Commissioners 04-21-2026 [16:34-18:57]

I'd just like to say that it may not look like Lawrence County's got a lot compared to some other counties, but maybe we haven't asked a lot either. Yeah. And the other point is, I really appreciate the work you do at Westgate and with the military alliance that you work with. And I could not estimate the number of Lawrence County people who work at Crane or have contracts with Crane. So everything that he does that affects the effectiveness of Westgate Crane Naval Affairs Center or what our name of it is now directly affects Lawrence County through our citizens and employees. So I'm very thankful that you're down there doing that. Crane's growing. We were there from the very beginning. We were, we actually cleaned up a brown field that allowed us to put in, here's the story. Martin County commissioners didn't want to mow a site there. And so we talked, we convinced him to let us turn it into an industrial site. And then the contractor that would build there, the industrial site would be the person to mow it. And so we were there, that was 20 years ago. And we were there from the very beginning and we've helped him every step along the way. And I continue to do the finances for the Westgate Authority. And you're looking at 2,000 jobs. So that workforce development effort, we're pushing on right now of like, how are we going to find the people? And it's, yeah, there's a lot of people going to come from Lawrence County that are going to take those jobs. You've got the right workforce to be able to capitalize on that. So it's a time of boom. And you need to be, it may not be something that you guys think about a lot, but housing is the way that you're going to grow your budgets. And it's going to be a way of being able to take advantage of the Senate Bill 1. So, yeah, always willing to help on those type of items. So thank you very much, Greg. Yeah. Next is Mr. Boob.