Erik Holt

So a quorum of the board for my board is three-fifths.

So nothing can tell me what to do or anything in the district policy-wise without a three-fifths vote, which is a great design for a system because it's supposed to have impartiality.

So I'm just kind of navigating this.

I mean, we're grinding out, we're working, we're training hard, built up this department.

So we get to, you know, January is kind of like when we had our high mark that I referenced back because September to January is a pretty small time window.

But we got to work so hard, so fast that it just blew up, you know.

I had, when I came on, I said, if we build a culture, people will come, especially in small town America.

You know, if you look at like social clubs after World War II, right, they were big.

That was their heyday.

People want to be a part of something that they see as good in their community.

And so it worked.

I mean, it worked beautifully.

So we went from four or five, it was an 18 minute response time to 62, seven minute response times, more trained personnel, you know, youth, exuberance, all that stuff.

And it was going really well.

So January comes in and like this counterparty, the Axis force in the story declares that they're going to run for the board as a slate of five people, which is weird in politics.

And this is local politics.

It gets a little different, but never in my, I've never been hyper political, but to see a slate vote for one of us, vote for all of us was their, their tagline.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

And they had some crazy beliefs and ideas.