Fiscal Court - Regular Meeting

that stage cleaning i know for real of course we did pick the hottest day of the year oh yeah we did yeah all right it is 9 00 a.m and uh we are gathered here for the bull county fiscal court regularly scheduled meeting july 14th 2026 at 9 00 a.m madam clerk do we have a quorum and has this meeting been properly advertised yes all right we also have Magistrate Bodner and Magistrate Gay, they are video teleconferencing in and voting under KRS 61.826. So they are on our screens and both are here. Good morning. Okay, if you all will join me in invocation, just bow with me and we'll pray. Our Father, as we begin this meeting, we start by asking for humility. Whenever ideas are shared, there will always be the temptation for us to be proud. We will be tempted to defend our ideas too strongly, and we will be tempted to dismiss others' opinions without carefully considering them. But we know that God opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble in James 4, 6. Help us to approach this meeting with a humble heart, open to hearing and learning from one another. Let your spirit guide our discussions so that we may come to decisions that are not just based on our own understanding, but also on your wisdom and guidance. We thank you for the reminder to remain humble and to seek unity in all that we do. May we keep our focus on the community at large and not on ourselves. Help us to do what is right for the residents of Boyle County. Be with our armed forces, keep them safe, be with our leaders on the state and national levels that they may seek your wisdom in all that they do and all that they say. In Jesus' name, amen. Thank you. If you all will silence your phones, if you haven't done so already, or put them on vibrate or something to that effect. Okay, next we have a special guest and that is Ms. Hazy Ellis. And Hazy is the daughter of Matthew and Renee Ellis. And she is a seventh grader at Boyle County Middle School. And she is also FFA vice president. Is that right? All right, come on up, Hazy. If you all will stand. Ms. Casey will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance 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.

All right, and we have a certificate for you. Don't go back in. We got a certificate for you. This is for leading the Pledge of Allegiance to the Fiscal Court, okay? And the students want to take their picture. Thank you so much. And you can stay and be entertained, or you can go and do something fun, and whatever Dad wants to do there. Dad may want to stop.

Well, thank you for being here, and Matthew, thank you for bringing her.

Thank you so much. all right next we have two sets of minutes we have our regular scheduled meeting minutes of June the 9th and then we have a special called meeting on June the 30th is there a motion to approve make motion we approve mr. Cohen is there a second second Sorry, that can't happen.

All right, any discussion?

Yes, not that I would have done it, but I don't think I was the one who made the motion to adjourn in Ben Grant's memory. I think it was either Magistrate Cullen or Magistrate Gay that did that.

I believe it was Gay.

I believe it was Gay, yeah.

Okay.

Is that you, Mr. Gay?

The sound must not be on.

Yeah, I think I made that motion, but that's all right.

Where are we? Where are you at?

Under my report near the bottom, page three, near the bottom of page three.

Mr. Cohen made the motion. Magistrate Gay seconded the motion.

Up above where it says I think under Magistrate Reports probably.

Yeah, Magistrate Report and my report.

Oh, as to adjourn in memory? Okay. Magistrate should be Magistrate Gay. I believe so. Okay. Alright, we can correct that. Where is it at? Right here. Magistrate Sleeper. Should have been Magistrate Gay. Alright, I'll get that changed. Yeah, we'll get that changed.

Okay. I wouldn't have

all right any other comments or discussion on the minutes okay motion to approve with changes presented or I'm sorry all those in favor signify by saying aye aye any opposed aye motion carries and that is for both sets okay next we have budget transfers

I have budget transfers now at $51,313.61. Mostly it's insurance, moving it from workers' comp to liability lines.

Okay. Motion to approve budget transfers? Make a motion. Measure sleepers, or a second?

Second.

Measure Cullen? Any discussion? All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Aye. Get a little delay there measure guy, but we're waiting on you. Okay, prove cash transfers.

Several from the interest bearing account to the general fund $1,425,000 from occupational tax to the general fund 230,000 12314 From the general fund to road department, $150,000. From general to E911, $3,500. And I'll put that back into the general fund at the end of this month. Then I have from the general fund to jail, $350,000. From general to EMS, $350,000. and from general to fleet 15,000. That all?

That's all. Okay. Motion to approve cash transfers.

So moved.

Mr. Sleeper, is there a second? Second. Mr. Harmon, any discussion on cash transfers? All right. Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Aye. Motion carries. Thank you. Next we have our bills.

Good morning.

Good morning.

All right. Today's bill packet totals $2,090,371.49. I do need to add the enterprise bill. And that is for a total of $26,438.88. The reason that bill is so high this month is because we did receive an EMS vehicle. When EMS comes in, it's already outfitted with the equipment. So we get charged for half of that equipment and a lump sum upfront. So when we add that to our total bill packet, we're gonna have a grand total of $2,116,810.37, which will include your occupational tax,

checks it's going to include reconciliation from occupational tax that's why it's so high can you repeat that amount twenty six thousand what twenty six thousand four hundred thirty eight dollars and eighty eight cents eighty eight cents okay all right is there a motion to approve the bills so moved second second all right he was probably ahead of you there any discussion on the bill I will point out on page two, we had payments to Millennium Park Capital Improvements. We also had the DBCDC first quarter distribution. We had Parable Main Streets first quarter distribution. Some IT contract services with ProTech. GSC Capital for the Public Works Office build out. um insurance and liability insurance payments workers comp payments and then of course our net profit and payroll tax payments so those were a few of the larger ones that i've any other discussion 126 000 for the is that for concrete is that what that says yes that was uh

No, I think it was for, um, where are we at page?

I mean, skate park. I believe it's skate park. Where are we? What page are we on?

Page two. I meant to say skate park. Concrete construction pay.

Yes. Skate park. Skate park. All right.

Any other discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion to approve the bill, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Aye. Motion carries. Thank you Ms. Delaney. Okay we have old business ordinance 370.1 second reading and Ms. Julie.

This is the second reading of the EMS ordinance to replace the very outdated ordinance to an amendment to ordinance 370 relating to the development implementation and maintenance of But the countywide division of EMS works the medical service. Second reading.

Okay. I have a motion to approve second reading.

I'll make that motion.

Mr. Kelly? Yes, sir. Second. Mr. Ellis? Any discussion on the second reading? There was no changes from first reading to second reading. Okay. All right. Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Y'all are quiet today. I'm almost scared. All right, next we have our new business and first item is Solid Waste Director Angie Muncy.

Thank you for letting me lead, so I'm going to Kentucky Dam Village. I'll be presenting this week at a state workshop. Okay. Enough said. all right so I have worked on an ordinance our nuisance ordinance and our excessive grass and weed ordinance merged together so with the help of Chris and Julie it's turned into a something that, you know, I don't understand versus the old way, so. For the code of ethics.

And all the legal language.

Yeah, all this legal jumbo for the codes and all this other good stuff, so. We put more teeth into it. We have more fines. Chris also mentioned about, you know, some of this need to be Class B misdemeanors because we have ongoing, you know, people just The same people over and over and over and over again. So I guess everybody's had time to read through it. If you've got any questions, I would direct them to Chris for legality.

I know the one change that we did make was in section seven, time for compliance. And the structures, we increased to 30 days. Yes. And fire damage. And fire damage, okay. We increased to 30 days, yes. But I think everything else remains the same.

Like I said, this is just the first reading. If there's anything that you see that you think we should change or add, I'd be glad to.

The committee has reviewed this and I think this is long overdue to have a little more teeth in our ordinance.

It also puts the two ordinances together. So we're taking two basically into one, which helps a lot as well.

Thank you, Mr. Gay. Do you have an ordinance number? We approve it.

I did not know what to put the ordinance as, so I left that to Julie.

We'll get a number. Okay. We'll have a... We have a motion by Magistrate Gates or a second? Second. Second. Magistrate Harmon. Any discussion? We will have an ordinance number by second reading.

Okay.

No discussion. All those in favor of first reading of the ordinance signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Aye. Motion carried. Okay. Do you have anything else?

I have... I'll just say aye. A lot of... enforcement for code enforcement, you know, it's just, it's, it's a lot of work for me, a whole lot. It takes away from solid waste recycling, but you know, it is part of it. So I talked to us talking to Trillie and I think it's going to, it's going to come down to the point that some of my workers are going to have to chip in and to do some of the, maybe the mowing or the cleanups or, whatever we have to do to get them back in compliance. The road department, they're doing all they can. We're doing all we can, but at the same time, it falls back on me. So it's my big idea, of course, it would always have to be. I come up with stuff. But we would need a lawnmower and a weed eater to even Make it appear, you know, nothing's going to be perfect when we do it anyway. When I sent the road department, we just do it, get in there, knock it down because it has to be over, what, a foot high or whatever. Just get in there, clean it up, do it, and get back out of there. I'll still bill them the same, you know, but lean on property. But it's just, that is what the 3,781.17 is. So we tried the other route. what we always have done the other route, where I have to say, Roger, will you send Foti out there to knock this down, or will you do it? It's usually a repeat offense for a lot of people, but it's now becoming a

Routine.

A routine, constant. Well, it's a constant thing. You're not landscaping service. Right. Well, everybody thinks we're landscaping service now. I mean, no matter where you go, who you see, who you talk to, we've now become a landscaping service. You know, I don't know how. Now, these items are not in the budget. These items are not in the budget. These are not in the budget.

Anywhere in your budget where we could cherry pick from?

We will do a budget amendment because we will have revenues coming in from this where they're paying the fines.

Because if they don't pay the fines, we put the lead on it. That was my thought. It will have money coming in if we're doing this.

So we'll do a budget amendment for the revenue and the expense side.

Maybe. I mean, the whole idea of this is that people will, now that we've got some teeth in it, they'll start doing their own.

Well, we don't see that many.

No, there's never that many because, honestly, there's some that end up doing it automatically. Or, you know, I have the ones that the sky's falling and they don't give the neighbor enough time and in a couple days they'll do it. So, it's just, it's a... constant thing.

The hardest for like people who own land here and then they don't live here.

You know, that's the one that we're trying to like find out where or they go somewhere else and don't care. And yeah, Chris, yeah.

He knows we got someone sick and families stay in the States.

It's not taken care of. We we have a lot of them and yes. All right. Okay, so you want a motion to approve the purchase of... If that's, you know, you think that'll... A mower and a weed eater. That's just the only thing I know that's going to help us at the moment because, you know, we can't totally round the room. You know, they have their own thing. You know, we have our own. That's the only thing I know to do is put one of my employees out there. Now you're going to go get quotes. Well, this was our best quote because this was a state, their own state price contract, so it came down like... $2,000. That's the cheapest we're going to get. How much was it? I didn't get that. The total was $3,781.17. Do you want this?

Is that for both the mower and the weed eater?

Yeah, that is for a John Deere X350 series 42-inch deck and for a steel weed eater.

I'm just going to ask the dumb question. We can't just borrow Public Works mower.

Well, they're using it.

I didn't know if they were constantly using it at the same times or whatever.

And I really didn't want to get a... I'm not going to say that. I didn't want a zero turn. We figured a ride homeowner would do the best.

And you've got the trailer.

Yeah, we have a trailer that we can use. I just don't know how else to handle it.

No, we're asking you to fix a problem. It's going to take some tools to fix it, so...

And if we change it down the path, we'll still have the equipment to be able to be used.

And we took or we got quotes for a third party to come and do this.

We tried the contract thing and I had two organizations that replied to the contract. None was in Boyle County. And I felt they were just too hot. I mean, yeah, we want teeth to everything. Yes, we want them to do it. But I don't think the public deserved that either. I don't think that would get us anywhere.

So this is coming back as a result?

This is coming back as a result. Okay.

Knowing some of our local contractors, they're overloaded too. With the rain we've had, it's just unbelievable. Every five, six days.

Okay. So is there a motion to approve the purchase of a... Thank you, Mr. Harmon. Is there a second?

Second.

Mr. Dulles. Okay. Any other discussion on purchase of a mower and a trimmer? We need your... Okay. Seeing none, all those in favor of the motion, signify by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Safe trip. Thank you. Safe trip. Okay. Major Sleeper, would you ask the two gentlemen out in the hall that are going to be appointed that they will step in, please? Take care. All right. Welcome. Welcome. Y'all come on in.

Can't see you coming in.

All right. So I would like to present Charlie Westerfield and Jeff Reardon as appointments to the Bull County Fire Board. Two of the firefighter members resigned due to various different reasons. And so without them having a special election, the county judge has to appoint firefighter replacement so this is not a county appointment this is an appointment for the firefighter positions that are on the fire board so it's a little confusing but that's the way it is so um i would like to ask i've spoken to both charlie and jeff they have longevity uh with the fire department uh both of them have served for several years jeff i think you told me 30. 3939. Okay, Charlie, I didn't get what yours was nine years. Okay. So they're both good representatives to serve on the fire board as as firefighter.

And this is a term that would be okay.

Yes, this is to fulfill the unexpired term. Charlie's term will run through next year, June 30 2027. And Jess will run through June 30 2028. at which time they would then have to have elections. I present that fireboard membership back. All right, so I asked for a motion to appoint Charlie and Jeff to the Volcanic fireport. Sleeper for a second. Say measure color. Any discussion? Oh, measure boulder. Was that you? seconding?

Yeah.

Okay. Is that okay with you Mr. Cone? Sure. Alright. We'll take Mr. Bodner as a second. Any discussion on the appointments? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Aye. Motion carries. Alright, congratulations guys. We got some certificates for you all. Charlie, I had yours up first so we'll do you first.

I'd like to get your feet in the picture.

Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. Appreciate you. Do you want one? You want one? Yeah, we'll turn around and look at you. What do you want to do? You want one with Tarmi? No. Oh. Sorry.

She was quick to say no.

I mean, I will. All right.

And Jeff?

Thank you.

Thank you so much. Appreciate you willing to serve. Yep. Thank you guys. I think the prayer board is now full again. Y'all have a good day. You too. Thank you. Alright. Next up, we have is Tommy. Yeah. Okay. Tommy and his crew. Ask him to come in please. Welcome, come in. Come in, come in. Lots of familiar faces. All right, so we have a proclamation that we would like to present to Tommy and his crew, his staff. uh for parks and rec month july is parks and recreation month and we would like to show our appreciation to you all with a proclamation whereas parks and recreation is an integral part of communities throughout this country including danville bull county and whereas parks and recreation promotes health and wellness improving the physical and mental health of people in the community and whereas parks and recreation promotes time spent in nature which positively impacts mental health by increasing cognitive performance and well-being and alleviating illnesses such as depression, attention deficit disorders, and Alzheimer's. And whereas parks and recreation encourages physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles. And whereas parks and recreation programming and education activities such as out-of-school time programming, youth sports, and physical education are critical to childhood development. And whereas parks and recreation increases a community's economic prosperity through increased tourism, the attraction and retention of businesses, and crime reduction. And whereas parks and recreation provides essential community infrastructure that supports physical and mental well-being, encourages active and healthy lifestyles, fosters a connection with nature and enhances the overall quality of life for residents of all ages. And whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our community and provide a place for children and adults to connect with nature and recreate outdoors. And whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month, And whereas the County of Boyle recognizes the benefits derived from parks and recreation resources, now therefore be it resolved that I, Trillie Bottom, Boyle County Judge Executive, and the Boyle County Fiscal Court recognize July as Parks and Recreation Month in the County of Boyle. So well done to you all. Thank you very much. approve the proclamation. I'll make that motion. So moved. Okay, I thought Mr. Bogner might come in there but we'll take Magistrate Cullen and Magistrate Gay. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Aye. Motion carries. Um I think the court should come up and get in the picture with uh Parks and Rec.

Hey judge if I could uh jump in here real quick. Yes sir. I do wanna thank the Parks and Rec staff and crew and everybody that worked so hard over the 4th of July weekend. Wow, what an effort they put in to making a great community event for all.

Yes, they worked hard on all levels and all days, but the July 4th event was a first-time event put on in the capacity that it was, so we appreciate all the work that you all did to helping that be a success for Danville Bowl County.

If I may, I was going to suggest we add that to their repertoire in the proclamation. There are now stage musical concerts. That's right. That's right.

Yeah. You all come over and we'll get the court here behind us and try to get, I don't know, can you try to get the TV? Yeah. Okay.

You'll be in the middle. All right.

You all hold the proclamation. I don't know. We'll see if I can get it. I'll turn it sideways.

Okay. I'm so sorry. Okay. Let's see. Oh, I might be able to. Yeah. Okay. All right. No. I'm going to do one.

Get Paula on there. There she is.

Oh, wait. Okay.

She has relocated three times. Smile. Okay.

Now let's do one. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you. Tommy, thank you for a job well done. Thank you. Thank you. And don't let her run off. Where are you going? I'm going back. Thank you. Thank you.

Judge, it's also important to recognize them for all the projects we've thrown at them and how they're juggling them all and getting them done. They're coming along. Tommy, you want to give us an update on some projects?

I'm hoping they're pouring concrete here soon on the skate park. It's fun to watch the difference of a pickleball to the skate park where the pickleball is just moving dirt like tons of dirt where over at the skate park it's minute really delicate stuff they're doing over there. If you can get by there and look at it, it's nice to look at it before they pour the concrete and you see the detail that they are putting into it. It's great. And then we're hoping to get out to the bike park here this week too with Clay and take a look and see how it's going. We're really excited about all that.

A lot of good projects going on right now.

We're still hoping for late September, October of both. We think they're going to both kind of open right at the same time. That'd be cool. Actually, all three maybe.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

Well, thank you all very much. Thank you all for what you do.

Yes, we appreciate you very much. All right, and next up, just leading right into the next thing, will be Tony Wilder with our 250th celebration update. Take one down, pass it around.

Judge, it's a pleasure to be here this morning. I come to you pretty proud about what we have collectively offered our community during this special commemorative time of our 250th birthday. And I think it would be most appropriate for me to say this. I know there's been some thank yous handed out to Parks and Rec. But we knew all along that this concert would be the most challenging thing we could do. And it has turned it turned into a very challenging thing to do. But I will add a special thanks, especially the people here to I will think about some post concert work. But Roger and his crew. As we got into this and realize the what was required, they stepped up. Yeah. And we even had we even had one soldier go down for a while during the We're in the building of the stage and all of that. And I just want to extend and deliver to you all a most sincerest thank you. And that's been the most gratifying thing about this whole event of my chairing this, is that I've said it every time I've made any public announcement or any public speech. The collaboration between the city and county to get this done was remarkable. And the resources given and the support given, the county road department answering the call. The city public works department answering the call. And I hope to appear down there sometime soon, later in August.

And I think our recycling department is part of that too.

EMS and all the county fire department guys and law enforcement. It was just a marvelous thing to witness. It was stressful to get it all done, but gratifying when it was over. And I think we all would agree that all the events, as they unfolded, turned out to be brilliant. And it was a bit hot at the concert. That was the only detriment to that night. But what a wonderful performance by Andy Montgomery in his hometown and a great crowd.

And we couldn't have done the set up and the take down without the detention center. And the jail, thank you.

Patrick and you and the crew and the husbands that joined you on Sunday, which was one of the most difficult days because we weren't able to garner the volunteers needed to really get that stage break down. And I must remind you, all of that is part of the contract when you sign up. And you have to supply us with volunteers erect the stage, take it down, and everything associated with it. And Mimi Becker, she deserves special commendation. She was in there the whole time, and others, and some other young folks that I don't even remember their names that joined us. But from my perspective, as chair of this, that was just really neat to see. And we got it done. And it got it done in an exemplary manner, and I haven't heard one negative comment. And when you talk about what happened on the 4th as well, how the parade was presented, and the after parade activities, that was really special. And then the fireworks. I called Earl the next day, and Earl Coffey, city manager, and that was the most awesome fireworks display I've ever seen. Yeah. And I think they had just hired a new pyrotechnic firm to do that. And so what it was all about, I'm proud of it. But what it's all about is I hope you were proud of it. And I hope all of you that contributed and played a role in it were proud of it.

Yeah, we're very proud of you. You were the leader in this, and you were the chair, and you made all this happen. I know you had a lot of help and a lot of people working, but you had the direction, you had the vision, and you let everybody know that and it all comes together.

Now what you have before you is a complete list of the date of expenses as compiled by the Boyle County Economic Development Corporation. As you know, from the very start, they were our fiduciary in managing the funds that you contributed and the private sector. And the one page details amount of money the revenue that was contributed and it shows you a balance now again as we move through this process I was even surprised about some of the expenses that arose that we didn't expect and you'll be able to examine that and I hope to come back later in August when we it's not over under that umbrella that we established the soul of Second Street Festival and the balloons over the bluegrass are a part of our 250th presentation. So there may be some things associated with that. And also I wanted to mention, I think it's highly appropriate too, as we approach the Parable Battlefield commemoration time, that we do something in relation to the 250 to honor that event. So I'll be back before you to discuss that. There's gonna be some discussions about that. So I wanted you to have that to examine, it's up to date. There are, as it's presented, and that's been sort of a process, I hate to use the word cumbersome because that's negative, but it was a necessary cumbersome part by going through the economic development because we have to wait for certain signatures required and all that kind of stuff. But that is up to date. There's gonna be a few more things. There's a Port-a-John bill that is applied specifically for Friday, the concert, that I'm going to explore a little bit just to check out and clear. But the added money that you presented us, I didn't think we would need much of it. We're going to need some of it. And some could constitute a little more than I expected. But I'll be able to account for all of it. And so. That's what I wanted to report on, number one, most importantly. Thank you.

I don't know of a time that we've ever had such a celebration where the events were free for the public. That's right. And so all this was put on where the public could come and enjoy all of these events free.

And I think this is a good time. Amazing. Having said that, this is a good time to mention. Our videographer, John Robinson, is is recording every event so we will have that for posterity's sake uh to place it any platform you want to have it at uh to have folks who didn't have a chance to participate didn't have a chance to attend uh that they will see from the opening ceremony on constitution square in february yeah to to the end when we finish up in august or october yeah october and uh so he he was he was pretty busy this past Fourth of July weekend. He was everywhere. Right, his little, what do you call that thing?

Segway.

Yeah, segway. So I'll be able to answer any question today. I just wanted to make sure you had that and with some assurance that I'll be back to sort of close it out later on or at least give you some more information in August about where we're at. But any questions?

I think that speaks for itself, Tony. No questions. Everything's great. You've got a meeting today?

Yeah, 2 o'clock.

2 o'clock. America's 250th. Anybody wants to come? Yeah.

Okay.

Thank you so much. Thank you all. Appreciate you being here.

All right.

Next is our county surveyor, Rich Murphy, and his two surveys, I believe.

Good morning. I got a couple surveys to submit. They've been hanging around for a while. The first one I'll go over is the Paraville Convenience Center. I had completed the survey up there and Took a little longer. There were some issues with a lot of historic stuff to figure out. There was a couple of like the stone wall and the columns out in front. Had to review those documents. And I have a note on the survey about that. Regarding that, there was there's a historic line that kind of runs through the property. That historic battlefield line kind of goes on the eastern edge of that property. So I have that denoted on there. There was a little flood zone that goes through the one end. So there's a little bit of things to resolve with that. But it's in there. Other than that, there was no real issues with it. And we've got the survey done. And I had it recorded this morning. And I do have an official copy. I think you have a copy in your packet of the thing. We do. But I do have the official copy to submit.

So we didn't lose or gain anything?

No.

Okay.

No, nothing was lost or gained. There was an overlap in the... on the south end with some of the battlefield stuff. But that survey, I talked to that survey, and that survey was done with, AGE had done a survey of the Parable Cathedral Center a while back. I think they were doing it for when, because there's that lagoon in the center, and they were going to subdivide the track, and that subdivision never went through. And the other surveyor, they were talking, and they They set their south property line as if that subdivision was going to go through. Okay. And it never went through.

Is that what this line is going across?

Well, that's part of an old deed. That's an old deed line that went there. But, yes, that's basically what that was. They held up to that line, and it actually is actually further down because that never went through the court. But there was no issues with that one. Any questions on the Perryville one?

Chris does this all match up with the awkward things that we've dealt with the land behind Crawford House so I know there were two or three different iterations of the mapping with what the state continues to own and what are we all clear now that I mean I'm no surveyor I'm trust in Rich who's our county surveyor

that he looked at all those. I did.

I looked at all of these. I feel good with the line. There's several old surveys and property pins that I found on that line between the battlefield and that. So I do feel confident with the line that we have. It does follow the existing fence line that is there.

It's going to be critical when the judge and I are talking to the state about them ceding that property to us, which we owned 30-some years ago. Yes.

Okay. Yep. Do you need any approval or anything on this?

No. Okay. No, it's just, that's for information. Okay. And then the, uh, the other property that I have a survey for is the 125 East Main Street. Um, that's, uh, that's a fiscal court owned property there. And, um, it took a little longer as, uh, as well. There was some overlap issues that were involved with some owners and, um, Nothing major. On the front side, it was about a half a foot between two surveys that created a little overlap. And it just happens with surveys. You start in two different directions. The deeds don't always match the change. And that's what happened. There was just two from a different direction, I believe.

We cleaned those up, though, right? Yes, there were two overlaps. The property owners, I met with each of them. And they were very kind and didn't dispute anything. And I prepared a quick claim. He needed to probably reference that.

I did. That's where I was going with that too. There was another survey that was done on the back side of the property. I figured out what that error was there too. A lot of the old properties in Boyle County start with a curb line. Even though it's not the actual property line, the deeds always reference the curb line as opposed to the right-of-way line. And when the distance came down from, I think about Second Street up there, they held the property line as, so it ended up pushing the property further to the south and it created a little overlap there. So I believe that deed was that prior survey was in error. But what we did is we just, Chris had said that we got the owners to basically clean that up on there. So it is cleaned up. And I do have that reference. I have both of these referenced on there. So it's a clean survey now. And I worked with Chris to get the legal descriptions, create the legal descriptions so that he can clean up the overlap issues with the owners. They were both willing to do it. I do have it noted on there.

Sorry, I just can't read the small print.

No, they're very small. That's why I have an official copy for you as well. It cleans it all up so that it's, and it has the deed so that if any surveyor or anybody else follows, if there's ever any question, we have the deed reference for the actual property and the little potential like little overlap areas where it was all cleaned up. So it's clear ownership now for this. It's all been cleaned up and recorded. Great.

Well, thank you both. Appreciate that.

And I do have the official copies. These were recorded this morning, so they are on file.

Any questions on the East Main survey? Nope.

And I want to thank Chris, too, for a lot of help. I was back and forth a lot, too. He helped out a lot. We're a good team. We got it done. I appreciate that.

Thank you very much. And I think you and Roger are going to get together at some point. All right. Next up, Public Works Director Roger Johnson.

Good morning. It's that time again for, I hate to even talk about it, but salt beds. So we put out salt beds and actually got three back, but two denied a price.

Maybe explain a little bit about how it's different this year.

Well, yeah, KCO has been doing the bidding for us. So they kind of opt out. of doing that now because I don't know. Yeah, you know, and I think it was a lot of the counties were opting out anyway. So they didn't have as much bargaining chip as they usually have. So what they've done, they turned it back over to the counties to do their own bidding. And they would help if like several counties join, would want to get together and make bidding, they would help you with that. But of course we decided to do it ourselves. So we put out for bids and the only one we got back with the price was the one that we've been normally using. That was Magic Salt of Kentuckiana. So that's the one we've been using and of course that's It's the only one who gave us a bid. It's the only one who gave us a bid.

And didn't we catch a barge last year when we needed salt and got some?

Actually, she done real well when we ran out of salt, and a lot of people ran out of salt. And she actually went to Kansas City, sent a bunch of trucks to Kansas City, and brought us and had us salt the next day. So they've been real good about supplying us with what we needed.

Let's never have that ice again.

I agree with that. Let's not do that again.

So we ended up with Magic Salt, $155 per ton untreated and $195 per ton treated, and that's based on 1,000 tons.

Yeah. Or order. Right.

Yeah. Okay. Right.

And that's pretty much the same price as it was last year. Yeah. So not much different. No.

Okay. So we need a motion to approve. So moved. Mr. Ellis, is there a second? Second. Mr. Sleeper, any discussion on the salt bits? Seeing none. All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay. Sorry, Mr. Boatner. There's such a delay. I tried to wait a minute, but it didn't come through in time. I'll get you on the next one. All right. Thank you, sir. Thank you. All right. Have a good day. You too. You want to say anything about the mowing? Mowing update?

Mowing update. Is the long arm operational now? Yes, but I've had... guys doing other stuff. So I haven't had time to get back on that.

That's all I will say about that. All right. EMA director, assistant director Sam Butler. Come on in. Oh, he's in Florida. All right.

All righty. So Sam's asked me to come up here and tell y'all a little bit about these side-by-sides. He's here for any questions that you might have. We need prior approval to go ahead and order a side-by-side for EMA from Floyd Cycle. They did get three quotes. You will see in the packet that they did not, from what you can tell here, take the lowest quote, but that is because the other two that they did not take, one from Richmond Motorsports and one from Lake Cumberland Motorsports, included a discount that is no longer available. So if you quote it again, they will be higher than what they quoted here. Employees did come in. And they are local. And they are local and no one else is local. They're also not going to charge us for doing the title, license, registration fees because they're local.

This was in the budget?

Yes.

Yes. Okay. I knew that. I just wanted you to say it.

Yes, it is in the budget. It is in the budget. But because it's so much money and we need to cut that check for, you know, pay upon delivery, we need to cut it before they go. We'd like to have approval, please.

Okay, is there a motion to approve the purchase of the Pioneer and to pay upon delivery? I'll make that motion. Mr. Cullen, is there a second? Mr. Boehner, is that you? Mr. Boehner, second. Any discussion on the purchase? All right, all those in favor of the motion signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Thank you. All right, thank you.

Thank you, Sam. All right.

Thank you.

All right, next up, EMS Director Mike Rogers.

Thank you, Judge and the physical court. Appreciate your time today. We have a present for a pro care striker contract that allows us to have all our equipment inspected by striker and then anything that needs to be fixed, they fix under the contract. It's kind of a worry-free type contract. It comes out to be $19,769.60.

This is just our annual contract. Annual contract that we do every year. We've been doing for many, many years. Okay, and is there any change to the contract amount?

It's a little bit more than it was last year just because we bought a new stretcher. So the first year you always get free. It's under warranty, but then it's a little bit more. Okay.

All right, do we have a motion to approve the striker annual contract?

Make that motion.

Measure gain. All right. Is there a second? Second. Measure count. Any discussion? Seeing none. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Aye. Motion carries. Any update you want to give?

Busy as ever for six 624 for June and we're already up to 288 for July Thank you Mike Okay, next we have the agreement the LARP agreement We

turned in two roads through for the state, the legislature to approve. And that is what these are. This is Ball Hollow Road and Chambers Cemetery Road. This is for paving and in the amount of $96,000. So we have to approve the agreement. And then there is a resolution, I think on the very back. Yeah, okay. And a resolution to receive the funding for those two roads. Is there a motion to approve?

So moved.

Mr. Ellis, I was hoping you would, but that's your district. Is there a second? Mr. Boehner? Okay. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion on the agreement for the LARP funding or the resolution? Seeing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay?

Aye. Thank you all.

Motion carries. Thank you. Okay, and next we have Ms. Shannon.

It's been a month ago. We've been a little busy.

We've been a little busy.

The audit for fiscal year 25 back, you all had copies in your mailboxes. There were, I think, two findings. Yes. And everything has already been corrected for those findings. It's been posted on the website and in the papers.

Much better audit than we have received the last two years, so that shows that we are back on track, and we are meeting the requirements that the state requests. So kudos to Ms. Shannon. Thank you for getting us back on track, and we appreciate all the work that you do. Any questions, comments about the audit?

We're seeing audits every day on the news out of Louisville and Lexington that are going wrong, way wrong. So thank you.

Yes, very much. We'll be doing our 26th audit this year. All right.

Reappointment order?

Reappointment order. We had a few that we had their rates wrong, so their new rates. I highlighted those for you all. And then we had a couple that we had completely left off. They were hired after we had done the list. So just like approval for those changes.

Okay. Motion to approve the changes on the reappointment order for employees.

Y'all are too quiet. I'll make the motion.

Measure sleeper. Is there a second? How about a second? How about a second measure gay? Okay, we have a motion to measure sleep for a second, but measure gay. Any discussion? It's kind of hard to get back and forth. All right, any discussion, comments, concerns? Seeing none, all those in favor of making the changes on the reappointment order signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Motion carries. Thank you all. Thank you, ma'am. Miss Hannah, is she out in the hall, ma'am? Come in, come in, welcome. Our Planning and Zoning Director, Hannah Gray.

I've got a few things for you. These are maps of the zoning districts. This is the House Bill 160. There's one full copy of the Article 2 update and then there's some copies for everyone just of the certain pages that were updated. And then the same for Article 4 as well. Just one full copy for everybody and then just the pages that were changed. All right. House Bill 160 was passed in the 2025 regular session to look at the housing gap in Kentucky. It essentially states that we are not allowed to quote unquote discriminate against qualified manufactured homes in single family residential districts. Which essentially means qualified manufactured home is a new definition with manufactured modular and mobile homes. Essentially, it has just been built in the last five years. In article two in our updates, you can look at the definitions to see how we define qualified manufactured homes. A qualified manufactured home means a manufactured home that meets all of the following criteria, is manufactured on a date not to exceed five years prior to the date of installation, and has all parts that operate only during transport removed, is affixed to a permanent foundation, and is connected to appropriate facilities, and is installed in compliance with CARES 227, has a width of at least 20 feet at its smallest width measurement, or is two stories in height and oriented on the lot or parcel so that its main entrance door faces the street and has a minimum total living area of 900 square feet. Additionally, we've updated manufacturer home, underskirting modular home, and mobile home to meet this new definition. She is reading from this handout. And this is Article 2 of our zoning ordinance. The definition. Yeah. And then the biggest thing I want to highlight in Article 4 of our zoning ordinance update is on the fourth page, we added the qualified manufactured home in the permanent residential unit types. Again, to abide by that HB160 that was approved and went into law in this year. And that's page 4 of Article 4. Yes, yeah. then additionally you can see in this box right here on 410 that we had or we included qualifying manufactured home in R1A, B and C so they're permitted in all of those single-family residential districts but on the last page of this handout that really is the Specific things that we can regulate even after the HB 160 goes into effect. So these are our compatibility standards. It really goes into a lot of detail, but specifically item D, the dwelling shall be similar and compatible in exterior appearance, architectural character, and overall form with existing single family dwellings located on either side of the proposed site within the same block face to the rear of the proposed site or within a one-eighth mile of the proposed site. Compatibility shall be evaluated based on roof form and pitch, no less than 412 pitch with a 12-inch eave, facade composition, type and quality of exterior building materials, window and door placement, and the massing and building width. Additionally, the dwelling shall have a minimum width of 20 feet along at least 75% of its length. The dwelling shall comply with all setback, lot coverage, height, and dimensional requirements of the zoning district in which it's located. The dwelling shall be consistent with the flume and the applicable flume village type, including garden neighborhood, village neighborhood, or other designated residential form. And consistency shall be evaluated based on building placement, massing orientation, and architectural character. Any porch, deck, garage, or similar structure attached to the dwelling shall comply with Kentucky Residential Code and shall be visually compatible with the dwelling and surrounding homes. A qualified manufactured home that meets the standards of this section shall be considered a permitted single family dwelling in the R1A districts and shall not be subject to any additional requirements not applicable to site build homes. And a qualified manufacturing home shall not be installed, placed, or occupied until all required permits have been issued and the applicant shall obtain a zoning permit from the Planning Commission demonstrating compliance with this section and all other applicable zoning requirements and a building permit from the building inspector demonstrating compliance with the Kentucky Residential Code and all applicable building regulations. So that map in front of you shows the districts specifically. So everything in yellow is the single family districts, which would be R1A, B, or C. So that is where these qualified and manufactured homes would be permitted. But they would have to comply with all of those compatibility standards.

So the tiny little dots of squares and triangles of yellow.

Those are single family.

Residential zones. Where a manufactured home would be allowed. A qualified manufactured home.

A qualified manufactured home would be allowed. But they have to abide by those compatibility standards, which means that they would have to meet the character of the surrounding houses.

Okay. No, go ahead. Go ahead. And it's Meeting the character versus ever since we've had the one to five acre discussion and other things related to it. I've been watching a lot of these manufactured home programs on television. And they are literally taking two and three and as many as five or more old 45 foot trailers. And they'll stack them. And they'll make them. two stories high. And they call them manufactured homes. Is there any possibility, since there's nothing compatible with that in Boyle County right now, is there any possibility that they're going to be trying to come in here and build some of those? Some of them are remarkably attractive. That 412 pitch is something that bothers me because that'll wear out in about ten years. What's your response to the possibility of something like that?

I think those would be considered modular, not manufacturer-owned, under our conditions.

And would not qualify?

They would qualify under modular. This Article 4, I believe modular is permitted in R1A, B, and C as well. But those would be considered modular because we're piecing them together, I believe.

So in that little almost triangle in my district, there's an age factor as well, though.

I'm sorry, they have to be. In order to be considered a... qualified manufactured home, they have to be five years or less. They have to have been manufactured within the last five years. So if you're talking about some of the older trailers, that would not qualify under this container.

These are semi-tractor trailers. These are not home trailers. They're containers. They're containers, yes.

So that goes under modular, not this, because these are not of...

But I'm hearing Hannah say that's theoretically possible that they could be.

Yes, and I've seen some in the county already. We have some in the county already.

Of those? Mm-hmm.

Interesting. There's one that was turned into an office right on, right past Goggin. I mean, right past, uh... That's right.

Like down right from, uh, Wells Landing, yeah.

Wells Landing has a couple of them. There's one also that, that's right there by Oak Ridge and, which is not Ridge.

Obviously, my interests are, are my district primarily, but the whole county. Um, this odd configuration of the, of the white dots, uh, east of me isn't of great concern. But why the perfect circle in Perryville? That is the city limits. Okay, all right.

You have to remember, too, if you have a subdivision that has restrictions for that, those are going to be the

They supersede planning and zoning. All HOAs, I think Argyle Woods is one of them. I don't know how many HOAs. I think there's only two or three, but I don't think there are any HOAs. So those restrictions, any of these restrictions or HOAs would supersede planning and zoning and these restrictions. So any organization, new development that creates an HOA could potentially de-restrict these types of homes. What action do you need from the fiscal court, if any? I think first and second reading, I believe. Okay.

Do we want to modify the existing zoning ordinance?

Yes, yeah. And I believe this has been passed by Junction and Parable as well as...

This law went into effect like July 1st. I already had to deal with that. Okay and so what how do you how do you want to specify first reading? You have a

I guess everything in article 2 and article 4 we can approve the everything red and underlined is the new language okay all right so everything article 2 and article 4 that is redlined the first reading them in the ordinance yeah there a motion to approve first reading of both changes for article 2 yes both changes in the ordinance

I'll make that motion.

Mr. Gay, is there a second? Second. Mr. Cullen, any further discussion or comments on the first reading or anything that Anna has presented? Seeing none, all those in favor of the first reading? Aye. Signify by saying aye. Any opposed, nay.

I'm going to abstain at this point, Judge, because I don't fully understand all the ramifications of it, and I see some dots on my map that concern me a little bit, so I want to know more about it. Okay.

Did they discuss it with you on your legislative committee at all since this passed, this House Bill 160?

Very, very, there was not enough action to take action.

all right so we have uh those in favor everyone except for mr ellis who is abstained and all those against with zero so motion passes first rate thank you okay thank you ma'am thank you it's a lot to Digest. Digest, yes.

Can we ask something of you while you're here? Absolutely. We, May 28th or 26th, we proposed that we put a moratorium on data centers, and then we followed up with a resolution July 9th, was it? I think so.

June.

June 9th, sorry.

June 9th.

Yeah. And we've asked your planning and zoning to start the process of putting together a new ordinance for data centers. Do you have any information on discussions you guys have been having or maybe a timeline? Because we put it out for 12 months. most of us feel that should be plenty of time to come up with an ordinance for this. So just wanted to see if you had any feedback and if you're listening to the surrounding counties and what they're going through and

if there's any way we could kind of voice our concerns about what's happening and how we can protect ourselves in this community yes we're definitely having those conversations in the advisory committee and with all of the commissioners really but we have started a draft and I'm kind of just kind of working on that draft with the advisory committee and with other community members and we actually did a tour of data center at Center College just to get some information their IT team and just get some perspective from somebody in the community so that was really interesting so that's kind of what we're doing right now is a lot of data and research and yes we're listening to Bergen and Gary County just had their data center ordinance passed yesterday at their meeting so we are definitely But we have an ordinance in draft right now that's about 160 pages and I think it'll be longer. I think it'll be like 200 pages or so of very detailed requirements and the fiscal court will have time to review that absolutely yes yeah and we want to have lots of time before the end of the moratorium for public comments public hearings public meetings and to get it all out to the legislative bodies in plenty of time for review yeah okay so when you get it to a point that you think is ready for us to review you just let me know yeah yeah but i've definitely been very aware of what's happening in mercer county and

I got a phone call from Mercer County last night and they have grave concerns about what's going on over there. Even procedural that may enter into some success of Bergen itself. One of the calls that I got was actually from a member of their fiscal court. they're acting as we speak, and as a matter of fact, so much so they're acting that they decided to move up on the agenda their discussion, which may be over by now. I had the very good fortune of sitting with the incoming county attorney, bless you, for Jefferson County about a month ago, and her advice was, to get together all that information that I sent to everybody a couple of weeks ago. And by the way, I called Rich and he said that was appropriate to send it to everybody, as long as we weren't technically in a meeting. Well, we weren't in a meeting when I sent all the information. I can't name some of the leaders of this community that I've spoken with, but trust me, they will be coming out at some point, depending upon what we learn here in Borough County and what we're learning in Mercer County about the impact, the physical impact, on human beings as well as animals. Hey, Tom, just to confirm, when you say leaders of this community, you're not referring elected officials, you're referring to... No, no, thank you, yeah, yeah, business and other leaders of the community, I appreciate that, who are very, very concerned, professionals in some cases, and there was a physician about two and a half to three months ago when they had over 400 people and 1700 signatures in Mercer County expressing concern. And this position of over 20 years GP practice in Mercer was illustrating some of the physical impacts that could happen on human beings, which then were testified by animal owners as also having an equal impact. I don't know what their studies have been at that point, but we've really got to watch this carefully.

It would be nice to have some sort of meeting with i don't know if it's appropriated with like special call meeting to make sure that you know as you're writing this document um we've instructed you guys to write this document maybe to get together with us to kind of say hey we uh this is this is what we want to kind of see out of this ordinance before we get work session yeah yeah before we get too deep into something where um your your advisory committee is is putting something out there that's really not the vision that we are looking at, and then we have to go to that packet.

I think you need to hear from all parties.

And Judge, the one professional who is comfortable with me mentioning it, and I immediately sent a copy to Judge, to you, and to Minister Cullen. Preston Miles worked with me very carefully years ago on the pipeline issue, which could have been devastating to our county. if there ever had been a leak and we were able to shut that down. And equally on dead animals, Preston Miles was quite active on his grave concerns about dead animals and I didn't know until that time about four or five years ago, that he tests our streams. I believe it's quarterly. And he wrote to me just three days ago about his concerns about the data center. So we've got allies here in the community who are professionals. He's comfortable with me mentioning that today.

I work with our stormwater coordinator over at Danville, also works with Preston. And she, I think, tests the waters monthly. just for her stormwater coordinator program. So we do take that into consideration as well. And then something that the advisory committee maybe suggested was creating a subcommittee for implementing the data ordinance, or implementing the comp plan into the zoning ordinance, but I think maybe a subcommittee for data center ordinance, if that's something y'all would be interested in creating. We did that comp plan committee while we were creating the comp plan and we had members of the city and members of commission and other members so I think if that was something appropriate maybe we have to ask our attorneys if that but yeah if that's something y'all be interested in creating a subcommittee for okay just like data center ordinances yeah we can do that if on advisement of the attorneys yeah thank you appreciate the update thank you

you want second reading on the next yes it possible yes thank you all right thanks Anna have a good day you too all right next on the agenda is our County Administrator Julie Wagner and the first two items have been struck from the agenda and we'll come back at a later meet so Animal Control Committee needed a little extra time on the date of their ordinance, and we also need some extra time on the camera ordinance. So I guess we're at the courthouse restoration update. You'll have to help me.

So we have received the preliminary, and I want to underline the word preliminary, estimate to fix the roof and cupola. They gave us three options, and I'm going to try to explain the three options. The first is just to do a quick patch job and stabilize the cupola. The second is to do some mild stabilization of the roof and straighten the roof but not fix it totally. The third option is to fully replace the roof, fix the ceiling, do all in, repair everything, okay? So a stabilize but not repair, it comes in at $1.753 million. cupola only uh and to stabilize the roof but not repair it okay just to keep it from the second is to straighten the roof line and that comes in at 1.923 with the cupola the repair everything once and for all is 2.090 so we're talking a difference of 300 000 from a repair to a complete restoration each successive one taking more time no yes well a little a little because you can see option three has got six months and then option one is eight months so two months difference the only two things that are not included in this that we have asked the architect to look at is soundproofing the courtroom because eventually hopefully we end up up there and you cannot hear anything if there's a car or a weed eater or anything she has to stop court you can't hear So we've asked them to look at soundproofing, and we've asked them to look. There's some HVAC that's hanging from the beams up there, which may be part of the problem, and so we need to have a specialist come in and evaluate that HVAC and where that needs to go. Those are two things that we have not gotten numbers back on. But the preliminary numbers and what we need you to tell us today is do we do a stabilization no repair, a minor repair, or a complete, Let's just do it all. It's 300,000 more. Let's fix everything. The legislature will pay half.

So there's ongoing talks again about Judicial Center. Those have been re-sparked. Does that Should we be thinking about that before we talk about maybe spending money that might be money we don't need to spend?

Well, the cupola is moving.

It has moved some more. So we've got to fix it regardless if If a judicial center comes or not, we've got to fix what's broken.

There's a judicial center almost at completion in Kentucky right now, and it is at $45 million right now. I'm not sure they're going to stay within that budget.

They quoted us 49.

Is that right, 49? Folks, with what we know about what the state's going to help us with roads this year and next year, I'm not optimistic in the near term that we're going to get our judicial center.

Tom, this is an imperative to be fixed. To catch you up to speed, we had an actual visitor from the state that came in unexpectedly the other day that probably could move that forward for us. Because they saw the issue that we have and how bad the situation is so there i i would normally agree with that sentiment but it sounds like we've had somebody come in that you know saw the condition saw how bad it is and we might get bombed up in a sense i think we're singing out of the same hymnal because it's imperative that we stabilize the cupolas yes because the county people will still be here let me uh interject if i could a little bit

I just think we need to go ahead and fix and do the full fix because if we do the judicial center, my feeling is it's gonna be in addition to our historic courthouse structure that is incumbent upon us as the current caretakers. to make sure that it survives for another 150, 200 plus years.

Judge, under parliamentary rules, I think I need to make a motion that we go with the full complement of repairs. Full restoration? 2.09 million.

Okay, we have a motion. Estimate.

Estimate. Second.

We have a motion to go with option one, full restoration by Magistrate Ellis. We have a second by Magistrate Gaye. Now, is there any discussion or comments on the motion?

Yes. I think there's pressing information that a lot of you need to hear before we move this forward. I would request we table this to the next time. That way, everybody is on the same page. And we... I think if you guys had more information... What, Julianne?

I think that's going to, we're already dragging behind our target. This contractor's going to go to another job if we delay much more. Because, I mean, time is costing them. I'm not pushing you, I'm just giving you the situation. If we do get funded in January, which we could very well, it would be approved in April at the end of the session, and we're talking five years.

Amen. Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah, just our call question.

All right, all those in favor of the motion to go with option one for restoration signify by saying aye. Any opposed?

Nay.

Okay, we have one name. All other eyes motion carries. Thank you, man. I would like to hold on our executive session until the very end. I'd like to go ahead and go into magistrate reports. And Mr. Gay, would it be okay if we started with you today?

That would be fine. It was nice and short. All right. Fourth of July. Thank you to the committee, Tony, the committee and all those that worked so hard to put on a great event.

Thank you. Safe travels home.

Thank you.

Not much. It was exciting to attend the pickleball groundbreaking. You think of the health benefit, the economic benefit to our community, and in addition to that, the skate park that's coming. It's a really wonderful thing. Just an update on the Human Trafficking Education Awareness Task Force that you all approved for me to start a format. I'm still here. I have to hear back from one other person. I'd like to be on the task force. So hopefully next meeting I'll be able to give you that list of who's going to be on it for your approval.

Okay.

Sounds good? That's all.

Okay.

Mr. Dennis?

Thank you, Judge. I'm just checking in. I don't recall if we have caught up on quarterly meetings with speeches because we definitely want them coming in under the statute that passed two and a half years ago and see what gives with them. And then second and lastly, Judge, whenever you and I can arrange with Harold Edwards to go down and talk to finance about the potential. I'll call it now, we'll probably call it something else, but Crawford Park in my district that surrounds the Crawford House. As soon as we can get dates up. Have a gun, we'll travel.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you. Mayor Boehner?

No report this week.

All right, you look like you're having something good to eat there.

Safe travels.

Badge for Carmen? Nothing. Y'all are making it easy this morning. Badge for Cullen.

I'll keep rolling with it. Nothing here.

Okay. All right.

Kenny, turn.

Yes. What about Steve? Each year by statute any excess cold check, bad check collected funds that I have that I haven't used for my office if there's anything after June the 30th I'm obligated to turn that over to the fiscal court and today I'm prepared to offer the fiscal court a check for $1,278.64. So I'll give that to Shannon.

Thank you. Oh, he gives it to Tina. I'm sorry.

And I just want to point out... Everybody just wanted to touch it. I started, like, took office in 2019. When the fiscal year ended, June 30th of 2020, I had a very big check as it hadn't been turned in for some time. With this check now, I've turned in $50,160.77 to the fiscal court. Thank you. Good deal, thank you. That's it.

Is that it? Okay. Hey, Judge, I'm sorry, Judge? Yes? And Magistrate Cullen, I didn't know if I slept through it or not, but I didn't know if Magistrate Cullen wanted to give the EMS. Yeah, I just saw that. Yeah.

I told him to wake up a while ago, Mr. Gay, but I don't know.

Somebody needs to up his caffeine level.

Yeah, he doesn't have enough over there. All right, so you want to go back and give the MS Committee report?

Real quick. So the MS Committee met today, and we also had our crisis response unit and our community outreach group that met as well. The July 3rd event went really well. Michael Mattingly said that they've been planning it for about two or three months, and he said it was a really good effort put together by city police, county fire, city fire himself, and law enforcement, and we had no issues on the July 3rd event. We did have several of our fleet go down right prior to the event. So luckily Tommy from fleet management was kind enough to come in and he worked his butt off. He was supposed to go on vacation. He kind of came in and got stuff going before he left on vacation, which we greatly appreciate. Michael Magdalene is going to go out to Pine Knob Trail tomorrow about 9 a.m. to kind of take a look to see how they have to, what they need to do to properly stage out there if there's an accident that happens when this bike trail goes live. We had a further discussion on hospital transfers and the issues that we continue to have with them. And then the runs for June We're 624, July as of yesterday, 288. We did talk in the community outreach and crisis response unit that we've seen an uptick in suicide attempts and actual fatalities. in June and unfortunately the numbers are not going to get better in July so please make sure we're checking in on the family members and talking with them and really reaching out to these two groups that we have, the Emergency Response Unit and the Crisis Response Unit. They're here to help the community and so if you have anybody that you think is struggling, please please reach out to them and let us help get the help that's needed. I'll go ahead and submit that as my motion for approval.

Okay. Measure of gain, second. Okay. All those in favor, or any discussion on the report? All those in favor, signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed, nay? Motion carried. Thank you. Measure of gain. Okay. Julie, do you have any additional... Okay. All right. I'd like to recognize our guest, Mary Carter, here with Congressman Comer's office. Thank you for being here. Do you have someone with you?

Yes. This is Brooklyn. She's my summer intern. She goes to Campbellsville University, and she's from Taylor County. All right. But her brother and sister-in-law live here in Danville, and so she's staying with them. Okay. And she was traveling with me. She started last week.

Well, Brooklyn, nice to have you with us today. Thanks for being here. Do you have any update from Commissioner Officer?

Yeah, I can. Thanks for having me. It's good to be here. I know you guys had a great 4th of July celebration and then in all those events and just hearing Roger talk about salt beds gives me a a little bit of PTSD. You guys are already thinking about that. I know it's six months out. It seems like, oh, it's going to be 90 degrees today. We don't need to do that.

Be here before we know it. Yes.

And so I know you guys do a lot of amazing work here at the local level to keep the county running and everything like that. That's really behind the scenes, and people don't notice it until you don't have salt when ice comes. That's right. I just wanted to give my thanks and appreciate Thanks to you guys at the national level, the congressman's in D.C. this week. They're voting on a couple of bills. One of them is the Daylight Savings Act protection in Sunset. And this bill would change cloths by making daylight savings time permanent year-round. And so I know we receive a lot of messages about that bill. And so I just wanted to let you guys know that that will be voted on this week. And he's up there. Also, we've already had outreach about White House tours in October with fall break trips. And so if you or anyone you know are planning a trip to D.C. for the fall, just feel free to reach out to us. We're already trying to help book those tours in the White House, the office we lead capital tours. We can help point in the right direction for Supreme Court, Library of Congress, anything like that. If you're going out of the country for fall break and you need a passport, make sure to look at it, but we can help expedite the passports as well. I know we received a call yesterday and someone named their passport by the end of the week, so we're getting on that. As always with passports, we can also help out with VA benefits, Social Security, IRS, anything kind of with the federal government there. But just thanks for all of your guys' hard work, and just let me know if there's anything we can do. Thank you.

Well, thank you. Appreciate you being here today, Mary Carter. Okay, so the last of mine are the Iron Baby Angel Play at the Pioneer Playhouse. This will be the last weekend for it, so if you haven't had an opportunity to see it, it's part of America's 250th celebration as well. It's been well attended, and so get your tickets for the last weekend. The Irish are coming. They will be here, I believe, on Thursday. Okay, Thursday they'll be here. There will be like a little welcome at the library on Friday at 4 o'clock for anybody that's interested for that. On July 23rd at 12 noon, there will be a ribbon cutting for Home 2 Suites, the new hotel out behind Cattleman's. And then on July 25th, Saturday, there will be the block party out at Millennium Park. And it's like an all day event. I think it starts at noon and goes to about nine o'clock at night. And they have all kinds of things for kids and food trucks and Community agencies will be set up and I know the 911 Center is always there and Health Department and different agencies within in the community are there. So that'll be a big event coming up if you want to put it on your calendar for July 22nd. And now I will take a motion to go into executive session percentage KRS 61.810 paragraph one paragraph B. deliberations on the future acquisition of sale of real property by a public agency, but only when publicity would be elected to affect the value of a specific piece of property to be acquired for public use or sold by a public agency. I'll make that motion. Mr. Cullen, is there a second? Second. Mr. Sleeper, all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed, nay. Aye. Motion carries. Aye.

McClure had a big old one Patrick McClure on his laptop.

You cannot campaign in fiscal court.

Last meeting it made it on TV because he had it sitting right there.

Okay, we are live.

Make a motion we come out of executive session with no action taken. Second.

Okay, I have a motion by Magistrate Cullen, a second by Magistrate Ellis to return to come out of executive session with no action taken. All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, motion carries. I do not have any other business and there is an FYI in your packet for the parking space rental agreement between fiscal court and the demo pediatrics group that is using the parking over at the new sheriff's location. Great. So we're still in session? FYI? Yes. We're out of executive session back in regular session. Yes.

You can barely see the stripes in our parking lot. Whoever painted them last time.

We're going to get that done.

Redone.

Well, it's it's what it's what do you call the paint that's water soluble?

Yeah, yeah.

I mean it. So we're going to get that redone. Yeah, that's on our that's on that's on my agenda today. So make a motion we adjourn have a motion to adjourn by measure comes right second measure about her. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Aye. Motion carries.

We're adjourned.