Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

The road department, I gave you the new one this morning. It's $75,000. From general fund to jail, $100,000. From general fund to EMS, $200,000.

Okay, is there a motion to approve the cash transfers?

I make a motion.

Measure Sleeper, is there a second?

Second.

Measure Cullen, any discussion on cash transfers? Okay, seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. Cash transfers are approved. And next we have the bills.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right. We have quite a few additional bills today, so I'm going to start out with those and then we'll move into your bill packet. So additional bills going on to today's list are going to be for Parsons Construction, that's part of the bike park. It's for $60,988. We need to add the Danville-Boyle County Development Corporation for America's 250th celebration. That is $56,583. Our Republic Services bill $51,214.26. We need to go ahead and add the E&H bridge and grading bill that is for a bridge that's going to be dropped off this week. So we'd like to have a check in and a pay for that. That is $37,921. And then Added two yesterday for the air burner meeting that everyone attended. One is for Air Burners Incorporated. It was $3,290. And one was for Boyd Cat Rentals who rent the grapple tool. That was for $5,713.99. That means your additional bill subtotal $215,710.25. And then in the bill packet you all got in your magistrate's packet totals $2,892,158.72 bringing your grand total to $3,107,868.97. That does include your occupational tax bills, net profits, all that going to the city of Danville.

Thank you for that clarification. You're welcome. You've been spending a lot of money this week.

Well, the bills come in.

Is there a motion to approve the bills? I'll make that motion. Mr. Gates, is there a second? Second. Mr. Cullen, is there any discussion on the bills? I'll point out a couple things. Page four, we did some Millennium Park capital improvements, so you'll see two bills for Millennium Park door replacements and central playground work. This was the primary election, so all of the election expense, precinct workers, all of that expense is on here. The billing for Harp Enterprise, that's in addition to all the other occupational tax bills.

I think that's all. And on the occupational tax bill, it's just important to again remind people that we collect on behalf of the city and so it's just that expenses that just being passed on. Yes, we collect it and then cut a check for them.

That's 2.4 million dollars worth of the bills. Yeah, it's just the pass.

Well, the good one on there is the final payment for the pulverizer. of eight thousand five hundred twenty four dollars and seventy cents which was paid for by a grant but that is for the new pulverizer for glass right angie and that is turning glass into sand it is man it's pretty cool you go out there and go out there and see it and it's kind of crazy yeah if you haven't seen it glass is going back to sand yeah yeah we start the sand and returns the sand two different types see there's no market for glass right now And so we're making the best of it and turning it into something else people can use. Hopefully soon we'll start, people can come by and just grab some.

We'll take the styrofoam too, if they like.

It's running now as well.

Okay, any other discussion on bills?

Nope.

All right, all those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay. Motion carried. Thank you, Ms. Lennon. I've not seen any thumbs up yet, so we're going to run right on. Okay, I asked Daryl Johnson to be here this morning to reappoint to the Parks for Water District Board, and I would like a motion to approve that appointment.

Make that motion.

Second. Second by Master Gay. Any discussion on the appointment? We appreciate Darrell serving. He's served us very well the first term, so we're glad to be doing a re-appointment to continue the good work that you all are doing out there at the Parks and Water Board. All right. All those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Darrell? Get your photo opportunity this morning. Look good?

Thank you sir, appreciate your service.

Next on the agenda we have library board appointments and so we have Lindsay Francois, I hope I'm pronouncing that right. Francois.

Francois, oh my God, you can't believe I messed that up.

That was a parable version.

I didn't take French, so excuse me, I took Spanish. You had a golden opportunity. Somebody should have bugged my ear about that. It looks like Francois to me, but I'll take Francois. All right, we have a motion to approve Lindsay Francois to the library board. So moved. Measured K. Second. I mean, measured K. Now I'm all messed up.

We got her off the list.

I'm sorry. Motion by Magistrate Gay, second by Magistrate Sleeper. Any discussion? All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay.

Thank you so much for being willing to serve. We appreciate you being here.

Thank you so much.

All right. Rita Bloom? She's not here. She's not here. Okay. Well, that's fine because some could come and some couldn't. So we also want to appoint Rita Bloom to the library board as well. And I believe that's a reappointment? Yes. Okay.

And Caroline can stand up for her. She's our vice president. Okay.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

All right. So we have a motion to appoint Rita Bloom. So moved. Master Gay. Is there a second?

Second.

Master Cullen. Got it. Any discussion? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay. All right, and we will reappoint Rita Bloom. You're not going to be Rita Bloom, but we're going to take place anyway. All right, thank you.

Appreciate you being here this morning.

Thank you, Colleen. Colleen, you want to say any words about the library? What's going on?

Come on up. First of all, I have to tell you I've been gone for a week and a half, so they've been doing really fun things while I've been gone. Dr. Hankler brought all the dinosaurs for summer reading. The dinosaur theme is dinosaurs, and it's full of dinosaur skeletons and all the bones and everything. We usually have to tell him to stop because he has some pain. So anyway, there's a lot to look at, a lot going on. We had our kickoff on the 25th, and it was really fun. We had to move inside because of rain, but we still had 700 people or something show up. So it's really fun. Please take a look at the calendar. We have a ton of things going on. I'd be here all day if I tried to tell you. But thank you all for your support. We really, really appreciate it. And know that without your support, we wouldn't be going anywhere. So we're really grateful. And next time I come, I'll bring you You know, I was going to have a handout for you, but I just couldn't because I wasn't in the office. That's okay.

It's all right. Yeah. Simon's been burning up that calendar. We've got it on our fridge, and every morning he goes, right before breakfast, he's like, all right, what are we doing at the library today?

Oh, I love that.

We went and hit the movie night on Friday night. Oh, how was it? Was it good? It was great. Good. It was great, yeah. I think they could hear it in parable, but, yeah, no, it was good.

Yeah, the neighbors have been really kind. You know, they didn't say anything about the noise.

No, it was wonderful. And then what about the satellite locations? What do you got going on for the satellite locations?

Well, I've been working with Allie for the Parable one, and it's kind of in just a holding pattern right now because they're doing all their architecture stuff with the opera house to get it ready to go. And meanwhile, I'm looking for a grant to get money for the for a collection for them when they open. So we're working on it, it's just not anything that's evident at this time. And then in Junction, they took advantage of the same thing that Economic Development offered Parable, and they have a space at the old community center, but I haven't, I just found that out like two weeks ago, and I haven't been in contact with them to see exactly where they are in the process yet.

Yeah, they're still working through that. But you guys, I think there's, of course, there's a book pickup there and drop off now. Right. You can reserve those.

We moved the book drop to the city hall because it had a little, a couple accidents at the farmer's bank. So it's moved to the, and it just got installed like two weeks ago. Yeah, about two weeks ago. So it's over there at City Hall. So you can drop off your books and pick up at City Hall now. All right. And we're still doing programming there two or three times a month in Junction.

I think painting shells is the next activity or something over there. More than I do.

Right now, I'm just reading through my email. Well, thank you, Colleen.

Thank you all so much for your support. Appreciate you being here today. Thanks so much. Okay, next is appointment to the Volcano Fire Board appointment. I'd like to recommend Anthony Young. Anthony, I've got to brag on Anthony a little bit. Anthony's got 40 years of experience. He has held every position in the Parable Fire Department, firefighter, lieutenant, captain, assistant chief, chief, He is part of the special operations at or was at Volcano Fire Department. State of Kentucky EMT level 2 Kentucky Fire Instructor, Kentucky Fire Commission and the State Fire Rescue Instructor. So if you want to know if he's qualified for this position on the fire board, I highly recommend it. So I'd like a motion to appoint Anthony Young.

So moved. Second.

Oh, ditto. Okay. All right. Motion by Maastricht Sleeper, second by Maastricht Gay. Any discussion?

And this is the...

I'm sorry, Matthew Ellis' term is up and so of course Matthew has been elected as Magistrate and so this will be to fill that term, or not fill that term, but to fill that spot for Matthew.

And that spot is the judge's spot, right? Judge Appointment. Judge Appointment. Judge Appointment, yes.

Pull it out of me. I got you.

Yes.

It's not property owner, it's not firefighter, it's Judge Appointment. Yes, Judge Appointment.

That's right. Okay.

Well, I think you picked a good one, Judge. Well, thank you. Thank you. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, no? Motion carries. All right. That's right. Uh-oh, wait a minute. This one. Oh, my goodness. I don't know about that.

All right. You ready? There you go.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Thank you for being willing to serve. Thank you.

okay i believe miss amanda's here now i got a thumbs up through the window measure sleeper all right somebody's calling them out there in the hall welcome welcome come in So we have on our agenda that you all have a presentation for the Volcani Fiscal Court and I'll just let you all begin.

So this morning we have a

check for $500,000 to the Royal County Fiscal Court for the purchase of a fire engine.

Awesome. And that fire engine is going where?

It's going to Forklift.

That's right. Yes, yes.

That's right.

All right. You want us all to come up? Yeah, why not? Okay. Can we have everybody? Try to get Barry in the background. Okay.

I'm glad you're in the same shoes as I am. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I want to get wet.

Okay, now we've got it even. There we go. All right. Smile, Barry. Okay, ready? One,

All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thanks for making the trip down.

All right. Thank you. Happy to. Well, I wish Andrew a good night now. Good to see you. Because that would have been great. We could have appointed a fire board. Oh, did you? Yeah. Thank you. So, anything that you all would like to say? Get an update on anything or just anything you want to?

I'll just mention a few things that have been kind of newsworthy lately that we've talked about. One, I had a chance to talk to Mr. Hicks' administration. So I know we've talked about the getting that property done by Perryville. So he said he was going to send us an update on a timeline.

Great.

So hopefully that will move quicker.

Okay. She's speaking of Crawford Springs. Okay.

They've asked me to make a phone call and see if I could push it a little bit. He got back to us and said it was on his radar, which I was glad to hear. Great, I'm happy to hear that. So I was good. We've talked about the judicial center several times internally. Yes, yes. And I think we're making some progress. Not to share too much publicly yet, but we have been having conversations about that. That was something I think both of us wish we had gotten wanted for Boyle County. So those are so positive.

Okay.

The other thing that I would just mention is that we're really excited about House Bill 5 and the opportunity of the prison down in Bergen, which I think will be fantastic from a workforce perspective.

Oh, yeah.

It's going to be great. And then we've talked a lot about gas taxes. It's in the news a lot, so I'll just mention a little bit about that. The governor did put an executive order in to pause some of the gas tax, and we'll see if he extends it or not, but the impact is pretty substantial. It saves the If you drive 15,000 miles a year as an average person, you save about $5 at the pump with that pause. That's great until you bust your tires, and then that $5 seems like probably not very much. And given the complaints I know I get about the roads, that $28 million hit, $27 million hit the general fund every month in the road plan matters. And I would just mention we put in... The road plan was 100% funded this year, not 175%. So when we don't have money in the road plan, we won't be able to do the jobs that we have budgeted. So if that continues, that will have an impact. And what was interesting, I think that study came out that said 30% of the road is paid for by people out of state. So Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, those who are traveling through Kentucky are not spending $8 million of that tax, which we could just get theirs. That would be helpful. So if Kentucky had some money but get the ones outside, we'll get to choose that at the top, but that would be nice. So that's kind of a touchy subject throughout the summer, but I just mention it because it's a both-end conversation.

Thank you. Actually, on that note, I think using the math the other way, though, is another reason why we need to increase The gas tax.

We've had that conversation too.

Because if it saves you $5 a year at the pump, it would also cost you $5 a year to add.

Correct.

That number takes care of a lot more roads.

Yeah, we could triple the road plan money and still feel like we're not getting enough pavement.

Right, so I like your math. Let's just use it the other way and get the legislators to take action this time.

And keep kicking it down the road. It is not going away.

We're kicking a lot of tires down the road here.

It's true.

And it's important to understand it's a wholesale tax. It's not like a direct tax that you're going to see at the pump. Right. You'd have to purchase over 100 gallons. Right, so that's why it becomes $5 that you're saving. Yeah, so it's, you know, Everyone hates the word tax, me included, but this is one of those things where it's going to come out of your pocket a lot worse if we don't find ways to fix that. 100%. The alternative is toll roads, which other states have gone to. And that's why you moved here. I would gladly pay a little more at the pump every now and then instead of the tolls.

Yeah, it's true. Any questions you all have for us?

Daniel, you got anything you want to comment on?

I think Senator Bledsoe has covered it. We were disappointed on the funding for the Judicial Center, We're able to secure some funding, but I think we're going to continue to have to work on what that looks like in the future because what we have now I don't think is really sufficient to deal with the issue long term. But we're going to keep working on it and hopefully find a solution that we can get the votes to pass. That's the big issue, just like with the gas tax. We've had a lot of bills over the years that just couldn't get the votes to pass. hopefully if we can show the need. That shouldn't be hard. There's a need. There's different ways to always go about a problem.

Can you touch on House Bill 5 a little bit more? We've not really talked a lot about it here in Bowl County just yet so I didn't know maybe if you guys wanted to kind of introduce that. You know it of course it was

Vice Chair Decker was the primary sponsor of that bill. It will create what I would call really an extension of KCTCS at North Point for certain eligible inmates to get certain types of training. And there's a huge list of the training of the eligible certifications, HVAC and I think it was like 12 different ones that I don't remember off the top of my head, modeled off a program in Michigan. They had gone up to Michigan and toured there quite a bit and decided it didn't work very well. They were doing recidivism. greatly. And so to do it here seemed like a good idea. And the governor was behind it. So Dr. Carl is big on pushing through this through.

It's his number one priority. He gives my office a lot about it.

I forget what the number was on the allocation. About $40 million. It was a lot.

It's not a small amount of investment. But it will be paid for through federal government programs and others. So once we put the investment in, It should self-sustain between the companies who are involved and the grants that make it somewhat neutral after this.

So these incarcerated individuals will also be students, I guess, or considered students. That's kind of an interesting way to look at it. You typically look at those folks as students. Interesting concept, but I think it will be very good. We want to reduce recidivism and make sure that people are

good taxpaying citizens right right we were both glad to support it very much so you know it's interesting that all those employers are going to be coming here to do to do the interviews and tours so when you think about those are going to be coming through danville in the center of kentucky especially in the lexington greater region it should be some good exploits exposure for danville too those are side issues you know those are kind of tangential but um if it turns out to be the role model we think it will be It could be a great thing throughout the state.

Yeah, I think it's fantastic that they're going to be able to offer that program now.

Just to confirm one other thing, there's no funding for any connector roads as well in this budget because that was a big topic that we had out of KY. I mean, in our county, yeah, that people were very opposed. The public seemed to be very opposed to anything. connector roads coming through and so I'm glad that that didn't get funded as well.

Thank you both for being here. We appreciate the work that you all do and the support that we get here in Boyle County. We just appreciate it very much. Thank you for the updates and for the check.

We like to see you when you don't have a check. Come see us anytime.

Just a side note, I'm having surgery June 18th. So I hope this is my last one for a while, but I'll be out for a while. So if you're looking to why I'm not at July 4th parties, there's a good chance that I'll just be staying the rest of June, 1st of July, recovering a little bit.

So hopefully this will be the last.

I love the festival, the June festival. Thank you.

You've earned some rest. That's right, yeah. Thank you, Daniel. Thank you. Thank you all. All right, back on track. We've got three proclamations next. The first one is the Flag Day Proclamation. which is June 14th marks Flag Day, a day dedicated to honoring the emblem that represents our nation's unity, values, and history, and whereas the flag of the United States stands as a symbol of the sacrifices made by countless individuals who fought to defend the principles of freedom, justice, and democracy. Whereas the colors of our flag, red, white, and blue, embody courage, purity, and justice, reminding us of the ideas we strive to uphold. Whereas this day serves as a reminder for all citizens to reflect on the principles that our flag represents, encouraging us to unite as one nation regardless of our differences. Whereas the history of the flag is rich and varied, embodying the spirit of the American people and the pursuit of liberty. whereas it is fitting and proper to give recognition to the enduring symbols of our nation, fostering appreciation among our citizens for what the flag represents. Now therefore be it resolved that I, Trillie L. Bottom, Boyle County Judge Executive and the Boyle County Fiscal Court do hereby proclaim June 14, 2026 as Flag Day in Boyle County, Kentucky. and urge all citizens to display the American flag with pride and respect at their homes and public venues and to participate in ceremonies that celebrate our national identity. This ninth day of June, 2026, do I hear a motion to approve? I'll make that motion. Mr. Cullen, is there a second? Mr. Sleeper, any discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay?

Motion carries. Pretty good date, huh?

It's a great day. Great day. All right, next up we have the Juneteenth Proclamation, which is June 19th. Known as Juneteenth, commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States, serves as a powerful reminder of the ongoing struggle for freedom, equality, and justice. Whereas on June 19th, 1865, Union soldiers enforced the Emancipation Proclamation in Galveston, Texas, marking the end of slavery and the beginning of a new chapter in American history. And whereas this day honors the resilience, strength, and achievements of African Americans throughout history, while reflecting on the continuous journey towards equality. Whereas Juneteenth is a celebration of African American culture, heritage, and accomplishments, promoting education, understanding, and unity among all citizens. And whereas it is imperative for all citizens to acknowledge the importance of this day, fostering a sense of community and encouraging dialogue. Whereas we are called to remember the lessons of the past and to work tirelessly toward a future where liberty and justice are truly available for all. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Trillie L. Bottom, Boyle County Judge Executive and the Boyle County Fiscal Court, do hereby proclaim June 19, 2026 as Juneteenth in Boyle County, Kentucky. I urge all citizens to participate in celebrations and educational activities that honor this historic day promoting healing, understanding, and unity in our communities. This ninth day of June, 2026, do I hear a motion to approve? Measure it, sleeper. Second. Measure it, gay. Any discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries and there are Juneteenth activities planned here in Boyle County.

And on that note, Ricky, my wife and I had a chance to spend a long weekend in Cincinnati and went to the Underground Railroad Museum. And if you haven't had a chance to do it, man, it is a really well done and powerful So I would encourage everybody to take time to go see it. You need to give yourself plenty of time because there's a lot of information, a lot of great exhibits in it. It's really well done.

Well, thank you. All right, and next is Proclamation for Solid Waste and Recycling Workers Week. This will go to Ms. Angie. Let me go get my group here.

Oh, get your group. Okay, yeah, get your group in here.

Get your people.

We all Kentucky blue today. Alright, come on in, come on in. Don't be bashful.

Oh, you go ahead. Good morning, good morning, good morning.

Come on in.

We got a second row. You can fill up back there.

I'm missing my convenience center operators because they are working today. Yes, I understand. We are too, ma'am.

That don't sound good.

You're not working right now.

They're on the clock. That's right. Getting paid. All right. No, it's not.

Well, thank you, Miss Angie, for bringing this wonderful group of employees. I'm going to stand to read this one because this is in honor of you all. This is a proclamation for Solid Waste and Recycling Workers Week. Whereas solid waste and recycling workers provide an essential public service that protects the health, safety, and welfare of Boyle County residents. And whereas these dedicated men and women work in all weather conditions to collect, process, transport, and manage waste and recyclable materials safely and responsibly. AMWRES, their daily efforts help keep our homes, roadsides, businesses, public spaces, and communities clean, healthy, and environmentally responsible. AMWRES, solid waste and recycling workers play a vital role in protecting natural resources, reducing litter, supporting recycling programs, and promoting responsible waste management. AMWRES, June the 17th is recognized as a time to honor and thank the hardworking professionals in the solid waste and recycling industry for their commitment, dependability, and service to the public. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Trillie L. Bottom, Boyle County Judge Executive, and the Boyle County Fiscal Court do hereby proclaim June 17, 2026, as Solid Waste and Recycling Workers Day, and the week of June 15-20, 2026, as solid waste and recycling workers week in Boyle County, Kentucky. We encourage all citizens to join us in expressing appreciation to the solid waste and recycling workers who help to keep Boyle County clean, safe, and beautiful. So we thank you for all that you do. We appreciate the work that you do. And Boyle County would not look as good as it does without all of you working as a team. So we thank you. So moved. We have a motion to approve the proclamation by Magistrate Gay. Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Magistrate Harmon. Okay. Any discussion? Anybody want to say anything?

I just want to extend my thanks as well for all that you all do and Magistrate Harmon and I are on the Solid Waste and Recycling Committee and we greatly appreciate your all's efforts and work.

I like to brag on them. Okay. They're a good group. And they get mad at me. Some of them's mad at me this morning. Well, you know, we do things that we have to try that we don't want to try in recycling. And we know there's a big issue right now in uproar and damble because we're changing. We're changing because of not recycling properly. recycling properly. You know, people think that can's there to put whatever they want to in it. But what they don't understand is they're putting it in there and these people are getting it. You know, we don't have robotics. We don't have Mr. Clean standing there. So, you know, they're subject to bathroom trash. I heard that, Jason.

Let's say you're talking about Jamie.

You know, they're subject to things they shouldn't have to be subject to. Right. And for the public who is, and everybody knows I'll say it, come visit them. Come see what we've got. And you'll understand why you have to pay or why it is changing. But this group here don't deserve. They don't deserve that, and they deserve all the credit in the world. It's not me. It's them. Absolutely.

That phrase, the one bad apple ruins it for the bunch, that's really what happened. I was actually at the old government services building one day when we got a truckload of recycling from the city, and there was dead animals in there. There was diapers in there. And, you know, it's hard enough to have to recycle through some of the stuff, you know, just regular recycling stuff, but nobody should have to put up with trying to go through that stuff. And I understand, you know, people are upset about change, but come spend a day out there to see just, you know, some of the stuff that they have. We tried.

We get stuff from Harrodsburg, which has been good. You know, we tried the hub-and-spoke model a little bit. And we tried part of Jessamine, Nicholasville, yesterday, and... That ranked up there with, not as bad, but pretty close to Danville. So that won't be a B again either. But you know, we try. But people just, they need to understand. And when they don't understand, we invite them.

Right. We have it very easy here. A lot of places require you separate everything out. You have separate bins for everything. You wash everything. You know, here it's like this is just put recyclable materials only in this bucket. And then we'll do. We'll sort it. We'll do the hard work for you, you know, and sort it out. But, you know, anybody that has a problem, come out a day and see exactly the stuff that we still get, you know.

Because they have to deal with it.

Yeah, and we're talking, what are those big, what size is one of those containers they drop off? It's a, the big Republic containers. It's about a 30 yard usually. 30 yards. Yeah. I mean, just sorting through 30 yards of basically trash is what it is. You know, it's not recycling. It was trash. So, anyway.

Mr. Harmon, you're on the committee. Would you like to say anything?

We're proud of what Angie and all her crews do. They do it a lot. And no one understands that you get out there and work at it and get along on the side and you'll have a better understanding what recycle is and you'll have a better understanding what

they are protecting our environment and that's our future thank you all thank you back to the picture with yeah let us uh buries it behind us here since we're all here somehow all right we need to vote on the motion all those in favor of the motion signify by saying aye aye any opposed

Motion carries. Proclamation. Judge, proclamation. Voting on the proclamation. Yes, vote on the proclamation.

Yes. Because we had a discussion. Thank you.

Can you move that podium? How are we going to do this? Stand up. I need to get better. Yeah, okay. This is on the committee. It'll work. I'll go over back to you.

diamond in the rough right there okay smile cheese

Okay, I'm going to do one this way so I can go over there. Great, thank you. All right, thank you all.

Yes, thank you.

That was a pretty good idea. Thank you all.

We appreciate you very much. Thank you.

Thank you all.

Thank you all.

Thank you all. Angie said she's giving the rest of the day off.

You were all for that. Angie said she's got it. She'll take care of everything today.

You all have a great day. Be safe.

See you all. Thanks. Thank you, Angie.

Thank you. All right. That was an effort, let me tell you.

I bet. I bet. All right. Is Hannah Gray in the hall?

They don't like to be in the public. I know.

That was good though. No, okay. Alright, we will move right on then to the Parks and Rec Director.

Do we need a reminder that she's... Tommy Barton.

Do you want to, Julie, do you want to send a text to Hannah and see if something's happened? Yes, ma'am. Please. Thank you.

Tommy! Hey, good morning.

Good morning, good morning.

I'm here to just do a quick parks update for you. Yeehaw. Yeah, we've got lots going on. I'll start with capital first. We had a lot of capital projects in this year. Some of the completed ones, we have the three ball fields, the Millennium Park playground, and as you said, all site furnishing including doors, what are they called, AEDs that we place in all the buildings. That's all been completed. The other projects that we still have going that we've all been working on and looking forward to, first the skate park. The design has been completed. The site prep is going on this week. So you're going to see, and also we're going to probably start with pickleball site prep soon. So you will be seeing a change if you come in Millennium Park. There's going to be some work being done. But the construction of the skate park is scheduled to start next week, weather permitting, on the 15th. They will start construction. And Julie, I believe we haven't quite heard it on pickleball, but we think by the end of the month they should be starting construction. Yeah, we're working on that. The unfortunate things about these two projects is we are losing a basketball court where the skate park is being designed. But the way we've kind of planned for this is the existing court we've resurfaced And it didn't have painted lines. We repainted the lines and we moved all the good goals over to that court. And then what we've also done is the city has resurfaced Michael Smith Park, bought some new goals for it. So we're not losing a court. We're just kind of changing it. We'll have one court in Millennium Park and we're going to have one court in Michael Smith Park. And the other thing is the pickleball courts. We will be losing the sand volleyball court. Me and the city engineer Josh Morgan are looking for a new place to put sand volleyball. We're hoping to do it in-house. We're thinking maybe Jackson Park. We've got a lot of room there. So we're hoping by the end of the summer to maybe have sand volleyball put in at Jackson Park. And then we're also looking for a place to, we've been talking with Jason about a place to put all the old skateboard ramps. There's been talk about putting them at possibly Jackson Park. We're looking for a spot. We've talked about in Junction City. We haven't found a spot yet, but we continue to look for that. So those are some of the features that people might see happening. If they have any questions or they come to you, you can kind of let them know what we're trying to do. We're trying to not lose features, but to make room for everything is what happens. Now, in the long run, in the future plans for Millennium Park, if we do build on, we do have a plan to add back the basketball courts and the sand volleyball. So it may be a little bit, but eventually we will have them back. Now, as far as Pine Knob goes, I'm not an expert on that, but Mestre Bodner's not here, but me and Mestre Bodner and Josh Morgan took a tour of it a couple weeks ago. It is fantastic. I mean, it's I've never seen anything like it. In the middle of the woods there, there's this huge ramp. It's going to be great. You can't really see it from the road or anything. You've got to really hike up there to see what's going on. Eventually, I don't know quite where he's at, but there's been a lot of progress made. We also put two more miles of trails in at Woven Wire. So I believe Stone's got his high school mountain bike team practice in there, but they're eagerly waiting on that being done. We're really excited about that. Woven wire is pretty impressive.

I showed up there not realizing it was me, taking a full tour of it. And so four miles later, it's a wet feed.

It's pretty impressive out there too. Yeah, they took us all and unfortunately I did back out as soon as they said you gotta cross the creek. walk through the creek I said well I had my good shoes on so but Jason did go the whole distance instead of her maintenance supervisor so some of the other things we got going on an update on our programs the good news all our summer programs are up in numbers our baseball softball which is the one of our biggest programs has 565 kids which is up 81 kids from last year and most of that is t-ball so that's good job security for me we've got a lot of kids coming up in the county um we have a 13 to 15 year old tri-county fast pitch which we got changed the name because we added two more counties so we have five counties participating in that uh league fantastic yep and then we have a men's basketball uh league that last year we had six teams and this year we're up to 10 teams um our swim team is doubled from 25 to 45 Our day camp went from 70 kids to 99 kids. Our daily pool participation is up. Our pickleball ladder league is up. We've got 70 participants in that. And our daycare is at capacity, which is, I believe, 120 kids.

Wow.

Yep. All that is up. That's all good news. That's great. Very good news. Yep. And just to finish off, we have some big upcoming events. You talked earlier about Juneteenth. Parks and Rec is very involved in that with the Juneteenth committee. We are having a lunch celebration at Jeannie Rogers on actually June 19th from 11 to 1230. There will be lunch provided by the city. There will be speakers. There will be child events. And there will be some entertainment at Jeannie Rogers. And then at 6 o'clock, we move on down to Michael Smith Park where Parks and Rec will be serving dinner, barbecue, and the committee has... line dancing cornhole going on i believe michael hughes is uh djing uh there's gonna be square dancing i believe no line dancing i think going on so uh juneteenth is packed it's a new uh event we're putting on and we're proud to be uh uh helping out with that and then then we turn around on july 3rd which everybody knows we have the big eddie montgomery concert um going on at the park but on The other event we do on July 3rd is we do Paint the Park, where kids come in and we give them a 4x4 square on the parking lot, and they do patriotic paintings. Last year, I mean, there was all kinds of things. We let them paint whatever they want. Last year, we had 160 kids. This year, we're expecting 200. That goes on from 9 to 1. And then we clear the park and we set up for the Eddie Montgomery concert. Now, just to inform everybody, we've been working on the plan for that. And what's going to happen is there's not going to be parking in the park. We're going to be parking, the high school is going to let us park there. The junior high has let us park there. And then we'll also be using the fairgrounds. Now, the 205th Celebration Committee.

The old fairgrounds.

The old fairgrounds. Correct, correct. The 250 committee has paid for professional parking. We will have shuttles bringing people in, and they also have professional security for this concert. So we're expecting anywhere between five and 10,000 people for that concert. Five, ten. It's a free concert, so there's really no way to tell what's going on. No way to predict. But then again, then we turn around on July 4th, we do it all again. So we have all of our usual 4th of July events with all our bounce houses, cornhole tournaments, face painting, food trucks, and all that going on. And then early evening, we'll have Michael Fly and The Sound performing. And opening for them will be Blue Groove, a jazz band. So we're keeping the stage and putting on a two-day festival, basically. And I've talked with the fireworks pyrotechnics, who actually is a local. He works in a big company out of Nashville, but he lives in Danville. He has assured us it will be the best fireworks show we have seen. So we're looking forward to it. I'm going to put a concert promoter on my resume. I forgot. Yeah, I forgot. We're actually... Not to even think we have enough going on, we'll actually on the 3rd and 4th of July, we'll also be having a state Cal Ripken baseball tournament. Oh my gosh. At the park. At the park, yeah. Millennium Park will be popping. That's right, that's right. So we'll be popping, and we hope to take a few days off after that, but we're pretty excited about it. You guys have any questions on that?

That's fantastic. No, thank you. Volunteers. for Friday night?

Tony Wilder would be the one to talk with that. He is working on the volunteers for Thursday.

What's Thursday?

Thursday is the Eddie Montgomery concert. Friday night. I'm sorry, Friday night.

Friday night. Eddie Montgomery.

I am looking for any volunteers who can get a hold of Parks and Rec. We are looking for volunteers that, it's not fun work, but we're looking at 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. Saturday morning to go through the park and clean it up. So if you know anybody who volunteers, just give us a call.

On Saturday morning?

On Saturday morning.

We have people that often need volunteer hours for tickets and stuff. Is that something?

Me and you work. Yes, yeah, that'd be great, yeah. I know that Tony needs stagehands, I think even going to Thursday the 2nd, to set up the stage.

To set up the stage. I'd love to do that.

Okay, and even on the 1st, too, so I'll let him know. And then, like I said, then we have, I believe he's got the airport, I don't know what they're called, the kids that... What's that? Civil Air Patrol. Civil Air Patrol is going to help with parking. And like I said, we were looking for people to help us out on Saturday morning, just do a quick park cleanup.

They reach out to Parks and Rec?

Yeah, they can reach out to Parks and Rec or the City of Danville, let us know either way.

In addition to all that, the city has got events going on as well.

Right, the parade on the actual, I think it's early, 11 a.m. downtown.

Prior to that, there'll be a flag-raising ceremony and some other veteran events going on out here at the Veteran Memorial. Correct. A lot going on that day. A lot going on that day.

Any other questions?

Thank you, Tom. We appreciate the work you do.

A lot of hard work. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. I had somebody ask, is there any evening programming for teenagers, young and old, that happen throughout, like especially on the weekends, you know, that's when kids tend to go out trying to find stuff to do. Is there any programming that Parks and Rec does?

Well, Jeanne Rogers is open till nine on a weekend and there's not a lot going on there. So it's kind of, Jeanne Rogers is free. There's no cost, but the gym is open. I believe we have it late from five to 630. We have volleyball, just kind of walk-in volleyball. And then of course it's walk-in open gym every night, including weekends at Jeanne Rogers.

Cool, okay. I'll pass it around then.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you. All right. Thank you all very much. Appreciate it.

Have a great day. Thanks. I don't know why, but the high school kids play pickleball like it's their job. Yeah, pickleball.

That's why we're building new ones. I know.

I appreciate it.

Yeah. All right. Next on the agenda is Recycling Director Angie Money.

Again. Again. Again. Again.

Okay. Okay.

We received three illegal dump bids to do the Miner's Branch store down there. And the lowest bid we had, and I would like approval to go ahead and give that bid award to Whitaker Excavating for $34,500.

Sorry, let me interrupt you for one second. I have received a text from Elena Stith Funeral Home has called, and if there's anyone parked over there in the parking lot, they need all vehicles moved because they have a large funeral. Okay. All of you all, okay. We're going to take a five-minute recess.

All right.

Thank you.

I told him he was out of the case today.

We will reconvene. Okay, sorry about that. Thank you all for taking care of the vehicles in the funeral home lot. We appreciate Stith allowing us to park there, but we want to accommodate on days that they do have services. So thank you all for doing that. All right, so we are back to recycling director Angie Munsey. Okay, we were back.

We were discussing the illegal bid. that we open legal dump bid. Let's get that correct. Legal dump bid. But anywho, so we had three. We had Whittaker Fence in Hilton Construction, Atwood Contract in. Whittaker Fence in came in the lowest bid at $34,500. And I guess I am looking for approval to go ahead and award that bid to him so we can get that taken care of. Okay. And I can have peace of mind after five years. All right.

On Angie's recommendation, is there a motion to approve Whitaker excavating for the jobs? So moved. Mr. Gates, or second?

Second.

Mr. Sleeper? Any discussion? You hated doing that.

You're just being mad because you're not on my committee anymore.

What trouble are you, Barry?

All right, we have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries.

all right next we have a mower contract update all right i just want to give an update i only have uh at this point i have uh one company that is interested in a contract uh they are out of um stanford so um something comes up i don't have any more but to go to them so um they give me some pricing which you know it's on them you know to price and I believe it's what they, that's what they make and people should have to do it so and pay it. But you're still seeking? I'm still seeking because, you know, it can be at any time. If one can't do it, I need somebody else to do it. So you need at least two or three? I'd like to have three, but this is, you know, just an update. I only have one at the moment. So I'm still seeking. If anybody's got any questions, they can feel free to call me. You know, I think there was some under the impression that I have a list. you know properties there is no list of properties this is just as needed basis so yeah and it may not be that many it might be one people comply but we always have them couple that don't want to comply and we need that and Jason I guess I need to ask is that problem solved or is this one I need to take care of when I leave here which one we got one in rear view

That one's done. That one was mowed. The Chennault Bridge. The Chennault Bridge is not. That needs to be. Okay. I will address that then. ASAP, please. Thank you. Just be careful out there.

Okay. All right. Next we have approved expenditure for air burning train. Well, I think Elena took care of that.

She did. She did. So that's already been approved. It's already been approved and taken care of. All right, that's all for me. Well, thank you very much.

Sorry I wasn't there. We had a last-minute trip pop up, but I heard it went well.

As well as it did the first time. How much burn did we get done? We shut off at 2 o'clock yesterday.

I haven't been out there to see. We made a good dent just while we were there. It was crazy. In the 40 minutes I was there, we made a good dent.

You make a good dent. I think if we just get it done, unless we have a disaster, I wouldn't think once every three months that thing would have to operate. Right. Unless you know there was something major.

Yeah, unless you have a disaster, a tornado or an ice storm or something there.

That's right, because like I said, in just the 40 minutes I was there, we had a big huge pile and we cut way into that pile in 40 minutes. It's crazy.

So hopefully the rain, when the rain holds off or when it stops raining, we want to continue to burn what's there. And we want to continue to burn until we get it all burned up.

It was still burning this morning, believe it or not, until it comes to torrential rain. Then it sort of puts it out. But it runs so hot that it takes a lot of rain to... kill it out.

So we'll get something out on Facebook. Julie, you might want to work on that, getting something out to the public that the air burner is up and going. Was there any kind of report from the air burner man as far as... No, he asked were we satisfied and everything go good and... But he felt like it was running properly and there was no problems with it and... No problem. Okay.

Well, that's the thing and I think it's important for people to realize that it does produce smoke... First 30 minutes. First 30 minutes and that is the standard by the air quality permitting people and and then it really settles in and there's a little bit of puff of smoke each time you throw some in there but i mean you get a whole lot more smoke out of you burning something in your fireplace or your backyard. You even smell like it if you're burning in your backyard.

There you have it.

It was no odor. Once it gets going, it's very safe and efficient. And yes, it does smoke a little bit. I don't want people to think it doesn't smoke at all. But it really is the most efficient way to safely dispose of our brush. And as we said, once we get it under control, it's just every once a month, every couple of months.

That won't be often. No, it won't be very often at all. It's so hot and so much. I think we're limiting like 14 tons a day.

I think there's probably been a misconception that it was going to be burning every single day, and that's not true at all. uh it will be until we get it burned up you know until we get everything out there that needs to be burned we're going to try to run it as often as we can and that may be multiple days in a row but once it's cleared then it's not going to be an everyday and it won't have to ever start even every week thing well that's where i felt i mean i know it was money we had you know we spent some more money on doing this extra

testing of the equipment, but I think it was good to... It helped reassure me, and hopefully it'll reassure...

I think it impressed Julie Wagner.

And hopefully it will reassure the...

It was a lot less smoke than the first time I went out, and it was smoking like crazy. This time, it wasn't like that at all.

Sometimes it'll smoke like crazy, but then you have that 30 minutes if stuff gets in it like that dirt. There's no mud in it. There's no wet. But after, you've got 30 minutes and then it calms down. It was much better. Yeah. It helps with the, you have to have the proper equipment. That hook made a difference. Yeah, the grapple hook was a game changer.

Well, I don't know what it's like after, as it's cooling or whatever, but I know if you burn something like in your backyard, and to me the worst part of it is oftentimes is the smoldering.

Mm-hmm.

that can last for days. And I don't know, that's the one thing I don't know what that equipment is like.

It can smolder and it'll be like little puffs. We can completely stop the smoldering, but then we're having to put like six inches of mud in there to let it dry up and then rake the ash out to quit it. We don't want to do that until we're done. As long as it's smoldering, then we can go in there and it just starts right back.

Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the ash something that we could at some point offer to the public?

Absolutely. It makes biochar, what they call biochar. Okay. And when you clean it out, it actually can go back into your soil. It's actually nutrients that you can make.

So at some point, once we get a big pile of that, we could offer that to the public if they want to use it for their gardens or whatever.

Anything they want to use it for. Just like the sand and glass.

And so on that note, and that's really a cool thing, the glass pulverizer that does produce these different... consistency or what's the word I'm looking for? Anyway, different levels of sand. Grains of sand. Yeah, grains of sand.

Sands to the hourglass.

I guess that is something that as we accumulate is also we're going to be able to make that available to the public to come and take their sand with them. Sure. And if you would explain the what people need to do when they bring their glass out. What's the process for bringing the glass to you?

The only process that I ask to bring the glass at, you know, bring your glass, take your lids. I don't want no lids, no corks. You don't have to take the labels off of them. If you want to, that's fine, but it's not required. No broken glass. They have to bring it due to contamination.

Now, you're taking all kinds of glass, not just like wine bottles or... Wine bottles, beer bottles, pickle jars.

Mayonnaise jars. Mayonnaise jars. Anything, okay, so any kind of glass. They need to just be rinsed out and no lids. Okay. But any type of glass. I don't want window pane glass. I don't want corning ware glass. You know, we're just talking... glass, you know, pickles, yeah, clear, wine, you know.

I mean, it doesn't have to be, it can be colored glass.

It can be colored glass. I mean, it can be your wine. Because wine bottles are colored, a lot of them. You don't want Pyrex. I don't want Pyrex glass, and I don't want you to bring me your window paint out there. I had a gentleman bring me window paint yesterday.

I know, I told her the other day, I was asking for a friend that, does my friend need to take the label off the beer bottle? She said my friend doesn't have to take the label off the beer bottle.

Well, that's great. I'm sure he's happy about that. Don't bring me your windowpane. I had somebody bring me their windowpane and want me to break the glass out of it. So I see a Facebook post. on specifics of glass? We're working on it. I'm working on all kinds of post-its. Jamie's got me in trouble.

No, you did well.

But I expect it.

It was good. I think it's important. The point I was wanting to get out there is that As we change our curbside recycling process, where now you have to opt in, I think it's important for the community to know that that material, good material, which all those that are opting in should be putting good material in their cans, will be staying locally. It'll be locally sorted.

Yes.

and market it at our own recycling center. So I think that's important for people to understand in this. I've said in my own post is that, you know, to me, I'm gonna bring my appropriate things that I need to take to the recycling center out there But we accumulate so much other recycling material that I would just assume have the can that they come and pick up.

Well, but that's a good point because if someone did not want to pay for the recycling can, they can still bring it to the recycling center.

Right.

Yeah. Keep the money local. Yeah.

Keep the money local. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. And you know, you've got the convenience centers as well.

Right. You know, to put it there. And the convenience centers are open on the weekend.

Except glass and styrofoam. You know, I know everybody wants to be able to put it in their bin or put it, but it's just a contamination thing. I'm glad to be able to take it.

Well, we have lots of options now. There's options. So it's their... People should be able to take anything that they want to recycle, styrofoam, glass, and recyclables. Come visit me. Yeah, to the recycling center and see how it works. I mean, go take your glass out, bring your glass out there and watch it. We've had a lot of people. I had a gentleman yesterday want to take a tour and look at everything. Yeah, I think it's great. So thank you for being here.

I have a memo from... Correct. It's regarding the burner. I don't know if that's relevant now. Oh, okay. It's regarding placement of it. I don't know if that's an issue at all right now. Talking about that the EDA controls where it's placed and it's on their property. I don't know if that's... He just said it might be, but I don't know if there's... That was a question. That was a question. Yeah. So, I think the...

The question was could we control putting the burner on property that we fund but we don't own?

So it says that we have the choice to put it wherever we want to put it so long as the owner of the land is agreeable. The EDA cannot tell us where to put it unless they own the land. So we can put it anywhere we want unless it's owned by the EDA and then they have the authority to say yes or no. And will we place it on their land? Yes. If it's owned by them, we can't override anything that EDA says. KRS does not give us, the fiscal court, any sort of authority to tell EDA what to do, but if it's on land owned by an individual or the county, then we can put it where we want. Thanks for that answer.

complaints about it.

I was out there. My mom lives right behind me. I watched. There's no...

Most people grew up with smoke.

I grew up with earners. People our age. I don't see wasting that money. Thank you.

Thank you, Jim. Alright. Thank you so much. I'm done for the day now, right?

Appreciate it. Yes, you can go take a break. Okay. All right, next up, the MS director, Mike Rodgers. Ordinance first reading.

Go ahead. So Julie reached out and apparently we had an ordinance that was out of date, so we wanted to go ahead and update that to the current standard and it's in your packets and happy to answer any questions that you might have about it.

Okay, so everything in red is what has been changed. Okay, so you all can look through the ordinance. It's ordinance number 370.1. It's an amendment to ordinance 370.0 relating to the developmental implementation and maintaining of a countywide division of emergency medical service system. Julie, is there anything specific that you want to point out? Yes, I do.

Typically, the fiscal court approves all policies and procedures. However, in the case of EMS, sometimes they make minor changes to the policy based on conditions of things that's happened in the field. We don't feel like that every single minute change needs to come to fiscal court. If we bring the policy manual to you, in principle, you could approve the tone and the tenor and the direction of it. But then give Mike the authority to make changes and once a year you can go back through it and approve it. And approve all those changes in a lump sum.

Is that acceptable for everyone, Barry?

Yeah.

Barry, you comment on that one? Is that acceptable?

And we, the committee discussed that this morning in our committee meeting.

And we discussed it yesterday.

We're good with that approach and we also reviewed this updating of the ordinance are good with that update.

So that's what I advise Mike and Tammy about. I think once a year when we do the administrative code update, bring your changes and we'll approve them as a lump sum.

Does that mean you can't initiate him?

No, he can go ahead and do what he needs to do, but he doesn't have to bring every single change to the fiscal court.

You would just approve the tone, the tenor, the direction of the policy annually and let him have the discretion throughout the year to update and make changes because we don't know what could happen in the field. Cool.

Okay, is there a motion to approve first reading of Ordinance 370.1? So moved. Mr. Gay, is there a second? Second. Mr. Cullen, any discussion? Additional discussion on the ordinance? All right, seeing none, all those in favor of first reading of Ordinance 370.1, amending Ordinance 370.0 relating to the development, implementation, and maintaining of a countywide division of emergency medical service system, signify by saying aye. Any opposed nay?

And Christian reviews.

Motion carries. Thank you.

Thank you.

You want to give any updates?

We couldn't do this without you. We ended up last month with 670 runs. We've been busy as always. Is that a record? No, it's not a record. I think we've been in the 700s. But it's trauma season, so make sure you're careful, safe driving, buckle up, put your phone down, those types of things.

Can you sing that?

He's going to have a new video at the movie theater.

I do have something to make sure you're aware. Rusty is sending out letters to all pool violators, I think this week, so that we can get those fences around those pools. They've already gone out. Great, great, great.

Okay, so we're on.

I just want to make sure you know.

Prevention goes a long way in pediatric drownings. Thank you all. Thank you.

On that note, seeing Patrick here reminds me that also boating and lake and all those things in the summer, you know, be careful on the lake. Keep your life jackets on and handy and don't drink and drive on the lake either.

You saw me out in the lake pulling styrofoam out by hand because that stuff gets heavy after it's been in there a while. My wife's looking at me like, why can't we pull it up on the boat? We're tying ropes around this, and I'm like swimming down in it. And that's what I talked to Angie about. Someday we've got to figure out a way to address that so it's not a continuing problem, but it is definitely pulling a needle out of a haystack. A really big haystack full of needles, but still.

Yeah, yeah. Thank you. All right, next up we have County Treasurer Shannon Green. Court Facilities Reimbursement Agreement.

We just need to approve the agreement. The AOC reimburses us like $124,048.30 for the year. For use of the building, utilities. Okay, is there a motion to approve?

I'll make that motion.

Mr. Cullen, is there a second?

Second.

Mr. Sleeper, any discussion on the AOC services reimbursement form? Has anything changed since the last reimbursement? It went up a little bit.

And so we're not expecting them to move out this fiscal year?

We don't know. We're having a meeting with some members of AOC at noon today and we will know more after that. I'm going to say no, but we'll see.

Put your foot down.

All right. All in favor of renewing the AOC local government reimbursement form, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Harmon. Okay. Next we have closing approval for property purposes. Yes. Purchase.

Property purchase.

Say that three times fast.

On the Walnut Street property. The old post office. I need the closing is June 30th. So we'd like to go ahead and have this assigned. And the funds will come out of reserves. And to do that I need to transfer from the interest-bearing account a million dollars to the general fund.

A million dollars to the general fund from reserves and property taxes have been prorated, I see. And so this is all just preliminary work in order to be able to do the settlement and make the payment. Right. Okay.

I'll make that motion.

Mr. Cullen, is there a second? Second. Mr. Sleeper, any discussion? This is for the sheriff. This is for the sheriff's department, yes. Walnut Street property.

And a new fiscal courtroom?

Well, is there discussion about, I mean, because the sheriff's not going to use all of it, right? Right. Right. Yeah, we haven't gotten to that point yet. I went for the sheriff. It's very nice. Yeah, it's very nice.

There's going to be, there's definitely going to be some things there for the sheriff's, kind of like where we've, my vision is that where we've built out Like what we're doing for the EMS building, they'll have similar services in there. Tax collection service.

It'll get filled up pretty quickly. And we also need to include animal control. They need an office just for the animal control officers because they're operating out of one office out of the Humane Society and four people in one office and it really

Have we talked about that with the sheriff?

Yes, we have. Well, we're going to talk about it here a little bit. Yeah, we're going to talk about it again, but we have talked about it.

It's been mentioned.

It's been mentioned, yes. All right, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Motion carries. Thank you, Shannon. We're all ready to go on that. That's exciting. Okay, next up County Administrator Julie Wagner. Question, so just to clarify, so we, the motion was to approve moving the money from reserves into general fund in order to be able to pay it closing.

Okay, and then do we need to authorize cutting a check?

We need to authorize You can do that at the next fiscal court meeting, but what you do need to authorize is for her to sign all documents, contracts, sales.

I'll add that to my motion. Thank you. We'll move the money and authorize the judge to sign all clothing-related documents for the property.

I'll add that to my second.

All right. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

I'll add that to my aye.

All right, now we're up to county administrator Julie Wagner, administrative code revision. Okay, you want to do that first or data center?

I don't know.

It's what's first on the agenda, but we can switch it.

It doesn't matter to me.

Okay, so a few minor changes this year. Page 12, and just for the public, every year in June, we review our administrative code. This is the rules and regulations internally that we operate under. We refer to it often. Section 202.02 on page 12 is we're going to strike that section, which deals with the deputy judge appointment And merge that into page 16, which is section 301. So we don't have it in two places. I think that takes care of the question we had earlier this year. Page 24. Hold on one second.

Let's not rush through this. So we're adding it to?

The one sentence that was in 202. which is the county judge may appoint a deputy judge executive for care as 67.711. We're taking that out of 202 and putting it into 301, which is the procedures for a deputy judge. Why it was in two places. I know, I know. It's a big location. Is that predictable?

Okay. Well, I'm still thinking about it.

And I did, just to kind of play off of your, maybe where you're thinking is I did, Talk to Rich Hornstein about how we're doing, Deputy Judge. We are doing it correctly. There's just not a lot. Karen says the judge has the authority to do that.

So I guess my question goes back to then do we need that section at all because it also talks about the judge giving the administrative assistant appointment. I mean, I think that section is valid where it just talks about appointments. And then the others are kind of like a subsession on how it's done. So do we get rid of 202 altogether?

Well, that's kind of what I thought you wanted.

Huh?

I thought that's what you wanted. To get rid of the home. Like 202 and move it to 301. We can do the reverse and move 301 to 202.

No, no.

He's talking about specifically 202.02. Mm-hmm. Not the appointment.

No, I'm talking about 202.00 because... The whole paragraph. Yeah, it's like in order to get to three, you have to have two is the way I'm looking at it because...

I'll bump the numbers up when you final approve it. When I give you a clean copy, I'll change all the bullets to make sure they're in order.

That's not what I'm saying. Okay.

Do we need the appointment paragraph at all? That's what you're asking.

Well, I mean, yeah, because you've got other appointments in there that just basically says that the county judge may appoint an assistant. It's saying the same thing that 20202 was saying about the deputy judge. I just kind of see it as an ABC conversation where, like, in order to get to B, you have to have A. And so I think that's what 202 is, is the appointments. It discusses the appointments. And then the 3 is the procedures on how to do it.

So you're saying leave it or... Leave it as it is?

I don't know.

I think that the deputy judge one does need to be put down. No, no. It needs to be moved where you put it because it's just saying the same thing twice. It doesn't need to be there. It ought to be in the deputy judge section.

Or we could leave it as a duplication.

I'm just asking a question.

I'm just trying to make it make... We can leave it as a duplication and have it both places. It's not a big deal. If that sequentially makes more sense to you, we'll just leave 202 and add it to 301 and have the same sentence twice.

I don't know. You guys... I don't need the duplication, but I'm not opposed if it's there as well.

So it's like one says appointments, and that tells about all the appointments. Again, I'm asking questions, not saying anything. The one says appointments, okay, this is the appointments that we have to do. Right. Yeah, that makes sense. And then three, it's like, okay, this is the procedure for the deputy judge.

For the appointment that we have today. Yeah.

Yeah.

This is the procedure for the appointment. Yeah.

Yeah, because that's, I mean, there's different. It's a very small duplication, so it doesn't matter if it's in their place. Yeah, but it's still kind of, it's the roadmap is really what it is.

So just leave it as it is then. That's great. Yeah. Leave it as it is.

Yeah, sorry.

No, no.

I just feel it needs to be there. Okay. Page 24. I remove downtown Downey. Added Homeless Coalition and changed the name of Junction City Matters to Junction City Voices.

What's 303.14? 303. Did we skip over that? Community and Procedures County Administrator. That was struck out. Did we?

303.14? 303.14.

bond council i don't have it as a change i don't either it's been struck out duties and procedures of county administrator so 303 that is not that is not supposed to be struck out and then 303.14 okay i apologize if you have that that's not it says assistant assistant county executive judge and county treasurer with bond council's financial medicine That's what we're looking at right now.

Yeah, it's not struck out on ours.

Yeah, it is on ours. That might have been a... I don't know. I don't know why I would have changed that.

Yeah, so that struck out on ours. Yeah, I see. On the digital version.

Yeah.

Shouldn't have been. I know. Okay. Disregard that.

Unless you don't want me to help you with bond chemistry.

Okay, I don't know.

I was sneaking that one in there. I see what you're up to. I'm kind of like, I don't even remember. Okay, page 24, take out concert at homeless, take out drugs at 24.

Ours aren't. Yeah, just to confirm, we don't have vacation hours.

Okay, this is in the 502 section. I'm sorry, 502, okay. Appropriations and community agency funding.

So of the list, I, M, and N, all three have changes. I is struck. M is a new addition. N, changing the name from Junction City Matters to Junction City Voices.

Okay, instead of I, it should be L, that is struck. L, excuse me. Yeah, the downtown thing.

Again, we've got a different one. Can you all get a printed version so we're looking at the same thing?

Yes.

That's a lot of paper. Well, because also on A, what's A? Because A is blank on ours.

Part center of the book rest. That's B on ours. Okay, I don't know what happened. I don't either.

I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to re-drop it into the drive if you just give me a second. Okay. I am so sorry to the public.

Yeah, okay. I was just thinking maybe the pages that we're talking about, but can you print those up?

I'm going to make a motion to get the judge an iPad. I don't even have the drive. I took the drive off because it's a pain to try to get into that drive. Sorry. I'm just going to do the ones that there's changes on them. Okay. These are first.

Okay.

Is that what you want to do?

Yeah, right now. Okay.

Hold on. Okay, you should have a, I'll be coming here any second.

Make sure you get it. We might not do that.

What's going on? I don't know.

If you want paper, we got paper ready to go copy. Did you get the email copy? We got it.

Sure. Jason, did you get it? Yeah, I got it. Did you get email? Yeah. Okay, can everybody?

Barry, get yours. Did you get an email, Barry?

Okay, now we got page 24.

Page 24. Let's do a test.

Do you have page 24?

Yes, page 24, 502.00, procreations and community agency funding.

Just give me a second.

Yeah, we're not rushing.

Okay.

Just let us know when you get there.

Alright.

Jamie's there? Okay, Steve's there? Okay. Barry, we sent an email with the new administrative code.

Okay.

Okay.

502, before we're out.

502.2. Thank you for allowing me to look at it. Sure.

Okay, so she was saying that L, M, and N. L has been struck. M, did you say name changed on that one?

Evidence Homeless Coalition, which is a new addition, and N is a name change. Okay. Junction City Voices.

What voice? So now N becomes L and N becomes N. And we'll, yeah, we'll re-number them. And what was N before?

I'm sorry.

N was... It's new. Justice City Voices. Yeah. Yeah, we added one, took one away. I'm going to go back to my other one.

Any others we're looking to take off here? Like Greenhouse 17, we're not funding them, right?

Unless they come back in the future. They only come if they need it.

Okay.

She only comes if she, yeah.

So there could be, okay. Yes. All right, because we're taking off, you know. Right. The downbeat. Right. But, all right, cool. okay next change page 29 section i do have a question sorry junction city voices yes they're no longer just the city matters they had they had a 501c3 that was set up has that been changed to junction city voices i do not know we don't know so should we make the change on here because if we're sending them a check but i mean that's the whole point of this it would have to match this whatever's in here so we kind of need that confirmation before we can okay we can get that yeah we just changed it because they said they had changed the name i mean i know they changed their facebook name but if it's the five the 501c3 this is who we can cut checks to correct so if they're still utilizing that okay we will double check on that okay page 29 section 507

This is cleaning up the payroll officer. The title of the position was payroll officer. It became human resource specialist per Steve's desire. And then there's a lot of stuff in here that really doesn't need to be in the administrative code. So the change would be a title change and just leave the functions that pertain to budget.

507.06, did HR recommend striking those? 506? 507.06.

I went over that with Steve and said, really, the administrative code, the parts that pertain to the budget is what's important. The day-to-day duties really doesn't need to be in the administrative code. It's in the job description. But then we had two different titles in this section, and so it was a little... I think Howard changed it to human resource specialist if I remember back, but we're still calling it a payroll officer and so there's just some.

So I guess that's a question for you all as to what title you want that person to be listed. Are they a human resource specialist, which means are they the secretarial person for the HR director or Is there primary duty payroll with duties added by the human resource director?

So we take that back to the HR committee for further study.

Yeah, I think that's a good idea because when we added or brought on this person it was to replace Shannon. And Shannon's duties, in my mind when we were hiring this person, this person was just going to take on Shannon's duties. And so we know that Shannon did much more than just, you know, approving paychecks. Correct. And so, yeah, if Jamie and I could talk about it, you know, in our next meeting, I think that would be good.

I think it would be helpful for us as well.

Yeah.

To know. Okay. So we'll hold on that.

Can we go back? Yep. 50... 502.04. 502.04. Page 25. We have four entities in there that are permanent line items. And we've discussed in the past adding a fifth one on there, which is the Oil County Senior Center. Yes. Is that one that we want to take off of 502.02 and add it to 04? Or do we not look at it the same way as we look at those other four? What do you guys think?

I agree. There's the other one that's missing. that list is where do we do we not have Parks and Rec in there too? I mean I know it states it states that their economic development agencies in that one category.

Parks and Rec I think is just operates under an agreement with the city. Yeah we've been away with them.

Yeah. No, we always, it's always part of our appropriations process, though.

Well, they don't come and talk to us like the other agencies do. We just handle it differently.

Well, we also, with the addition of the new board, though.

Why don't I do this? Why don't I just say groups that are permanent line items instead of economic development? Just say groups and then we could put ENF and put seniors and parks and rec. That would certainly take care of that.

Yeah, because I mean I feel like because of our agreement with the city it is a permanent, it's pretty much a permanent line item. It's just how much it's going to be. As long as we have the agreement in place.

So any groups in 502.04 then are required to submit a budget request and supporting documentation but not go through the appropriation process. That's what you all want, right? The other one would be the 911 agreement.

The E911 agreement. We have the same type of agreement with the city on that.

Yeah. Well, here's the only problem. That last sentence, which I think the second to last sentence needs to stay in there, says the fiscal court may or may not fund these requests in full. To Julie's point, the agreement that we have with Parks and Rec is that we do have to fund that specific amount. We don't have the ability to take that out.

So that would be confusing to have Parks and Rec in there with that statement.

E911. E911 as well.

I could add a 50205 and address the two agreements we have with the city similarly.

Are those the only two that we have?

That's the only two I can think of sitting here.

Well, I mean, I still think that that line, I mean, is... We're required to pay a certain amount. Yeah, there is the base amount, but I mean, they, like this year, put forth a budget of other things. Yeah. that we didn't fund, you know, because out of their total budget. Yeah, I see that.

The project list. Yeah, the project list. But that agreement total, we have to pay.

Right. So then maybe you add a line in there that says something to the effect of item amounts above... amounts above agreed upon or previously agreed upon may or may not.

I'll just take the joint agreements and try to work some language in from them. But you're still good with these groups go through

not go through the appropriation process. They just submit a budget and their request.

Well, with the way we do the budget, I think that the fact that they submit something and then we talk about it, you know, and we have the discussions on all of them.

Okay. I want to make sure we're... And it may or may not be approved.

I don't want it to be rubber-stamped. That's the big thing, is that my preference would be that we don't just rubber-stamp these projects, which we haven't. But the Senior Center, I mean, that's just one of those... I mean, that's one that... most communities have and that's kind of automatic funding. We just have to figure out what the funding is.

And we could add a sentence here that we may, you may be asked to come before the fiscal court and make a presentation or you may not. That leaves us a little bit of flexibility if you want to give them what they've been doing. I agree.

We make every other, including our internal people, come give us a presentation. So I think in some ways they should be giving us a presentation. At some point, yes. During the budget season, they should be coming in and giving us a presentation of what they're going to be utilizing those those funds for.

Okay, so you want the permanent line item, these, to come in as well as the appropriation?

Yeah, just like we have parks and public works.

This is what I'm hearing. Groups that are permanent line items in the budget. I'm going to strike the part about going through the appropriation process because we may ask them to do that. So we'll just say we're going to, they're permanent line items of the budget. By March 1st, they'll be required to submit a budget, and we may or may not ask you to present. Okay. Or something like that. Yeah. Is that what you're saying? I think that sounds good. Okay. All right. So we dealt with HR. The next one that I just kind of want to give you a little, page 32512.04. I'm working with Jackie. We are working on our collection, internal collection policies, so there will be changes, but it will not be this month. So we can address those later, but I just want to give you a heads up. What page?

32. 30? Yes. About 12.04, yeah.

This is the tax collection policies for how we collect past due returns and that. We're going to do some work to that and bring something soon. Cool. The next section is page 40, 703, procedures prerequisite to use of negotiated processes. The threshold for having to bid out this year is going to be 50,000 per KRS updates. Also, to make you aware, every five years, that will increase by $10,000 beginning in 2030. So the way I understand it, it's gonna stay at 50,000 until 2030. And every five years from 2030 onward, it'll increase by 10,000, okay? And that was House Bill 392. Page 41. Professional services, we've added that are properly licensed with the state of Kentucky because you have to have a state license to be considered a professional service, which eliminates the need to go to bid. Page 49 is reinstating the HR committee on 907.01A. Audit Finance and Insurance Committee now has the duties of HR added to it. And finally, on page 58.

Hold on. Slow down one second. I'm sorry. I'm still scrolling.

Okay. Page 58, 1305.00, Animal Control. Are you ready to make the move of putting them under sheriff?

Yes.

Okay.

Yeah.

So therefore, Weld County Animal Control is a government agency organized under the direction and supervision of the Sheriff's Department. And then at the very end there, I added a line about the adopted ordinances instead of the policies and procedures because the policies and procedures would be up to the sheriff. I would need to follow the ordinance. Did we skip 49? I'm in favor of 58.

as far as the committee goes I just want to clarify with the sheriff that he's under full understanding and just get confirmation he is an elected official yes so I think it's appropriate that maybe we just kind of that's the bullet point for like the next meeting we just right this clean copy will be on on the agenda for passage at the next meeting which I will not be there

But you'll have a clean copy, so we have two weeks roughly to get that worked out.

And load up that county administrator section then.

Yeah.

Judge Pro Tem will be presiding over that meeting. I could phone a friend in, but it would be.

Who's Judge Pro Tem? Can we go to June 9th then?

So any other changes you request from the administrator?

Great. Thank you.

Let's join you today.

Julie worked very hard on that. Thank you.

It doesn't seem like it today, does it?

I've got it on my page. But that's okay. Alright, so we will present the clean copy at the next meeting for approval. Similar to a second reading.

Similar to a second reading.

Are we doing this by ordinance?

No.