Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

So I'll be there.

All right, it is 9:00 and it is time to start our meeting. Mr. Rusty, would you close the door for us so we don't disturb anybody across the hall or down the hall or whatever? Whatever. And before we begin, I just want to say if you were at the America's 250th event yesterday at Constitution Square, it was a wonderful event. You are amongst uh actors extraordinaire. Magister Ellis portrayed Judge Samuel McDow, our deputy. talking I'm talking to our IT guy to see how we can eliminate that.

Our IT director and deputy judge Bill Nichols was uh Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson was also there from history. So uh but it was a wonderful event and uh it's just it's going to be a year-long um event all over the county. So be sure and check out that schedule on Facebook and attend as many as you can. Judge really we have to give credit to not only Bill and Bill is Ben Franklin and the gentleman who was Thomas Jefferson but the lady who wrote that script

when that is when that is shown all over the world on the internet it will have a very positive effect on tourism here and and a level of knowledge that a lot of people right here didn't have until yesterday. Exactly. That was extraordinary. Yep. Question judge. Yes sir. Were they really that old? They were pretty old. Some of us were pretty old. TOM, but it it was a great time. Okay, back to the call to order. Uh today our invocation will begin with Magistr.

Our kind, gracious heavenly father, we are grateful to be here today as servants of of the people of B County. We ask that you will be with us and be mindful uh of the things that uh we are gathered here to do that that you will impart your wisdom upon us that we will do uh do those things that that uh we've been tasked to do by by the people of B County. Please uh put a special blessing over uh our first responders uh and all of our B County employees that they are safe in the various things that they have to face from the from the serious weather to uh you know people coming into our county to to do nefarious things. We ask that you will also bless the uh men and women that serve our our our country um and that you will protect them and and also protect their families as they're away from them. And we say these things in the name of my son Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Mandy. Okay. Today, Hayden Foster, a senior at Danville High School, is here today. And Hayden, if you'll come up, we will stand and you can lead us in the pledge. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Hayden, I have a certificate for you. Are you by yourself or did you bring someone with you? I'm by myself.

You're by yourself? Okay. I got to come out here cuz we got to get a picture. Right here. All right. And this is a certificate of recognition for leading the pledge to the boy county fiscal court this morning. Thank you. Thank you so much. You can stay and be entertained or you can go back to school. Well, thank you for being here. Yeah. Wise choice. All right. And we have minutes from the uh February 10th meeting that we need approval on. Is there a motion to approve? I'll make a motion.

Master Bner, there second. Master Harmon. Any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Minutes are approved. Thank you. Budget transfers. Miss Shannon. Okay. Budget transfers in the amount of $79,711.85. And the biggest part of that was moving um some money from the LGA budget into the salt line item. Okay. All right. Is there a motion to approve? So move.

M Sleeper. Second by Mrick Boner. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I.

Any oppose? Name. Motion carries. And now we'll have our cash transfer. I have um $500,000 transfer from the interestbearing account to the general fund. I have $10,1381 going from the jail fund to the foil jail fund. That's their savings account. It's their local corrections assistance that they move $50,000 from the general fund to the road fund, $150,000 from the general fund to the jail, and $200,000 from the general fund to EMS. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the a budget? I'm sorry, cash rate first.

So move. Matt sleepers or second? Second. That's your culling. Any discussion? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you. Now we'll approve our bills. And let's see. I had something marked on the bills. Good morning. Morning. Good morning.

Um, we had the um mini cyclingers, Angie, from the Protainer. It's where um there was a cost difference between um the foam densifier and the original price in the grant. So the state allowed me to make up the difference with that. So I ordered the mini cycl extra. So it's just extra. All right. Good deal. Comes out of that. So that's what that's for.

Okay. Uh on page five you can see and I don't think Roger is with in here but you can see that uh the amount of salt u that was purchased during this recent um ice snow rain fl which was a lot. Um and then uh we also paid out the gathering place their third quarter allocation on the last page. That's all I had to bring to y'all's attention. Is there a motion to approve the bills? Make a motion. Sir,

I guess Elena needs to tell how much. Sorry, we're getting way ahead. I mean, hey, you're excited. You're moving. I'm sassy today. I have to diss the shirt. Pull the coffee bag. All right. Today's bill packet totals 351,346.94 and there are no add-ons. Okay. Now, do we have a motion to approve? I'll still motion. Is there a second? Master Harmon. Any discussion on the bill? Anybody? Okay. Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. Thank you. And L, if you can stay in here for one second. I can.

Uh, well, for a few seconds. Okay. Next, we have um our Boy County academic team. And I think they may be out in the hall. Somebody can check on that. Is it the academic team? Are they here? No.

Okay, that's fine. Well, just let us know when they're here. We'll we'll roll on. Okay. Under new business, the first item that we have is Women's History Month is in March, and I would like to uh dedicate this proclamation to all of the women um in Bo County. All the women in Bole County. So, those of you that are in the room with us, those that work in the courthouse, uh those that work in our various departments and throughout the county, March 2026, leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future. Whereas March is designated as Women's History Month, a time to honor and celebrate the vital role of women throughout history and in contemporary society. And whereas the National Women's History Alliance has identified the 2026 theme as leading the change, women shaping a sustainable future, recognizing the extraordinary leadership of women who are building resilient communities, and tackling urgent challenges in environmental stewardship, economic equity, education, health, and civil engagement. And whereas women across Bole County and the Commonwealth of Kentucky continue to lead with vision, courage, and compassion, driving innovation, strengthening families, advancing justice, and shaping a more sustainable and inclusive future for all. And whereas acknowledging the contributions of women inspires all citizens to reflect on the progress achieved toward gender equity and to support ongoing efforts that expand opportunities for future generations. Now therefore, be it resolved that I, Trilly L. Bottom, Boil County Judge Executive, and the Boil County Fiscal Court, do hereby proclaim March 2026 as Women's History Month, and affirm our support for recognizing the achievements of women whose leadership

and service help shape a sustainable future for our community and beyond. Done this 24th day of February. Like to get a motion to approve, Mr. Bodner, I think that's appropriate. I think that's appropriate. Is there a second second magister at Ellis? Uh any comments? I I think about uh Florence Nightingale. We think of famous people and how awesome she was. A lot of people don't know she was a did a lot for nursing, but she was this great statician and they used her information for years, you know. So not she just wasn't a nurse, she was

just so much. But and then I come back to the everyday person like myself or others here in this room. But and my mom, she's 93. She's been here. She tells me all this history and what all she's been through. And I think you know women have this country. We have a lot of history on men and we have some a lot of history on women. But the everyday just do it, get it done, take care of your children, your family, you know, that that woman is, you know, deserves credit, too. Why send a man to do a woman's job? I'm just teasing. Nope. NOPE.

That's not Oh, I know. Moving on, judge. Move on. All right. All right. Okay. We have a motion in a second. All those in favor signify by saying I post. Motion carries. Thank you. All right. Next up is our CVB appointment and Jennifer Broadwater has been recommended uh to reappoint to the Danble Bull County um Chamber of Commerce. Nope. Excuse me. Be okay. We got to fix that. Uh Kendall, do you want to say anything about Jennifer?

Uh she's willing to serve again. This will be her second term. Uh you're allowed to serve up two. Okay. And glad to have her. All right. Thanks so much. Can I get a motion to approve the appointment? Moder. Is there a second? Second. M Sleeper. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Name. Motion carries. All right. and she couldn't be here today, but we appreciate her service and serving on the CBB board. All right, next up we have our county surveyor, Rich Murphy, and uh Vulker senior specialist, Sarah Scott. Thank you both for being here.

Thank you. I think the uh first thing we have on the list is to discuss the uh Steuart the stat the Steuart Lane project. Um if you remember about a month ago we had that on the agenda and I withdrew it. Uh there was some revisions that they were wanting. So the revisions have been made uh by Vulkar downstairs there. And um what that was uh the the property over on Steuart's Lane. They were subdividing a piece of it off for a road access to the development that's going uh planned for the uh back side of it. So, it was originally um 80 ft wide and it was reduced to 60 foot wide uh and the to get the accessment and Sarah has the um plans to get uh recorded today.

She's got everything signed and it's ready to go. So, after this meeting, she's going to get that uh signed and recorded so that that'll be finalized. Okay. Would you like us to approve these separately as the just to approve the plat that we're approving it? Oh, yes. Yes, please. Yes. And yeah, that's what we're looking for is the the approval of the PL the subdivision of the plan. So move, judge. Okay, we have a motion by Mr. Ellis. This is for the storage lane flag. Is there a second? Second. Mr. Sleeper, there any discussion?

Yeah, just just to clarify when you say development. We're not building homes back there. It's it's for the railroad property that we uh well that the EDA owns. Um so don't want anyone thinking there's going to be a housing development going back there. Hopefully. So, it's an access road to get back to, you know, some sort of business that may want something along the road instead of maybe improvements. Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Yeah. Building a road. All right. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Name. Motion carries. Thank you.

Yes. I was just asking JJ who names the road as part of the flat. So I guess we want to do that or do we want to leave that up to the city? Well, it's going to be a city road. The city the city Yes. The city will So they might could there collaborate? Yeah. Collaborate with them and name it. Yeah. Thank you. All right.

And the uh second one I had was the um Constitution Square. I think that's in your um your packet there. We had the uh we uh I was asked to do the survey for the Constitution Square. Got the uh survey done. It was a actually quite a fun survey. It's nice. It's always nice uh surveying these historic properties and that Google because when you do the deed research um just finding the the history like like um Paul Boden was talking about is it's the history with the the different things just talking learning about the history. you know, you think you know a lot about the different history, but you never do until you start getting into

um the de the old deeds and see how things were, how things developed over time. But um that uh the plat has been recorded. It's it's good to go. There was no issues with it. No uh no noticeable encroachments or anything on Got a good little map with all the um different buildings located and everything. And then there there is an access and easement that kind of cuts down the one side of the property that's shown. But uh other than that, there was no issues with it and it is on file in the clerk's office. So the fence on the I guess it would be the east side that is the boundary line. That is very that is right pretty much right on right on the boundary. Okay. Okay.

Very good. All right. Is there a motion to approve? Mr. Ellis, there second me. Any discussion on the Constitution Square? Um, and this may be premature. So, u, we have Tim Montgomery here with us, but I know that there is some exciting potential uh, movement around Constitution Square. Uh, Tim, would it be premature to talk about that? Uh, maybe not premature. Um, Landmark Trust is working with the gentleman owns the property. I guess that would be to the east

and we met with an attorney and they recommended that we reszone his property so he can all convey a strip of land for us to build a log structure there that has significant historical importance to our community. So all the more excitement there are all the more exciting. That's right. It's not finished but it's it's in the tube. Okay. Thank you. All right. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. Thank you, Rich. Appreciate. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you very much.

All right. Next up, we have CBB director Kendall Clinton and Tim McGomery.

Thank you. Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. I've been asked to give just a financial update. Uh I'll begin. The revenues are down this year. Not significantly, but they are they are down. We do have a new motel that's opening in May, April, May.

Um which will will boost our revenues a little bit. Um the the collections for the short-term rentals is up a little bit. Um I know staff um works on that continuously to identify and locate the short-term rentals that are in the community. There's a lawsuit, you probably familiar with it, excuse me, that's kind of bogged down that collection effort. Um let me see. Uh, is there um are Julie Judge, is there a way that they can share that list with maybe tax admin

or do you guys do that already? Yeah, we whenever there's somebody behind um I kind of work with Kendall to work on those collections through the county attorney so we're able to kind of make sure we've got them on our list. Yeah, I just want to make sure that they're on our list and they're filing. And I think they're when they ask for a variance, I think in that process there's some pretty

I think we're probably 60% compliant, but that's still Montgomery's estimate there. There's a whole lot out there. Um and one of the largest ones that collected are refusing to remit it to the county and I think knows more about that lawsuit if you want to speak about it. But there those things are in the process and if once that lawsuit is complete I think it'll it'll help us because if someone uses an organized uh group to rent their properties then the revenue will be collected.

Okay. at at the source. Uh we currently have $37,000 roughly in our checking account and a CD of 41,000. Uh and we're probably going to uh liquidate part of the CD uh to get through next year's budget cycle. Um don't have much more. any reason any any idea on the reason for the decline of of revenue or uh it's national isn't it Kendall would you call it it's just a national decline and it's not significant amount uh we if you look at our short-term rentals increase we're right there on budget okay

and with the opening of the new motel we'll we'll have more revenue next year yeah that's great uh any other poketails that you know of coming down the pipe. Okay. Not right now. Okay. There was that one next to the Super Eight that has that been halted. It's going to Yeah, it's going to rebuild the Super Eight maybe or I know there was plans uh or proposed to put a hotel between Super Eight and Hampton, but I don't know. I don't think that went anywhere as of now. Okay. All right. Thank you, Tam. Appreciate that. Hey, good. Thank you. See you guys. Have a good day. I'll talk about some things we're working on. Um, yeah,

I think in April we're going to be able to launch our a new passport program. It's um focused on on visitors, but I'm sure the locals will uh engage in it as well. And this is separate from a passport program the America 250 program is doing, which is more of a historical passport. Ours includes uh I think about 18 or 19 locations. Everything from Jacob's Hall at KSD to Penn store distilleries. Um so we're still working on that. have a meeting today with KSD to to get them involved with this and then next step is getting it designed, getting them printed and then we will uh start getting those in circulation I think sometime in April. Just a matter of when we can get it designed and printed. So um I'll bring you all some of those to look at once we get that get that going. Um we're still working pretty uh pretty hard on the marketing of the American 250 events. Had the big kickoff yesterday, so kind of got a preview what's coming up this year. Uh this coming Tuesday is the uh event with Frank X Walker called Our Civil Wars. And then a couple weeks from now uh we got the shot around the world film viewing at the Boil County Arts Center. And then the next event will be April 25th with an evening with Abraham Lincoln. So we're marketing this variety of ways. Uh today we should have a halfpage ad in the advocate messenger. We've got I think seven total ads appearing uh between now and June in the newspaper. Uh next week on Monday, you should see a billboard come up uh at the botto which will have information, some more general information leading to our website where you can find all the all the details about what's coming up this year.

And we have a new sign in the courthouse. Got a new sign out the hallway I just put up.

Um the CDB has appropriated $2,000 to do a variety of social media uh boosting. So, uh, the dozen or so events we've got this year, we'll do a paid boost on those using funds from the CDB. Uh, Tony Wilder is going to be on the radio tomorrow. Um, we're going to try to get him on to some of the Lexington TV stations, especially coming up with the summer events to get some earned media there. And then we'll send out press releases. Melanie Crossfield's getting the um, basically took the rat card and made it into 8 and 1 half by 11. That'll be in the uh March water build for Danville customers. And uh like I said, we're just pushing it real hard on social media. And so if you all see it, if you can click like on it, comment, share it, that really helps uh get it circulating some.

A couple other things we're working on. Um we got two contests we're we're trying to get to be finalist in. One of them is the America's Favorite Small Town Contest that Parade Magazine has done. The cuto off for nominations was January 21st. We were on the top 10 leaderboard at that point. They decided to extend the contest to the end of this month and we have now fallen off the leaderboard. So So everybody go on there and vote and you can vote once a day. Yeah. So we just need everybody days left. Do that. Yeah.

The other one's the best in Kentucky which uh Kentucky Living does last year. Um Burks Bakery won statewide. Sweets by Cindy came in second. It's doesn't cost anything but it puts more eyes on DMville and Bo County. We have finalist and winners. So, several categories there that are relevant to businesses we have here in in Bo County.

And last project I'm working on, I think you all probably heard about by now. Uh, Papy Van Winkle. Uh, Jason had texted me a little over a year ago and asked me if I knew anything about Papy being from uh, Danville and I didn't. So, started researching it. Quickly found out he'd gone to Center College for a year, played on the baseball team. Um, that's all we really knew. We did some more research and kind of thought maybe his house was still around. Uh, for a while we thought it had been torn down. Uh, so we couldn't figure out exactly where it was. Street names, addresses had changed over time, but then we finally nailed it down and it turns out it's Allan and Katie Turbyville's house, which is um on Mabel Avenue. So, we've identified it and now we're working on a nomination for a historic marker through the Kentucky Historical Society. So, we've got about a month left to get all the uh information for that compiled for the nomination. Big part of it is uh letters of support. So, um Truly's

Do you want to go ahead and speak about that and that way we can get it approved? Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, we basically need letters of support from a variety of organizations. So, we've asked the city and the county to uh submit letters on behalf of the city and counties offering support for this. Um the uh grand one of the granddaughters of Papy is going to write a letter on behalf of the family. Um we've got a few others that are pending u couple other commitments, but I'd really like to have between seven and 10 very strong support letters that um because there's no other marker for papy in Kentucky which and I'm happy to do that. I've already um committed verbally, but I do want to make sure that it's okay with the court. So do you want a do you want a motion to that effect?

That would be great. I I'll make that motion. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Cullen. Is there a second? Master Harmon. Any discussion on the letter? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any opposed? Nay. Motion carries. Okay. Appreciate that. We'll get that done officially. All right. Uh so yeah, we got to April 1st to get that submitted. Um they have a committee that gets together once a year to to go over all these and then they will announce the recipients in August and uh takes about a year to get the signs uh made and put up. So, uh, we'll at least know one way or the other in August. But regardless, we're still the or placed in a home of home place of That's right. We can claim the fame.

Yeah. Yeah. Uh, would you speak about the um bank account getting we can get that approved, too?

We're required every couple years to look at our banking options. Okay. So, we looked at um a couple years ago, we we stayed with where we're at, Central Kentucky Federal Savings. Um we did again this year couple months ago and asked around and uh got some better rates at a couple different banks and the CBB board voted in January to recommend uh with the court's approval that we switch from uh Central Kentucky to Farmers Bank, which will give us a better interest rate. So we just have to approve to allow them to do that. There's a motion to approve. Master Bogen is there a second? Second. Mor sleeper. Any discussion on that?

Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. All right. There we go. We've killed two birds with one. And Kendall deserves a lot of credit on uh on this whole Py things. when I went to him with it, you know, I was surprised that a lot of people didn't know uh the history of of the Van Winkl family in B County and um and so I thought for a while, you know, there was nothing happening with it, but Kendall was working on it left and right and organizing. He's met with the the grandchildren. He's met with uh he had you had a center student working on uh a lot of this as well.

Yeah, she was key. She found us. Like I said, we're having trouble figuring out which house it was and she found an old uh fraternity 100year retrospective they put together. Wow. And it happened so happened the fraternity had that house for seven or eight years and had a picture of the house and had the address which is the same address as Turbyville house. So it kind of firm things up. That's so thank you very much. I I think this will be Yes. pretty cool to have uh this marker in our town and you know so thank you. Another little piece of history. Love it. Thank you, Kendall. Appreciate it.

Oh, hey, Kendall. One one other thing. Sorry, I lied. Um, and this is this is this is not on you. I just an observation I made. Uh, I was in Berea the other day uh at uh archery tournament my daughter was at. And I saw right off the the interstate there, our billboard uh that we have right there by on 75. Uh

it's still up. It's still up. All right. So, the only and I don't I don't know how we do this, but the font on Danville is very hard to read. And I don't know if if we maybe look at ways of maybe changing out I hate to do it but you know if we're going to use that as a um marketing stuff you know really kind of put it through the the ringer to make sure cuz I actually had to do a double take as I was going along to try to like did that say Danville because it's just it's very nice looking but it's very thin and very hard to see the background was kind of dark and stuff like that so Danville just needs to be bolder. Yeah. I mean, um I don't know logo. That's the one. Yeah.

Yeah. That I mean that's that's hard to read, you know, even on a billboard. On a billboard. Yes. Fast drive. 65. Hold up traffic. Um uh but you know some of the some of the newer signs that Damville's put out around town. I don't know maybe kind of coordinate that as well if that's going to be the new Damble you know font. I'm surprised that billboard's still up cuz we that was part of our um our preference and it's it's been quite a while since we had that put. So it's still there. Good for us. Yeah. Yeah, it might not work,

right? So, so yeah, that that's that was all I just, you know, if we're when we're doing billboards, if we could just or or any sort of signage, if we can maybe figure out a way to make that bolder as we are bolder, you know, historically historically. Yeah, I keep that in mind. Cool. Thank you very much. Thanks for all your hard work. Thanks, Kendall. Appreciate it. All right. Uh, Mattress Sleeper, if you can get the quick recall team. Say that three times fast.

Quick recall. Quick recall. Welcome. Come in. Come in. Welcome. Yeah. Come on in. Yep. There you go. Just keep going. Very good. Very good. How many we got? 20. OH, WOW. ALL RIGHT. GOOD CHANCE. Good chance. All right. Are we all in? You can move that.

We got We got the coach with us. Okay. Good. Awesome. Awesome. Well, we are here to recognize the Boil County Academic Team. Uh they have recently won a first ever uh quick recall championship. Correct.

First ever school history. All right. So, yes. Yes. All right. So, we have a certificate uh for you that I will read and then we will present it to you and we'll take some pictures and we'll let the coach uh have opportunity to speak and Mr. Wade if he'd like to speak. So, um all right. So, this certificate of recognition uh is presented to the 2526 Bull County Academic Team. The Bo County Fiscal Court hereby recognizes and congratulates the Bo County High School academic team for its outstanding academic achievement and exemplary representation of Boil County. Through dedication, scholarship, and teamwork, the team has earned the following distinctions. The Kentucky Association for Academic Competition or KAAC District Governor's Cup Champions, KAAC District Quick Recall Champions, KAAC District Future Problem Solving Champions, Spartan Invitational Quiz Bowl Champions, and qualified for the National Quiz Bowl tournament for the second consecutive year and the and only the second time in school history. The fiscal court further commends academic team coach Tyler Murphy for his leadership, commitment, and mentorship in guiding this exceptional group of young scholars. Your accomplishments reflect academic excellence and demonstrate that the achievements of our youth today build the leaders of tomorrow. Boil County is proud of each and every one of you. So, it's dated this day. So, CONGRATULATIONS.

WELL, I'd like to formalize that with a motion that we accept that. All right, we have a motion by Majford Ellis, a second by Manner Bodner. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. And coach, if you would like to say a few words and then we'll get a group picture with everybody and uh present the certificate.

Thank you. Thank you all for the recognition. I appreciate it. I'm very proud of this group. Um people don't realize the amount of hard work that goes into this. and uh academic team and quiz bowl competition is one of those things where all of all schools are lumped together there. There aren't classes or anything like that. So, we're competing with private schools that have academic team class. Um and uh schools from all over the region, especially in Quizbolt. Um so, for them to distinguish themselves in this way, it's a testament to to their hard work, commitment, and the support that we've gotten from the administration because we couldn't do it without the district support as well. That's awesome. That's awesome. Superintendent Weights, would you like to say a few words?

I can't agree more. I mean, you know, we're pretty well known for some uh athletic accomplishments, but I will tell you, you know, we are um we are in the top of the state academically and uh that's something that we can be proud of. We have a, you know, a saying, excellence in everything. That's them. I mean, look at that script. So, I'm I'm impressed. Um you know, I I can also say thank you to to the county. Um, you know, we had some recent pretty significant ice and snow. Yeah. And the work that you all did to get us in quickly, it just really helps because every day that we can be in makes a difference and impact with this group. So, just thank you all. Thank you for your support.

All right. Good deal. Well, you're very welcome. So, what was some of the hardest things you had to do or questions you had to answer? Anything stick out there? I mean, it's hard to pick a specific question. There's just there's like there's so many. I mean there's like 80 in every match. So, but I mean it's really tough playing against teams like DuPont Emanuel and like University School of Nashville. Those are probably the matches that stand out. Um usually it's in quiz bowl. Okay. But yeah, I'm I'm really excited to continue at state. Hopefully we get some good matches there, too. And the questions can be about anything, right? Yeah. Yeah. There's like a curriculum, but it's every subject. Okay.

Are you limited on the number at the desk at the table? Uh yeah, four of us at a time. So how do you make your choices? It's data. Yeah, it's database. Yeah. Okay. And and because the uh questions are very diverse, you want a good representation of subjects, right? So you don't want four math people, right? So you kind of you want to you want to split it up and make sure that you have different subjects represented on the table. And your farm team's good, too. middle school because I understand

you're the middle school team there. Uh they came in second in their region. We're the region for middle school is drawn differently from high school. We pull pull in Woodford County and Frank the Frankfurt schools. Um but yes, they're competitive and so it's I know the feeder program very well and so it helps lay the foundation and all every one of these kids that you see here. It's particularly special to me because I've coached many of these students since they were sixth graders. Well, Superintendent uh Mark Wade mentioned the athletic program and some of us kind of bent in that direction and probably wouldn't have qualified that.

So, God bless you all. We got something for everybody in the congratulations. So, are there any graduating seniors in this group? Okay. All right. Good deal. So, we still have some uh promising students coming up then. Absolutely. All right. I know the magistrates want to be included. So, we're going to try to make guys get to the back. We're going to try to make this work. Everybody in a group photo. If we turn this way, turn and face the TV.

Hey guys. Hey. What's good, gang? Charlotte, I think your car will stay.

We got everybody. I'm going to get over here behind you. Come on over here. Behind him. Perfect. Perfect. Perfect. Um, good looking budge. Okay, I think I got everybody. All right, you ready? Small pretty. Got it. All right. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Where are you seniors going next year? I don't think any of us. Congratulations. Congratulations. Yeah. Congratulations. Yes. Congratulations. It's a friend.

Congratulations. Does that mean anybody coach? Congratulations. Thank you for what you're doing. And this obligates all of you to stay in this community. And I'm going to present this plaque to you and then you can share it with whoever. Thanks for coming. Yeah. Appreciate you all being here today. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thanks for being here today. Yeah. You all represent us well. We're very proud of you. Thank you. I appreciate all. Thank you again. Thanks for your communication for reaching out. I appreciate Thank you all. Thank you. We appreciate your service.

Thank you. Appcate your service. Thank you all. So much. I hear we've got a desk mark. Uh, we have a swimming somebody check on that. I think we have a state championship bowler, too. We certainly So, we'll try to get them in and them all in. Absolutely. The near future. Okay. It's always great to have kids regardless of what school they are attending. It's always great to have kids come in and share uh in their accomplishments. Absolutely.

All right. Building inspector Rusty Cox, you are up next. All right. Thank you. I just wanted to give a little just a brief year end report from 2025. If you look down at the bottom compared to last year, it's almost identical. It just a little bit off. Um, one of the things that have helped us this past year or two is uh the development of different subdivisions, neighborhoods or whatever. Uh, this year they're starting to fill up and most of them are about at their peak or at capacity. So,

how many do we how many do you have going in the county? Had seven last time, but I'm not sure. We've got one called Stonegate which is uh just off old uh Houstonville Road in Junction. Hopefully that'll do some but uh not View Trace and Junction is pretty much full.

Uh Shelby Green will be starting its uh fourth phase I think it is. Uh that's kind of going slow but that that'll be probably about 60 more houses. Okay. Uh, Danville, not much. Uh, you've got Brooks Acres on off of Bman Avenue. So, uh, we'll get some more, but some of them are the others that we've had the last few years are really reaching capacity. So, and and when does this development in off by a SUKA start? Uh, well, you've got one going up right now.

What is that going to be, Rusty? like the uh building where the Pizza Hut and coffee it's not going to be open then it's going to be the same type of deal. Okay. So, but it was my understanding that the rest of that area is going to be multif family homes and stuff going on in the back. Yeah. If you if you go on past a little bit more towards Ghost Pike and then in the back there's a pond back there. I think that's going to be multif family. Correct. So, hey, we need that pavilion. that pavilion looking thing beside a soup. Oh, it's gonna be it's gonna be the same thing as that. Yeah, it will be turned into another three retail or whatever. Yeah,

absolutely. Absolutely. And we got uh everybody says we need some retail and we probably do need some, but nothing on the horizon. We've got a bunch of restaurants coming. Come on, Bels. Hope they're listening.

Okay. But, uh, like I said, it's it's very close to last year. Damn did a lot better this year on different permits with some of these new developments. Um, I had AI kind of break it down into a thing. So, 46.5% of our permits were single family dwellings. Uh, 15% detached buildings on property. and then just goes down from there. Uh if anybody has any questions, Rusty and might have missed it. U do we know what might happen in the O Charlie's restaurant building?

Yes, it's going to be demolished and Seven Brew Coffee is going to bring in a uh modular type building. Wow. We're just looking to see how they're going to arrange all the parking or not parking but the lines because if you've ever seen one of those somewhere there's usually 30 cars in line. It's like Starbucks. Yes. Lifeline probably even bigger. Yeah. Yeah. and we were over in Lexington uh enjoying Texas Roadhouse and apparently their manager there will be quite involved in what we're doing here and they're hoping for a grand opening in November. Awesome.

They've been slow. I issued their permit from the local part the other day. I'm reviewing plans now for Firehouse Subs and Jersey Mike. Uh they're they're getting getting going and we'll just take all we can get. Where's Firehouse Sub's going to be? Oh gosh. Put you on the spot. Uh I think it's up where Culver's and everything else going to be. Okay. Culver. Yes sir. My personal favorite. Me too. Me too. You look like a cheese curd. I drive to Nicholasville just to eat their fish. Yes, absolutely. It's the best.

Any questions? All right. Thank you, Rusty. How's your How's the software working out for you? Wonderful. Yep. Yeah. If if we can uh introduce a pay system to it, it's going to make it that much more. Can we Can we utilize any of the systems you already have to integrate with his? They've only got two or three that integrate, but we've been checking on that. We're trying to figure out if the WSK pay that's the one I think that we have the most potential, but I'm not sure. Well, I uh the the people at I work have told me that if we can come to some sort of agreement on one, they may wave the fees for it. Okay.

So, I'm looking into that. And so you've got so has this automated like your your building permits and your it's made it some well everything is right there. Each permit has its own file with blueprints uh or electronic plans, payments, uh contractor license. Is that set of reminders to get you a contractor's license and stuff like that or Yeah, I I I've sent out uh well, let's see, what was it? January I sent out 75 invoices. Here's the problem. They're sending some of them back saying, "Yeah, I want to renew." But they're not offering to pay. They're not sending a check. That's why that's why the pay system will probably

Let's work on that. Yes, absolutely. Budget time's coming up. It's got to pay for itself. Absolutely. Absolutely. I think uh I works is is so easy um to use and and and to do things with that. Some of the city department getting ready to buy it for their storm water, their planning and zone. Hopefully planning and zoning will get it. They have to run that through their committee, right? uh code enforcement and I think Angie, are you using the code enforcement they provided us? Yeah. So cool. Yeah, she's using that. So, uh yeah, they're popping up everywhere in the state. Just about every town here lately is going to them. That works. Yeah.

Yeah. So, all right. Any other questions for Russy? Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Mark Gordon, he in the Good morning. Good morning. Welcome. How is everybody this morning? Good.

Wonderful. Uh the reason I'm here, um we're putting in a new entrance for the bike park and we were asked to clean the brush and stuff up to create a a pathway in there and put a gate in. Uh after clean up the brush, the fence is actually in terrible shape. uh post have rusted off at the ground and the brush was actually holding the fence up. Um so I've got three bids for putting up new chain link fence. Uh and we'll have the slats in it for privacy. Uh, one company, Elite Aergonomics come in at 12,565 and Acres come in at 15258. Then we had Sulki for 2006. Um, so I was going to recommend the Elite Aggronomics consultant and it'll be a fence that goes all the way across the front. Uh and actually two gates. The gates that they're there now in Alm Springs is like farm gates, but these will be gates with privacy slots in them.

Mhm. Which will help. Yes, ma'am. Yeah. All right. Um so you recommending Elite Agonomics at 12,565? Yes. Okay. Is there a motion to approve? Make a motion. Mr. Boner, is there a second? Second, Mr. Slipper. Is there any discussion? Correct me if I'm wrong. Is there a dispute in the fence line? That was not in this location. Okay. Not across the front. This is across the front. Across the front. Okay. All right. Good deal.

The dispute. It'll be the back left hand, I think. Oh, I just I thought I heard somewhere around the AT&T building there was kind of a dispute on Nom. Okay, good. Not for this. Not for the front. Maybe on the back side. If there is, nobody's come to Yeah. I thought I heard it in the last meeting, the bike park meeting. I thought that someone brought it up. That's not might have been stone or something like that that kind of brought up that assume this will come out of the bike park budget. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool. All right. Good deal. Any other questions? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Name.

Motion passes. Delete. Agonomics. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thanks for everything you're doing. We appreciate. All right. Heads up. All right. Next up, uh, recycling director Angie Muny with a whole list of stuff. Got a whole list. I got to get done this getting vacation. Let's see. The first thing we got, of course, is the HHW grant that we apply for every year. Um, so basically, I just need um permission for Trilly to sign and send it in. Okay. If there's any questions, make that motion. Second.

I have a motion by Moren, a second by Master Ellis. Any discussion on the grant? The total is 53,138. That is correct. All right. Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carried. All right. The second item is we have received the this was already basically signed uh agreement that we but we did receive the legal dump grant agreement for $55,000 that was on miners branch. I just need to sign that virtually on that one. Is that the ogore?

This is the Yeah, this is the Gorly store. Um, I've attached what would be um the bid specs as well as what would be added in the newspaper to take bids.

The only thing I am working on at the moment is I worked with um county attorney Haron. Um the gentleman that is living off in the little building is in jail. his son and it's not fit to live in. We know that. But I we need to make sure that it's okay to tear down and we're trying to get a hold of his father who is the main owner to sign off on it because I feel it's a liability for us just to go in and do it

definitely knowing some and then be told there was something there and we destroyed it blah blah blah. So Chris is checking on that and we want to make sure their ducks are over, but we do have the money to tear it down and go with it. So and part of that liability is the fact that we've had somebody's living in there illegally. Now for if they have been squatters or something, we wouldn't had a problem. But being the owner's son family, I feel that would make it a liability for us. So I want to make sure that that's clear. But as soon as that's clear, you know, I'm asking for permission to go ahead and take the bids on it and do it.

So, we haven't contacted the son about this. Chris Herring is working on that. So, he does. I believe he's maybe still in jail. I think he is currently in jail. In jail, but we are trying to find the not the son. No, when we have to find him. It's his dad. It's his dad. Yeah, his dad's in jail. And I think Chris is in the process. Yeah. He's in the process of locating him and has he said anything? As far as I know, there hasn't been any okay contact yet or but until there till we have that I feel that it just needs to until we have we can get that and we can and I'm sure he will. I mean who is going to complain about us cleaning up your property for you?

But I think it just protects us being it his son and I think we need that. So everything will be gone from that. Everything will be gone from that spot once he everything I've gotten more concerns about that over the years. You I me as well. You probably have more. But this is I just need approval that when we get everything our ducks in a row that we go ahead and advertise. Wonderful. Thank you. All right. Is there a motion to approve? So move. Mr. Ellis, is there a second? Second. Mr. Kellen. Any other discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries.

And we'll skip over and we'll just do the annual report first. Okay. Um this is basically for Trilly Design. We do this every year. Um if there's any questions in that you see you like our numbers were good considering the market was down and all that stuff. We had lots of recycling, lots of good things going on. I've worked with a couple schools. Uh I've got one special skills class that comes every other week and gets their work in. They're wonderful. They become my babies, as the saying goes. So,

what was the item you recycled the most? Do you know? Okay. And hopefully uh our building is looking wonderful. I'm drooling over to get in. So, when we get in, we'll our polarizers ordered. So hopefully by May June we'll be taking glass and we'll start the famous styrofoam. So Mhm. And we want to have a grand opening and we're Oh, we are going to have a grand state's waiting for me to have grand. They want to come back. So

yes. So the densifier is ready. It's just a matter of once the electric's in. It's here. It it'll be here and it'll be ready to go. The pulverizer is ordered. So everything you order pretty much recycling is 5 6 months out. So, we should have that hopefully here in a month or two. So, you have an original for this one for me to sign. What's that? Do you have an original? You want me to sign on this one? I do. All right. You want this acknowledged or you want to approve? But but you're signing it. It it it goes in. So, yeah, you're better off giving up. I think it's on the back. Motion to approve. Motion to approve. I'll move Harmon through second. Morell. All right. Any other discussion on the annual report? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying I.

I. Any opposed? Nay. Thank you for the update and the reporting. Okay. Um, we have received back the initial uh burn permit. Um, the only thing it is now it's now in a 30-day um public comment period.

Yeah. basically um so it is on the air quality website um that they will take uh any comments or questions for 30 days and after that it just it becomes effective it becomes effective yeah do do I have is there any questions that I might can answer or may not be able to answer so it's one So once we get the we got the permit, then we and Jamie's not here, but we're going to get the manufacturer out to see what we're doing wrong uh to cause so much smoke in the community. So we're going to remember he mentioned he was

Oh, we can do that. That's that's not a problem. We can do that. We've discussed that before. We can do that. The incinerator is, you know, it was causing too much smoke in the Well, it's really technically not an incinerator as much, but I mean I I mean, I get what you're saying, but all the paperwork says incinerator. All the EPA says incinerators and it does it burn. It's a burner. It's high temperature burning that supposedly won't let that smoke out. So, it's going to always release so much smoke. Everything releases so much smoke,

obviously. Yeah. Well, just like when I come over Mitchellburg when it's 18 degrees, you know, it's the same it it it's going to have the same effect when you come through burning wood. So, we've got 30 days and we're going to have a a community meeting. Are you going to have a a meeting about the or just go to the EPA is what my the people around want to know. Yeah, we I mean once once the 30-day is over then the permit will be active. Okay. So I mean there is not a public hearing. There is there is no public hearing. No, this is just comments. The only way they would have a public hearing if there is something that's of proof that they don't already basically

and they would have to appeal to the EPA. Yes. And you have to appeal to them, not us. That's what's in that letter. Yes. So that letter I mean everyone has to go to the EPA to make their concerns heard. That's what I need to know. It was division of air quality. It's not the EPA, right? Division of air quality. Yeah. Okay. That's it. EPA is just what come to mind. It always does. This is a temporary placement for the air burner, right? It's temporary, but it's going to be until we get the road built at Trey Kane to be able to get it in there. Yeah. So, I mean, I don't know how I don't know how temporary, you know, it might be a year. All right.

It might be a year and a half. I don't know. So, okay, that's good. But again, it'll be beneficial to the bike park and and the things that will have to be removed. Yeah. Because they're going to be cutting down trees, which is good. But we got to make sure we don't run somebody out of their home. You know, we just got to make sure that that Freddy Green, that's one home. And and Mr. Underwood, Jimmy Underwood, make sure they're not getting, you know, that. Well, what if you move it somewhere else? I mean, it it's all the same. It It's burning wood. I mean, people burn wood, right? But Magistrate Ellis burns wood. You burn wood. Freddy Green. I don't burn wood anymore. Freddy Green burns wood.

But when I had we did burn wood. Well, we did for years. We didn't have that heavy of a night that we never did. I Well, you got people illegal burning as well. So, but you know, let it up to these people. The you know, these people are the pros. They're the ones that get the manufacturer back out here to make sure we're doing it right. And let's see. We're We're We're positive we're doing it right. Can we make sure we have We will do that. I think it's budget time. Mhm. We do. We have the proper loading equipment to put in That will be in my next grant that I bring that in next. I think that will be a huge improvement as well. It will too if

where if we're if we've got a grappling hook to pull it up instead of a dirt all that dirt. That will be the that is the next grant that I have. It's the water that's in that that's causing smoke. It is it causes more smoke when you have when it's wet and you can't shake it out. So, you know, that equipment will help when you be when you're able to do that. So, and if we but we did discuss getting the a manufacturer out and and the neighborhood all coming together to watch it. Yes. If we could get it make sure as we start collecting brush it's on a good staging area that hopefully won't collect a lot of water either.

That's concrete though. That's how to do that. Well, the bad part is a lot of that out there has been out there for whatever reason. I know. I'm just I think once you get it all up, then you're you're you're not going to have that problem. That's there now. I think it's very beneficial for the community, but we also need to take precautions for Paul's part of the community that is having it placed out there. And plus, if you move it to North Stewart, you want to make sure that it's not burning improperly for that area, you know.

And all I was saying about like the proper storage is if it's on concrete and that concrete is leveled properly, you know, there's not a there's not a lot of dirt and mulch as the base layer holding in all that water which is going to be soaked up by the trees. That's all I was trying to get at. So, if we've got a once we get down to the point where we've cleared everything that's going to be burnt and if we could kind of maybe scrape that concrete, whatever it is to make sure that there's no essentual dirt. I mean, there's going to be some dirt on there, but nothing to hold it to cause these problems going forward. That's that's all I'm looking for. Do we have a concrete pad out there now? It was at one time. There was one under under

Yeah, there was mulch. And that's that's what I'm trying to get at is we went to Google Earth and looked online at one point. And on Google Earth, you can actually go back, you know, years and it'll tell you it'll show you pictures of what it looked like over those years. There's one point where there there is a concrete pad that was there, but it's covered by mulch right now. And that's what I'm trying to hopefully we can,

you know, get get that get that back to where this is a place where the trees go. not so much holding water and then there's no problems for you, no problems for Paula and no problems for the county because it's a great piece of equipment that if we've got the uh we've got the you know the right equipment loading equipment and then we've got the right base. Oh yeah, division of air quality is is wonderful with it. They said it's 10 times better than open burning permits of course and and again if we're not chipping we're not going to have this stuff sitting there.

No, it's that's why I say once it's up it's up. You know you're ahead of it. So I think when it goes to North Stewart, we'll not see so much of the Lincoln County coming in. We see a lot of Lincoln County coming in where it is now. So, I think when it moves, it'll cut that down and we'll have less burn need for when you move it. So, Lincoln County as in Lincoln County residents come in and bring we followed them from Lincoln bringing their shrub their brush in. So, they do a lot there. Yeah. Okay. And they say you can check their they just say no I'm doing this for my mom. You know it's there's no way to stop it. No trash is the same way. It just ain't the wood.

Yeah. You did give out stickers. You did put a sticker in. You can duplicate stickers too. It's a it's a no-win thing. You just you do the best you can. Your people get enough lip and problems. Yeah. Uhuh. I mean there's no need to cause more. for a minute, you're never going to solve the problem. They think it's bad when we ask for the ID, let alone anything. Right. Right. Yeah. They take a beating. They really do. I mean, really, the only thing that you're going to get is you start making people pay for it. But, you know, Yeah. I know. And thank you. We appreciate everything that you do to keep this county beautiful and clean. We do our best.

When's that When's that next grand for that voting for that gra? I will have it next meeting. Next meeting. I could not I'm going to try to have every two the other two grants done for the 10th meeting because I will not be here the last report meeting. They're due April 1st and we should know something by usually end of May. Okay. So that is my goal to for the composting grant is this and I guess have you looked at pieces of equipment already? Uh done Jason. So Jason what's the lead time the grant how how much how much money have I got here for recycling? I know. I'm I'm just And you think I'm not on top of this? Well, let me ask you a question. You are in vacation mode.

Oh, I am. I'm can't come back. Yeah. Long as I can get there, I'm there. No tires this year. No. Next year. Can I throw that in the incinerator? Tires? No. Absolutely not. Then I will know that. What if I had a tree that had a tire around it? Oh my gosh. Thank you, Angie. I'm going to throw some paint cans in there. See what happens. The HH. Thank you very much, Angie. I appreciate you. Yeah. Um I don't want to be entertained. I'm leaving. So, thank you. You want the entertainment?

We skipped over 14 and and that was for a reason. Uh Jackie asked that we reschedu that because she did not have all the updates yet. So, she when she comes, she wants to be able to uh update you all fully. So, she only had partial uh software update. Um, okay. So, we're back down to 16. County administrator Julie Wager. tower news. Excited.

I have somewhere in my pile here. I have met with the architect for the clock tower. Um, I've contacted Tate Hill Jacobs. They're the ones that did the renovation of the clock tower back in 99200. That was just cosmetic. There was nothing structural done then. So I don't want you to think they didn't do a good job. They just were doing the exterior painting new copper. She came last Friday and looked at it. Um she agrees that this has to be dealt with ASAP.

Um she is proposing a not to exceed fee of 67,000 to oversee this project and work as the point of contact with the structural engineer. um she gave us a schedule of 7 to 12 months of construction. So um we're talking about up to 68 weeks of of you know time to get this done. So that's a little over a year.

Um I liked her. I thought she knew her stuff. Um I will tell you that the beams that are splitting apart the where they come together it has widened. I think substantially. Um, so I think time is not on our side. So we need to get somebody in here working with Pog and get this done. So I'm proposing Kate Phil Jacobs Architect that not to exceed amount of 67,000. Okay. We got a motion to approve. So move. Is this the only second service? So we don't have to I just want to make sure that's professional service. All right. Good question. Of course. All right, we have a motion and a second. Any discussion?

Of course. Um, so what's the scope of work here? We've had two thoughts in this on this court. Some saying leave the bail, some saying put the bell down. So this should come out. Um, she also thinks that potentially the tower should come off and be repaired and put back underneath. And you know this cuz you were up there with me, is a tin roof. And Julie almost went almost went through. I walked across it and realized I shouldn't be doing this. But she thinks that we should maybe just take that off and fix everything and then put it back. That way they can build the structural frame under, you know, while that's off.

Um, not 100% sure on that, but that was her initial thought. Um, since the roof is sagging more. So, since this wood, it doesn't just keep sagging. All of a sudden, it it's gone. How soon can they It's

Well, she's willing once we sign this, she's already talked to PO. They are in communication. Um, she thinks that, um, by week three, they can have 50% of the design review work started. So, she's willing to This is a good time for them. Not a lot of stuff going on. Um, but she uh is willing to work with the Heritage Council to get the tax credit. She's willing to work with us to get it bonded. So, I told her we've got to get some numbers together because we want to possibly bond this. We don't know for sure yet, but um she understands our crunch.

As far as construction, it it will be at least 4 months. Yeah. So she's actually saying that the structural stress can be resolved within the first three weeks. No, no, no. Just the construction won't start for 4 months. Yeah. The windy season. If you look at her timeline, scope of services on the first page, I think it is. Mhm. Um if you look down week uh 16, week 16. So we're talking 16 weeks out if everything goes in to line. So So we'll be roping off essentially 3/4 if not all of whis possibly.

Yeah. And that depends on coordination with Poke. They've got their part designed. Now they need to get her part designed and mesh them together. Um and go ahead. It's going to be a big project. I was going to credit Magister Cullen because I think he's the first one to suggest that there might be an alternative use of the bell and it can be beautiful right down below uh the tower. It really the bell is going to come down to what you want. If you want them to stabilize it and leave the bell up there, they'll do that. If you want the bell out on display, that's that was actually longterm.

Yeah. How can we coordinate also if they're going to be down there, that area is going to be closed. How can we coordinate somewhere to have that bell placed? I think it belongs out there on on the park. Yeah. Um where people can kind of come look our own little mini Liberty Bell kind of display or whatever. Well, Earl has offered a place out in Wisigger Park um that we can put it if we want to. So, he's make a make a fountain out of it, too. No, no f no fountain. M uh okay. Yeah. I mean I think that they've offered a place out there. Great. That's nice of them. So that way it stays here. Yeah. Perfect. Motion.

Okay. Uh we had a motion and a second and then we've had a lot of discussion. So ready to vote. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any opposed? Name. Motion carries. Thank you Julie. Thanks. Appreciate that. Okay. Uh, treasurer Shannon Green just like to present the treasur settlement for the month. Anybody have any questions, comments about the treasury settlement. Appreciate that it's being done. I love that. Really helps. Thank you, ma'am. All right. Okay. You need an object.

We're ready for magistrate reports. There's also an FYI from EMS in your packet uh for the um fiscal year report uh revenue report. So you can take note of that as well. All right, master reports. Master Cullen, you get to start us off today. What?

Uh so this morning, uh myself, Magistrate Sleeper met with uh uh Deputy Ren and uh Sheriff uh Taylor Bottom. Um Kyle Lions also kind of uh videoed in on our committee meeting for the sheriff's department. Uh they have two new recruits that are starting the academy in March. Uh there is a um we're waiting to get reimbursed from the FBI for some training for someone that that they stole from us. So they owe us some money back. So we're waiting on that. Um we did discuss um an item about payraises for the sheriff's deputies. Uh they're seeing a lot of um departments surrounding us that are are starting to really bump up their pay and so we need to be competitive. Um so we'll they'll be bringing that to the new budget. Uh we discussed the the need for new tasers. uh Mattress Sleeper and I encouraged that you know looking for grants uh and uh and then also including them in the budget. Uh we discussed the body cameras and how they're holding up. Uh those were purchased by this court you know uh couple years ago well previous court I should say. I'm sorry. Um, and so we want to make sure that, uh, littles are still working well and that, you know, if we need to start looking at new ones that we we budgeted. That was a a really good piece of equipment that that, uh, the county, you know, purchased and it's it's helped us in a lot of ways. Um, and then we also started talking about, you know, narcotics in Bowl County. Uh that's a huge um uh huge focus for the sheriff's department. Um we

we have I I guess a reputation out there that uh we are not tolerant of drugs when they come into our community. And uh you know some of the I guess the dealers that have been prosecuted uh have you know kind of said you know B County is kind of a dry county because they don't want to they don't want to come into the county. A lot of stuff's happening outside the city limit. I mean, outside the limits of B County because they uh, you know, they they know the reputation that we have for trying to keep narcotics off the streets and out of citizens hands and and the focus. I mean, we've got several approaches, you know, between the sheriff's department and then our crisis response unit, you know, we we're really looking at and the county attorney's office is is very um very good about making sure these people are not just getting a slap on the wrist. So, uh, so sadly most of the stuff comes from out, you know, we still see a big pipeline down from Michigan coming down here and stuff like that, which is sad, but, uh, it's really because Lexington's gotten oversaturated and they're just trying to find new new areas to sell. But, um, there's a lot of a lot of busts and a lot of things happening behind behind the scenes that they really can't talk about. Um, and, um, and so we appreciate all of their hard work. So, uh, that was the conversation we had this morning. It was a great conversation. Lasted almost the whole hour. And, uh, you know, anything you want to add, Steve? No,

I think you covered it. All right. That's a That's your motion. That's my motion. Okay. Motion by Mr. Co, second by Mister Sleeper. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Motion carries. I will add one thing. Go ahead. I I just What is the lifespan of those body cams? Do we know? I do not. No. I mean, it's like anything with technology. It, you know, next year they're absol obsolete. Okay. Uh, you know, kind of thing. And there's better better technology out there. Uh, you know, looking now for

Yeah. And that's and that's what I tasked them with. I said I said, "You all really need to go out there and see what's out there." TJ and Kyle said there's a a brand that they really like that makes it very easy for like tagging the videos. So when you have to go back and and and like look for specific things like you know as they're doing it they can do it from their phone right there and just tag something in there with what they need to do and they can makes it much easier to go back. So that I mean that's that's the sheriff's department that's they need to tell us what what they need and include in their budget and that was that was on.

So the jail and the sheriff's office both applied for a grant through KO insurance. Uh the sheriff's office was awarded a $10,000 grant for body and vehicle camps. So they'll have that much money to go toward new body cams. Yep. Perfect. Okay. Appreciate a good bottom. Sorry that the jail did not they did not get a grant, but both did apply. So luckily the fiscal court's always been good to all of our departments and we'll make sure that they don't go without get what they need. That's right. That's right.

All right. Thank you. Measures labor. On 17th, the citizen advisory board for the rural heart and lung uh met and so far in boil county there's 579 rostered and 578 of those have been scheduled. 242 have actually been screened and uh they're they need more 25 through 34 year olds and with the 130 slots that are still available they'd like to target that age group but no one will be turned away if you want to and I highly encourage anybody um that's interested you can get thousands of dollars of health screenings and tests for nothing and it'll help

help the program. Uh some exciting news regarding that is the National Institute of Health has renewed funding for uh programming. It's of $49.9 million and it's going to be a large portion of that. The priority is going to be for community engagement. So that's exciting news. I missed the uh the February 16th EDA meeting, but I guess Judge and JJ are here, so if they want to share anything. JJ, you want to share anything? Yeah, I'll stand up. We didn't have a quorum, so there wouldn't much

Good job, Steve. So EDA is moving forward uh with the North Doors Lane project. Thank you for the dedication of the 60oot rightway that's going to open up 78.5 acres of rail serve site. Um there's going to be utility improvements coming to that substation which will support all the businesses along that road and the the county recycling and and uh street department highway department um in that area. So that's moving forward. Todd Johnson Contracting was awarded the bid for that. They will start April 1st. A lot of the supplies have already been bought and just waiting to be the culbert is the big thing that goes in across the creek to access it. And once the road will be built across the creek and then it'll hammerhead or a gravel turnaround back there. And of course, you know about the air burner going to be back there. So that's definitely moving forward. There's other projects with the reading property, the 201 acres off the bypass. um working on some uh geotech u some design for road access to open up another 90 acres on the back side of that property for industrial development and we'll be working with adjacent property owners um and other access to that that area. So having site readiness with geotechnical in phase one is really going to start us out that we can actually market the properties there and expand our local businesses. That's the starting point nowadays. I mean that's just buying the property is not not it. You have to have it site ready and you've got to have it marketable. So and that's the goal. The the the collaboration between the city and county is paying off. And I'll I'll digress just a little bit and I'll come back next month and talk about the employment numbers for the county, for the city. Uh the investment, there's more people working now in this county

than has been in the last 10 years. Regionalism is paying off. The job fairs are paying off. The investments you've made in economic development are paying off. So you need to celebrate that. So thank you JJ. You're welcome.

Okay. Um on the 19th attended some pipeline training. Uh was really good education for me not knowing anything at all about pipelines. Um but it uh the the bulk of it was um how to make sure you call 811 and the importance of that and what that involves and what it doesn't all cover everything. And so there's due diligence to be done in regard to that. Also about preparedness and having protocols in place for accidental breaks. Um there's nine pipelines, major pipelines that run through Boa County. And that's that's just the connector ones. That's not the uh distribution lines. So, uh there's a lot of potential there. So, it was good as as an elected official. It was it was for elected officials and first responders and emergency people and everything. So, it was good good training in that regard. Uh we I think we need to make sure that our emergency services have protocols in place and our utility companies and such in this area in case there is a break. Um 10 the 250th kickoff. A lot has been said about that already. I just want to echo everything that's been said. It was a great to have uh uh Samuel McDall and Ben Franklin and uh uh Thomas Jefferson there. It was a great great great kickoff. Um,

this is way out there, but I wanted people to get it on their calendars. Um, and I'll be bringing it up again in future meetings. But, uh, the rock group Remedy Drive will be in Danville on April 26th doing a concert. The concert will take place at Centinary Methodist Church, but it will be open to the public and all the proceeds will go to the homeless coalition. And what was the name of the group? Remedy Drive. Remedy Drive. Remedy Drive. Okay. They do a lot uh a lot of their work their their proceeds go to human trafficking issues and such and they also but this one's going to be for our homeless coalition April 26th I think 6 o'clock. Okay at centary centary okay

and that's all I have. Oh okay thank you mess. Thank you judge. Um, now that Sarah Palm is a seasoned veteran, I think uh we ought to honor her with any opportunity that you would like to talk about the chamber. Well, we're very excited for new things that are coming to the chamber. There's a few things we're collaborating on both CDB and economic development that'll be coming this spring and more programming. Um, that is very important to me for our membership to see that we are adding value not only to membership but to the community at Wise. Um and also our upcoming golf scramble. We are just now starting to entertain sponsorship for that. So if anyone's interested, please let us know. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

We had a wonderful leading ladies lunchon. That was so wonderful. I really appreciated that. And you asked about, you know, having some speakers. You ought to get some of the ladies that are in there, young, old, in between with some of their exper life experience. I think we have some plans. We'll have that again on March 10th. Um that's going to be on the second Tuesday of each month. I know it's not the most convenient time to improve this room at noon, but we are going to open it up at a half hour beforehand and a half hour afterward um and have some vendor tables um there so that people can mingle a little bit more and it's more convenient for your time. Thank you. Thank you, judge. Um it

it's almost difficult to overstate the potential of what's being done and what has just happened regarding the 250 of the United States because um so much happened right here in Laurel County as Tom Clark Kucky's historian Laurate said on his 100th birthday down at the railroad track where Center College owned the Hemp uh three-story building. Oh, you didn't know that? Yeah, that's what it was. I think there are some vague areas where you can actually make out the lettering uh from when it was identified as that. But he said, and I'm paraphrasing, had it not been for the brilliance of Judge Samuel McDow, by the way, the first federal judge named uh in Kentucky territory uh by a fellow named George Washington. um we easily could have ended Europe West. And when you look at what I didn't know until just a few years ago, the Netherlands was putting a lot of money into what became uh the United States. Uh everybody knows about France. Uh Germany was here uh in Ohio uh early on, which I didn't know until recently. um Spain and the Russians on the West Coast. Um and I said it the other day and I'll say it more clearly. The Russians left after substantial trade all the way down to Mexico, all the way up through California and back up through Alaska.

They actually left in about 1845 or 46 and they were stepping all over the gold that was discovered. Had they found that, we really would be more than Europe West. We would be a totally different uh nation if at all. Um, so please help people understand what you guys can put on the internet from that and let's get that message out to the world. Put on your calendar the annual supper and pie auction at Portland on the 7th of March. That's coming right away. Um Paula and I were sitting together two weeks ago at our conference at Griffin Gate and I let her know my prejudice against datab banks going into that meeting because of what had happened a couple years ago in Eastern Kentucky where the frequencies were up to 90 dB two 365 days a year 24 hours. the judge down there regretted that he had taken it to his court and it was allowed. Uh the citizens there just within hundreds of yards um were tremendously affected by it. I went to the hearing last week in Mercer County because it could easily be on our doorstep if it's approved in any connecting area that we have. I mean, we have much especially uh uh Mr. Cullen uh and to some degree myself uh where if it's in Mercer County as

testified by a 25 26-year physician who led off all of what was said at the public hearing. I've not done very much research, but in the last six months, this is him speaking, I have found out that the low frequency emissions from these datab banks can have a negative physical impact on livestock and human beings from two miles away. Now, these datab banks are going to be essential to the future of the United States because our grid is overloaded now and the attractive financial package that they bring in is just overwhelming. Uh, Adam, I'd like you to help the court with what I didn't know until we talked this morning about the many nukes. uh if if you'd take a minute or two to explain your knowledge of what

Yes. So, and if you can introduce yourself, please. Yeah. So, my name is Adam Woodward. I'm representative of the Carpenters Union in this area. So, for you all that don't know what the Carpenters Union is, we're nationwide organization. We employ 500,000 plus members throughout the country. My region is in Ohio. Uh we spoke earlier this morning about uh solar in particular. So in 2024 25 we had over 4 million man hours just in solar. Uh we try to stay ahead of projects that are coming. So that being said I am by no means an expert on SMRs in any way. Give us the initials.

So SMR uh stands for small modular reactor. So basically it's a small nuclear plant that generates more than enough power for these data centers and back to the communities and so on so forth. And again, forgive me because I'm not an expert. This is still new to us as well. Um, with the data center specifically, I don't know much about them. I am on a personal standpoint all for growth. Um, I'm even more for growth if it's built properly. Um, I know a lot of counties, a lot of areas miss out on tons of occupational tax because of buildings not going up properly, so on so forth. I'm more than happy to speak with any of y'all more on that. Uh, however, with the data centers themselves, I'm for growth. I'm for all that. Like you said, it is they're coming. I don't

There's just not enough power coming off the grids. There's not enough. Well, so a lot of the feedback is is that once these data centers come and they become operational, um, I've heard that they're backend deals that where they take up majority of power and electricity and so on so forth. I don't know if that's true or not. I've heard that. Uh but I have uh been told so to speak that there most of these big companies data centers that come in they want to bring SMRs with them. So what that does is it helps generate power for them to sustain but it also gives enough enough power for the community also. Um

but it's the public knowledge that nuclear power is a part of it and I can be assured that there will be some resistance uh until people have every assurance of the safety.

Yeah. And so well so that being said um I'm I'm going to throw a little bone out there for the carpenters union. Like I said we like to try to stay ahead of anything that's coming down the pipeline. So, we I actually just went through a training last week. Um, and we want to try to stay ahead of that as far as the classifications, uh, the permitting that has to be done, any of the safety training that goes with building those in my standpoint, and I'm not necessarily for or against. I am for growth. I am for construction. Uh, however, I would much rather see these things built, especially SMRs, built with trained professionals than just anybody off the street. Um, that being said, I don't know where they're going. I don't know where they're coming. I don't know any of that stuff. Um, so again, I just wanted to kind of throw the little bit that I do know out there. So,

thank you. Yep. Appreciate that. Thank you. Sorry to catch you by surprise. Um, before I go any further, I've just got to say,

um, we all owe a debt of gratitude to Roger and the crew for what was done. Uh I in my lifetime, we've never had an ice storm like we did uh where the roads were impacted where the rain seeped into 2 to three inches of snow and created something far worse than the one in 2009 which was pretty bad. So thank you Roger and pass that on to the crew. Uh, I hope everybody's registering for Friday evening. Uh, uh, 5:30 reception. Um, and the Louisville Orchestra is coming, uh, to play at our 50 plus year old, uh, arts center, uh, just adjacent to center's campus. So,

and they're also going to have an exhibit at the Boa County Public Library from 1 to 4 if you are unable to make it to the reception.

Thank you. Um, I guess the only other thing that I have that's really important is to say that as I commented earlier, some of us uh weren't so dedicated to the classroom as we're we were to the field of play. And I'm I'm just overwhelmed with what these young people have done. And I was very sincere when I was telling them as they walked out the door, we want you to stay in this community. Uh we need uh that commitment and that dedication and that brain power uh that the judge was reading about uh in that recognition document. So judge, that's all I have to say.

Thank you, Mr. D. Maser Bogner. Yes. I wanted to thank Roger and the crew for uh doing a little work on Hamilton Road. Uh, Mayor Douglas has uh said he'd be glad for Daniel Aikens from the library to put a new dropbox. The dropbox for the book return at farmers kept getting knocked over, bumped into or something. So, so that we're going to have a new book library book return uh right in front of the city hall. So, okay.

We're going to have a nice place for that and I appreciate his working with us on that. Uh, Junk City Matters has a meeting March 2nd at 5:30. We've a little behind because the ice has put everybody off. So, now we got to get built back up. I enjoyed going to the legislative day and uh seeing our representatives. Uh, let's see. The 250 kickoff was wonderful and I think I'd love to ask Tony to have that that little skit somewhere else. I mean, it was just wonderful. like on July the 4th that before we have all the other event but it was just really wonderful day. I really enjoyed that. Uh Junction City's getting a banner uh for the 250th. We're going to have that. We're still we're on the list of official 250 for the Junction City the balloon festival and we have a dedicated person now that's going to really arrange that and work on when we did it last year we it was brand new. So, we've thought about what all we didn't do, we should have done. And so, now we're going to make some real big improvements. Instead of just waiting for the balloons to not go off because the wind was too high, we're going to have a lot of other activities.

So, the balloon will be an extra if it goes up or not. So, what is the date of that? Uh, August the 9th. Okay. And did you announce who that person is? Excuse me. Do you want to announce who that person is? Uh, yes. Brianna Vister. She is uh just been really good with uh Junction City Matters and she did all this stuff last year. She and uh Britney and Jennifer uh all three worked together. So she already knows she's got a good plan going and she's already spoken with me. I met with her yesterday before the event and was really good all her ideas she's coming up with. So, and let's see. Most important is that any minute today I will be a great grandmother.

Wonderful. So, I'm waiting. That'll be my first. Are you waiting on the text? Yes. Don't y'all see me doing this? I'm waiting. I I can't be up there today. My husband's had a really bad cough, so I can't I can't go up there. I'm not going to risk it. I'll just have to do it through T phone, but I'm going to I just can't wait. Well, congratulations. Thank you. Hope everything goes well. Well loved. Well loved. Yeah. Awesome. That's it. Thank you, Master Bo. Master, another Christmas present. There you go. That's right. That's right. Bring them on.

Just a quick lesson. Something Steve and I learned. Tom was there. That was the pipeline presentation we had. You're in your house and you don't smell gas, but you heat with gas. And you also get your hot water from gas. My dad even had an air conditioner that run off gas. It's set outside. When do you know you have a gas leak? When do you know it? Somebody said, "When I smell it." Well, guess what? There may not be a smell. Yeah,

cuz gas does not have a smell. So, our scent, it says there's gas leak somewhere in the yard, in the house, or the neighbors. We may not know it cuz sometimes they run out of the solution. It stops and it doesn't get into the lines and come with the gas and it's just gas. You do not smell it. You don't feel it. You don't taste it. But, buddy, if a spark hits it,

you'll be first to know. You remember on Second Street, we had a house that disappeared. It was natural gas and it was a fairly newer house. It wasn't an old one, but it was fairly new. Uh I think all of us should been at that training cuz it's so vital. I've been 11 years firefighter and went every year and it was offered and they offer it all around. It's a courtesy, no cost to us. And we need to be aware, keep our families, our communities, and everything safe.

Cuz you don't want a gas explosion anywhere. You're correct. You're correct. Yeah. And I have attended several of those. I didn't get to make this year's, but I have attended those in the past and and they're beneficial. Yeah. But they remind you that's what it does. All right, that it Thank you, sir. I I never got to finish my list. You didn't? All I got to do is the sheriff's I'm so sorry. And we moved on. Please continue. Well, thank you very much. I thought I was in time out for a second. Cuz the big news is Buster Pike. Yes.

So, we uh It's okay to say that we have awarded a bid. No. No, we're not a word yet. We identified the lowest bid. We've identified bids. The bids have come in. We've identified one that we like. Yes. And we'll be announcing very soon. Uh, one of the nicest things I like is that in that scope of work that says that once they get started, they have to be finished in 180 days. Yep. So, uh, that's exciting. That's extremely exciting for everybody that's had their nerves tested out with that bridge being out and and everything else. Hope is hope is on the way. Been a long time coming.

Yes, it is. Yes, it is. So, yeah. So, we'll when are we going to be able to announce? Um, we're waiting right now. Well, I just sent you all an email, Julie and Jason, that the contractor, our engineer, is setting up a pre-bid meeting to ensure that the lowest bidder understands the scope and that everything is included because they were significantly lower than the other three bids, right? The range is 1.7 to 2.9 million. So, that's pretty far. So, uh, 1.7 to 2.9.

So, they just want to ensure that they know what they're getting into. And, uh, once we do that, then we can award a bid and then we can get all the documents signed in Frankfurt and New York. But, I mean, about one 1.9 was what we were awarded from the state to redo this bridge, which is kind of nice, right? I I just asked Elena to pull all the invoices on what we've spent so far with the engineer so we can figure out exactly that we have enough in the budget. I think it's going to be close but and the states also said that if we need to go back and ask for more we can ask for more. Yeah. Because of how long this has been delayed. So anyway, pardon me news for the fourth district. Yeah. Well, yeah. Anybody

is also working on that meeting? Yeah. Setting up that meeting. Okay. um skate park meeting, uh the new Millennium skate park. Uh there's a public input meeting on March 3rd at 5:00 p.m. at Jenny Rogers, the uh consultant from Spawn Ranch who is designing the skatepark. We'll uh we'll have some some conceptual designs on the skatepark and um and so we can kind of give input what we like, what we don't like. Um I'm extremely excited about this as well. Uh that's that skatepark's been need to be redone for a while. Um will you be available for that meeting on the 3rd?

I'm not. That's the only reason I'm asking if you'll be available or not to attend March. Yeah, I should be back by then. Okay. Yeah, I got it. Good. Yeah. Good. Okay. Good news. Joe announced that on morning program. Yeah. So, yeah. I'm I'm hoping I asked I sent an I asked to Tommy Barton to see if they could arrange some sort of virtual uh meeting as well. That'd be good. Yeah, because when we had the initial one, there was several people that were like had their phones out. They were FaceTiming their friends just kind of like broadcasting it that way.

Um so, you know, I mean, this is another one of those things. It's, you know, we're more than just a football basketball community. there's other things that that park needs to service and this is one of those big ones and it's, you know, it's going to attract a lot of people. Um there's these skateparks are going up every day all over the country and and um it's a huge economic development driver. Uh it's a huge benefit to the community when, you know, everybody has something to do, you know. Uh, and uh, I love parks because giving kids something to do keeps them out of the the main thing we have to spend a lot of money on, unfortunately. So, anyway, so yeah, so March 3rd, 5:00 p.m., Jenny Rogers. Uh, and if we get a link for it to be virtual, I'll ask that we we start pushing that out there. Okay. I've taken a nice 3-w week break from social media. It's been so nice. Unfortunately, I think I'm have to be dragged back.

You back on? No. No, I'm I'm like I don't I don't miss it, but unfortunately. So anyway, and then also uh pickle ball. We have uh pickle ball is uh going in that same area. Um so we're excited to see what J has planned. So there's going to be a lot happening at Millennium Park. Um and you know, just in the community in general as far as uh uh you know, really helping uh people with exercise and just getting out there and enjoying our our community. help. Yeah. I mean, I spent spent 10 days in Dallas. I don't recommend. And you know, I I

I went to just to go grab dinner one night from my hotel and it was 3 miles away and said 22 minutes. Yeah. And I said, "Oh, man." I said, "Three?" I was like, "Just bring me back to Bull County cuz I can't deal with this." Stockyard, huh? To the Stockyard. I know. I avoided stockyard. Oh, no. Uh uh I went downtown Dallas one day. I stayed out by the airport mostly. That's where my training is. But anyway, I just every day I'm like so much closer to back home. So we have a little slice of heaven here that people won't realize. And

it's okay cuz we keep it to ourselves some days. So anyway, uh but yeah. So uh hopefully it's cold to be going soon. It's going to start warming up again. I will tell you, I've been spending a lot of time down south. It's cold down there, too. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, my wife gets mad. I'm like, it's 40° in Florida right now. It's not better. Anyway, that's all that's all I have. Thank you for allowing me to finish.

Thank you. Sorry about that. Uh, also, Mr. Gay is not with us today, obviously. Uh, he is on a little vacation and he is really enjoying himself. I'll say that. So, if you follow him on Facebook, you'll know what I mean. Um, okay. Let's see here. County attorney. I'm usually very quiet at these, but I do have a few things to say today, but

Chris and I went to our uh uh prosecutor's conference last week. Um it was a really good one. There was a lot of talk of um classes on victim advocates and serving victims in our community, which was really helpful. It was led by our main our keynote speaker was Elizabeth Smart and it was was really good. Um there was also several sessions on um social media, opening up things to comments and feedback from the community and a lot of guidelines on that which involves you all when things are posted on Facebook or community forums and when you can silence people or you know if you try to block people that kind of thing. Um but the main feedback for that was there was a lot of county attorneys standing up asking questions expressing a lot of frustration with their fiscal court and their magistrates which Chris and I don't have. So that you know I mean

I was like what no huge difference I think when um you know you have good good people serving the community cuz we don't have that at all but a lot of you do. So thank you all for that. Um, I don't know if you would have received this perhaps, but we've received from the um, attorney general's office. This is just been quick about suspicious letters coming in with um, powder inside of some sort. The thing to look for is an upside down flag in the corner. I don't know if we want to share this out to the whole courthouse before that on um

and there's like some symbols in the upper left flag, but they're saying don't open them. Put them in a bag immediately. So, several child support offices around here have received them. So, um around here meaning boil or not um surrounding counties surrounding counties. Our office has not yet, but the attorney general that we work with, Amy Burke, um sent that to us to be on alert. So, we'll forward that out. Um, thank you. And then you want me to bring that up. Okay. Um, I think I think that's it. Thank you. Appreciate this, Julie. The next one is a tag team. Okay. Chris at the conference spoke with the KO.

Jenny spoke with him. Jenny spoke with the KO attorney. Chris was a messenger. Okay. So essentially the bottom line is is that it's recommended that the county attorney not represent the ethics commission um that they should have outside counsel. So they have four hearings coming up here in the next little bit. So I'm going to ask you to approve $5,000 for legal counsel for the ethics commission. Um, and we'll have to take it, I guess, on a surplus because we don't have that anywhere.

If you and which you all might know, but the problem is and the and I the whole time I've sat in on those meetings and the invest in investigative sessions is they're against county employees who we represent. And so every time I'm sitting there, I I feel odd because we have our county employee here. We have the person filing complaint. This is who we serve. So, I've I've always felt weird about So, I met with him at our conference last week to get clarification because I know we need to support the ethics committee as well, but they said that definitely that's um Yeah. that the the county employees should be able to come to us. Yeah. Um so, that that's best to get outside council for Okay. to avoid conflict of interest.

So, I spoke to ethics yesterday and they feel like 5,000 will get them through the end of the year. should there be any other complaints. Um, and then just for budget, we'll have to remember to put some money in. You you just don't know if you're going to get complaints or not. Um, now, how do we go about choosing who's going to be the outside counsel? It's a professional service, so I think it they they worked with Nory Currins in Harrisburg. Um, I would assume that's who they would like to work with. I do not know. Um, time is not on our side right now. There's there are requirements on deadlines and things to respond to. Okay. Complaints. So, I would suggest they go ignoring. Okay.

That would be my personal thing just to get this over with. Yeah. Okay. So, you need a motion to approve. How much did you say? $5,000 for outside council for uh ethics commission. Is there a motion to approve? Mer second. Mr. Ellis. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. Any oppose? Okay. Motion carries. Thank you. Mhm. Okay. Yes.

Um I have been working and you will have at the budget for Shannon and in the fiscal court um a a look back at the last five years of expenditures, what the growth rate is. So when you're planning for this next budget season, you will have that in front of you. Um so that'll be done before your first budget meeting. Pickle ball met with Josh and uh Tommy yesterday. We're going to have another meeting today. Um Shannon's been in on that that meeting and will be in the one today to try to, you know, pin down some of this with pickle ball. Same with bike park. We are doing a meeting this afternoon with Andrew just to see how things are going and um plan for the city's budget uh coming up. So that that's u that's all I have.

Okay. Thank you. All right. Um let's see. Masher Ellis has already touched on a couple of my comments, which is perfectly fine. The spaghetti dinner down on the fork. Uh the Louisville Sympathy Orchestra, if you don't have a ticket already, uh they are sold out. So if you have one, cherish it because otherwise you won't be able to get one. Uh Friday morning is a ASAP meeting if anyone would like to attend. I believe that's at 8:30. Um March 9th is our first pre-budget meeting. Um, so come ready to work on numbers. Uh, speaking of data centers, I met with Hannah Gray, the planning and zoning director, uh, last Thursday. I believe that was the 19th. Uh, we discussed data centers and she is already working on um some plans for that. So, it'll be forthcoming, but she's um she's already working on that. Um, let's see. Also, last week, Julie and I visited a location that we think might prove fruitful um to relocate one of our departments should we need to do that in the future. What I would like is permission to get an appraisal on that property and then we can disclose other information as it becomes more available. But right now, okay, motion by Mr. Cullen. Is there a second?

Second. Mr. Sleeper. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor signify by saying I. Any opposed? No. Thank you. Thank you. And that's just exploratory.

That's just to get an appraisal. Just to get an appraisal to know what we're looking at dollar-wise. Yeah. Okay. Um, I would also like to ask uh recently uh we had a past employee Marsha Pierce uh pass away. Marsha was tax administrator here uh for 27 years. She started in 1985. So she was uh already here when I came um many many years ago and um she worked uh for us and she did a great job uh as tax administrator while she was here and she passed away. She had cancer and so I would like for us to adjourn in her memory if that is permissible with you all. So move. Yes.

Okay. So I ask for a motion to adjurnn. Master Ellis. Is there a second? Second. Master Cullen. All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Any oppose? Name. Motion carries. We adjourn in memory of Marshall Pierce. Marsha.