Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
Speaker 1: It's time now for our community connection right here on
Speaker 1: K one, the one you trust and joining me here,
Speaker 1: we have a Commissioner Corey Scholl. Corey, how you doing.
Speaker 2: I'm good, Tom, I'm good. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Well, A lot's been happening the last time we saw you.
Speaker 1: Last time we saw you, you had just won the election,
Speaker 1: but you were thrust into office just a little early.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, yeah, unfortunately, with the passing of you know, Commissioner Movia.
Speaker 3: I was appointed by the governor I think December fifth
Speaker 3: and sworn in on the sixth, and you know, just
Speaker 3: a just a terrible thing.
Speaker 2: He's so close to retirement and.
Speaker 3: All that it was. It was a bad deal. But
Speaker 3: you know, I got to know him. I met I
Speaker 3: met Mike when he when he first came into office.
Speaker 3: And you know, of course I worked for District three.
Speaker 3: He worked for uh a commissioner of District two. So
Speaker 3: so our pass crossed, you know, quite frequently, and always
Speaker 3: super nice guy and.
Speaker 2: Enjoyed talking with him.
Speaker 3: And then when when he decided to do his retirement
Speaker 3: or not seek reelection, I told him that I was
Speaker 3: going to I got to visit with him several times,
Speaker 3: and you know, he talked about, you know, the difference.
Speaker 3: You know, I was at two, he was at three,
Speaker 3: but those are they're the same, but they're not, you know,
Speaker 3: So we got to discuss a little bit about the
Speaker 3: differences of those two two districts. And he always he
Speaker 3: talked about the cemeteries, you know, oh yeah, he was
Speaker 3: did some major up facelifts on those things. And he
Speaker 3: never came around and asked me exactly, you know, to
Speaker 3: the point if I was what I was going to
Speaker 3: do with them. But I did assure him that anything
Speaker 3: he was doing with those cemeteries we would continue to
Speaker 3: do very good. He was, I think he was pretty
Speaker 3: happy about that.
Speaker 1: He had to be absolutely Now, your learning curve was
Speaker 1: kind of a very hurry up. Yes, even though you've
Speaker 1: been working as a worker with the District three for many,
Speaker 1: many years, twenty nine years of it. So now that
Speaker 1: aspect is one thing. Being on the other side of
Speaker 1: the table a little bit different. It is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's quite a bit different, more different than I
Speaker 3: even expected. Obviously, I am glad to have the experience
Speaker 3: that I have. I can't imagine coming into this completely blind.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it's.
Speaker 3: There's a learning curve, a lot of moving parts. I'm
Speaker 3: trying to figure them all out. I'm two, a little
Speaker 3: bit over two months into it. I feel like I
Speaker 3: have all the pieces to the puzzle. I've just got
Speaker 3: to get them put together.
Speaker 1: You've got a couple of pretty good folks that can
Speaker 1: hit help you out there with your fellow commissioners.
Speaker 3: Oh, absolutely, And you know, of course I have good
Speaker 3: relationships with them. I had prior to even thinking about
Speaker 3: running for commissioner, you know, and then obviously Commissioner Done
Speaker 3: Laps was my boss for the past eighteen years. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so I've got a great relationship with him, and it
Speaker 3: is nice to be able to work with them.
Speaker 2: All of our elected officials are so so good to
Speaker 2: work with.
Speaker 1: Oh imagine, so good good people. What do we have
Speaker 1: cooking here? We've got I'm gonna go ahead and jump
Speaker 1: into this because it took a look at the forecast
Speaker 1: that we might actually see some rain or some snow
Speaker 1: or maybe a little bit of a mixture of both.
Speaker 2: That's that four letter word.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know, wash my mouth out with so right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it happens to you, it doesn't happen here. Very often,
Speaker 1: but when it does, it gets people's attention. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: gets there adrenaline going. So what's the process once we
Speaker 1: start having weather like this come into our area, what's
Speaker 1: the process?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, we had a little trial run a
Speaker 3: few weeks ago, a month ago, whatever it was, had
Speaker 3: about three or four inches of snow and the guys
Speaker 3: they were out at three o'clock in the morning and
Speaker 3: they started their routes. All the guys at district too,
Speaker 3: they've been there for quite some time, so they know
Speaker 3: they know exactly what to do. They have their routes,
Speaker 3: they get in their trucks. You know, we hit try
Speaker 3: to hit the main traveled roads as quick as possible
Speaker 3: and then just kind of work our way down from
Speaker 3: major collectors, minor collectors to you know, the more roads
Speaker 3: that don't get a whole lot of traffic. We get
Speaker 3: to those probably last.
Speaker 2: But yeah, just.
Speaker 3: Getting the equipment ready the guys, you know, a couple
Speaker 3: days before and make sure everything's working and wait for
Speaker 3: the snow to come in.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if it doesn't, well, okay.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a great thing as long as it's snow
Speaker 2: and not ice.
Speaker 1: Now, during the course of the year, we have routine
Speaker 1: roads and bridge maintenance. It takes place. We got anything
Speaker 1: cooking big as the weather starts.
Speaker 2: To improve, we do.
Speaker 3: I've driven around some roads of course with my with
Speaker 3: my road foreman. He had several roads that he would
Speaker 3: he would like to see that they're gravel now, and
Speaker 3: a lot of there's a lot of residents on these.
Speaker 3: A couple of them's dead end roads, but there's a
Speaker 3: lot of residents on there, you know, so uh, it
Speaker 3: was kind of one of his things, he'd like to
Speaker 3: see those graveled, and I obviously thought it would be
Speaker 3: a great idea to get those. You're not having to
Speaker 3: put gravel on them two or three times a year,
Speaker 3: great them, you know, who knows how many times a
Speaker 3: year depending on the weather.
Speaker 1: It seems like there's a whole lot of maintenance for
Speaker 1: what's supposed to be a low meeting.
Speaker 2: It's road absolutely, yeah, there is.
Speaker 3: You know, there's school buses go down those roads turn around.
Speaker 3: So how we're they're in the process right now of
Speaker 3: mixing in some lime and rock, building the roads up,
Speaker 3: getting getting a proper crown on them, getting the drainage
Speaker 3: drainage ditch is done done up, because that's the life
Speaker 3: of a road.
Speaker 1: You got to proper, proper drainage.
Speaker 2: You're going to be just you have.
Speaker 3: Trouble, you have to You've got to get the road
Speaker 3: compacted well, get it built up. And the the oil
Speaker 3: and chips we put on there are basically just dust control.
Speaker 2: Yeah they are. They don't strengthen the road hardly. They
Speaker 2: keep the dust down. Yeah, absolutely so, yeah, we've got that.
Speaker 1: And then.
Speaker 3: The our ceed Projects District too, I inherited a couple
Speaker 3: of projects that are One of them is a Bison
Speaker 3: Road project. It's from West twenty two hundred to Highway sixty.
Speaker 3: That's a busy, it's it's pretty busy. And then there's
Speaker 3: the other project would be from Bison Road to highway
Speaker 3: or yeah, from Bison Road on twenty two hundred road
Speaker 3: to Highway seventy five.
Speaker 2: And both of these.
Speaker 3: Have have bridges that are going to have to be replaced,
Speaker 3: and the project consists of widening out the road.
Speaker 2: It would have, you know.
Speaker 3: A much wider road and probably four or five foot
Speaker 3: shoulders on each side, kind of like Bison from Tuxedo
Speaker 3: going to Durham. It would come out probably be something
Speaker 3: like that. And then recently, well just last week, I
Speaker 3: have added a bridge project to that that is a
Speaker 3: fracture critical bridge that we've been come to find out,
Speaker 3: we've been getting deemed for for several years, and so
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, well that, you know, we might need to
Speaker 3: put that on our priority list and get that up
Speaker 3: there and get it see if we can't get that replaced.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's that's where we are on those good
Speaker 2: and six.
Speaker 1: What else is it going on in the district too
Speaker 1: that books might not be aware of that, Maybe it
Speaker 1: wouldn't hurt to kind of highlight some cool things that
Speaker 1: are going on.
Speaker 3: Uh well, I mean basically that's just getting getting those
Speaker 3: projects out there and hopefully getting those started. Obviously, the
Speaker 3: bridge project, it'll it'll start first, It'll be one of these, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it'll be, but I mean it may be five years
Speaker 3: from now.
Speaker 2: It's just hard to say.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and then you know, we just this time
Speaker 3: of year, it's it's tough to get things.
Speaker 1: It hurry up and wait.
Speaker 3: It is that there's just there's a lot of stuff
Speaker 3: we can't do. There's a lot of stuff we can do,
Speaker 3: and but mainly it's it's routine maintenance.
Speaker 1: All right, and just making sure that everybody's getting what
Speaker 1: the paying for and yeah, everything else like that. What's
Speaker 1: the coolest thing about being a commissioner now that you
Speaker 1: maybe weren't expecting when you were actually working for a commissioner.
Speaker 2: Oh, Tom, I don't know right now.
Speaker 3: I'm in that transition stage.
Speaker 2: We might have to discuss this at a later day.
Speaker 1: Okay, once once you see everything, once you.
Speaker 2: Go through a cycle.
Speaker 3: Absolutely the Yeah, there's there's a lot of stuff, you
Speaker 3: know right now.
Speaker 2: I've it's been nice to.
Speaker 3: Go around and get acquainted with with more of the
Speaker 3: people that that I you know, I knew them, but
Speaker 3: I wasn't real acquainted with them.
Speaker 2: I've gone around and you know.
Speaker 3: Looked at our properties, tried to get acquainted with that
Speaker 3: and had the people show me around them, and so
Speaker 3: you know that that's been that's been good, just you know,
Speaker 3: kind of get an eye on what what we have
Speaker 3: and what's going on with it.
Speaker 1: Good. Hey, Corey, I want to thank you for dropping
Speaker 1: by today. I know you've got a ton of things
Speaker 1: to do, but thanks for spending part of your Friday.
Speaker 2: Morning with us. Absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 1: All right, that's
Speaker 2: Commissioner Corey Shival with this here on gaybe