During the public-comment period on ordinances and resolutions, a resident sharply criticized recent and proposed salary increases and questioned several financial items on the agenda.

Bruce Patterson of Garwood addressed the commissioners during the comment period for Ordinance No. 863-2025 (salary ordinance) and during the resolutions segment. He supplied several percentage figures he attributed to department salary growth over the last decade (for example, Parks and Recreation up about 46% and Finance up about 51% across a ten-year span in his account) and said part-time commissioner pay would rise to roughly $38,000–$40,000 in the coming year. He also cited a county rental relationship with Ron Lee Realty and questioned a recent $42,000 payment tied to county rental of a property at 40 Parker Road — saying prior supplements to the contract already had increased the county’s total payments to roughly $4.1 million since 2022. Patterson urged the board to read constitutional officers’ salary details into the public record before voting and said he believed the county manager and finance director were 'under investigation' and receiving additional legal stipends.

No formal rebuttal to Patterson’s allegation of investigations or stipend payments appears in the meeting transcript. County counsel addressed technical questions about ordinance wording (saying edits were largely to align text with prior administrative changes), and the county manager later supplied rough budget figures when asked: a capital balance of "roughly approximately $13,000,000" and constitutional-officer increases at about 2% as described in the record.

The board proceeded to move and adopt ordinances and resolutions after the public comment period. Patterson left before the meeting concluded; the transcript shows his statements on salary levels, departmental percentage increases and contract totals were claims offered from the speaker’s perspective and were not verified on the record during the session.