Bird: And… Morris: I… I totally understand, Jerry. I’m just telling you, from a processing perspective, if somebody… if somebody, you know… like, if somebody comes up and hits you with a stick every time they see you, you’re not gonna want to see that person any more. Bird: Yeah, like the staff. And like the agency does to us. Morris: But I think… Bird: I… I don’t know. I just cannot see why. I think… I don’t see… Well, you… you give a report. That’s okay. But I listen… I’m on there almost every time… Morris: Yeah. Bird: And some of the stuff you tell them isn’t correct, Eric, about even our in-service. There’s some stuff you left out and didn’t say. Morris: Well… Bird: And let me finish. Morris: Yeah. Bird: And, therefore… and then when we get a comment at the start of the meeting, there’s no discussion. We just give our comment. They don’t ask questions. “Oh…” it’s like “say what you want” and move on. And that’s not what we want. I know in the past Lewanda got to get up, you praise her around, she could talk at any time. Something’s got to change 'cause they got to listen to us. They might not like what we hear, but if we don’t get to talk to them, they have… they don’t know. And I don’t… I think that’s where they’re at: “What we don’t know won’t hurt us, so we don’t want to know nothing.” Eric will tell us Eric is God. Thank you. Morris: Well, yeah, Jerry I… Jaynes: Chair Hauth? StevensonA: Chair Hauth? Hauth: Yeah, Lin Jaynes, go ahead. And then Art. Jaynes: Yeah. I’m just kind of curious. I mean, I remember when that motion was made and I remember when it was denied. But what I’m wondering is, at one of the OCB commissioners’ meetings, would it not be appropriate for the chairman to ask them why? Why they denied it? What are their reasoning so we… we understand why?
Morris: Yeah, Art. One of the… One of the things we’re kind of waiting on right this second is to… to be frank, to figure out exactly what you need to order. ‘Cause we’re trying to… when we order these machines you get free shipping if you order a truckload, which is 26 machines, I think it is. So we’re trying to group together to order to save I think it’s $400 a unit to do that. So, you know, a bunch of Lewanda’s machines are already here and the rest of them we’re trying to package into this bigger shipment so we’re not getting gouged on shipping. So, USI was nice… Hauth: Okay. Thank you. Morris: Sorry. [01:36:52] Hauth: Thanks, Eric. Lewanda, are you okay? Are things progressing, or…? Miranda: No. I mean, I wish I had my machines here. I’ve moved. I’m ready to go. So, Eric, you say that you’re trying to put together an order to save $400. Does that mean they’re not ordered? Morris: No, we have… like, all your rest areas… like, your snack machines and stuff are here. But the big thing for you, Lewanda, and I tried to give you a holler today, was the truck… the truck issue’s the big thing. We’re trying… We’re trying to get the right… the right vehicle for, you know, not a million dollars, is the… to be perfectly frank, is the issue. So. Miranda: And in August… on August 21st, we… they’re expecting over a million people on I-84 for the… oh, what do they call it? The… Morris: The eclipse. Hauth: The moon. The moon thing. Morris: Yeah, the eclipse. I was gonna speak… Miranda: Yeah, and so I am… I am now losing a lot of money because in the summer months my income from those rest areas is, like, three times the amount they are in the wintertime. So I am losing money every day. So, yeah, if you could… Do whatever. Do your magic. Morris: I’m working on it. I promise. Miranda: All right. Hauth: Okay. Hawkins: Chairman Hauth?