into that. Plus this judicial annex project that's been undertaken
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  Speaker 3: by Canawak County, well they've hit a couple of roadblocks
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  Speaker 3: about that, mainly because of money. Not but they're out
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  Speaker 3: of money, don't get me wrong, anything like that. But
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  Speaker 3: it came in as a little bit more than what
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  Speaker 3: I think they projected. Kanaga Anty Commissioner Bnsolanka's going to
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  Speaker 3: join us to talk about that a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 3: Plus I got several other things I want to get
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  Speaker 3: into as well. I do want to start this morning
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  Speaker 3: note with a sad note from the world of broadcasting,
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  Speaker 3: particularly to this market and even even to this building.
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  Speaker 3: Jack Kine has passed away. He was a longtime fixture
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  Speaker 3: in the television market, having anchored and reported at both
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  Speaker 3: WCHS Television Note Relation and WOWKTV thirteen. He also hosted
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  Speaker 3: an afternoon show here in WCCHS Radio for a time.
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  Speaker 3: Passed away last night at the age of seventy seven
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  Speaker 3: in Myrtle Beach with his family by his side. He
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  Speaker 3: was a a true broadcaster in every sense of the word,
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  Speaker 3: from radio to television. I mean, the guy worked in
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  Speaker 3: New York. He just he did it all in the
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  Speaker 3: world of broadcasting. I did not know him well, but
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  Speaker 3: you would be hard pressed to find anyone in our
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  Speaker 3: business to say anything bad or negative about Jack Kane,
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  Speaker 3: and trust me, having been in this business for thirty
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  Speaker 3: six years, that is a rarity. So our thoughts and
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  Speaker 3: prayers go out to his family and do his hundreds
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  Speaker 3: of coworkers over the years, and the many that he
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  Speaker 3: mentored as well. I was talking Brian Hughes, the meteorologists
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  Speaker 3: at thirteen and I were at an event this past
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  Speaker 3: Saturday in Saint Albans and we knew that Jack was ill.
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  Speaker 3: Then that's when I first learned about his illness, and
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  Speaker 3: Brian was talking about just the number of people over
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  Speaker 3: the years that Jack kne served as a mentor too,
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  Speaker 3: because he sort of had that kind of quality in
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  Speaker 3: his personality that he wanted to help the young people
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  Speaker 3: as they were coming up in the business. But again,
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  Speaker 3: he's passed away at Myrtle Beach at the age of
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  Speaker 3: seventy seven. Our thoughts and prayers to his family. Jack
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  Speaker 3: Kane certainly a life well lived, as I said, Senator
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  Speaker 3: Ory Guitar coming up a little bit later on also Knocanic,
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  Speaker 3: mister Bensi Lango is here. But first we're going to
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  Speaker 3: talk about the Girl Scouts. Well Gates is here, talk
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  Speaker 3: about but not about cookies, right, and we want to
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  Speaker 3: touch on.
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  Speaker 5: Cookie where we're a little bit too early for cookies.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what is the cookie season by the way, so.
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  Speaker 5: Our cookie season will kick off at the top of
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  Speaker 5: the New year and January.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, so I'll probably have you back on
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  Speaker 3: between now and then to talk about that, hopefully, hopefully hopefully.
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  Speaker 3: But you when you send us an email and you
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  Speaker 3: said that you were kind of making the rounds, I
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  Speaker 3: know you run with Stephen Jenny early this morning, I
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  Speaker 3: think with the rob reeal as well her sister station KWS.
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  Speaker 3: You want to talk about fall products. Okay, Now, most
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  Speaker 3: people when they see that fall products, you think, okay, cookies,
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  Speaker 3: but there's a lot more to it than that. Girl's
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about.
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  Speaker 5: That, so actually we don't offer cookies with this sale.
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  Speaker 5: This is actually the precursor to help our Girl Scouts
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  Speaker 5: sort of build those foundational skills that will set them
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  Speaker 5: up for success. With our Cookie sale, our fall product
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  Speaker 5: program and offers a wide rate, ride range of products.
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  Speaker 5: We have nuts and candies, we have magazine subscriptions, Turvice tumblers,
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  Speaker 5: and for the second year, we're offering bark boxes with
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  Speaker 5: Girl Scout theme dog treats.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get into bark boxes because you had
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  Speaker 3: you automatically have my attention when you say something about pets.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about the bark boxes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So, not only do they also include a delicious
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  Speaker 5: treat for your for like good friend, but we also
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  Speaker 5: have some adorable girl Scout them treats, a Girl Scout beret,
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  Speaker 5: some different badges, I know there was one that had
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  Speaker 5: something to do with belly rubs and it's just super cute,
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  Speaker 5: I mean the best.
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  Speaker 3: And again these products are available, where where do people
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  Speaker 3: get how do they get them?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely so the best way to you know, contribute to
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  Speaker 5: the sale is to reach out to a Girl Scout
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  Speaker 5: that you know and love. But if you're someone that
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  Speaker 5: may not know of a Girl Scout, visit the Girl
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  Speaker 5: Scouts of Black Diamond Council Facebook page. We have links
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  Speaker 5: to help you support the sale and also to get
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  Speaker 5: girls involved in Girl Scouting.
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  Speaker 3: Now, you talked about giving them the foundation to do
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  Speaker 3: the cookie sales. I mean, what does that entail? What
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  Speaker 3: you are you are you giving them sales techniques or
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  Speaker 3: what exactly are you doing?
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  Speaker 5: So anytime we have a product program, we really try
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  Speaker 5: to teach girls five really main skills and that includes,
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  Speaker 5: you know, working with their communities, setting goals, money management,
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  Speaker 5: things like that. It helps girls kind of visualize what
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  Speaker 5: it's like to own a business. Actually, with our Girl
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  Speaker 5: Scout Fall Product sale, each girl that participates has the
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  Speaker 5: option to set up an online site where folks can
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  Speaker 5: go and purchase directly from them. So we have the
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  Speaker 5: traditional order card that folks are familiar with, but also
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  Speaker 5: the online option, and you know, it just really helps
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  Speaker 5: girls gain those you know, experiences that they're not getting
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  Speaker 5: anywhere else.
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  Speaker 3: The Girl Scouts have entered the digital world. I guess
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  Speaker 3: they've been in it for a while, we have. But
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  Speaker 3: you can actually set up an online portal for them,
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  Speaker 3: so just like they're at Amazon or wherever, they can
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  Speaker 3: sell their cookies online.
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  Speaker 5: Now, yes, well it's the Fall product, Fall.
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  Speaker 3: Product, Fall Product but they don't do the cookies online. No,
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  Speaker 3: we do have digit we're not talking about Yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: get ahead on myself. I get aheadup myself. Were start
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  Speaker 3: talking about cookies. But but I'm saying that these products
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  Speaker 3: are available and you you're working with the young ladies
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  Speaker 3: on this, I mean, you're teaching them how to do it. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: I think, And I think that's very important talk about
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  Speaker 3: the role of Girl Scouts in our society in twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four because you know, one of the knocks that
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  Speaker 3: we have on our young people, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: that guy because these young people today, But one of
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  Speaker 3: the knocks that we have on them, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not all on the youngins. A lot of it
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  Speaker 3: goes to the adults as well, is that kids don't
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  Speaker 3: get involved in enough anymore. And these statistics have proven
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  Speaker 3: that kids, if they're involved in anything, whether it's Scouts,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's their church, whether it's sports, whether it's the arts, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: that they are going to turn out to just simply
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  Speaker 3: be better citizens by and large, some exception, but for
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  Speaker 3: the most part. So talk about the role of the
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  Speaker 3: Girl Scouts in our society, the modern day Girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so absolutely modern day girl scouting, it's such a
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  Speaker 5: crucial thing and it's an amazing opportunity for girls to
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  Speaker 5: really find their voice, find their niche, and gain skills
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  Speaker 5: that will set them up for success. Like you said,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, and I think what sets girl scouting apart
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  Speaker 5: from different activities is you know, when we do see
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  Speaker 5: girls get involved with things nowadays, it's very niche. You know,
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  Speaker 5: girls go into sports, so they go into an artistic hobby.
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  Speaker 5: But a girl scouts, we're really trying to provide an
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  Speaker 5: opportunity where girls can try it all. One of the
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  Speaker 5: cornerstones of girl scouting is that it's girl led and
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  Speaker 5: so each of our girl scouts, you know, they have
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  Speaker 5: a voice and saying this is what I want to do,
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  Speaker 5: this is what I want to explore, and these are
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  Speaker 5: you know, the skills that I want to gain. We
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  Speaker 5: have a wide variety of patches and badges that set
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  Speaker 5: them up just for that. And you know, since a pandemic,
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  Speaker 5: we've really tried to sort of cater in on things
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  Speaker 5: that girls may be missing out on when they're at school.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we really have a big focus on mental
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  Speaker 5: health and making sure that girls gain those emotional you
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  Speaker 5: know just sort of foundational skills that help them, you know,
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  Speaker 5: stay mentally sound and healthy. We also get them outdoors
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  Speaker 5: and provide them with like STEM education. So it's just
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  Speaker 5: it's a place where girls can really pick their own
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  Speaker 5: adventure and find what is interesting to them.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm presuming that they still do a lot of
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  Speaker 3: the traditional things that Girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, we love camp. We actually were preparing for a
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  Speaker 5: Fall camp day at one of our camp sites this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: But we also, you know, offer like I said, stem skills.
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  Speaker 5: We really try to focus on life skills, so you
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  Speaker 5: kind of get it all at Girl Scouts.
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  Speaker 3: What are the numbers like with Scouting? I mean not
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  Speaker 3: necessarily locally you can touch on locally you talk about
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  Speaker 3: across America, I mean, or are a girls still doing
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  Speaker 3: this something? Obviously think absolutely so.
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  Speaker 5: At Girl Scouts of Black Diming Council, we have served
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  Speaker 5: sixty one counties across four states. We have a pretty
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  Speaker 5: robust membership, but as always we're really trying to find
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  Speaker 5: and engage dedicated adult volunteers as well as girls to
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  Speaker 5: join our mission.
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  Speaker 3: All right, give us c info again because you said,
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  Speaker 3: I know you have a very active Facebook page and
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  Speaker 3: things of that nature, and and it just kind of
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  Speaker 3: take it from the top and talk about these products
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  Speaker 3: and where people can learn more about them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So visit our Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
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  Speaker 5: Facebook page. You'll find information on all of the Delicious
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  Speaker 5: Fault product programs as well as things like magazine subscriptions
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  Speaker 5: and bark boxes. But you'll also find links to get
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  Speaker 5: girls involved in girl Scouting as well.
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  Speaker 3: And we will have you back to talk cookies. I'm
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  Speaker 3: previews or anything what's coming up or or we wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: save that. I'll save that for you, all right, say that,
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  Speaker 3: And I appreciate you brought me a gift. I appreciate
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  Speaker 3: that as well. Why do I have feelingly doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: cookies in it?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We'll find out. Joelle Gates, I appreciate you being here,
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  Speaker 3: and again, hats off for all the work that you
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  Speaker 3: do because I'm a big believer when we get young
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  Speaker 3: well I mean, for that matter, we get anybody involved
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  Speaker 3: with mentoring or whether it's actual scouts. It's been proven,
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  Speaker 3: as I said, that the kids turn out a lot
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  Speaker 3: much better in the long run, no matter what they're involved.
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  Speaker 3: It's a wonderful organization. Appreciate you being here. Thanks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: and much like you, I'm sure we all have friends
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  Speaker 3: or family or people, you know, people that are down there,
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: even if we don't know anyone down there, Thoughts and
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: prayers are with those people, because this looks like this
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: is going to be what was described on ABC News
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: at the top of the hour, a once in a
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: century type hurricane that is going to hit in that area.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: So Evan Brown for Fox News Radio is on with
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: Hobby to talk about that that's coming up with ten
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: oh six from the Co Insurance Studios and the Dale
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: Miller Building in Morgantown. Want to welcome into the show,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: sender financi s Shear, Eric Tars Andtor Target Warning, welcome.
• 15:25
  Speaker 13: To the show and good morning day great see you again.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: What times you guys get out of there last night?
• 15:28
  Speaker 13: Oh? Man, I got out after ten o'clock sometime last night,
• 15:31
  Speaker 13: so it's in the night before that. I think I
• 15:33
  Speaker 13: was down there till a little after midnight. So it's
• 15:36
  Speaker 13: I'm ready for a nap somewhere the next couple of days.
• 15:39
  Speaker 13: I'm just just going to hit me in.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: A more Well, you're kind of in demand this morning
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: because I know you came in the studio study a
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: little bit early because you were doing a radio interview
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: with the station up north, and we threw in one
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: of our studios downstairs, and I understand our good friend
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: Mark Curtis from WWK is literally standing outside the building
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: right now waiting on you.
• 15:55
  Speaker 13: So hey, yeah, there's a lot of people eager talks.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I was fus one. I want to get
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: you in here. Let's talk about this compromise, and you
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: were on talking about it last week. The governor, you know,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: wanted a five percent decreased. You guys settled on too.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: How did you arrive there?
• 16:12
  Speaker 13: You know, it's when the governor first came out and
• 16:13
  Speaker 13: announced that he was going to do a five percent
• 16:15
  Speaker 13: tax cut. We really hadn't had a conversation with the
• 16:18
  Speaker 13: governor or expected that that was coming. So on a
• 16:21
  Speaker 13: special session, legislators don't introduce bills. It's the governor's as
• 16:24
  Speaker 13: a call, he puts his bills on there. So we said, well,
• 16:26
  Speaker 13: we need to see a plan, okay, So and the
• 16:27
  Speaker 13: plan needs to be reduction of spending, because we already
• 16:30
  Speaker 13: have about one hundred million dollars in reduced taxes that
• 16:32
  Speaker 13: are going to hit this year, and what he was
• 16:34
  Speaker 13: requesting was another one hundred and ten hundred and fifteen
• 16:37
  Speaker 13: you know. So that's that I really didn't see where
• 16:40
  Speaker 13: that was going to come from unless he had some
• 16:41
  Speaker 13: cuts that I really couldn't find somewhere, because I love
• 16:43
  Speaker 13: look for that kind of stuff, you know, the spending
• 16:45
  Speaker 13: reductions in.
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: Government copy refers to you as a budget hawk.
• 16:49
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean it's I mean I don't like paying taxes,
• 16:51
  Speaker 13: you know, So that's and I don't think many people
• 16:55
  Speaker 13: do so, but it's an obligation, you know. We we
• 16:57
  Speaker 13: got to have taxes come in to have government function.
• 17:00
  Speaker 13: But there's efficiencies to be found, and so sometimes it's
• 17:04
  Speaker 13: difficult to get cooperation from executive agencies to get those efficiencies.
• 17:07
  Speaker 13: And so once once I think the governor realized that
• 17:11
  Speaker 13: the only way we were going to get there is
• 17:12
  Speaker 13: if he came in and found some real base spending
• 17:15
  Speaker 13: reductions that we would have had in front of us
• 17:17
  Speaker 13: in the future. Find those, eliminate those, and we'll return
• 17:21
  Speaker 13: those dollars to the taxpayers. That's that's how we got
• 17:23
  Speaker 13: to this compromise. So that that happened, and so I
• 17:25
  Speaker 13: really didn't on the Senate floor. I commended the governor's
• 17:28
  Speaker 13: staff that once we really all got to work, they
• 17:30
  Speaker 13: came in and actually brought the things and started looking
• 17:32
  Speaker 13: in there as a budget where if it was my
• 17:34
  Speaker 13: abill to go in and reduce it, that's some of
• 17:36
  Speaker 13: the first places I'd start looking. And so they brought
• 17:38
  Speaker 13: some real reductions to us.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: And it's and that's good to hear that about what
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: you said about the governor's staff, because I mean, thus
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: face it, Senator, that things have not always been completely
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: rosy with many of the members of the legislative leadership,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: including yourself and Senate President Blair and others. When it
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: comes to relationship with the governor, and I don't know
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: that it's always necessarily been with his staff. I think
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: it was more possibly with him. But I'm glad. I
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: don't want to rehash that, but I do want to
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: say it is nice in this world of where everybody's
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: bickering back forth that we were able to agree on something.
• 18:08
  Speaker 13: I tell you that this has been one of the
• 18:10
  Speaker 13: more productive sessions we had. We really didn't need to
• 18:12
  Speaker 13: come in a week ahead of time, you know, for
• 18:14
  Speaker 13: in September to start this done out. I think that showed.
• 18:16
  Speaker 13: We came in and ran a couple really, really, really
• 18:18
  Speaker 13: easy bills and then recessed until our interims. And so
• 18:21
  Speaker 13: over those two day of interims we had a very
• 18:23
  Speaker 13: effective special session. But you also have to realize we
• 18:27
  Speaker 13: were doing things we normally do in regular session during
• 18:29
  Speaker 13: that special session. Normally, in a regular session we handle
• 18:32
  Speaker 13: surplus items, so the surplus revenues that come in that
• 18:35
  Speaker 13: we apply toward one time spends. We usually do that
• 18:39
  Speaker 13: in regular session. But because the trigger had us a
• 18:43
  Speaker 13: little unsure of what the revenue forecast might be because
• 18:45
  Speaker 13: we didn't know the rate would be until this past
• 18:48
  Speaker 13: October when we got that, So then we can go
• 18:51
  Speaker 13: forward and say, Okay, we know it's a four percent,
• 18:53
  Speaker 13: so now we can do that. We didn't know that
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: in regular session. We didn't know if there's gonna be
• 18:56
  Speaker 13: a callback on some of the federal money around Department
• 18:58
  Speaker 13: of Education. So there was a bunch of so we
• 19:00
  Speaker 13: didn't do the normal surplus section of the budget you
• 19:02
  Speaker 13: would do in a regular sessions. This was that covering
• 19:06
  Speaker 13: that surplus side of it, We had about five hundred
• 19:09
  Speaker 13: and fifty one million when it came right down to it,
• 19:11
  Speaker 13: in surplus dollars available. We spent just a shy five
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: hundred million, I believe, and then there's still money there
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: that we spent that was under under the revenue estimate,
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: about eighty million. So we wanted to make sure that
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: Governor Morcy, very likely to be Governor Morcy is comes
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: in that that he has sufficient revenue to get his
• 19:32
  Speaker 13: new administration started and get working on his plan for
• 19:35
  Speaker 13: the state. We didn't want to hamstring him at all.
• 19:37
  Speaker 13: So I think what we did we were able to
• 19:39
  Speaker 13: come back in. We couple of really big things we
• 19:42
  Speaker 13: pulled down. Made it possible to pull down one point
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: two billion dollars in federal dollars to get fiber to
• 19:48
  Speaker 13: every last house in West Virginia. And that's a requirement
• 19:51
  Speaker 13: by that plan or to plose dollars down. Every last
• 19:53
  Speaker 13: house has to have fiber to it, so or at
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: least passing it they have the other you know, they
• 19:58
  Speaker 13: get the option to connect to it. So that's a
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: five year plan, so we that's probably the last time
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: we'll ever see those dollars. So we got that broadband
• 20:05
  Speaker 13: plan laid out, We got a tax reduction for the
• 20:07
  Speaker 13: people in West Virginia, we got spending controls on the
• 20:10
  Speaker 13: next budget, and then we went through and got a
• 20:14
  Speaker 13: bunch of stuff set aside for the Morsea administration to
• 20:17
  Speaker 13: start working on the additional infrastructure needs of the state.
• 20:20
  Speaker 13: So it's uh and there's several other things through there.
• 20:23
  Speaker 13: We got thirty seven bills through. So it was as
• 20:25
  Speaker 13: a busy couple of days.
• 20:27
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• 20:44
  Speaker 3: overall you say it was a success. I want to
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: ask you about some other things in the session, maybe
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: if you want to touch on a little bit. The
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Childcare Tax.
• 20:50
  Speaker 13: Credit Childcare tax TRUS is another big one came through.
• 20:53
  Speaker 13: It's that one is probably about four point two million
• 20:57
  Speaker 13: dollars of tax credit that would go to an individual
• 21:00
  Speaker 13: who owes taxes to the state of West Virginia. They
• 21:03
  Speaker 13: were able to claim a childcare tax credit against their
• 21:05
  Speaker 13: federal tax return, and theyn claim up to fifty percent
• 21:08
  Speaker 13: of what that federal amount would be on their state taxes.
• 21:12
  Speaker 13: So if you live and work here in West Virginia
• 21:15
  Speaker 13: and you're paying taxes and you're going to owe taxes,
• 21:18
  Speaker 13: you can reduce those taxes for your childcare expenses that
• 21:22
  Speaker 13: you have up to fifty percent of the federal liabel.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: I have a tax question here for you, Sarah. I
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: know you're always good about taking the Texas for the
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: senator with the latest income tax cut, the income tax
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: and sales tax as a percent of state revenue is
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: closer than ever. Will the Senator support a move away
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: from the income tax towards sales taxes? Better to keep
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: the money in my tail and tax consumption and my
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: humble opinion, also, the rainy day fund seems high enough.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: Why not consider a formula for one time returns of surplus?
• 21:49
  Speaker 13: So you know, I mean, I might want to give
• 21:52
  Speaker 13: that caller my numbers. Let's talk. So I'm always open
• 21:56
  Speaker 13: to plans on how we can because it changes. I mean,
• 21:59
  Speaker 13: the whole financial world changes around what happens federally a
• 22:02
  Speaker 13: lot of times on what how you plan for a future.
• 22:06
  Speaker 13: So but if I said this on a show just
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: right before I came here, we're talking about.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: These talks, and I you know, and this is you
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: should have it down by now.
• 22:12
  Speaker 13: So to a lot of your listeners dismay this, I'm
• 22:15
  Speaker 13: sure they're dismayed. This will not happen. But if I
• 22:17
  Speaker 13: were king for a day, So, if I were king
• 22:20
  Speaker 13: for a day, our tax economy would be consumption based.
• 22:23
  Speaker 13: And the reason I say that is that you know
• 22:26
  Speaker 13: that on sales tax when you go through most of
• 22:29
  Speaker 13: that is an elective tax. Once you've paid for the
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: necessities of life, and some of those things would have
• 22:33
  Speaker 13: a sales tax on them, then anything and beyond that
• 22:36
  Speaker 13: that you choose to buy, you're electing to pay that
• 22:39
  Speaker 13: tax essentially by choosing to buy that. So and for
• 22:43
  Speaker 13: the people who just need that, they only can afford
• 22:45
  Speaker 13: the necessities of life. We already pay for that kind
• 22:47
  Speaker 13: of stuff. Your taxes go to support those individuals, so
• 22:50
  Speaker 13: they're cared for at that point. And when you look
• 22:54
  Speaker 13: at the sales tax in West Virginia, twenty percent of
• 22:57
  Speaker 13: it's paid for people that don't live here in West
• 22:59
  Speaker 13: Virginia because you have about forty million people who passed
• 23:01
  Speaker 13: through this state of year, a population of one point
• 23:04
  Speaker 13: eight million people. So you go in and you're double
• 23:06
  Speaker 13: or twenty times at coming through. They're paying sales taxes
• 23:10
  Speaker 13: in West Virginia. So I think that if you get
• 23:13
  Speaker 13: away from these compulsory taxes that are on income, on property,
• 23:19
  Speaker 13: those type things, and you went to a consumption based
• 23:21
  Speaker 13: tax a I'm all in. The thing is, we've tried that,
• 23:26
  Speaker 13: and the legislature was not all in, you know, and
• 23:28
  Speaker 13: that was a couple years ago. I was champion that
• 23:30
  Speaker 13: bill to go in and we tried to increase sales
• 23:33
  Speaker 13: tax to swap out with the personal income tax, knock
• 23:35
  Speaker 13: it out by fifty percent in one swap, and then
• 23:37
  Speaker 13: phase it out over the rest of the time. It
• 23:39
  Speaker 13: crashed and burned when it got out of Senate.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: So Tex says, can you ask the senator how much
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: a person making thirty five thousand dollars a year getting
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: a twenty two percent tax will save on taxes? And
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: there's actually a two part question, so I'll ask that first.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: So the question was, can you ask the senator how
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: much a person making thirty five thousand dollars a year
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: getting a twenty two percent tax we'll save on taxes?
• 24:01
  Speaker 13: Twenty two percent? Well, let me let me change so
• 24:04
  Speaker 13: that to do that exact math in my head here
• 24:06
  Speaker 13: real quick.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I think it's the math ae math in over here. Man.
• 24:09
  Speaker 13: So yeah, so I tell you, maybe I can make
• 24:12
  Speaker 13: it to where it's reasonable to meeting in household income
• 24:15
  Speaker 13: West Virginia, let's go. Let's go. Okay, So the on
• 24:19
  Speaker 13: the median household income it's is sixty thousand and change
• 24:23
  Speaker 13: a year in West Virginia actually went up compared to
• 24:25
  Speaker 13: twenty twenty two a couple thousand a year, So which
• 24:28
  Speaker 13: is good. Our household, our meeting household income is going up.
• 24:31
  Speaker 13: That person is going to see a four A two
• 24:35
  Speaker 13: percent tax reduction is about eighty seven bucks a year
• 24:39
  Speaker 13: for you go in and you add the four percent
• 24:43
  Speaker 13: on top of that, then you're getting up. It's about
• 24:45
  Speaker 13: I think it's two hundred and seventy dollars a year
• 24:47
  Speaker 13: something like that by the time you get the whole
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: six percent in there for the median household income. So
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: it's which doesn't sound like, you know, it's, oh gosh,
• 24:55
  Speaker 13: you can go out buy a new house now right now.
• 24:57
  Speaker 13: That's nobody's even thinks that. But what you've got to
• 25:00
  Speaker 13: realize is that this is a piece of a much larger,
• 25:04
  Speaker 13: very responsible plan to eliminate the personal income tax. So
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: that's so you've got to get there strategically. There's been
• 25:12
  Speaker 13: one state that's ever eliminated their income tax, and it's Alaska,
• 25:16
  Speaker 13: and they're talking about putting it back on right now.
• 25:18
  Speaker 13: The reason that they're talking about putting it back on
• 25:20
  Speaker 13: is they did it on oil, which is incredibly voatile.
• 25:22
  Speaker 13: You know, our severnce tax you cannot based on what.
• 25:26
  Speaker 13: We did not base our income tax phase out on
• 25:28
  Speaker 13: our seven taxes, completely independent of it. So the other
• 25:32
  Speaker 13: states have tried, and I've talked to a lot of
• 25:34
  Speaker 13: the Tax Foundation, a lot of these think tanks out
• 25:36
  Speaker 13: there over the years trying to figure, Okay, what have
• 25:38
  Speaker 13: other states done, what worked, what didn't, why they fail.
• 25:42
  Speaker 13: There's been a plethora of states that have tried to
• 25:45
  Speaker 13: do this and just failed. They had to go back
• 25:47
  Speaker 13: and raise taxes somewhere and now they never did get
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: rid of their income tax. So we looked at those
• 25:52
  Speaker 13: mistakes and said, how can we avoid those in West Virginia.
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: The plan you had before us is the best of
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: the plans that were successful and avoided the one so
• 26:00
  Speaker 13: they had the pitfalls. And so as long as as
• 26:03
  Speaker 13: we have a governor or a legislature that that sticks
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: by this plan, at some point income tax of me gone.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: The same part of that was I thought that somebody
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: may say something about the fact that you referred to
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: the upcoming Morrissey administration. The text was, how do you
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: know who won the governor's race before the election?
• 26:20
  Speaker 13: I'm looking at party registration in the state of Westforgina.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: I mean, look I've said it before. I've had Steve
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Williams on the show before. I've known Mayor Williams for
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a number of years. He's a good guy. I think
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: the same thing with Glenn Elliott. But it's just if
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: you've got a D after your name right now in
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: West Virginia, except for a few house races here and
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: there or whatever, and those are kind of questionable as well,
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: you're just simply not going to get elected. I mean,
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: that's just the way it is. And it doesn't take
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: anything away from those gentlemen and their character or anything
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: like that. They can fight the best fight that they
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: want to fight, but it's not going to happen right now.
• 26:52
  Speaker 13: Agreed. Yeah, you know, it's I don't one thing I
• 26:55
  Speaker 13: can do, and it's one of the reasons to sit
• 26:57
  Speaker 13: in my seat is I can camp. So you know,
• 26:59
  Speaker 13: it's to go through, go through, and to look at
• 27:01
  Speaker 13: the flood of party change coming over even from D
• 27:04
  Speaker 13: d R and how those registrations are happening.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: It's and it's not saying it's going to be that
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: way forever, you know, because nobody ever thought the Republicans
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: would ever take charge. I mean, eighty three years of
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Democrat ruled in West Virginia. Nobody ever in my life,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: haven't you and I are roughly the same age. I
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: never thought that would change. And then you wake up
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: it's twenty fourteen, like, my god, what what just happened here?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: And then it just gets more and more every year
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: and every day in Canaw County is now flipped, and
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: you know, several other counties, and pretty soon every county.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And I said of West Virginia is going to be
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: a red.
• 27:30
  Speaker 13: Count When did you think you'd ever seek an all
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: county I be a red gat Yeah, exactly, yes, I
• 27:35
  Speaker 13: mean that's say it's that's to me, that's not a
• 27:37
  Speaker 13: hard forecast to make.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: Exactly. Texas trying to get rid of income taxes, which
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: is good, but at the same time created a tax
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: credit of course, goes away with no income tax. It
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: seems like a backwards step to eliminate income tax.
• 27:51
  Speaker 13: You know, I have to agree with that. Overall. I'm
• 27:53
  Speaker 13: not a fan of tax credits. So it's on this one,
• 27:57
  Speaker 13: it's very much a compromise bill. You know, when and
• 28:00
  Speaker 13: when we came into this session, we had normally in
• 28:03
  Speaker 13: a regular session we'll pass about three hundred bills. We
• 28:05
  Speaker 13: have about about three thousand bills in these round numbers,
• 28:08
  Speaker 13: and we'll pass about ten percent of those, so about
• 28:10
  Speaker 13: three hundred bills in a sixty day session. So we
• 28:13
  Speaker 13: came in, passed three or four bills, and day one recessed,
• 28:16
  Speaker 13: and then went today to We passed thirty seven bills
• 28:19
  Speaker 13: over this special session over those three days. So that
• 28:23
  Speaker 13: takes a lot of compromise in order to get there.
• 28:25
  Speaker 13: So that's a lot of give and take. And I
• 28:27
  Speaker 13: will tell you that from my personal side. To go
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: in and say, Okay, I'm good with this tax credit
• 28:33
  Speaker 13: in order to get everything else that we got, that's
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: part of compromise. That's a give and take of legislatures.
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: It's a negotiation between one hundred and thirty five people.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Texas. Why focus on fiber to the house when one
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: can get low latency satellite today? State could deploy matching
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: capital elsewhere.
• 28:48
  Speaker 13: Yeah, so this is a federal plan. Well, the couple things.
• 28:54
  Speaker 13: If you have hardwired broad day and access going by
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: any property in West Virginia, property value just went up
• 29:01
  Speaker 13: as opposed to if the only thing you have access
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: is satellite satellite, whether it's using Starlink or it's whether
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: they're using the old huge net. I on even know
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: what that one's called anymore, but you'll hear about that
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: one much more called starlink. I think is a better
• 29:14
  Speaker 13: technology apparently because it's been deployed so much more rapidly.
• 29:17
  Speaker 13: But we've had those discussions, and so when you're looking
• 29:21
  Speaker 13: at the reliability and latency of fiber as compared to
• 29:27
  Speaker 13: a starlink, especially if you're a high data consumption business,
• 29:33
  Speaker 13: you're gonna want fiber. I mean, own own a bunch
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: of businesses and I've had satellite and I've had fiber.
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: I'll take fiber every day. So that property value alone,
• 29:43
  Speaker 13: you get that to every house in West Virginia, and
• 29:45
  Speaker 13: you have somebody who's moving here to look to build,
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: whether it's a business or a home. That's a box
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: that you can check really quick. And once you got
• 29:52
  Speaker 13: that down, now you also have the opportunity for cell service.
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: You can get the five G because sell service runs
• 29:56
  Speaker 13: across the Internet, and so there's areas that we all
• 29:59
  Speaker 13: know that are just celf phone signaled deserts in West Virginia.
• 30:03
  Speaker 13: We get the fiber down, you're going to take care
• 30:05
  Speaker 13: of a lot of those deserts Texas.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: I completely agree with the sales tax based economy. The
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: rich pay more, of the poor pay.
• 30:11
  Speaker 13: Less in the sales tax. Yeah, they would, that's right,
• 30:16
  Speaker 13: you know they would do that because you've got more
• 30:18
  Speaker 13: elective spend with your more well to.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Do people, Texas. The satan needs a certain amount of
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: money to function. What's the difference, where's the source of
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the tax coming from. If we're based on consumption, sales
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: tax will need to be raised to offset whatever income
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: taxes cut either way enough in taxes to get paid
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: to ensure the functions of the state.
• 30:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah, So that's the thing is the government has to function.
• 30:39
  Speaker 13: We all need security with our police force. We need
• 30:43
  Speaker 13: to take care of the people that the state and
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: we have as neighbors we have a moral obligation to
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: take care of. We still got to have roads, we
• 30:49
  Speaker 13: have sewer and water and those type things. So there
• 30:51
  Speaker 13: has to be taxes command and so that those taxes
• 30:54
  Speaker 13: come in in a state are a mix of what
• 30:57
  Speaker 13: you pay as citizens of West Virginia, will you and
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: I pay, and also from what the people across the
• 31:02
  Speaker 13: country pay for federal dollars that come in. The plans
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: come in, So in West Virginia, and we punch above
• 31:06
  Speaker 13: our weight, I'm pulling down the federal dollars too. So
• 31:09
  Speaker 13: we run about twenty billion dollar budget. Of that twenty
• 31:13
  Speaker 13: billion that I think is five point seven billion is
• 31:15
  Speaker 13: actually state tax dollars, So we're pulling down those federal
• 31:18
  Speaker 13: dollars with it. So it's a big hodgepodge of where
• 31:21
  Speaker 13: the revenues come from. Our line's share of it comes
• 31:25
  Speaker 13: from personal income tax that's about forty percent of it.
• 31:28
  Speaker 13: You have sales tax, which is probably about twenty percent
• 31:31
  Speaker 13: of it, and then you have a severance which varies
• 31:34
  Speaker 13: any given year. It could be a large percent or
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: very small percent. So when you start looking at all
• 31:40
  Speaker 13: those tax bases and you look at what is the fairest.
• 31:43
  Speaker 13: To me, a consumption based tax is fairest. And then
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: you also have to look aside from fair competitive and
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: to land companies like the new Course to Land, Berkshire,
• 31:53
  Speaker 13: hath Aways, the Time Mets, and the other big ones
• 31:58
  Speaker 13: that are coming which I can't wait some of these now,
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: that's what it's come out next year. On some of
• 32:01
  Speaker 13: the other stuff we're to working with right now. In
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: order to be competitive there, what West Virginia has to
• 32:06
  Speaker 13: do right now is you got to go out and
• 32:08
  Speaker 13: give these big incentives. And the reason we have to
• 32:10
  Speaker 13: give these big incentives is because our tax structures upside down.
• 32:13
  Speaker 13: If we were competitive at the tax structure, you don't
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: have to go outpay these big incentives to land companies
• 32:17
  Speaker 13: here because it already makes sense. And so we're having
• 32:20
  Speaker 13: to compensate for that, for these one time spends and
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: for having and I got to give Craig Blair the cut.
• 32:26
  Speaker 13: I mean, doing four years of a flat budget. That's
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: Craig Blair's idea. Nobody should get the credit for that
• 32:31
  Speaker 13: but him. He created that and we just carried it through.
• 32:35
  Speaker 13: But for having done that, that produced the one time
• 32:37
  Speaker 13: money is available to go and start getting our taxes
• 32:40
  Speaker 13: fixed and to create surpluses to go in and make
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: these economic incentives that can win big time fortune one
• 32:46
  Speaker 13: hundred companies in West Virginia. So I agree with your
• 32:50
  Speaker 13: I agree with your texture there that there's there's other
• 32:53
  Speaker 13: ways to go about and doing it, and we need to.
• 32:56
  Speaker 13: But it's it's systematic, it's a it's a big ship
• 32:59
  Speaker 13: to turn.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: But Dave Island showing five any line bright to you
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  Speaker 3: want to close with this, Senator. I had the opportunity
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: to hear you speak at a gathering of business leaders
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: last week, and it was very obvious in your remarks
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: that you're very hopeful about the future of West Virginia.
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: Why I got a two part question here for you, okay,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Why all the optimism? Not that I disagree with you,
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: but why all the optimism? And you mentioned these companies,
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: the New Cores and the Berkshire Hathaways and all these
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: when you are talking to these people, what do they
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: ask of the state? Because I know you and Mitch
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: Carmichael and Senator Blair and several others are all parts
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: of these of these negotiations to get in here? What
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: do these companies? Number one? But make sure write this down, okay,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Number one, trying to get it all in here? Why
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: are you so optimistic about West Virginia? And Number two?
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: What do these companies that we've landed, what do they
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: look for? And what do you in turn sell them?
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: To get people to come to West Virginia twenty seconds. No,
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: I'm kidding.
• 33:58
  Speaker 13: Go ahead, okay, go ahea. I tell you what the
• 34:01
  Speaker 13: optimism is is because I tell you from sitting inside
• 34:03
  Speaker 13: West Virginia, and when you can't you don't have the
• 34:06
  Speaker 13: perspective from outside of West Virginia. We know what we
• 34:09
  Speaker 13: want other people to see, but sometimes we don't see
• 34:11
  Speaker 13: it in ourselves. And what I've got to see in
• 34:14
  Speaker 13: talking to CEOs that have companies all around the world,
• 34:17
  Speaker 13: is they come in and say, you are shining on X,
• 34:21
  Speaker 13: Y and Z things that we've done over since two thousand.
• 34:23
  Speaker 13: Really back twenty twelve. I can't and I'd love for
• 34:25
  Speaker 13: Republicans take all the credit. But sometime before we've had
• 34:29
  Speaker 13: some things happening even before that that were starting us
• 34:31
  Speaker 13: on that path. And so but since twenty twelve, really,
• 34:34
  Speaker 13: if you look there about that time, we've done a
• 34:37
  Speaker 13: lot of things that make us very competitive to business.
• 34:40
  Speaker 13: And they come and they announced that to us. So
• 34:42
  Speaker 13: when you start, when you have enough fortune, one hundred
• 34:44
  Speaker 13: CEOs who come in just grinning ear to ear, saying
• 34:48
  Speaker 13: you've done this right, and we need a sight. How
• 34:50
  Speaker 13: do we get in West Virginia. That gives you hope,
• 34:52
  Speaker 13: you know. So that's just something I never thought i'd
• 34:54
  Speaker 13: see in my lifetime. So that's that's one. And it's
• 34:57
  Speaker 13: billions upon billions up beyond billions of investment that that
• 35:02
  Speaker 13: are coming and they are already here and so it's growing.
• 35:05
  Speaker 13: And then I got the people here in West Virginia
• 35:07
  Speaker 13: who are now servicing those clients. Had I had a
• 35:11
  Speaker 13: guy who's a contract lawy the other day. He said,
• 35:12
  Speaker 13: I never thought I'd see a billion dollar contract in
• 35:14
  Speaker 13: my life. He said everything he said, there are billions
• 35:16
  Speaker 13: upon billions sitting on my desk to get done. And
• 35:19
  Speaker 13: that's one attorney. So it's you know, that's a and
• 35:22
  Speaker 13: that's as a contract attorney. So those type things give
• 35:25
  Speaker 13: me incredible hope. And so I'm very bullish in West Virginia.
• 35:28
  Speaker 13: That's one too. As I forecast, and you know, I
• 35:30
  Speaker 13: have to as finance chair, I have to look out
• 35:32
  Speaker 13: six eight years ahead and say, what's it look like.
• 35:35
  Speaker 13: The forecast are good on the out years, they really are.
• 35:38
  Speaker 13: It's a little tight over the next couple of years
• 35:40
  Speaker 13: because of what we had to do to get us
• 35:42
  Speaker 13: there forecast is great. What they tell us so when
• 35:46
  Speaker 13: companies come here, that's I've had a chance to meet
• 35:49
  Speaker 13: some of these people straight off the plane. Very the
• 35:52
  Speaker 13: common thing when they first come off one is is
• 35:55
  Speaker 13: right to work out the courts at Now now it's
• 35:57
  Speaker 13: just known, but as it was starting to happen, they
• 35:59
  Speaker 13: wanted to make sure right to work was law of
• 36:01
  Speaker 13: the land question number one. And so then we'd have
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: to say, yes it is. And before it is even
• 36:06
  Speaker 13: law of the land, let me tell share some companies
• 36:08
  Speaker 13: that run so well that their employees didn't feel like
• 36:13
  Speaker 13: they had to go in and unionize so and so,
• 36:15
  Speaker 13: and they've been that way for lost So you could
• 36:17
  Speaker 13: go and give those examples that gave confidence that they
• 36:20
  Speaker 13: had a labor force that could go in that was
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: going to be happy at work. Okay, So that's one thing.
• 36:28
  Speaker 13: Two is that West Virginia has the lowest attrition of
• 36:34
  Speaker 13: employees and manufacturing in the country. In other words, we
• 36:39
  Speaker 13: have when it comes to manufacturing, West Virginia has the
• 36:42
  Speaker 13: most loyal employees in the country. That's a big thing
• 36:45
  Speaker 13: right now when you look at workforce issues across this country.
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: We have our workforce challenges. And I'll go through and
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: I'll list them all out with anybody who wants to
• 36:52
  Speaker 13: go and list them out. But you've got to take
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: it in perspective the whole country. We don't get to
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: see that a lot. And if you go to attrition
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: as a whole, we're fifth in the country. Those are
• 37:04
  Speaker 13: big things, all right.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: C DI Finance, Cherry Tar, I appreciate you. Go get
• 37:08
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• 37:10
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• 37:11
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I'm gonna go talk to Mark. And hello to everybody,
• 37:13
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• 40:00
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  Speaker 3: for the citizens of West Virginia reducing our taxes. Great job,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: so Eric Tar wins eliminate income tax forty percent of
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: tax revenue and replace it with a sales tax was
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: twenty percent of the revenues. How much sales tax going
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: to be raised to offset the forty percent loss? Tex says,
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: when we all start to talk about the cost of service,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: there's no way infrastructure of Putnam County costs as much
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: as it does in McDowell. The unfortunate truth is certain
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: parts of the state subsidize others. We need to start
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: to have these difficult conversations, says a Texter, speaking of
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: difficult Ben Silango's here, You know, man, I.
• 40:41
  Speaker 15: Think I'm the opposite of difficult. I think I'm easy.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: All right, let me just say this first off the top,
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: and we got some thing serious things we gotta get to.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: I gotta say this, how about them calboys and cowboys?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: You know where I was going with that one.
• 40:52
  Speaker 15: Moore said it twenty seconds left, Dak with the test. Sorry,
• 40:55
  Speaker 15: sorry to break all the Steelers fans hearts.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: All right, So Tony the Taylor, Jared Page, Ray Whiting,
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: I know all these folks listened to the show. Just
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: had to get that off my check. I'm glad Dak
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: apparently forgot that the other four quarters or the other
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: three quarters and ten minutes were there and he said, oh,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: by the way, we need to win this game and
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: he boom boom them touchdown.
• 41:14
  Speaker 15: Criticized him for being efficient. He took three and a
• 41:16
  Speaker 15: half quarters off, decided to play the last half quarter
• 41:18
  Speaker 15: and one.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: We still got a lot of issues with the Cowboys.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: We do, including playing Detroit and San Francisco over the
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: next couple of week.
• 41:25
  Speaker 15: I'm not predicting a Super Bowl.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: No, not at all, not at all. All right, let's
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: talk about the judicial Annex. So first, last time you hear,
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: we explained why we needed an addition on the judicial annex.
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Now we've run I don't want to say we run
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: into problems, but but there's a couple of.
• 41:40
  Speaker 15: Well paying for it's the problem. I would say that
• 41:43
  Speaker 15: the road and if you remember when I was here.
• 41:45
  Speaker 15: When was it last Monday? Yeah, I think so a
• 41:47
  Speaker 15: week ago, a week or so. I said, of all
• 41:50
  Speaker 15: the projects we've got going on in the county, that's
• 41:52
  Speaker 15: the one that I was really worried about. That's the
• 41:54
  Speaker 15: one that keeps me up at night because there's it's
• 41:56
  Speaker 15: such a difficult project. Have to do it at night
• 42:00
  Speaker 15: so you don't disrupt serve, you know, court service during
• 42:03
  Speaker 15: the day. You've got to make sure that you there's
• 42:05
  Speaker 15: really no where to stage it because it's you know, downtown.
• 42:08
  Speaker 15: You can't put your equipment out, it's it's it's a
• 42:11
  Speaker 15: complex project. So we've got you know, selling architects presented
• 42:15
  Speaker 15: us with three options in the beginning, and they called
• 42:18
  Speaker 15: the option A, which was probably honestly inadequate, you know,
• 42:22
  Speaker 15: to do what we needed to do, Option B, and
• 42:26
  Speaker 15: an option CEE, which they refer to as the Cadillac option.
• 42:29
  Speaker 15: This is the one that would in addition to being
• 42:31
  Speaker 15: able to house our new circuit judge, which we have
• 42:33
  Speaker 15: to do, you know, the legislature passed a law adding
• 42:36
  Speaker 15: an additional circuit judge and three new manstrates to Kennall County.
• 42:39
  Speaker 15: We also have to have office space and courtroom space
• 42:42
  Speaker 15: for the three new magistrates. So you know, we we
• 42:44
  Speaker 15: have to do it. It's not an it's not an option,
• 42:46
  Speaker 15: so we but we wanted to go with an option
• 42:49
  Speaker 15: that where we could upgrade security. Uh you know that
• 42:52
  Speaker 15: not only help the judges, but all the family judges,
• 42:55
  Speaker 15: the all the magistrates, and then also our Sheriff's department
• 42:57
  Speaker 15: who's working the front of the building all the time.
• 43:00
  Speaker 15: So we thought at that time that Option CEE was
• 43:03
  Speaker 15: going to cost about ten million dollars. Then a little
• 43:07
  Speaker 15: bit later it creeped up to thirteen million, and then
• 43:12
  Speaker 15: when we opened bids earlier this week, it was sixteen
• 43:14
  Speaker 15: point two million was the lowest bid. So state law
• 43:18
  Speaker 15: permits us since there were there were two bids, state
• 43:21
  Speaker 15: law permits us to go back and negotiate with the
• 43:23
  Speaker 15: lowest bidder for thirty days. So that's kind of where
• 43:26
  Speaker 15: we are. We're going to try to see if we can.
• 43:29
  Speaker 15: We're not allowed to change the scope of the project
• 43:31
  Speaker 15: without rebidding it, but we're allowed to go back and negotiate,
• 43:33
  Speaker 15: So that's what we're going to do. Hopefully we'll be
• 43:35
  Speaker 15: able to negotiate it down because coming in sixty percent
• 43:39
  Speaker 15: higher over than what we expected, particularly with our you
• 43:42
  Speaker 15: know that fortunately the county doesn't have any debt. We
• 43:44
  Speaker 15: do not have a single penny in debt. But it
• 43:47
  Speaker 15: took us a long time to get there.
• 43:48
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 43:48
  Speaker 15: When I came on board in twenty seventeen, I think
• 43:51
  Speaker 15: we had about thirty million in debt. We paid it
• 43:55
  Speaker 15: all off, and so here we are. You know, we're
• 43:58
  Speaker 15: going we're looking at doing the sports complex, you know,
• 44:00
  Speaker 15: at the at the Macy's building, and we're looking at
• 44:03
  Speaker 15: we have to do the judicial acts. So we're trying
• 44:05
  Speaker 15: to figure out how do you balance all that. You
• 44:07
  Speaker 15: don't want to you don't want to take on too
• 44:09
  Speaker 15: much debt. We've got to make sure that we do
• 44:12
  Speaker 15: the judicial acts project correctly and you know, for the
• 44:16
  Speaker 15: safety of everybody and without disrupting you know, the judicial
• 44:20
  Speaker 15: process for the next two years. And so it's a
• 44:22
  Speaker 15: it's a fine balancing act. We're going to negotiate. Hopefully
• 44:25
  Speaker 15: we can negotiate it down, uh and if not, we're
• 44:27
  Speaker 15: gonna have to go back to the drawing board.
• 44:29
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 44:29
  Speaker 15: But there are a lot of people that spent a
• 44:30
  Speaker 15: lot of time, including our architects. You know, they have
• 44:33
  Speaker 15: they have worked very hard on this. The judges, you know,
• 44:35
  Speaker 15: Chief Judge Mary Clare Acres has spent a lot of
• 44:37
  Speaker 15: time working on this. We've got the family law judges
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  Speaker 15: and the matters they've all put in and officely the
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  Speaker 15: Commission has worked a lot. So we want to make
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  Speaker 15: sure that we're we're able to save money if we can.
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  Speaker 15: But ultimately we've got to do the project. But it
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  Speaker 15: may if we change the scope. We've got to go
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  Speaker 15: back to the drawing board.
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  Speaker 3: Why the discrepancy and the prices, so what you thought
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  Speaker 3: it would be to what it turned out to be.
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  Speaker 15: I think it really came down to and that's what
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  Speaker 15: we're analyzing now. But I think what it came down
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  Speaker 15: to was doing the work at night. The labor cost
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  Speaker 15: is so much higher to do it at night, and
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  Speaker 15: so we may have to do some type of, uh
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  Speaker 15: like a hybrid approach to where we start working maybe
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  Speaker 15: a little earlier and not into the night, or we
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  Speaker 15: may just have to do it during the day and
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  Speaker 15: hope that we can keep the noise to a minimum.
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  Speaker 15: I mean it's kind of hard to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 15: if you've got a jury trial, I mean, it requires
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  Speaker 15: people to focus, right you've got to be, got to be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not trying to take this lightly, but I'm just
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  Speaker 3: picturing a jury trial, you know, at some point when
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  Speaker 3: they say, uh, does the jury have a verdict, you know,
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  Speaker 3: your honor, we find that, we find it def.
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  Speaker 15: Jack Cammers.
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  Speaker 3: That was the sound of a Jack camer by the way,
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  Speaker 3: you keep you're wondering.
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  Speaker 15: That was his Jack Cammer noise. So that's kind of
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  Speaker 15: where we are. We're hopeful that we can go back
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  Speaker 15: in and work on the price reduction or maybe change
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  Speaker 15: some things. I don't want to have to go back
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  Speaker 15: to bid. I don't want to have to go back
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  Speaker 15: and scrap the project and start, you know new, but
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  Speaker 15: I will if I have to, because coming in sixty
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  Speaker 15: percent over budget, not to mention, we've already put in
• 46:13
  Speaker 15: a million cash in this thing anyway, you know, the
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  Speaker 15: commission has, you know, we so technically we're looking at
• 46:19
  Speaker 15: seventeen million because we've already spent a lot of money.
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  Speaker 15: So we're somewhere sixty seventy percent over. We can't have
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  Speaker 15: that happen. That's not that's not signed sound financial management.
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  Speaker 3: We got a position to fill in nationally in the county.
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  Speaker 15: Talking about that, you know Jennifer Harold, who has been
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  Speaker 15: She's been with the county for twenty four years. She
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  Speaker 15: started off as an intern. She interned for a couple
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  Speaker 15: of years and then worked her way up. She's the
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  Speaker 15: county manager. Just not only a wonderful person, but she
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  Speaker 15: is an amazing county manager. And so she's moving to
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  Speaker 15: South Carolina. I did everything I could to keep you
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  Speaker 15: to custody so you couldn't leave. But she's moving, and
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  Speaker 15: so we're wishing her and her husband, Mike, all the best.
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  Speaker 15: So we've got to, I say, replace her, and I
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  Speaker 15: giggle because she's irreplaceable, but we've got to fill that position.
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  Speaker 15: So what we're doing. We announced the job. We've received
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  Speaker 15: thirteen or fourteen resumes. People that call me and say, hey,
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  Speaker 15: what does a county manager do? It's you're pretty much
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  Speaker 15: running the county.
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  Speaker 3: You know, and that's all nothing else.
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  Speaker 15: And I tell people half jokingly but quite seriously. If
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  Speaker 15: you like high stress, if you like working twenty four
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  Speaker 15: to seven, if you like doing so much kind of
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  Speaker 15: behind the scene and not getting a lot of thank yous.
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  Speaker 15: This is the job for you, Yeah, I mean, submit
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  Speaker 15: your application. It is.
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  Speaker 12: It is a bug.
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  Speaker 15: It's a big job, and hopefully we can find the
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  Speaker 15: right person. I'm not you know, I need somebody that's
• 49:47
  Speaker 15: got experience in county government, experience managing on the HR side,
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  Speaker 15: because that's also something she does. But also you know,
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  Speaker 15: when there's a flood, she gets the call. When when
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  Speaker 15: we activate a emergency Operations Center EOC out at nine
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  Speaker 15: one one, she's going to be there.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the biggest county in the States, so
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  Speaker 3: that has to be factored in too.
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  Speaker 15: And it is it is a massive job. It's a
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  Speaker 15: ton of work, a ton of stress. I'm probably not
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  Speaker 15: pitching it very well, but you know that's why he's done.
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  Speaker 3: Abo.
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  Speaker 15: I'm not sure yea I would replace her, but I
• 50:22
  Speaker 15: think a I would probably quit after a while. Uh So, anyway,
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  Speaker 15: we've got to find somebody that understands county government, somebody
• 50:29
  Speaker 15: that understands emergency management to some extent. There's going to
• 50:34
  Speaker 15: be a learning curve on the job and definitely on
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  Speaker 15: the HR side. You know, we've got somebody that you're
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  Speaker 15: overseeing a lot of employees, so that's the job for
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  Speaker 3: All right, So anything since you were on last week
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  Speaker 3: about the about the sports complex in the final minute
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  Speaker 3: or so.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, So we we had a zoom call with the
• 51:16
  Speaker 15: marketing folks and we're looking at a name and we're
• 51:19
  Speaker 15: looking at a logo, and so I've got another zoom scheduled.
• 51:24
  Speaker 15: Oh I think it's next early next week, and we're
• 51:26
  Speaker 15: going to not make decisions, but at least narrow it
• 51:30
  Speaker 15: down to where we can present it to the board
• 51:33
  Speaker 15: that was was selected to kind of oversee all of this,
• 51:36
  Speaker 15: and so we'll be able to present that and hopefully
• 51:39
  Speaker 15: we'll be able to start branding at that point. You know,
• 51:42
  Speaker 15: we've had a lot of corporate sponsors reach out wanting
• 51:44
  Speaker 15: naming rights. We've had, you know a lot of people
• 51:46
  Speaker 15: very interested in that. So that will take a step
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  Speaker 15: forward at least on that part of it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So it is going to have to have
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  Speaker 3: a corporate name though, I mean it's I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: mean more than likely.
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  Speaker 15: Well I think we needed I mean, it's we need
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  Speaker 15: for funding, I'll say that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to be called the We know it's
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: not gonna be called Capital Sports Complex book those there's
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: too many other capitals. So what if you call it
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  Speaker 3: Charleston's Sports Complex. I'll just use that an example. It's
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate you being here man, Thanks for me coming
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  Speaker 3: up on the show tomorrow. We're going to talk a
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  Speaker 3: little bit more about the special session of Melia Nicely
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