10-28-2025 Council Regular Meeting [15:00-20:04]

Yes, you do. And you cut my funding, okay. But you got to understand that every piece of equipment and your own tax base for the territory. All right. So be careful when you say there's no funding. Well, I understand that. But there's the lowest funding that you cut from me was for the volunteer park apartment. That's the only funding that the volunteer park apartment is. Okay. We had no other funding. All right. Nothing comes into us. You said that. Everything else goes into the territory. Okay. And the big thing if it is we've done this for free for, you know, two and a half years. I'm coming to you to say we're going to have to have a contract come 2026. For us to back up to county. For a name of service. You pay them good amount of money to serve his county. But I haven't received a dime of it. I haven't even been considered. But I think back at the time that I was done, I know the others. That's time of incident. And we're pretty, you're really young. Consultant was, they advised that you would not be receiving that. No. No, it's not true. The ready group didn't have nothing to do with that. That's the group that you, that you guys that you use says you don't have to give it to me. But the basis that they put in that is you don't have to give it to me because I am a territory. I did not say you could not give it to me. And you guys made a choice not to give it to me. Understanding that I'm coming to you with these numbers to show you that it takes the volunteers also to provide the service. Well, I do know has had this conversation multiple times. And even with Miller over this, what is going to get even worse? One, we can't bring it back. Right. We can't bring the little money back, but I can make up my funding issue. And I hate to do this because I have a family that lives all over Lawrence County. I got a lot of good friends that live all over Lawrence County. I've served this community for 46 years. I've been doing this 46 years. So it's in my heart. It's not something that I want to do. If it is, I got a business to run, too. All right. And my business says that I can't make runs outside my territory if I'm not going to be funding. Because those vehicles are owned by shells. We're going to far department. Not by the territory. Okay. Every one of my vehicles I got to two ambulances, all the far tricks I've got are owned by the township. Not by the territory. I mean, I understand what you had to do. And I'm not mad at you because you guys run a business. Okay. You're running the whole county. All right. But you're... I can't go up against how you house because they're multi-million dollar company. Okay. I'm not saying I can do what they can do because I can't. But I think our service here has fit this county pretty well. And you cutting out the only funding that the volunteer fire department has to even do anything with. Really hurt the shells with volunteer fire department. And for us to be the only one left out, that's kind of rude. Well, you know, I had the conversation in Miller 2 on this, where everybody's topic has to be one. But when this lit goes away. Oh, I know we're all going to be in trouble. You see the only territory, the only one with the tax base. Yes, Scott, I understand that. But you're still missing my point. The tax base goes to the territory. It does not go to the volunteer fire department. What does that money cover? What does that money cover? They cover everything except for the mandate that you have by the state to pay your personnel. Their annual fee for being a volunteer fire department personnel for going on runs and that kind of stuff. You know, we don't count, you know, our annual meeting that we have and that kind of stuff. But my point of it is, I don't want to get on to the point.