12-23-2025 Council Meeting [47:01-52:03]

Correct. Okay. And that's what you and I talked about. Well, which I talked to Wally and Alex. I talked to Jeff. Third letter on that. With the app and the card readers. Yes, we have to have card readers. And there's a district. There's going to be additional cost for mileage to go into an app was to be finger printed. And have a background check, and the list will allow us to have these fifth cards. But the response I got from Wally and Jeff both was, this is a necessity. It's what? Necessity. It can be a necessity, but it's doing it, correct? 22 million dollars. Which I'm not as best. I ask Wally and I ask Jeff. There's a lot of that, what you do, hinges on the cards. And anything because they say it does. I haven't used it for 13 years. I've never used it. Didn't see any reason to it. Well, what I'm saying is on this. Do you need two of the apps, or can you not do with one? It means the state pays for one. We're probably going to need that. There's several times Jeff can tell you that he'll have a better than his office. I've got a better than mine. We're going to open the vet respect. We're each going to have to have a card. We're going to have to have whatever computer in the state deems is compatible with these systems. Wow. Which I don't think that was bad. That's five hundred a year. This is a very, very important asset to this community. Many times Brian has stood before us and told us the amount of money that comes into this county from the clients in his office files. I was amazed at the time I worked down there. The need for this in this county. If I'm not mistaken, or had you correct me if I'm wrong, Lawrence County has one of the highest percentage of veterans in the state. Well, last we checked. Lawrence County was 34th largest yet. We were 26th largest by that population. So, according to the Indian Department of Veterans Affairs, it's a little over 3,100 right now. The county veterans. The dollar amount to those veterans. The direct compensation is just a little over $22 million a year for the veterans of this county. And when we've been doing it, we've been using the facts machine because it's vet respect. You have to get the veterans name, date of birth, social security number, address, and the banking account number and the routing number. According to this form that we fire off in the cyber space, it's vet respect. I mean, there's a lot of money involved here. There's a lot of personal information. And I'm surprised that this hasn't become a reminder to try to script security before now. The vet respect, it's like ringing out and discussed. It's not a matter of when something gets hacked. Or if it gets hacked, it's when it gets hacked. And if they can hack Pentagon computers, it goes without saying. We're just going to cancel this information because we can't act on this. I think we're going to act on my opinion only. We're going to have to act on this because I also read the more that. If I'm wrong, if we lose that accreditation, then this office is closed. That's the way that you're not willing to check. Trying to push it, yes. I'm not willing to check. And if you are required to have a vet and service officer, they haven't come down, but they dropped in again. The date that I heard was July 1st, 2026. You're expecting to be in total compliance because that's just after the four days training. You're expecting to break one in the end. June starts June 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th. It's a full-edged training practice. It's probably when they'll do the tests and the accreditation. But this one was information on because we cannot act on this. But my opinion is, in January, that meeting in January, we need act on this. It's just not going to go. Fred, thanks for bringing it to our attention now. You guys agree? I just had a question. And I don't know why I'm just throwing it out there. I noticed that it said on this paper, it says, hotel stays in Jasper. So there's this tip. I think there's a mileage that we have to follow. Yes, it's fifth. And it's fifth and fifth and fifth. Jasper. So you've got this job. We looked it up too. Because, yes, we could drive down there and back.