County Commission | The Magazine January 2020 | Page 28

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4 Support for protecting the county
commission against the payment of any
costs or penalties issued as a result
of any local elected official’s defying a
validly-issued court order.
6 Opposition to any legislation authorizing
a person to carry a firearm in a vehicle
without a valid pistol permit.
4 Support for shifting regulation of certain
prefabricated storm shelters from the
Department of Finance to the Alabama
Manufactured Housing Commission.
4 Belief that the statewide 911 Board should
conduct only those activities delegated by
the Legislature.
4 Belief that 911 services are best provided
through locally operated and administered
boards without statewide coordination
and encouraging the statewide 911 Board
to seek meaningful input from existing
911 district boards and personnel in
developing any proposed reforms or
initiatives.
4 Support for restoring state EMA revenues
in the state general fund budget to ensure
both state and county EMA programs
receive proper funding.
4 Support for adequate funding of state
supplements paid to counties with a
certified county EMA director.
4 Support for ensuring the state has
sufficient resources to assist county
governments with the protection of the
public’s health and safety in the event of
an environmental emergency.
4 Support for legislative and administrative
efforts to implement state-funded
video conferencing for certain court
appearances and to expand the use of
video court proceedings in the state.
4 Belief that debris placed on the right-
of-way of a state road following a
disaster event is the State of Alabama’s
responsibility and should be removed at
the state’s expense.
4 Support for legislation to clarify that
the county commission is not liable
for the improper expenditures of funds
authorized by law to be expended at the
“sole discretion” of a particular elected
official.
4 Support for legislation amending Alabama
law to remove the requirement that the
sheriff must be appointed conservator or
guardian of an incapacitated person if no
other suitable person qualifies as general
conservator.
4 Support for legislation imposing an
express duty to require service providers
to collect and remit the monthly statewide
911 fee from all of their applicable
customers and further authorize the
statewide 911 Board to take audit and
collection actions, as necessary, to
enforce such collections.
4 Support for the delivery of comprehensive
voluntary statewide training for 911
dispatchers and similar personnel.
4 Support for statewide efforts and
legislative measures to provide access
to effective mental health services at the
local level.
Environment, Land Use
and Public Works
4 Support for limiting the exercise of
municipal powers or taxation outside the
jurisdiction’s corporate limits.
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