Bill Meyer Show Podcast - Sponsored by Clouser Drilling www.ClouserDrilling.com - 07-23-25_WEDNESDAY_7AM

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

Going through the email bag and your calls and opinion. Brian Bouteller from the Gospel Rescue Mission updates everyone on their elderly homelessness solving project.

The Bill Meyer Show podcast is sponsored by Clouser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at www.clouserdrilling.com. Here's Bill Meyer. Great to have you here on Wheels Up Wednesday. We have a little bit of open phone time. We're going to be talking with Brian Butel, just a little bit about what's going on with some of the homelessness and how they're trying to alleviate at least some of this, the elderly quotient of it over in Grants Pass.

I've been kind of focusing on that this week. I talked with Chad McComas a couple of days ago just because I'm always kind of wondering what are they up to? What's going on? What's going on? And I appreciate what they are trying to do for sure. 7705633770KMED I want to do some emails of the day. And those are sponsored by Dr. Steve Nelson and Central Point Family Dentistry. Central Point Family Dentistry right now, they accept most dental insurance plans, whether in network or out of network, and they offer their own dental plan if you don't have dental insurance.

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Huh? Boy, I think it's a bit more expensive here in Oregon. I don't know why, but yeah, to actually get real gasoline. Hans Alperkirche is writing in about government education. Hans Alperkirche is writing in about government education. Bill, if you're thinking about moving to Arizona to raise your children, here are the state averages for passing state public school exams. Math, 32%. Wow, that means 68% of the kids don't pass math? Really, Hans? English, 27%. That means that 73% don't pass. Science, 18%, meaning that 82%

don't pass. Hans continues, makes me curious to know some of the other state averages across the fruitless plane. The one thing Arizona has implemented in their favor is universal school choice. A $7,000 annual voucher towards private or home school has seen thousands vacate government ed. Yeah, well, I'd be willing to bet you that Arizona is ranked higher than the state of Oregon here, Hans. So I would imagine the stats that you're referencing here are probably not a whole lot better here. Maybe even worse. I don't know how they could be much worse about that. Let's see. Oh, the Reverend David writes me, I laughed at this one. This is a great take. Says, Bill, I just got my new policy for my homeowners insurance, first of all. Now

it went up $580, but as I was looking through the coverage, I'm happy to find out that I am now covered for up to $250 for theft of marijuana from my residence. God bless the state of Oregon there, Reverend David, what can I tell you? $250 for wheat, right a few ounces a few dabs and the insurance company will take care of you I suppose Let's see David shot writes it about the 20 million dollar drunk driving Case I was talking about yesterday in Portland 20 million dollar award on this one And I was thinking yeah, that's huge amount of money

David notes of the 20 million dollars the attorneys will get approximately 8 million dollars I would bet. Yeah you're probably right about that David. Butch Wright from Gold Hill Bill, happy to hear from Herman Bairdschucker again. Now we know about cell phone hazards, this is going back to yesterday's talk with with Corey. Yeah Corey from who was selling the chip that goes on the back of the of the cell phone. But anyway, he said, no, about cell phone hazards. We've heard one about Epstein. My question is, if nothing wrong was done.

Why is Jelaine in the slammer? Hmm. I prefer local stuff, he says. The force fed convention center is a joke. So Rogues is going to be paid off sooner than expected. So we'll squeeze locals just a little more for another boondoggle. The convention center that Danny is building with our money irritates me. We didn't have money for a jail, but we can build a community center for Central Point,

no ballot measure approval. Master Danny strikes again. When I go to the VA drone at the new county building we were made to build, all I see is a giant waste of space and folks sitting around. Butch from Gold Hill. Hey Butch, just understand that, you know, we can disagree about the grant stream funding there about it, but no, that was either borrowed into existence money or whatever it is. That was a grant, you know, that was a grant. Ostensibly to, you know, help community resilience and this and that and the grant. Ostensibly to, you know, help community resilience and this and that and the other, that was something that the county jumped on.

That was money which was available. That's not a convention center, okay? And there is not a convention center being built in Medford. There is not a convention center. No convention center. They actually came to their senses here when they ended up doing that survey that a convention center, an actual full-blown convention center, doesn't pencil here for Southern Oregon. It's not like we're Southern Oregon's Disneyland and you have all that much to do once you get done doing your convention.

The convention business, by the way, in-person convention business has been dying for decades now, and it's only doing well in places that are huge cities with huge attractions and other activities, such as Las Vegas. Las Vegas still has a pretty thriving convention business. So this is not a convention center. What they are talking about with the ball field proposal, and remember Nick Card said last week on the show, there are a lot of things that would have to happen in order to make this move forward. There would be the ball field, the ball field hopefully for the Eugene Emeralds. They come in and do that and they take care of that issue. There would be a

private hotel and the hotel would also have conference rooms. Part of the hotel would be conference rooms. It would not be a separately city-owned, city-run, on the utility fee kind of deal. Now that was the way that they did the whole thing with the Aquatic Center, all right? And I have a feeling that the City Council and and I think Nick Card, Councilor Nick Card was talking about that last week, more or less conceding that there probably wasn't going to be a lot of appetite for raising people's utility fees again to build either a ball field or any kind of convention center, nothing like that. So they don't appear to be going in that direction

at this point in time. Now, by the way, I don't know that I haven't heard that story about ROGX being paid off sooner than expected. When I did talk about something being paid off sooner than expected, it was with the US Cellular Ballfield, which is now Lithia, right? The US Cellular Ballfields, that project was supposedly paid off earlier or refinanced, and then they had the credit card to be able to borrow the $80 million or so for the aquatic warehouse. And then they were kind of implying or... I don't think anybody was actually coming out there, except for me and a handful of others, saying, yeah, this is kind of a bait and switch.

Hey, you know, raise the taxes on the tourism industry and, hey, we're going to get our aquatic water center. Yeah, this is kind of a bait and switch. Hey, you know, raise the taxes on the tourism industry and, hey, we're going to get our aquatic water center. It's like, yay, we do this. And then they don't think about it. Hey, wait a minute. Why is our aquatic, why is our utility fee going up each month? Well, to pay for that. But yeah, the tourism industry does pay for a certain portion of that because

the Lord knows that we need more cornhole tournaments, okay? That's what's going to get us richer. Sam writes, Sam, I always appreciate your emails. Sam writes, Bill, until the godless green one world commies completely bankrupt this state, nothing will probably change here. No spine in the Republicans, no price too high to burden taxpayers on the left. It will come crashing down one day and perhaps something better could rise from the rubble.

Yeah, I've kind of wondered about that too, Sam, because there doesn't seem to be much appetite to changing the way people vote and the type of people that end up getting put up there. And I will agree with you, I haven't seen a whole lot of spine with a rare exception from the Republicans. Republicans have more or less played their role in the state of Oregon as, what was it, the Washington generals, the ones that always played against the Harlem Globetrotters and were paid to lose? You know, we're there and we're there getting our voices heard. No, you're getting steamrolled, but as it may. David responds to Jeff Merkley. Jeff Merkley wanting to go out there and do the anti-gouging law because he's worried

about the little people. And David says, Bill, here is my response to the Merk. I couldn't remember who used the term tax gouging, but I ran with it. Dear Mr. Merckley, I just heard about your support for legislation concerning price gouging, and now you're fighting hard to wipe it out. I will tell you, sir, you're off base.

What your constituents in Oregon really want is protection from tax gouging. So we pay some of the highest taxes in the country and get absolutely little from it, except more higher taxes. If you truly want to help us, do something about the taxes we pay some of the highest taxes in the country and get absolutely little from it, except more higher taxes. If you truly want to help us, do something about the taxes we pay. Also, if you actually lived in Oregon, you might have a better idea about what people in Oregon actually think. Sincerely, David.

David, I'm giving you a real American salute for that, okay? Along with your email. The email bill at BillMeierShow.com. Appreciate them all. Rev up your engines folks. American Rancher Garage is putting on the brakes this season ending the high cost of speed, service, accuracy. That's Lithia body and paint on Bullock Road in Medford. Welcome to the Bill Meyers show on 1063 KMED. Give Bill a call at 541-770-5633. That's 770-KMED.

732, we'll check news here in just a moment. Maybe hold the calls here just a little bit. We have some more calls coming up after. I got to talk with Brian Houtel. I want to catch up on some homelessness news here this morning. Hey, another email I want to touch on. They want their name left out of this one and had to do with what Eric Peters and I were discussing a few minutes ago about capping liability for the property damage to other people's cars because the cost of new vehicles has just soared. And if people choose to drive expensive vehicles, they should be shouldering more of that liability. I would tend to agree with that.

The idea that, you know, people of modest, well, essentially what is going on right now is that people of modest means, we're yelled at on one hand if you don't buy insurance, right? But then if you do buy insurance, and well, you're just supposed to buy it no matter what. And you're getting to the point where insurance rises to the cost, just like trying to get fire insurance to that, you know, it becomes impossible to live here, impossible to work. And this individual says, Bill, a couple of years ago, instead of capping liability on high dollar cars, perhaps drivers need to be more careful.

Okay, all right, I'll continue here. A couple of years ago, a guy driving a full-size GMC pickup rear-ended my daughter in her Audi Q3, that's a $40,000 vehicle new in downtown Portland, going about 10 miles an hour. This bent the whole back hatch, among other things, so the damage was extensive. All told about $20,000, including three months of a rental car. This could have easily been avoided. It was all due to his careless and poor driving. In those cases, no caps, no forgiveness for bad drivers. With all due respect to emailer, and I'll leave your name out of it, now I'll write you back and say the same thing.

If you're just going to say, be more careful, and no caps, unlimited liability on something like that, then what's the point of even having insurance then? Because you wouldn't need insurance. All you have to do is just be more careful, be more careful. The whole idea is that we're human. We're not always be more careful. I wish we could be, but we are flawed individuals. The point is though, is that the the concept that modest drivers who might be just in our in our regular fender bender or something like that are having to pay

$20,000 in a 10 mile per hour rear end, 10 miles an hour, $20,000. To me, that speaks more to what that Audi and how the Audi was designed, more than the inattentive driver. And it may have been an inattentive driver. I'm not giving a pass on that sort of thing. But a 10 mile per hour collision with your car should not in any sane world cause $20,000 in damage for a $40,000 car. Just saying. 736 KMED 993 KBXG. The idea is that it is a risk for us to drive out there. And if you want to have

a really expensive car, I think the risk should be on you having a really expensive car rather than the risk being completely on everybody else to not touch your little diamond on the road. I mean, I wish I could keep this all because otherwise we're going to get down to the point where the government will say, well, you can only drive new cars now because the new cars have collision avoidance and everything else. And then you're perfectly, perfectly safe and then there goes your Liberty. Okay. Just saying. And yeah, it would be nice if everybody was more attention, but yeah, I'd like a pony sometime too.

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She directed ODOT to delay 483 layoffs, which gives the legislature time to meet. Legislators will return August 29th. Kotec calls it the first step in solving the state's long-term transportation needs. Republicans say the plan lacks transparency. Law enforcement in Jackson County say a police drone helped capture an active shooter after reports came in Saturday

of a man shooting a gun on I-5, later shooting at police. Eagle Point Police deployed a new drone and found the suspect down on an embankment. Police say the suspect surrendered once he spotted the drone. Tuesday, a grand jury in Jackson County indicted Ashland resident Devonna Maider on charges stemming from the incident. The board shanty fire burning on the outskirts of Grants Pass is 20% contained sitting at 475 acres. Tuesday, all evacuation notices were downgraded

or eliminated. Bill London KMED. 738. Hey Jerry the Bull's here. Jerry you wanted to weigh in on the insurance conversation I was having with Eric and more. Coming on. Go ahead. Bill I just cut the tail in before you went to a break regarding a risk to drive which obviously there is. I can share a quick story how I was not driving and this was a 22 year old Toyota vehicle that was parked across the street legally that was hit by a e-biker riding down the street.

And I did not see it happen, but I came outside after taking a little break and a young teenager came over to me and asked me if it was my car and told me that he hit it. He went across the street thinking that the owner across the street probably owned the vehicle. Anyway, she had it all on video. Here's my point to this though. I will tell you this. I get the information from the kid and so forth. And I did talk to his dad. It's all been handled. But when I called his insurance company to inquire about the claim, they told me that they did not know who owned the e-bike that hit my car. Evidently, the kid riding it didn't know it. What this all got me to thinking about was, let's just say in our redesigned East Main Street where they have Viking lanes, I had a $60,000 Mercedes parked there and some homeless person riding down Main Street just happened to

side swipe it and break a mirror or scratch a door or whatever. Yeah, and there's $5,000 in damage instantly, right? Exactly. And anyway, it was an interesting story for me because I just assumed. And the other thing is, Bill, here's another question regarding all the e-bikes. Some of these e-bikes or electric bikes go pretty fast. Oh, I know. They're insanely fast. Technically, they're supposed to have insurance, but I'm sure there's probably a lot that don't. I don't really know the stats. Most people that are doing their daily driving on a electric e-bike are probably not

looking to actually have insurance and a car payment, etc, etc. So, you know, you know, what about that? But that kind of goes back to my point that if you have, if you have a precious diamond on four wheels or eight wheels or however many wheels you have, I think it's kind of up to us to carry that burden if you're going to carry it, if you have an incredibly valuable vehicle there. The idea that any schmoe just wanting to get basic liability coverage driving a modest car has to be completely on the on the hook because we're all kind of in there is a bit of a shared risk out there.

You know, just by the nature of driving and it's going to take it out of the ability to buy insurance and I think the whole push is to is to do this intentionally so that only the well-off will be able to have their own transport. That's just my opinion. I get concerned. You okay with that? Is that all right? I'm good with it.

Okay, appreciate the call. Thank you. Brian Boteller is gonna join me here in a couple of minutes. Homelessness, grants passed. They're working to help out, at least on the elderly side of it next. If you're remodeling your house, start with the foundation.

Hi, I'm Cassie from Closard Drilling and I'm on KMED. Quarter before eight, we're proud to have Brian Boteller on the program right now. Gospel Rescue Mission in Grants Pass working really hard to keep the people off the streets there. How you doing this morning, Brian? Welcome back. I'm doing great. Thanks for inviting me, Bill. Okay. How many open beds did you have last night? I always have to ask you that kind of thing because, you know, we're always told that, oh my gosh, if we don't have very expensive government-provided shelters, people will die. And I will repeat, people will die. All right? And I know Grants Pass has, of course, been attacked several times. I'm not making

light of this, okay? But how many were there? Because that tells you that if there are people in the homelessness camps and then they're not taking a bed where you are, it's because they don't want to follow rules. That's kind of my opinion. But tell me what you got. Well, so I have today 40 open beds in my men's facility and I have about as many in my women and children's facility. So today we have about 33 men in our facility and I have 19 women and children total. So we've got plenty of beds and when you hear like they don't want to come there based because of the rules, I want you to understand what rules are. I mean you know rules here are things like well get up on time

every day, eat your meals at the same time every day, clean up after yourself, you know take a shower every day. These are these are rules are typically not the rules that everybody focuses on, but they are the rules and they'll and they'll ask people, people will say, Oh, no, you know, they want to control every aspect of my life. And well, yeah, you're going to clean up if you if you want a different life, you have to change and change means doing something different than you're currently doing. And that's what we do.

Brian, how much of the resistance to coming to the Gospel Rescue mission is the... For lack of a better term, I'm just going to go there. They are scared of Jesus. Maybe some exposure to it. You know, I think that there's a lot of ginned up here for that, but I don't think it's actually what they're afraid of. Okay, the reason I bring it up though is that the secular world, the secular humanists in society, which tend to festoon themselves through the

nonprofit rackets of the world, you know, state-funded nonprofit rackets, they always make a big deal about that. They make a big deal about this that, well, you know, this is not inclusive. You're not inclusive enough, Brian. Yeah, well, I mean, it's kind of like asking people about, you know, racism. And it's always, you know, everybody that's worried about racism is a bunch of, you know, older white ladies that are mostly, you know, they're all single white ladies that are really mad about this. It's the same kind of thing. It's usually a bunch of elitist, you know, non-Christian socialists that are most concerned about this. But when you actually

get down to the people that are coming into the Gospel Rescue Mission, you know, people that come in, you know, some of them go, well, yeah, it was a little much at first, but now I actually get to where I like it and I enjoy the conversations and, you know, many of them become Christians along the way, but certainly not all of them. And even the ones that don't, don't seem to mind the conversations and the discussion and everything. So, again, I think it's kind of just a red herring to the public. It's the same with the smoking issue, it's the same with the,

but I have a dog issue, or things like that. I mean, people will gain a dog just to get out from under the public pressure to come to the Gospel Rescue Mission. Oh, that is very interesting. So, okay, I want to drill into that just a second here. You're telling me that people would be under, so we would have some homeless people that would be pressured to go to the Gospel Rescue Mission, but then they go get a dog so that they don't qualify for going in? Really? Right, right. Yeah, I mean, there's folks that'll give them a dog just so they don't qualify. them a dog just so they don't qualify. I mean, it's really kind of bizarre, but we really, I think what they're really trying to do is create a group of people that for some reason thereby can't come into the Gospel Rescue Mission. Thereby, we're justified in stealing the taxpayers' money to control all of this and fund it. Somebody's got to run and manage all of this. And the state definitely wants to be in charge of all of those things.

So this is kind of a continuous battle. And the reason they want to do it is because, well, there's big bureaucratic money in this thing. This is a tax dollar thing. And if you oppose it, well, look, you just hate poor people. Yeah, you hate poor homeless people. Yeah, I get it. Brian Boateller and once again,

Gospel Rescue Mission in Grants Pass. Now I was talking with Chad McCombs a little earlier this week and catching up on their elderly housing project there, the Joy Community, and you are working on one with Gospel Rescue Mission 2, and it's called the Mission View Village Project. And I'm wondering, like, how is it similar to maybe, I don't know if you've seen what Chad's doing, but in Jackson County, but in Joe County, what, how is it similar to maybe, I don't know if you've seen what Chad's doing, but in Jackson County, but in Joe County, what are you trying to bring to your system right now? Well, we've noticed for years that there's a group of people that really kind of accumulate

in the Gospel Rescue Mission. Probably 20 percent, they make up about 20% of people that come through the doors and enter, but over time they'll actually make about 40% of our resident population. And these are folks that are 55 and over. They are people who maybe they're physically capable of taking care of themselves. They can cook and clean and manage things well. They're not necessarily struggling with addictions per se, but their problem is that they're homeless because they're trying to live on social security.

They're physically broken enough that they can't get out and really compete in the job market, in the 40-hour-a-week job market. And so what they're left with is some sort of social welfare program, some Social Security or something. And, and well, let's just imagine they have a really good social security for, for one of our group, you know, it'd be maybe, you know, 12, 1500 bucks a month. And that's just not enough to, to compete in the crazy housing market in, in, you know, our, our communities, either in Jackson or Josephine counties. It's just not enough.

Yeah, what is a typical one bedroom apartment going for in Joe County right now? Just to say on the low end. If you can find one, if you can find one, there are one room, just renting a room might cost you $800 a month. Getting an apartment, Mike, is gonna be somewhere between $800 and $1,800 a month. Getting an apartment might be somewhere between $800 and $1500 a month. And if you get a two-bedroom, fortunately enough for a two-bedroom or more,

you're probably looking in the, you know, over $1500 and maybe even into the $2,500 a month. I just saw a three-bedroom house that went for rent for like $3,200 a month. And it's just stupid. And there's no way these guys can compete in that kind of marketplace. And hence they end up being homeless there, either on the street, maybe living in their car, couch surfing, I guess would be the case. And the Mission and View Village Project, just like what Chad's doing with Joy Community, trying to take care of this. I'm very sympathetic to this because just about anybody could find themselves into this situation as they age into,

well, aging into poverty, essentially, is what you're working to help out. Isn't that right, Brian? I mean, imagine you're a responsible mom who didn't work because you were providing for the family, taking care of a family, and your kids all grow up and move away, and your husband passes away away and all you get is whatever his social security survivor, you know, the benefits from him because you didn't pay into that system. It's not a lot. And then, you know, many of them struggle, you know, they, okay, maybe they own a, you know, okay, maybe they own a vehicle, but they can pay for their

their insurance and gas, but every time they stop to try to, you know, they just move into their car and they're trying to find a place to park their car, but every time they need to get chased out of a neighborhood, they get victimized. Yeah, yeah, and nobody wants the car camping in the neighborhood. I get that part. So the Mission View Village project is not what the Joy Commuter is. It's a different deal. But it's all right. We're trying different things and seeing what works best. This is it's not a tiny house, but it's what kind of a smaller

duplexes or fourplexes. How is this? How do you envision this or how is it going to be playing out? Well, so these are what these will be is about 450 square foot homes. They're entirely self-contained and we'll build them in duplexes or triplexes. It'll be just like a little subdivision of sorts. And in that, each home will have a bedroom, closet, bathroom, full bathroom, and then they'll have a separate living room, kitchen area. The kitchen will be fully functional. They'll have inside, they'll have an over and under

small washer and dryer and everything like that. So they'll be fully self-contained. Okay, so fully self-contained, modest, senior citizen housing here for this. And how many are you, have you finished any yet, or is this still sort of in the development and construction phase? We're still in the development process.

We're just about ready to finish up our all of our city approvals and start scraping the ground here. So what we what we've got designed is for 19. The plot of land that we have is just under an acre. And we can fit 19 of these tiny homes on that. What neighborhood in Grand Spanis is it? Where is it? It's right next to Planet Fitness on Harbeck.

It says 1650 Harbeck Street. And so it's right up between Harbeck and Williams Highway. So it's near the hospital there and it's near a lot of the medical community. It's right across the street from a couple of pharmacies. There's a Safeway nearby. There's shopping nearby. There's restaurants nearby. Kind of a self-contained neighborhood then, really. It would be easier for senior citizens. That works great. Now, what is your completion date or is it like a few at a time and then you open them or what's your plan? Well, so right now our project has kind of grown to the cost of about three

million dollars, a little over three million dollars. We are halfway there in our fundraising. So we have enough to get everything toenailed in and you know get all the utilities stubbed in and everything, and maybe even get the first home or two built. But we're going to essentially build as we raise funds, and we're really doing a major fundraising campaign for that right now. We'll be doing that. Our goal would be, our hope would be to have it completed and have people in, starting to move in by spring of 2026.

Very good, I hope you do. And how can we help out on that fundraising thing? I know there are people pretty sensitive to this, sure. That'd be fantastic. You know, if you went to grantspassmission.org and just look up Mission View, the Mission View tab, you can find out it's, I need to get more updates on it. Right now we haven't, we've kind of been in a slowdown mode.

You can donate directly there. We look for, we're clearly looking for major donors that wanna be a part of this. And we really see this as the first of many that we may end up building because the need is so great. I mean, we're looking at a boomer generation that is just aging and aging really quickly. And it's one of the fastest growing segments of the homeless population that we see coming

in. And we really, really, this is going to be an issue. We'd like to see homeless senior care or, you know, senior care, low-income senior care be something that isn't designed intentionally to drain every fund that they have, but that's actually designed to intentionally leave them in better shape than when they came to us. And so that's really going to be our goal. This is for people who don't need constant medical care, you know, like a medically assisted living kind of a thing. But this is for folks that can fairly well maintain themselves, take care of a small

place and want some independence. And they'll be vetted through the Gospel Rescue Mission first. We'll know that they're, it's part of our program. We'll know that they're sober and clean and good to go. We'll have their debts paid off. We'll have their savings growing. That's the program and it's going to be a fantastic program. I think that there's going to be a lot of communities that are going to want one just like this in their town. I'm looking forward to hearing, to seeing more about this as you get this growing. Now, this is something I asked Chad about Joy Community. I'm looking forward to hearing to seeing more about this as you get this rolling. Now this is something I asked Chad about Joy

Community. I'm going to ask the same question about you. Is this a standard landlord rental agreement or what Chad was saying is that they wanted to make it this is part of a program because you know when you start getting in the landlord tenant things it gets very spicy and dicey sometimes, in which you can have someone squat and cause problems. It is curious, is this a program also? It is part of the, it's an extension of the Gospel Rescue Mission program, and that's really wise in that regard to do that. Because of the problems that come from landlord tenant problems, I went up and visited the Emerald Village up in Eugene, which was kind of the idea

that we started with on some of this that kind of sparked it. And when I talked to the residents there, they told me all the story of where somebody came in and set up a drug shop in their little village and caused all kinds of chaos and caused lots of money for them to get them out. And the reason it cost them so much money and took so much time was because of landlord tenant laws. We have a program, you know, our group is a program with the Gospel Rescue Mission, and that's why we want to bring them in because we add increased safety and security both for the residents themselves and for the neighborhood by just having that simple, hey, look, you're part of a contract.

If you don't follow the contract, it's breach of contract and you've got to go. And we can get somebody out right away if they're doing something nefarious, if they decide to drift or shift from what they're doing something nefarious, if they decide to drift or shift from what they were doing. So it'll be a good program. We'll get them out quick if there's problems. And we've been working that same thing here at the Gospel Rescue Mission since 1983. So we've been doing this for a long time. Brian, thank you so much for the update. Brian Boteller once again, Gospel Rescue Mission.

I will put all the information up on KMED.com of course, and if you feel like donating, please do. And the Mission View Village Project, good progress and looking forward to seeing that open sooner rather than later. Thank you very much. Thank you so much, Bill. I really appreciate that.

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herself as the President, has decreed, yes, August 29th, there will be the special session and we shall raise taxes on the little people in order to bail out ODOT. Yeah, the transportation deal. So it could be gas taxes, could be much more. I'm going to talk with Duane about that, and what I'm curious about is that, according to my mathematics, my mathematics could be bad, if every single Republican were to stay out and not be there August 29th, if most of them all stay out, there's no special session, and then there's no unexcused absence. I don't know if that's true or not.

I think it is, I'm pretty sure. If I understand the rules there, you just not allow them to gavel in, and then there's no unexcused absences, and then maybe they could talk about some negotiation and have a real conversation, rather than Republicans showing up and have a real conversation rather than Republicans showing up and passing a Democrat plan.

I'm just, hey, a fella can dream. I'll talk with Dwayne about that after news. Next.