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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCalled Commission Meeting November 13, 2018 CALLED MEETING COMMISSION CHAMBER November 13, 2018 Augusta Richmond County Commission convened at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, November 13, 2018, the Honorable Mary Davis, Mayor Pro Tem, presiding. PRESENT: Hons. Guilfoyle, Sias, Frantom, M. Williams, Fennoy, D. Williams, Hasan and Clarke, members of Augusta Richmond County Commission. Ms. Davis called the meeting to order. 2. LEGAL MEETING A. Pending and potential litigation B. Real estate C. Personnel Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to go into an executive session to discuss pending and potential litigation, real estate and personnel. Mr. Hasan: I so move. Mr. Guilfoyle: Second. Ms. Davis: I have a motion and a second. Please vote. Mr. Sias out. Motion carries 8-0. \[EXECUTIVE SESSION\] 3. Motion to authorize execution by the Mayor of the affidavit of compliance with Georgia’s Open Meeting Act. Mr. MacKenzie: I would entertain a motion to approve the closed meeting affidavit. Mr. M. Williams: I so move. Mr. Frantom: Second. Mr. Fennoy out. Motion carries 8-0. Mr. MacKenzie: Motion to approve authorizing the Augusta Engineering 1 Department under the guidance of the Law Department to proceed with initiating a property swap of approximately .02 acres of property along Connie Drive, subject to final Commission approval prior to closing. Mr. Sias: So move. Mr. D. Williams: Second. Ms. Davis: I have a motion and a second. Please vote. Mr. Fennoy out. Motion carries 8-0. Ms. Davis: Agenda item 1. 1. Motion to amend the current Healthstat contract effective December 3, 2018 to include replacing the need for an Occupational Medical Doctor position with a Nurse Practitioner position. (Referred from the November 6 Commission meeting) Mr. Guilfoyle: So move. Mr. Sias: Second. Ms. Davis: We have a question from Commissioner Hasan. Mr. Hasan: Madam Mayor Pro Tem, they did send out the information that I was asking for but it was only, what already was expressed was about a year which was $118,000. I was looking for a little bit more detailed information, I think it was about $355,000, so my question becomes now so I won’t be looked at sideways is would the $355,000 over a three-year period, what is it that we can do with that money? Ms. Jackson: I believe that money is in our, in a special fund but I’ll ask Mr. Schroer to verify that please. Mr. Tim Schroer: Good afternoon. Ms. Davis: Good afternoon. Mr. Schroer: That money, we won’t be spending it. It’s in our health insurance fund or health fund so we don’t spend it. It’s not being allocated. I’m sorry. Mr. Hasan: Okay, okay. So in other words if, since we know we’re going to save $355,000 over the first three years, which will probably be more than that because of the 4%, I do realize that for the next two years of the three years -- Mr. Schroer: Correct. 2 Mr. Hasan: -- do we have any other options of how we can utilize that money such as our Library needs about $400,000 we couldn’t take that and use that since we know we’re not going to have to pay it? Per a recommendation from the Commission? Mr. Schroer: If you determine that you want to budget it in your future budgets you sure can. Mr. Hasan: Okay. Mr. Schroer: This is an annual budget, (inaudible) annual budget process. So we’re just saying physically we won’t spend the $118,000. Mr. Hasan: All right, thank you. Thank you, Madam Mayor Pro Tem. Ms. Davis: Commissioner Williams. Mr. M. Williams: Tim, while you’re there if something happened to the practitioner and we had to get a doctor then we allocate that money somewhere else then what happens? Mr. Schroer: It would be part of the budget process. Mr. M. Williams: We’d have to find that money somewhere else if something happened to the practitioner and we had to – Mr. Schroer: If we determined that we wanted to upgrade to an occupational physician, we’d come back to the Commission and amend the contract and see if that’s a position we’d want to put you in. So it’s, we won’t do anything without Commission approval. Mr. M. Williams: I was just thinking if the money is being budgeted for the health facility and it was just there, it wouldn’t be spent but at the same time if we needed to upgrade or something happened in that department with that money would be there already. Mr. Schroer: Going to an occupational physician is something we had looked at as a long- term goal to help us with our Workers Comp and to help us with some of the other physicals that we do. So this is a long-term goal. It’s not something we’re going to be doing spur of the moment. If one of our nurse practitioners resigns, we would get another nurse practitioner in from Healthstat. Ms. Davis: Commissioner Williams, like you’re saying if you move that money out of that account and you spend it and then you have to come back and find that money again, yes, you’d have to go to the general fund and find that additional funding. Mr. M. Williams: That’s my point if we moved it. 3 Ms. Davis: Yeah. That’s a good point. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Please vote. Motion carries 9-0. Ms. Davis: Okay, Mr. MacKenzie, anything else? Mr. MacKenzie: That’s all I have. Ms. Davis: Okay, thank you. Public Services. \[MEETING ADJOURNED\] Lena J. Bonner Clerk of Commission CERTIFICATION: I, Lena J. Bonner, Clerk of Commission, hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Called Meeting of the Augusta Richmond County Commission held on November 13, 2018. ________________________ Clerk of Commission 4